A commenter is unimpressed by Jerry Lewis' MDA telethon and doesn't mind complaining to the Washington Post's Tom Shales about it.
"How about we start to plan a telethon for all of the unemployed americans. $60 Million would go a long way towards helping people facing foreclosure or other economic problems."
Hey, math whiz: there are 15 million people unemployed in the United States. Just how far do you expect that four bucks a person to go?
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Angry Comments Jeopardy
It's time for Angry Comments Jeopardy! You all know how the game works: I'll present a selection of comments from readers of a major online news site and you need to ask me what it is they're talking about. As regular viewers will know, this can be tricky, as often even the commenters don't know.
Let's go straight to the first batch of comments!
matism1 wrote:
vze425s8 wrote:
Realist20 wrote:
lrm021054 wrote:
jcp370 wrote:
Anyone? No? I'm not surprised you didn't get that question; it was a bit of a tough one. It was, "What are readers' reactions to a report in the Washington Post that the Food and Drug Administration would like to begin over the next ten years to limit how much salt can be added to processed foods in an attempt to prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease?"
Let's go straight to the first batch of comments!
matism1 wrote:
Filthy. Maggot. Pigs.
vze425s8 wrote:
I am saddened by the people responding with support for this unconstitutional intrusion on our liberty.... [M]ore and more of this SOFT TYRANNY will surely destroy a FREE nation.
Realist20 wrote:
The Obama socialist agenda pushes on... Is there no limit to his hubris?
lrm021054 wrote:
TO THE GOVERNMENT: Stop it - Why should ALL have to be affected? Oh, that's right - Obama and his gang are, baby step by baby step, transforming this country into a socialistic state: GOVERNMENTAL OWNERSHIP and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Just add this to the list of: ObamaHealthCare,ObamaAutomobiles,ObamaMortgages,ObamaCollegeLoans,etc.
Everyone - Please, WAKE UP. Let your elected officials know how unhappy you are with changes being made by this administration. VOTE IN NOVEMBER AND 2012 - Our Democratic Republic and our Freedoms are slipping away day by day.
To Everyone that wants a Socialistic Government - leave this country and move to Europe.
jcp370 wrote:
LEAVE US ALONE, FOR GOD'S SAKE!
Anyone? No? I'm not surprised you didn't get that question; it was a bit of a tough one. It was, "What are readers' reactions to a report in the Washington Post that the Food and Drug Administration would like to begin over the next ten years to limit how much salt can be added to processed foods in an attempt to prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease?"
The Grandoise Plans Of The Nouveau Riche.
So a guy in Maryland is digging up the paperwork to pay the next installment on his truck insurance and finds a six-month-old lottery ticket he bought when he paid the previous installment on his truck insurance. Good news: the ticket's a $250,000 winner.
A feel-good story that makes everyone happy, right?
Sure, thought a commenter called "Sai Hundal".
Oh, great. That's just great. Here we effin' go.
As Neil Armstrong once said, "That's one little, harmless expression of satisfaction for another person, one giant storm of argument about the existence (or not) of God." The next hundred and ninety comments included thirty-eight so inflammatory that they were deleted by the Good News Network's editors.
A week later, after the latest skirmish in The Internet Crusades has died down, commenter "NYCBBEAN" spots the real villain in the story: the un-named lottery winner.
"With his winnings, [the winner] said he plans to donate to a charity, help family, invest and take a vacation."
Maybe the gentleman from Maryland should consider hiring NYCBBEAN to bring a little sanity to his imminent spending spree.
A feel-good story that makes everyone happy, right?
Sure, thought a commenter called "Sai Hundal".
Good for him, what a nice Christmas Gift. God works in mysterious ways.
Oh, great. That's just great. Here we effin' go.
As Neil Armstrong once said, "That's one little, harmless expression of satisfaction for another person, one giant storm of argument about the existence (or not) of God." The next hundred and ninety comments included thirty-eight so inflammatory that they were deleted by the Good News Network's editors.
A week later, after the latest skirmish in The Internet Crusades has died down, commenter "NYCBBEAN" spots the real villain in the story: the un-named lottery winner.
