# New York Post - Page Six Jerks! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 29, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638 "2006-09-29T18:37:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/21 "2006-09-29T22:30:55Z")
[QUOTE=Menocchio] Hey, we never did catch whoever sent out that anthrax to journalists and congressmen back in 2001, did we? [/QUOTE] No, we didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/22 "2006-09-29T22:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I wonder what those NY Post guys would do if the same thing happened to them. [/quote] You don’t \*really \* wonder, do you? O’Reilly had to invent a personal threat by Al Qaeda, the Post would have something real to trumpet on Page 1. Instead, with the heat on their side politically, they’re doing what they can - trying to discredit one of Bush’s most articulate, and increasingly influential, critics, in the only way they can. The equally-partisan \*\*Bricker \*\* surely understands that as well, to **Marley** ’s point, his customary feigned innocence and neutrality notwithstanding. This isn’t anything new for the Post, of course. During the decades Dorothy Schiff owned it, it was a choleric lowbrow lefty rag. Murdoch turned it into a choleric lowbrow \*righty \* rag instead. But it has never been all that different from this. How many extra copies, and choleric-lowbrow-oriented advertising, do you suppose this extra attention will get them? It doesn’t matter what they say as long as they spell your name right, as they say in Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/23 "2006-09-29T23:44:41Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Correct. It’s not the low journalistic standards – it’s the irresponsibility. [/QUOTE] Wow, **Bricker** , you and I are agreeing…in a thread about someone like Keith Olbermann, nonetheless! This is scary. :eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/24 "2006-09-30T03:16:38Z")
A couple days ago, the _Post_ reported about Terell Owens’s attempted suicide with a Letterman style top-ten list of the reasons why he might have wanted to do so. (Number one: “Anything to help out the team.”) I like offensive humor as must as the next person, but I thought that was rather cruel. I kind of find the lollypop line here funny, but I agree that someone’s privacy- especially that of a public figure- shouldn’t be invaded regarding something as serious as this. I loved hearing Olbermann correct all the errors in the article- it reminded me of [this guy](http://www.regrettheerror.com/2006/05/math_whiz_count.html) who shot bullets through a story written about him in an Oregon newspaper. I was actually expecting Olbermann to say they _would_ divulge information if any Fox personality got in trouble in the future- I liked the idea of having a war between Fox News and CNN in more ways than one. But Olbermann is right in saying that that would be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/25 "2006-09-30T03:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] I liked the idea of having a war between Fox News and CNN in more ways than one. [/QUOTE] Nitpick: don’t you mean MSNBC? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/26 "2006-09-30T03:39:49Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] A couple days ago, the _Post_ reported about Terell Owens’s attempted suicide with a Letterman style top-ten list of the reasons why he might have wanted to do so. (Number one: “Anything to help out the team.”) I like offensive humor as must as the next person, but I thought that was rather cruel. I kind of find the lollypop line here funny, but I agree that someone’s privacy- especially that of a public figure- shouldn’t be invaded regarding something as serious as this. I loved hearing Olbermann correct all the errors in the article- it reminded me of [this guy](http://www.regrettheerror.com/2006/05/math_whiz_count.html) who shot bullets through a story written about him in an Oregon newspaper. I was actually expecting Olbermann to say they _would_ divulge information if any Fox personality got in trouble in the future- I liked the idea of having a war between Fox News and CNN in more ways than one. But Olbermann is right in saying that that would be wrong. [/QUOTE] If the Post is going to do satire, it should be labeled as such. Otherwise they should at least attempt to create a reasonable facsimile of objective reporting. Anyone who goes to the Post for actual news might as well go to the Onion or the local barbershop. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/27 "2006-09-30T03:42:07Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Nitpick: don’t you mean MSNBC? [/QUOTE] You’re right. I forgot. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/28 "2006-10-04T19:05:45Z")
