Wow, just wow. Well Informed Journalism Update

[Scholes]

I opened up my local paper the other day and read this:

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinci...s/14741693.htm

His e-mail is at the bottom if you want to let him know how much wad he sucks.

I have no other words.

[wade moore]

wow.

[st.cronin]

I've heard the sentiment before. I think it correlates with a high pitched isolationist sensibility. There's the rest of the world, and there's what's American, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

[timmynausea]

It seems like a joke to me. The immigration part is in poor taste, but he is really just trying to say that soccer sucks.

[SirFozzie]

What a fucking prick. Definitely suffering from cranial-rectal inversion

[Groundhog]

Yeah, this is sort of a parody article. In poor taste, to be sure.

[Groundhog]

dola, plus how can anyone who mentions baseball in a positive light call the game of soccer/football boring??

[SirFozzie]

where's the parody?

"Soccer sucks. Anyone who likes it is a fucking moron."

That's basically what he's saying.

[Groundhog]

The tone of this article is easily mock-serious to me. I agree that's it's stupid and not funny, but I don't think the author intended it to be serious.

[sabotai]

Another bad writer trying desperately to pull of the angry comic angle. Obviously he doesn't like soccer, but I think he's trying to use exaggeration and anger to make it funny. And he doesn't pull it off at all.

Leave the angry comedy to the pros, twit.

[SirFozzie]

looks like to me he means every word.

[Glengoyne]

I gotta hand it to him on a couple of his quotes though.

Many spectators in soccer-crazed countries warm up for a big match by hitting their neighbor in the head with a brick. And as soon as little Nigel or Fiona is old enough, mum and dad take them out back and practice squishing them against a chain link fence.

In fairness, soccer is a great activity for little kids. It allows them to run around outside before their motor skills are fully developed and they can move onto something else.

Those are pretty damn funny.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by comments page

Is Tom Powers, author of the June 5 opinion piece detailing his racist and xenophibic views about immigrants and sports, representative of your paper's level of contribution to civil discourse?

Shame, that.

It's one thing to write an article critical of a sport and its fans. It's another thing to presume to speak for "his kind of people" and start spreading around bigotry as a means of getting a chuckle when doing so. An ineffective means, at that.

Not funny. Not even close.

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[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

Those are pretty damn funny.

Not if you know someone who died or was seriously injured at Heysel or Hillsborough they aren't.

[Passacaglia]

I like the complaint about one referee covering a large area, and getting blamed for the outcome of the game. I wonder if he's an NBA fan.