$250K - I wonder how much he thinks he's going to get after taxes etc? Seems like he has grandoise plans to meIt would appear that in addition to not knowing how to spell "grandiose," NYCBBEAN doesn't know what the word means:
"With his winnings, [the winner] said he plans to donate to a charity, help family, invest and take a vacation."
Maybe the gentleman from Maryland should consider hiring NYCBBEAN to bring a little sanity to his imminent spending spree.
"Join The Discussion." (But try not to get too much spit on your monitor.)
This post originally appeared in byoolin's trebuchet, another blog in which I write, in January 2010.
Adapted from a letter I sent to the editor of The Globe And Mail earlier this week.
It's time for news organizations' websites to discontinue the practice of offering their readers the opportunity to comment on the stories they publish.
Billed as a way for a site's readers to share their thoughts, in reality the commenters rarely contribute anything thoughtful or worthwhile. Rather, the comments are frequently puerile, juvenile, inane and banal, and all too often they are simply hateful, vulgar, and offensive. Today's exemplar: theglobeandmail.com, the website of The Globe And Mail newspaper, "a blue-chip brand whose credibility is unchallenged... [and] universally recognized as Canada's newspaper of record."
Last Tuesday in Ottawa, a police constable named Eric Czapnik was stabbed to death as he did paperwork in his cruiser. A few hours later, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer on leave because of mental health issues was charged with his homicide. The comments section of the Globe And Mail's story provided a disturbing insight into how the feature has devolved. By 10pm that night, 28 of the 218 comments posted were deleted by The Globe's editors for content "not consistent with [The Globe's] guidelines." Many of those that remained were little more than malice-filled expressions of the commenters' personal biases.
Two commenters agree - before an arrest is announced - that the suspect "was either on probation, parole, or bail... AND he was unemployed and contributing nothing to society." Another speculates later that the suspect "wanted to die 'death by cop' style" but "didn't have guts" to kill himself. Yet another seems to imply that Const. Czapnik's murder and the death of Robert Dziekanski in 2007 is part of some kind of RCMP-organized attack on Poles; that writer might be on the same page as the one who believes that RCMP officers have "been given a blank cheque to cover up all their past murders." And there's no shortage of commenters calling one another "idiot" or "mental midget."
This sort of thing isn't isolated. Pick an online story at random and you're almost guaranteed to find something: airport delays? Let's call Muslims terrorists. Fired at age 42 for being too old? Let's make a crack about global warming. Unemployed at 59? Let's mock you because you were in a union. Gym memberships? "This is the most insipid drivel I have ever had the misfortune to read."
The Globe And Mail invites its readers to "Join The Discussion," but these people are uninterested in discussing anything. They just want another forum for their bilious, vitriolic, racist hatemongering. And websites like The Globe And Mail seem to be happy to give them one.
Adapted from a letter I sent to the editor of The Globe And Mail earlier this week.
It's time for news organizations' websites to discontinue the practice of offering their readers the opportunity to comment on the stories they publish.
Billed as a way for a site's readers to share their thoughts, in reality the commenters rarely contribute anything thoughtful or worthwhile. Rather, the comments are frequently puerile, juvenile, inane and banal, and all too often they are simply hateful, vulgar, and offensive. Today's exemplar: theglobeandmail.com, the website of The Globe And Mail newspaper, "a blue-chip brand whose credibility is unchallenged... [and] universally recognized as Canada's newspaper of record."
Last Tuesday in Ottawa, a police constable named Eric Czapnik was stabbed to death as he did paperwork in his cruiser. A few hours later, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer on leave because of mental health issues was charged with his homicide. The comments section of the Globe And Mail's story provided a disturbing insight into how the feature has devolved. By 10pm that night, 28 of the 218 comments posted were deleted by The Globe's editors for content "not consistent with [The Globe's] guidelines." Many of those that remained were little more than malice-filled expressions of the commenters' personal biases.
