Oh, my, we haven't had a good local media slapfight recently. But Globe Editor Brian McGrory today broke out one of his finer white linen gloves and slowly, dramatically slapped it across the face of CommonWealth Executive Editor Michael Jonas, who had the temerity to criticize Shirley Leung's repeated exhortations to Bostonians to stop acting like a bunch of goddamned cry-baby 2-year-olds, buck up and support those Olympics and be snappy about it.
Jim Romensko posts a copy of McGrory's outraged missive to the publisher and editor of CommonWealth about how Jonas wouldn't recognize an open mind like Leung's - why, she's criticized John Fish, well, that one time, anyway! - if it bit him in the ass, probably because he and CommonWealth are sexist pigs who resent a keen intellect like Leung's, which eagerly challenges the conventional wisdom and is so much keener than Jonas's that Jonas should just move to Texas or something.
Here's hoping Jon Keller posts a copy of the acid-dipped riposte McGrory no doubt sent him as well for his Leung missive.
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Well, is it a dumb scam?
By Ubermonkey
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 9:13am
I generally try to keep an open mind. An open skeptical mind, as is wise when contemplating any major project.
I'd love to read an argument from supporters about the good the Olympics will bring, using things like numbers and legal guarantees, but Boston 2024 itself is preventing us from seeing these things. This is disturbing.
Instead, we get this fact-free rant from Shirley. I'm a crybaby for taking the basic precaution of reading a contract before signing it? I need to get over my tantrum, and go along with the plan, sight unseen?
That's a big RED ALERT on my scam-o-meter.
Why can't we all just be more Patriotic?
By moxie
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 9:20am
And support Boston 2024? What's wrong with us?
I'm an American
By John Costello
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 9:46am
Not a citizen of Visaland or Nikeville.
My Sarcas-o-meter is a little wonky today
By Sally
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 11:27am
and my Snark-o-tron is in the shop so I'm not sure whether you're being straight-faced or not.
Context
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 9:01pm
John Fish insinuated that people in Boston weren't being patriotic if they rejected his porkfest.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
By Kaz
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 10:06am
Shirley Leung
Strangelove
Just saying.
When the Olympics arrive, we should gather ten women for every man and go to the Big Dig and start a breeding program to repopulate the area after the events are over.
Kaz?
By John-W
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 10:46am
How can you be that drunk at 10:00 in the morning? Fer shaaaame!
I only drink distilled water and pure grain alcohol
By Kaz
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 11:04am
Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
And I was all out of distilled water this morning.
So who gets to be Group Captain Madrake?
By CraigInDaVille
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 12:05pm
n/t
All of us
By Kaz
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 12:23pm
When we have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for not making the call on the Olympics.
You mean
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 9:09pm
Sparticus?
Good for you
By be
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 12:28pm
I admire your concern about the purity of your precious bodily fluids, unlike many of the preverts 'round these parts.
piffle
By Malcolm Tucker
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 11:57am
I want 10 men for every 1 woman. If Boston 2024 can promise me a male harem, then maybe I'll revise my "hell no."
I have a thing for Shirley Leung
By Chris Lynch
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 1:42pm
I wasn't going to say anything but I have a thing for Shirley Leung and the way she slapped down all the NIMBY naysayers by calling them terrible two's. So compelling.
Courageous?
By anon
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 10:23am
You know they are near collapse when they have to trot out 'courageous' to describe an aditorial for an oligarch boondoggle.
Ernie Pyle was nothing compared with this fierce pom pom waver and his counterparts covering civil war in the Mideast now merely risk a bit of decapitation instead of the far more menacing jeers of the general public on various comment sections in local media.
What'll they think up next? I know, a rousing patriotic screed comparing martyred Fish to the flag raisers on Mount Suribachi.
What can they lose that hasn't already gone down the drain?
Yesterday: FIFA - Tomorrow: USOC / IOC? - We Can Hope!
By Elmer
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 1:05pm
its what dreams are made of
By anon
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 11:36am
That was my first thought too.
Oh sweet delicious dreams.
Though the FIFA thing is enough to keep my sweet tooth satisfied for the moment.
Guess who said on WTKK radio
By Ritchie Tiemann
Wed, 05/27/2015 - 5:18pm
Guess who said on WTKK radio a few years ago that Ann Coulter "has legs like sticks"? Why, Brian McGrory, that's who. Remember, Brian?
Born at night, but not last night.
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 05/28/2015 - 12:32am
I love the idea of the Olympics here. But I've also lived in Boston my whole adult life, and grew up in Massachusetts. If you don't have the innate tendency to judge this enterprise, at least as currently posited, as a thin pretext to line the pockets of a handful of wealthy and powerful interests at the bloody expense of ordinary taxpayers -- as well as hundreds of public projects with far more plainly quantifiable benefits to our commonwealth -- your grasp of local history and your bullshit detector are both profoundly broken.
I remain open to being pleasantly surprised at eventual candor and transparency on the part of the folks selling us this lovely dream with the help of pliant shills like Leung. In the meantime, allow me to get Runyonesque: "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
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