You don’t have to pay Newsday.com’s over-priced subscription fee to see that the New York publication has gone off the rails. A quick perusal of their free content shows a troubling number of racist, sexist, and insensitive postings. One posting told Hurricane Irene victims to “suck it up and stop bitching.”
The worst hate found in Newsday.com’s postings, though, is directed at President Obama. One posting called the President a “mutt,” another declared him a “clown,” “spineless,” and a “complete loser.” The more you read, however, the more troubling the rhetoric gets. One Newsday post declares Obama “a socialist” who wants to “bring the country to its knees.”
But it’s the openly racist attacks occurring at Newsday that are the most disturbing. One of their postings accuses the President of being a glue sniffer who only speaks in “one or two word grunts.” The question: “Do your knuckles bleed from dragging them on the ground all the time?” is asked.
Chaz Bono, who recently became a man after receiving a sex change operation, isn’t spared either. One homophobic Newsday post mocks with “dude looks like a lady,” another wonders if Chaz received a “real penis and testicles.”
Why Newsday.com would post such openly hateful, racist and homophobic material is beyond explanation. But if Newsday.com is going to go out of their way to deceptively describe Big Hollywood comments as “postings” and be as staggeringly and shamelessly dishonest as this …
Forums devoted to reality shows seemed uniformly in favor of [Chaz] Bono. But some sites devoted to conservative politics appeared caustic. A posting on Andrew Breitbart’s BigHollywood.com called Bono “aberrant” and living a “seedy, shadowy, stained” existence. Another there said, “I resent the news referring to ‘Chaz’ as a male. IT was culled from the herd” by undergoing transgender surgery.
… we thought it would be fun to see if one good turn could deserve another. And lo and behold, look at what we found — in a mere fifteen minutes.
For the record, neither the Big Hollywood editorial staff nor any of our contributors has made a single comment on Chaz Bono’s sexuality or his sex change operation. Our attitude towards such things can best be described as indifferent. We may openly and vigorously disagree with Mr. Bono’s politics and ideas, but when it comes to his personal life, we wish Chaz nothing but peace, good health and happiness.
Finally, a good faith look shows that Big Hollywood received almost five times as many comments as Newsday yesterday and my guess is that we have about 1% of their staff.
Under those conditions, you’d think Newsday could do a better job policing the racism and homophobia.
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