Wow. I had not seen this. I think I love him, too. Can we share? And excellent drubbing down of some of the slimiest balls in media today. I was thinking that it was all fairly routine (the hazmat procedure he described) until they melted his keys and destroyed his wallet…jeebus. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/29 "2006-10-04T19:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] Anyone who goes to the Post for actual news might as well go to the Onion or the local barbershop. [/QUOTE] At least the Onion would be funny, and I’d get a haircut at the barbership. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/30 "2006-10-04T22:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Now, seriously – the reaction was not ridiculous. We had actual people get anthrax powder in the mail. Why they chose to be so dismissive and contempteous of Olbermann is beyond me. This was just crumby, crappy, jerkish behavior. [/QUOTE] Keith Olberman and actual people besides. Wow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/31 "2006-10-05T05:29:22Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Wow. I had not seen this. I think I love him, too. Can we share? And excellent drubbing down of some of the slimiest balls in media today. I was thinking that it was all fairly routine (the hazmat procedure he described) until they melted his keys and destroyed his wallet…jeebus. [/QUOTE] He’s supposed to have another special commentary tomorrow. Yay! I suppose we’ll have to, **eleanorigby** , but since I called him first, I get first dibs! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/32 "2006-10-05T21:05:24Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] and I’d get a haircut at the barbership. [/QUOTE] What kind of navy uses a barbership? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/33 "2006-10-05T21:17:28Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] What kind of navy uses a barbership? [/QUOTE] The Barbary Pirates, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/34 "2006-10-09T21:10:48Z")
They’re at it again. [http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm](http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm) Now Keith is bad in bed. And I went to Victoria’s Secret and everything! ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/35 "2006-10-09T21:25:19Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] They’re at it again. [http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm](http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm) Now Keith is bad in bed. And I went to Victoria’s Secret and everything! [/QUOTE] That’s just class, right there. And I’m sure we can all trust what some anonymous person wrote on the internet. I mean, this is the same level of journalistic integrity that brought us " [I fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard](http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/)" and we all believed that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/36 "2006-10-09T21:33:31Z")
> [@](#): > > KarmaBites1 said she struck up an e-mail friendship with Olbermann, whom she admired, and agreed to fly to New York to meet him last May. She says he came to her hotel room and opened a bottle of Merlot which he “spilled all over.” Then, when “sexual activity began [in] less than an hour,” Olbermann had difficulty. “I pretended he knew what he was doing,” the embittered blogger writes. “I adored the guy. I didn’t want him to think he was a dud in bed,” so she faked experiencing ecstasy. […] > > Six days later, she claims, Olbermann e-mailed her to tell her never to contact him again. “I practically begged him to explain what I did wrong. I told him I deserved some kind of explanation for such a dismissal, but I never heard from him again.” Honey, if he was such a dud in bed, why were you still trying to get in touch with him six days later and begging for an explanation of why he “dismissed” you? That story makes the anonymous kiss-and-teller look a lot more pathetic than it makes Olbermann look. ---
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/37 "2006-10-09T21:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] They’re at it again. [http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm](http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm) Now Keith is bad in bed. And I went to Victoria’s Secret and everything! [/QUOTE] So she automatically assumes that she was awesome in bed and that Keith’s desperate attempts to leave couldn’t possibly be that he was trying to politely get the heck away from her without hurting her feelings. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/38 "2006-10-09T21:51:15Z")
You mean we’re supposed to **believe** Internet blogs? :eek: If that’s the case, someone should get in touch with Daniel Radcliffe and the 4,326 oversexed teenage girls (and 348 kinky boys) who claim to have had ecstatic sex with him, and warn them all about STDs! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/39 "2006-10-09T21:55:48Z")
Having seen the blog in question before it was locked out, it was a riot. Girl’s a total stalker nutjob. As for Keith’s bedroom skills, I personally volunteer to conduct first-hand research into this issue. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638/40 "2006-10-09T22:02:56Z")
[QUOTE=Menocchio] I mean, this is the same level of journalistic integrity that brought us " [I fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard](http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/)" [/QUOTE] Ah you’ve got to give the Coulter thing props for at least being funny. > [@](#): > > ‘Harder!’ she begged, ‘Harder!! Tell me what you think of Chomsky!’ > ‘I..think..he’s..brill..iant..but..I..don’t really agree with much of his stance on Israel, and–’ Comedy gold. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-post-page-six-jerks/374638.md?page=3)