Two commenters agree - before an arrest is announced - that the suspect "was either on probation, parole, or bail... AND he was unemployed and contributing nothing to society." Another speculates later that the suspect "wanted to die 'death by cop' style" but "didn't have guts" to kill himself. Yet another seems to imply that Const. Czapnik's murder and the death of Robert Dziekanski in 2007 is part of some kind of RCMP-organized attack on Poles; that writer might be on the same page as the one who believes that RCMP officers have "been given a blank cheque to cover up all their past murders." And there's no shortage of commenters calling one another "idiot" or "mental midget."
This sort of thing isn't isolated. Pick an online story at random and you're almost guaranteed to find something: airport delays? Let's call Muslims terrorists. Fired at age 42 for being too old? Let's make a crack about global warming. Unemployed at 59? Let's mock you because you were in a union. Gym memberships? "This is the most insipid drivel I have ever had the misfortune to read."
The Globe And Mail invites its readers to "Join The Discussion," but these people are uninterested in discussing anything. They just want another forum for their bilious, vitriolic, racist hatemongering. And websites like The Globe And Mail seem to be happy to give them one.
Let's save some hate for Guam, people.
This post originally appeared in byoolin's trebuchet, another blog in which I write, in January 2010.
In Chambers County, Texas, three Puerto Rican men are in custody, charged with stabbing to death a man who had let them stay in his trailer.
Horrific crimes like this almost inevitably lead to a show of force from the peanut-brain gallery.
But my favourite comment comes early in the stream of invective, from the 10th person to comment.
That's my favourite comment because only 13 minutes earlier, the very first commenter made a bold prediction.
What CheeryEyed is hinting at, of course, is that Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and - since 1917 - people born in Puerto Rico are American citizens.
In Chambers County, Texas, three Puerto Rican men are in custody, charged with stabbing to death a man who had let them stay in his trailer.
Horrific crimes like this almost inevitably lead to a show of force from the peanut-brain gallery.
Searcher61 wrote:
No reverence or value on human life. See what you want, TAKE it! "American Dream," INDEED! OUR American Dream is to DEPORT those who come here illegally to take advantage of OUR hard work, and to ELIMINATE those who come here illegally to take advantage of us AND kill us when we try to help them!...
lea1 wrote:
How long will will let these people come to our country? seems when they said where they were from "Devillier" would have asked about their legal status in our country... coming to our country for the illegals means food stamps,free medical care, and rights that we as americans do not have. It also means they can rob and kill and then move on.
sk134 wrote:
This is one reason why law officers should be able to ask the simple question :Are you here legally? If he could have asked, perhaps a man would be alive today.
Danzmark wrote:
Time to throw ALL these illegals out ! The American Dream doesn't include the rest of the Americans letting these parasites sneak in.
But my favourite comment comes early in the stream of invective, from the 10th person to comment.
Bear1949 wrote:
ILLEGAL ALIENS doing what they do best, KILLING AMERICAN citizens.
That's my favourite comment because only 13 minutes earlier, the very first commenter made a bold prediction.
CheeryEyed wrote:
I despise Puerto Ricans for whining that they can't be a state nor can they be independent. That said, I'm waiting for the idiots to call these goons illegals.
What CheeryEyed is hinting at, of course, is that Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and - since 1917 - people born in Puerto Rico are American citizens.
The peanut-brain gallery speaks.
This post originally appeared in byoolin's trebuchet, another blog in which I write, in January 2010.
In Decatur, Georgia, a 4-year-old boy was killed by a bullet from celebratory gunfire while attending a New Year’s Eve church service. The bullet is believed to have come from a weapon fired into the air before it pierced the church roof and struck the boy in the head.
We can be grateful to one of the website's commentators for immediately identifying the salient issue:
In Decatur, Georgia, a 4-year-old boy was killed by a bullet from celebratory gunfire while attending a New Year’s Eve church service. The bullet is believed to have come from a weapon fired into the air before it pierced the church roof and struck the boy in the head.
We can be grateful to one of the website's commentators for immediately identifying the salient issue:
What is the church roof made of...Saran Wrap? Once the bullet makes its way down towards earth and hits the roof, there should be enough friction force on the bullet to slow it down before it completely exits the roof material.
Jan. 1, 2010 7:50pm EST | from trizone
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