Shrinking Herald whips self into lather over Globie tweet

By adamg on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 10:58am

The Herald is sparing no space in its effort to crucify a Globe reporter who tweeted he was tired of the way "Boston Strong" has been commercialized, a thought that no good Bostonian has ever uttered.

Bombing victim: Sox not exploiting motto, the soon to be smaller Herald trumpets today:

A marathon bombing victim yesterday brushed off snarky social media charges that the Red Sox are commercializing the Boston Strong slogan, saying the team has been nothing but genuine in how it has dealt with survivors of the tragedy.

It all started Thursday, with this tweet by Globe political reporter Wesley Lowery:

So tired of "Boston Strong," but still inspired by the resilience of so many of those wounded in the marathon bombings.

— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 25, 2013

You can follow the next couple of days' worth of Twitter back and forth on this on this page set up by Hilary Sargent.

Lowery had this to say about today's Herald story:

Globe scribe is SMH at Herald using a marathon victim as a prop to continue taking deliberately obtuse cheap shots. Not even worth linking.

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So the Herald wrote one article!

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:15am.

They are in the business of writing articles...

Look, if it wasn't for stories like these

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 12:00pm.

what else would Howie have to whip up the mouth breathers? After Whitey and EBT cards, I mean.

EBT abuse is a real issue

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 1:24pm.

However, Howie is a pandering idiot!

Awful

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 1:00pm.

If you wade into the cold, dark place that is the herald comment section it's astonishing to see how racist and small minded their readership is. No matter what the story is about at least or person will find a way to mention Obama, EBT, Benghazi, welfare, etc

Is mere criticism of Obama racist?

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 10:24pm.

I’ve long argued that Obama’s most ardent supporters should not ascribe racial motives to the president’s critics when none exist. Doing so undermines their argument and the ability to call out real racism — explicit and implicit — when it happens. -- Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post

FWIW, Mr. Capehart is black. He's also correct. To brand Herald commenters criticism of an African American president racist is to engage in racism yourself. All presidents are criticized. To suggest that criticism of Obama is off-limits is to peddle the soft-bigotry of low expectations for blacks, as President Bush once perfectly described affirmative action. Grow up.

There are legitimate not

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 2:57pm.

There are legitimate not-racist criticisms of Obama. You won't really find that in the Herald comments section, or really, the comments section of any news site. Sorry if this hurts the feelings of any Herald commenters ;_;

Mere criticism is one thing

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 3:05pm.

but I've seen him called the N word on more than one occasion in the swamp that is the Herald comment section.

Re: I've seen him called the N word

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 10:29pm.

Really? I've never seen the n word there. I'd be surprised if it's even allowed past the filters. In fact, I find the criticism of Obama equally harsh on boston.com. I'm guessing that because it's free and conservatives are more likely to find opposing viewpoints, more of them go there for the sport of it.

There is no legitimate

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 3:07pm.

There is no legitimate opposition to dear leader. Remember the total lack of civility displayed toward George Bush? Now that the shoe is on the other foot dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism.

Hey, now...

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 3:38pm.

I voted for Obama twice and he has disappointed me on many an occasion. That being said, Bush will legitimately go down as the worst President in US history. And if you notice, the ones who crow the loudest about Obama are the same morons who said criticism of Bush during wartime was unpatriotic.

History versus Hyperbole

By Moxie on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 4:36pm.

Sorry, I know we all love to hate Bush. But worst president in US history, hands down, was James Buchanan. He kind of led up to the Civil War.

I know, it doesn't fit with your narrative. But there was history here, before Dubya and Rove. You just have to be a little less intellectually lazy about it.

Bush

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 4:52pm.

is far from the worst President. Obama may not be the worst but he's closer than Bush!

BS

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 4:56pm.

Im a Republican who owned a "Buck Fush" t-shirt. Democrats tend to vote for blindly along party lines.

James Buchanan?

By Waquiot on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 5:42pm.

I mean, the union literally fell apart at the end of his Presidency?

Andrew Jackson? I like the guy, but disregarding Supreme Court decisions and forcibly moving people should be a strike against him.

John Tyler? The ultimate do nothing President.

Warren Harding? His wife burned his personal papers when he died he was so corrupt.

