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Joe Fitzgerald calls his bosses nitwits
By adamg on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 9:29am
Sometimes you gotta wonder: Does Joe Fitzgerald do any research before he sticks his foot in his mouth?
Today, the Herald columnist thinks he's tearing the Globe a new one by deploring its decision to run a headline about Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law. You know, Bobby Orr's relative faces OUI charge.
Unconscionable! Outrageous smear on Orr's good name! Anybody who runs a headline like that is "a nitwit!"
You tell 'em, Joe! Only thing is, when you type "Orr's daughter-in-law" into the Boston Herald search engine, the first result is: Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law accused of driving drunk. So who you calling a nitwit, Joe? Joe Sciacca? Pat Purcell? Not a very nice thing to say to the people who pay you.
Pot? Meet Mr. Fitzgerald, who also doesn't seem to realize the only reason the story was noteworthy beyond the borders of Quincy (it was a pretty good smashup; she allegedly rolled her car over after hitting a telephone pole) was not because she's Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law, but because police say she made a point of telling them that and threatening to get the arresting officer fired.
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He's right.
He's right.
Have to excuse Joe..?
While I am always one to decry the yuppification of Boston, there are always going to be throwbacks to the old days that are somewhat still embarrassing. My grandparents were that way. The old man would constantly complaining about how "the niggahs were taking over the town" after he was mugged on Cummins Highway by a black kid. The lump on his head led my Mom and her sisters to move them out to Saugus and eventually Nashua, where ole Al felt safer.
Joe Fitzgerald is one of those holdouts. He's the kind of old Boston that I don't mind seeing gentrified. He writes that the Globe is guilty of heartless tabloid journalism in it's reporting of Orr's daughter in law, but when John Kerry's daughter got pinched for suspicion of DUI, it was plastered all over the Herald. Sorry Joe, but the minute she pulled the "don't you know who I am card", all bets were off.
Where were those lofty ideals then, Joe? Where were your impassioned attacks on the media then? And to answer his last line, Joe you must be one of those nitwits.
Joe Fitzgerald racist? Not so much.
Ever since his column made its home in sports, Joe Fitzgerald has been one of the media guys who local black athletes like the most, dating back to a time when racism in Boston sports was actually an issue. Few colmnists have done more to bridge the divide. To compare him to your apparently racist father is dispicable. As for Adam's criticism, Fitzy notes that the Herald is often just as bad as the Globe, perhaps not realizing that his paper had picked up the story off the AP wire. No doubt it's Fitzy's correct stance on the moral issues, not the Orr in-law story, that has the leftists pouncing.
Yeah, I think it would be useful
for dvdoff to provide some more evidence before labeling the guy a racist. Being an older white guy with an Irish last name isn't really sufficient for a conviction.
first things first
i don think dvdoff's father was a racist, it was his grandfather. my grandparents were too. it was a different time and people werent as politically correct. my sweet old greatgrandmother used the n word more than notorious big and richard pryor combined.
i think dvdoff was calling joe fitz an old fart,which he is, not a racist.
Absolutely..
I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was calling old Joe a racist. I do not believe that and I could have used a better example to illustrate my point. I do, however, think he's an idiot. Always have.
If I thought he was a racist, I would have plainly stated I think he's a racist.
I was only trying to say that while he has a problem with the media dragging Bobby Orr's name into it, he apparently has no problem with John Kerry's daughter being subject to the same media scrutiny.
Fitzgerald/lopez
Pretty sure when judge Lopez and the Phoenix publishers kid ran into the same kind of scrutiny in the papers, Fitzgerald wrote the same thing, that the papers should not be running the story. The Phoenix has gone at Fitzgerald for years yet he still stuck up for one of theirs. He's called out his own paper many times
The lump on his head led my
If by felt you mean was, then yeah. Sounds to me like your mother did the reasonable, responsible thing. if you cant' walk the streets without getting cracked on the head, it's time to move away.
Pigs flying
Dammit, I can't believe I am actually agreeing with YOU! ;-)
Not sure I understand the issue here
What, does Bobby Orr have a halo that extends over his relatives, insulating them from criminal charges and negative press coverage? Had she not invoked his name that way, I imagine this might have gone unnoticed, but she did, so it didn't.
To her I'd say, "Maybe you should realize that having a famous relative means any irresponsible behavior of yours is going to face greater scrutiny. You want to exploit the advantages of it -- which I imagine you have -- you're going to have to take the downside, too."
Well said
Drinking and driving is pretty dangerous, and illegal, which is why every random person who gets busted for it around here has a 50% chance of ending up in the town paper or on WickedLocal or something. Should relatives of the rich and famous get a pass?
orr what?
The story is that she invoked his name, not that his relative got nailed. Both papers wrote a poor headline.
Hitting a telephone *pole*
unless you mean that she wrecked her car because she was answering a political survey on her cellphone while driving.
Gaffin poll
Will he ever learn to not write "poll" when he means "pole"?
( ) No
( ) No
There's something wrong with your poll
It won't let me vote.
If Fitzgerald is a nitwit,
If Fitzgerald is a nitwit, what does that make his editor?
fitzgeralds editor...
is an editor with the herald, draw your own conclusions.
He's called out his own paper
He's called out his own paper many times. Whether you agree with him or not, he doesn't seem to be afraid call his bosses out when their wrong.. Would you be able to do that? Haven't seen it yet