The Woes Continue at The Sun

Everyone knows that The Baltimore Sun lays off 10% of it's workers ever week. It's really become evident in their print addition. Gone are the days of the multi-sectioned newspaper containing relevant articles written by Baltimore writers. Here today are is the 8-page paper written by out-of-town writers from the AP about events that you could care less about.

Now, it has become evident that not only has the print edition suffered, but now the online edition is suffering. I suspect they fired their layout editor. I mean, who needs to check the layout to make sure it's proper anyway? That's like keeping those pesky home inspectors on the government payroll.

So here is the layout from an article this morning. If you are really enthusiastic about the poll on the left side of the page, you get to answer it a second time on the right section a few inches down. Perhaps The Sun is just being generous. But I suspect they are continuing their stupidity. Or Martin O'Malley made them do it and we all know that when Marty says jump, editors at The Sun say, "How high?"

Phone Calls

On Saturday during the big rain storm I got a phone call that went like this:

"Hello, Mr. Oakley. This is Hapless Phone Representative from the Baltimore Sun. We see that you haven't subscribed to The Sun in several years and we really miss you."
"No you don't."
"Well, we miss your money. And that's why I'm calling you today to present you with some great discounted..."
"No thanks."
"You say that with such conviction. Any reason why?"
"You mean other than teh fact that The Sun is a one-sided liberal propaganda machine? How about the scathing article written last week by Susan Reimer ripping apart Republican Sarah Palin?"
"You have a nice day, sir." Click.

I thought for sure he'd like to have a debate or some kind of conversation with me. Perhaps he's heard that a lot this week. It must be tough working for a company that is so divisive.

Now what bugs me the most is that I am on the Federal Do Not Call List and I think The Sun has violated this law by calling me. I mean, it's been several years since I've done business with them. Can I turn them in for this? Perhaps if they promise to fire Susan Reimer, I'll let them off easy.

And speaking of Do Not Call Lists, I donate blood for the Red Cross 4 times per year. And I donate fairly regularly. I've donated about 35 times in my life. They come to where I work making it really easy for me. And I get out of work for an hour and a half. How great is that?

So regardless of the fact that I donate 4 times per year, the Red Cross calls my house 300 times per year asking me to donate. They'll call me the day after I donate and cry that they're extremely low on my blood type. I tell them, "At the moment, so am I!"

I have called them repeatedly and asked them to stop calling me. I will continue to donate, but they have to stop calling. The calls did stop for a while. Then last month they started calling again. And they don't really call me. I'm at work. They call my wife at home. And she hollers at me that the Red Cross keeps calling when I'm not home. Yes, that's totally my fault.

So, Red Cross, if you continue to call my house, I will be forced to ask you again to stop calling me again.

Susan Reimer is the Devil's Pawn

Everyone knows that Satan is a Democrat. I mean, do you think the devil would have ended slavery? No, it was a Republican with a stove pipe hat. And now it appears that the Prince of Darkness has a pawn at The Sun.

If you missed it, Sun columnist Susan Reimer wrote an article shredding Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. It's no secret that the Baltimore Sun is a liberal propaganda tabloid. Who was the last Republican presidential candidate that they endorsed? I think they even endorsed Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, 2 of the worst bumbling liberals in several generations.

To begin, she titled her hate-crime column "A Woman - But Why This One?". She says that Palin is "an utterly unqualified woman."

She also says, "Does McCain think we will be so grateful for a skirt on the ticket that we won't notice that she's anti-abortion, a member of the NRA and thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution?" Gasp!!! A Republican that believes these things? She ought to be shot! I've never heard of a Republican that's Pro-Life and Pro-Second Amendment! Perhaps if Palin aborted her babies, Reimer would like her more.

She says that "his selection of Palin is insulting". And probably the worst hate-crime statement in the article: "You want to look good to the evangelicals? Choose a running mate with a Down syndrome child." Satan is salivating in the bastions of fire in the netherworld.

Another hate-filled paragraph: "A woman who made the decision to carry to term a baby she knew to be developmentally disabled." She claims this was not an endorsement of abortion. Okay, then what was it? Even my liberal pro-abortion friends were appalled by this statement.

Then Reimer tries to be funny: "She won't be able to hold her own against Joe Biden in a vice presidential debate. But wait until the swimsuit portion of the competition." Well, only if Biden decides NOT to wear the t-back Speedo.

Reimer then followed up her anti-Christian, anti-child article with a rebuttal. This is her chance to redeem herself. Explain the misinterpretations. She says she got 8,200 comments to the article, 50 calls, 700 emails, and the article received 316,000 hits. She got calls from shock jocks and news shows to come on their show and attempt to defend her hatred.

She then attacked her readers. She said responses "were beyond the bounds of decency" and "So much pent-up anger, so much barely concealed hate was released in those e-mails and those postings. I wonder where next they will find a vent."

Clueless. Absoultely clueless. And The Sun wonders why their readership continues to dip further and further. They wonder why they are mocked. The wonder why people say they have no credibility. When you hire hacks to write articles the spew hatred, this is one reason why people don't like you.