Jimmy Carter? Malaise.

Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and William Clinton? Impeached. Sure for 2 of them it was political, and for the third his leadership on so many issues was great, but they were all tarnished.

What I'm getting at is that sure, Bush 43 did some bonehead things, but he isn't even in the top 3 worst Presidents.

While I'm writing, the comments at the Herald are no worse than the worst at Boston.com

Bush led the illegal, unjustified invasion of a country (Iraq)

By 413 on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 7:00pm.

that has led to the death of *hundreds* of *THOUSANDS* of innocent civilians. Yeah, they're *gasp* Muslim and from far away, but their lives are worth just as much as an American's. That alone qualifies him as one of the worst Presidents of all time.

The Civil War killed more

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 8:10pm.

The Civil War killed more than that.

Saddam also killed more of his own people than the second gulf war. A pretty gruesome statistic.

The stimulus alone cost more than the Iraq War too. But I'd blame that more on Pelosi and the people writing the special interest spending than Obama's pen in the oval office.

I posit the worst president was Woodrow Wilson. Lied on his election platform and got us into a world war, instituted the income tax, was a stone cold racist & xenophobe, segregated the federal government, turned a blind eye to the klan in the south, censored the press, instituted a near police state, etc. etc.

Unjustified maybe, illegal no

By Waquiot on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 10:19pm.

The courts have ruled on that.

I'm not saying the guy was the best, but sometimes I think lefties think history began in 2000. If Bush was so bad because of Iraq, then where do L.B.J. (Vietnam), Madison (picking a fight with England in 1812 and losing) in addition to the already mentioned Wilson, Buchanan, or even Lincoln (you want unpopular, bloody wars, read about the U.S. Civil War).

Because Obamas

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:38pm.

Drone policy in Pakistan is highly ethical

Heaven help you if you say

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 3:38pm.

Heaven help you if you say anything bad about Reagan.

Don't forget liberal hero F.D.R. on the worst list

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 10:40pm.

Worst? Don't forget liberal hero and racist F.D.R. whose Executive Order #9066 forced Americans of Japanese heritage out of their own homes and into internment camps, without crime and without trial, during WW II. Thank you to President Reagan for attempting to right that horrific wrong in 1988.

In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".[12] The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.[1

No, FDR wasn't perfect

By adamg on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:42pm.

And neither was St. Ronnie. How about those possibly treasonous secret negotiations with the Iranians on the hostages? Followed by Iran-Contra? Remember the Beirut barracks? The biggest expansion in federal debt in the history of the US? Voodonomics? The Southern Strategy? Ignoring AIDS?

Reagan worship seems much

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:56pm.

Reagan worship seems much more present in this day and age than FDR worship but whatever, I'm not gonna stop your weird little tangent.

Remember when Conservative Hero Ronnie...

By Sally on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 8:10am.

gave amnesty to like a million illegals? Just wondering because most GOPers seem to have forgotten.

The amnesty was contingent on

By anon on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 11:11am.

The amnesty was contingent on greater enforcement and border security which the Democrat controlled house and senate at the time promptly cut the funding off to.

Can we finally retire this tired meme?

By CopleyScott17 on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 4:10pm.

This "total lack of civility" expressed toward Bush, I mean? First, mainstream Democratic criticism of Bush was nowhere near as vituperative and visceral as that which is hurled at Obama. Second, this is just one more example of False Equivalence Syndrome, whereby people try to say Democrats are just as bad as Republicans, which they patently are not. Of course, I'm talking about the mainstreams of both parties, not the extreme fringes. But with 50% of Republicans self-identifying as Tea Partiers, their mainstream is by definition more extreme. Imagine if 50% of Democrats self-identified as Anarchists or Communists and marched outside the White House burning Bush in effigy? Third, if you boil this down to the two main issues held against the respective presidents -- -Bush's two wars and Obamacare -- I think it's clear which criticism is more justified.

"mainstream Democratic

By Bullshit! on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 6:12pm.

"mainstream Democratic criticism of Bush was nowhere near as vituperative and visceral as that which is hurled at Obama."

Racists WHO!?

By jakester on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 3:42pm.

