Best. Newspaper. Editorial. EVAH!! "Taser this... FUCK BUSH"...

[BlooInBloo]

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/UPDATES01/70921018

A four-word editorial published in the student newspaper at Colorado State University has landed the paper’s student man-agers in hot water with campus administrators.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian on Friday published an editorial that reads, in total, “Taser this… F--- BUSH,” spelling out the expletive, along with an explanation that “this column represents the views of the Collegian’s editorial board.”

The second two words of the editorial are printed in extremely large print, about twice the size of a headline.

While the Collegian is editorially independent, CSU retains a measure of control though a 10-member faculty-student Board of Student Communications, which can fire the paper’s editor-in-chief, David McSwane.

That's why I could give a rat's ass about the south - there's no need to pander to them. If they want to step up and acknowledge what's right, great. If not, fuck them, and they'll benefit from Democratic policies. We're on the way to winning the great plains states.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. K & R.

:kick: MKJ

[The Wielding Truth]

22. Earlier Thread......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x56843

[rockymountaindem]

2. I used to work on a college paper that was actually owned by the editor and some of his buddies

who had just graduated college. It was great. While it was still the "official" paper of the school, they administration couldn't tell us what to do, ever. We could say/do whatever we wanted, and we covered our operating costs with ads from local businesses.

The best part was that we frequently got letters from angry alumni telling us that we were misrepresenting the school, going straight to hell etc. and that they were going to call the Dean. Ha! Little did they know...

[txwhitedove]

3. I was ready to cheer for your post and definitely that editorial.

But was there really a need to pull the "South" into your point?
We were ALL sold a phony bill of goods by greedy snake oil peddlers.
Condemning part of your countrymen won't bring us back together.

[BlooInBloo]

5. They need to take steps towards US, not vice-versa. What you cheer for...

... is of course none of my business.

EDIT: The primary significance of little things like this editorial is that it's indicative of the realignment of the western states. The realignment of the western states is primarily significant because of the decades of Democrats beating their heads against the Southern Brick Wall. My talking about it was NOT unmotivated or capricious.

[txwhitedove]

9. The South is unique. Not all Southerners are prejudiced, Republican

Freepers. There is nothing to be gained by "beating" against Southern people as a group.
Better to debate, educate and enlighten. The only person in my office listening to
Rush Limbaugh and his ilk, is a Northerner. Please, please stop.

[BlooInBloo]

10. And I never said each and every last one of them were....

EDIT: I'm sorry you don't think the political context of this sort of this is important, but I do, and I'll continue to feel free to speak as such.

[txwhitedove]

11. Assume much? I wouldn't be a DU member if I didn't think the

political content of every post here was important, and you are free to
say whatever you want. I asked kindly. Your original words were
personal to Southerners: "I could give a rat's ass about the south..."
To a lot of us here in the South, that was Bush's attitude after Katrina....
Gee thanks, again, the Great Uniter.

Just think about it. I don't mind being lumped into a "Red State", hell,
I live in Red territory, but no one has thrown an egg at my DU sticker yet.

[BlooInBloo]

12. There's no need to think about the south any longer. Let them choke...

... on The War Of Northern Aggression. If they want to give it up, acknowledging their errors rather than bitching at their critic, they'll be welcomed back into humanity. Until then, they can fuck themselves - we'll win without them. And our policies will still help them.

[txwhitedove]

13. Huh?

[BlooInBloo]

14. I say that with every noose. You say that everytime someone bitches. Yah - it's the same.

[txwhitedove]

19. Nooses are bad. Stupid people are bad and I see them everywhere...

HATE CRIMES Stats 2004, not limited to southern states,
and quite a lot in California. Admittedly, Alabama is one
state known to not provide stats on hate crimes. Info from
DOJ, so also taken with a grain of salt.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/hctable11.htm

[BlooInBloo]

20. "Maybe if we point the finger at other shitty people, no one will notice US"....

... Should be the motto of every southern state.

[Stevepol]

29. The South is red to a great extent because of Diebold et al.

GA, FL, TX, and TN I think wd vote Dem, even be Dem strongholds, if the votes were counted fairly. Problem is the good ol boy network has a stranglehold on the political machinery in those states. It's been awhile since anything approaching democracy has existed in GA or FL or TX, e.g. You can't have a democracy when the vote is counted in total secrecy without verification. Even without the machines, there are so many hidden strings and levers that it's probably next to impossible to get a fair result in some elections.

Just saying.

AL is probably safely red, at least for the time being.

[Richardo]

32. It's a college newspaper, therefore not indicative of anything.

...except that college editors get off on 'sticking it to the man'.

[4_TN_TITANS]

34. My sentiment too....

Just as I was about to hit recommend, there's that little snarf at the end against us Southerners. My old home of Jackson Co. TN and Davidson Co.(Nashville) went overwhelmingly for Kerry.

Granted many Tennesseans are idiots, but many are not. Things just aren't as simple and North/South anymore, friend. Please grow out of the civil war mentality.

