Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The Disappeared Op-Ed.
Oh my, I just realized that I have access to LexisNexis through my work library. Which means: Phil Bronstein, you can run, but you can't hide!
This week (no link, because hey, would you like the world to link to your high school essays? Phil neither) the theme is forgiveness.
Shorter Phil: I have no clue what redemption mean, but I've been a journalist in war zones, so I can take a cheap shot at Chris Daly.
Longer version:
OK, all is forgiven. Want fries with that?
BYLINE: Phil Bronstein
SECTION: Op-Ed; PHIL BRONSTEIN; Pg. A11
LENGTH: 517 words
Salvation of the soul these days is faster than broadband. Is God on Twitter?
Broadband, twitter? Good thing this column is PRINT ONLY. Printed paper is the future.
With Michael Vick's return to football, Senator... Larry Craig opening a consulting firm and San Francisco anarchist Supervisor Chris Daly making homeboy brownies for a running-dog mainstream newspaper this one, we're clearly in the middle of a cultural phenomenon:
The Speedy Redemption.
Marisa Lagos' office must be in a different wing of the Hearst building, because, ahum, Chris ain't seeking redemption. See, you have to be guilty to be redeemed. Chris opened his door to Marisa to prove he still lived in SF. He did not bake brownies for forgiveness. Also, I don't think you know what "anarchist" means. Chris likes government, especially if it helps the poor.
Then, some (even more) vacuous bla-bla, Mr Vick, bla bla, Mark Sanford, Eliot Spitzer, bla-bla.
The latest era of immeasurable greed has passed through us like a foul wind, though it's as fast-dissolving and hard to grasp as gas. Jail sentences might be long, but Bernie Madoff has a prison consultant.
So the era of greed has passed through us, and now has dissolved? Maybe Phil should read the news. Also: not sure what he means with the prison consultant story. Maybe a link would help, see, like this, but oh wait, it's PRINT ONLY.
But doing hard time is not the same as paying back.
Duh.
Real redemption is a basic religious notion, all about genuine attempts to make good on your bad. "It's not a reprieve," [Jesuit priest and head of USF] Privett says. "It's an acknowledgment of the pain you've caused and your efforts to heal that."
Mmmm, why does Phil fetch a priest when Webster defines redemption nicely, thank you?
This priest knows something about the hard slog of real redemption. He walks the walk. I met him in El Salvador 20 years ago where he fearlessly ministered to terrified villagers while choppers strafed the tree line.
Mmm, he walked a different walk, that does not look like a redemption trail to me. Is Phil really hinting that Privett had sex with goats before going to El Salvador to atone for it? But, oh yeah, the point is: Phil used to be an intrepid, fearless journalist. Gramps love to tell his heroic stories by the fireplace.
At least some cultural sinners had the right idea: Richard Nixon not only suffered in the sealed chamber of his own personality, he spent years of hard work coming back. Jimmy Carter, irritating though he might be, has taken the long road to post-presidential recovery and redemption.
Poor Nixon, he suffered so much. Also, Richard Nixon = Jimmy Carter. In Phil's warped mind. Maybe Phil truly believes that Tricky Dick would get his Nobel prize too if he weren't so dead.
...I do believe that public redemption should be less like a statute of limitations and more like some serious and willing community service.
Mr. Daly, here's your broom.
A column about redemption weaving in Chris Daly's brownies, which are not related to redemption. But IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!
You can disagree with Chris Daly, but the one thing no one would deny is that he is committed and passionate about what he feels is his "community service". No one, except Phil, of course.
Phil: cheap shots at Chris Daly drive traffic on-line, they get the rabid commenters frothing at the mouth. But this is PRINT ONLY!
Phil'ssilly gotcha sick deal of the week: Homeland Security wants to put a $700 million infectious diseases lab in the middle of Kansas' tornado alley. ... Brilliant. Toto, we're airborne!
Because $700 million won't buy a roof, is that what you're saying, Phil?
This week (no link, because hey, would you like the world to link to your high school essays? Phil neither) the theme is forgiveness.
Shorter Phil: I have no clue what redemption mean, but I've been a journalist in war zones, so I can take a cheap shot at Chris Daly.
Longer version:
OK, all is forgiven. Want fries with that?
BYLINE: Phil Bronstein
SECTION: Op-Ed; PHIL BRONSTEIN; Pg. A11
LENGTH: 517 words
Salvation of the soul these days is faster than broadband. Is God on Twitter?
Broadband, twitter? Good thing this column is PRINT ONLY. Printed paper is the future.
With Michael Vick's return to football, Senator... Larry Craig opening a consulting firm and San Francisco anarchist Supervisor Chris Daly making homeboy brownies for a running-dog mainstream newspaper this one, we're clearly in the middle of a cultural phenomenon:
The Speedy Redemption.
Marisa Lagos' office must be in a different wing of the Hearst building, because, ahum, Chris ain't seeking redemption. See, you have to be guilty to be redeemed. Chris opened his door to Marisa to prove he still lived in SF. He did not bake brownies for forgiveness. Also, I don't think you know what "anarchist" means. Chris likes government, especially if it helps the poor.
Then, some (even more) vacuous bla-bla, Mr Vick, bla bla, Mark Sanford, Eliot Spitzer, bla-bla.
The latest era of immeasurable greed has passed through us like a foul wind, though it's as fast-dissolving and hard to grasp as gas. Jail sentences might be long, but Bernie Madoff has a prison consultant.
So the era of greed has passed through us, and now has dissolved? Maybe Phil should read the news. Also: not sure what he means with the prison consultant story. Maybe a link would help, see, like this, but oh wait, it's PRINT ONLY.
But doing hard time is not the same as paying back.
Duh.
Real redemption is a basic religious notion, all about genuine attempts to make good on your bad. "It's not a reprieve," [Jesuit priest and head of USF] Privett says. "It's an acknowledgment of the pain you've caused and your efforts to heal that."
Mmmm, why does Phil fetch a priest when Webster defines redemption nicely, thank you?
This priest knows something about the hard slog of real redemption. He walks the walk. I met him in El Salvador 20 years ago where he fearlessly ministered to terrified villagers while choppers strafed the tree line.
Mmm, he walked a different walk, that does not look like a redemption trail to me. Is Phil really hinting that Privett had sex with goats before going to El Salvador to atone for it? But, oh yeah, the point is: Phil used to be an intrepid, fearless journalist. Gramps love to tell his heroic stories by the fireplace.
At least some cultural sinners had the right idea: Richard Nixon not only suffered in the sealed chamber of his own personality, he spent years of hard work coming back. Jimmy Carter, irritating though he might be, has taken the long road to post-presidential recovery and redemption.
Poor Nixon, he suffered so much. Also, Richard Nixon = Jimmy Carter. In Phil's warped mind. Maybe Phil truly believes that Tricky Dick would get his Nobel prize too if he weren't so dead.
...I do believe that public redemption should be less like a statute of limitations and more like some serious and willing community service.
Mr. Daly, here's your broom.
A column about redemption weaving in Chris Daly's brownies, which are not related to redemption. But IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!
You can disagree with Chris Daly, but the one thing no one would deny is that he is committed and passionate about what he feels is his "community service". No one, except Phil, of course.
Phil: cheap shots at Chris Daly drive traffic on-line, they get the rabid commenters frothing at the mouth. But this is PRINT ONLY!
Phil's
Because $700 million won't buy a roof, is that what you're saying, Phil?
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