But all the idiots on this blog bashing anything having to do with South Boston's Irish and long time residents - well now, that's ok and oh so tolerant now isn't it?

1000+ like

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 5:00pm.

UHub is THE anti-white Bostonian chat room for ulta-liberal white folks who bike to work and know your neighborhood better than you.

Okay so as far as I can tell,

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 6:38pm.

Okay so as far as I can tell, pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and T-riders are all terrible people. It seems to be the consensus. Is there any form of transportation that doesn't make someone a jerk?

Pogo stick

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 11:39pm.

It's the new "progressive" form of transportation

Sockpuppet was already taken

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 12:29am.

Your answering your own comments is transparently obvious.

Can we add such bullshit to the list of reasons to ban anons?

I liked Ike . And I also

By kvn on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 6:26pm.

I liked Ike . And I also remember when the immigrant had to have a sponsor that pledged that said immigrant wouldnt be a burden on the United States , and after said immigrants dug up the streets they sent money back so their siblings could come off the farm to this glorious country . That was the deal , you had to have the willingness to work , as an ingredient , to add into the melting pot that was America. Your man Obama's clan seems to have another way of doing it , the aunt in the SB projects , and the metrowest kamikazee. How can you respect people when they are picking your pocket?

I remember that too

By Boston_Bloke on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 8:14pm.

I'm a Democrat, a liberal, and voted twice for Obama.

I also remember the policy you mention immigrants requiring American sponsors. And I agree with it. Indeed, that is how we should approach immigration.
A person coming here should have a local sponsor to support them if times get rough, and they not be a burden to the country.

Please note that not all liberals agree with this amnesty deal, nor the abuses of Obama's aunt in public housing, and his uncle's DUI. Those incidents are a disgrace.

However I still vote Democrat because on most issues the Democratic party is better. On too many issues, the GOP is the party of stupid.

You somehow think immigration and/or public housing...

By Sally on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 8:16am.

Policies changed magically when Obama came into office? Or that he gave his aunt the secret thumbs up? Come on. And a reminder--as I posted above--Reagan have amnesty to well over a million illegals. Mentioning that always seems to bring such blissful silence from the Ronnie-worshippers.

Be honest.

By FranklinRider on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 11:50am.

Let's just be honest here. It wasn't Reagan who watered down and didn't fund the enforcement parts of the immigration bill in 1986. Remember who controlled both houses of Congress back then...

I think you'll find that's part of the reason there's so little trust to do something currently.

Oh please.

By Sally on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 8:22am.

You think the people here who poke fun at the a**hole columnists in South Boston or who--god forbid--want bike lanes donut because...the people in South Boston are...white? Because yeah--if some black guy was running around saying "I don't need no f'ing yuppie liberal treehugger moonbat bike lanes!" or "if only busing hadn't destroyed the neighborhood!!" I'm sure we'd all be totally down with that.

60 Minutes is part of the vast rightwing conspiracy too!

By anon on Sun, 10/27/2013 - 10:59pm.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57609479/60-minutes-benghazi/

So the Herald is for

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 1:49pm.

So the Herald is for commercializing and profiteering off terrorism, sounds about right.

No

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 4:57pm.

That would be the Liberal Rolling Stones Mag.....

Hey, the wall to wall "Puppy Doe"

By Moxie on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 3:12pm.

Had to end some time.

Empty slogans

By anon on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 5:09pm.

I'm a lifelong Bostonian, and was naturally as horrified as everyone else about the Marathon bombings. But I never got this "Boston Strong" thing. Talk about sloganeering. What does it even mean? Has society become such that every complex situation must be reduced to a trite slogan of a few words? "Red Sox Nation" was already bad enough, but sloganeering is to be expected with sports teams. And whether or not the Red Sox are exploiting this "Boston Strong" thing, is anyone ever really surprised when someone DOES turn these empty slogans into a profit? Think of all the profiteers who were on street corners selling bootleg "Boston Strong" tee shirts and merchandise.

Perhaps "no good Bostonian

By BtH on Sat, 10/26/2013 - 8:12pm.

Perhaps "no good Bostonian has ever uttered" it, but a lot of us think it.

Shrinking Herald whips self into lather over Globie tweet

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