[depakid]

37. The tasering and arrest occured in Florida

Not that it might not have happened elsewhere....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE

[Fierce]

4. Most of the advertisers have pulled their ads,

leading to a 10% pay cut for all workers, a hiring freeze, and ad reps facing lost commissions. Way to go!

[BlooInBloo]

6. It's true - freedom never comes without a fight.

[Fierce]

7. Heh.

I for one think the editorial is crap and wouldn't give anyone from this paper a job.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. How's that black and white thinking workin for ya?

Do you honestly believe it is fair to assume that EVERYONE who works on that paper is worthy of your derision?

[caligirl]

8. i love my son's tshirt which says FUCK RACISM. So GO COLLEGIAN! FUCK BUSH!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I think I like this editor!

"McSwane earned international attention when, as a high school senior, he pretended to be a high school dropout wanting to enlist in the military. McSwane, who at the time was 17, recorded video of a recruiter saying he would get help to cover up a supposed drug problem, and acquire him a fake high school diploma."

And a video about his work is right here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=56843&mesg_id=56843

Yes, this kid ROCKS!!

[BlooInBloo]

17. ROFLMAO!!! Oh the irony - the media reporting on somebody ELSE doing THEIR job!

:rofl:

Most excellent dot-connecting!

[Octafish]

18. FUCK YOU, BUSH!

Proud to say that I've been saying that for 32 years.



Sad, too.

[backscatter712]

21. This makes me so proud!

My alma mater is AWESOME!

Backscatter712, CSU Class of 2001.

[kestrel91316]

25. Hi there! CSU 1978 (BS, Microbiology) and 1982 (DVM) here.

I know, an old fart.

[Bryn]

23. Your point is??

Another attack on the South. You posted while back about "our great great hertiage"

:eyes:

[kestrel91316]

24. I am SO PROUD of my alma mater!!!!!! Wow!!! GO CSU!!!!

I'm gonna send them a letter of support.

We were never as liberal as CU in Boulder, of course, but CSU ain't no RW bastion. CSU was one of the schools that helped launch the Peace Corps (at the instigation of my grandmother's dear friend Pauline Birky-Kreutzer).

[John Kerry VonErich]

26. Heard that McSwane might be expelled for it

nt

[kestrel91316]

31. Um, CSU ain't Bob Jones University, lol. They wouldn't be

stupid enough to try.

The Collegian is an independent voice. McSwane exercised his First Amendment rights. The worst they could do is remove him as editor.

[John Kerry VonErich]

36. If a university is stupid enough to fire a teacher because he expressed his 1st amendment rights....

you never know what is in store.

[kestrel91316]

40. Lol. That had nothing to do with CSU. That was CU in Boulder.

[John Kerry VonErich]

41. I knew that

Just setting an example. lol

[CatWoman]

27. I live in the South!!!

:cry:

Bloo doesn't like me

:cry:

[pacalo]

43. **crickets**

Hmmph...you didn't get a response. I thought at first his anti-South statement was said in haste, but since he didn't reply to the Southern DUers' responses, I wonder.

I live in the South, too, CatWoman, & you're alright with me. :hi:

[Ghost in the Machine]

28. What, exactly, does Colorado have to do with the South there, rocket scientist?

Please explain? I didn't see the South mentioned anywhere in the linked article.

[Ghost in the Machine]

35. **crickets**

just what I thought... nothing to back yourself up, just using this as an excuse to broadbrush the South..

Ain't that just like a damned yankee?

[Clark2008]

30. Rat's ass about the South?

Apparently you're not into maps. Even maps from 2006 show the Great Plains states FAR MORE RED than the South.

This is a COLLEGE newspaper, for fuck's sake. I live in a highly Republican area and our university newspaper, which I worked for in college, is far more liberal than anything else.

Geesch.

[Richardo]

33. It's not an editorial at all - it's an attention whoring stunt.

I can see why it appeals to a lot of DUers.

[Cha]

38. Oh thanks..we're so glad you're

here to scold us.

[Richardo]

39. I wasn't scolding you

I was expressing my opinion of an attention-whoring stunt by calling it an attention whoring stunt. "FUCK Bush." How courageous. How cutting edge. How completely meaningless, unless the editor wanted to call attention to himself and his college rag. Then: Mission Accomplished.

:patriot:

[kdpeters]

42. I don't much care if you have a problem...

That's why I could give a rat's ass about the south - there's no need to pander to them. If they want to step up and acknowledge what's right, great. If not, fuck them, and they'll benefit from Democratic policies.

just don't go trying to make it mine. When you say stuff this stupid, don't tell people you're a Democrat.

[pacalo]

44. If we can recommend posts, why shouldn't we also have the option to give a "thumb's down"?

"That's why I could give a rat's ass about the south - there's no need to pander to them. If they want to step up and acknowledge what's right, great. If not, fuck them, and they'll benefit from Democratic policies."

"There's no need to think about the south any longer. Let them choke..."

The poster's contempt for Southerners outweighs the merits of the OP.