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| Image via Wikipedia Cranberry bogs in the glorious Pine Barrens are one of the things that make New Jersey great. The New York Giants, on the other hand, play the ultimate Jersey joke on the state. |
The Giants have been playing football in New Jersey for 35 years. Yet, they play the ultimate Jersey joke on the Garden State by keeping "NY" on their helmets.
And that's OK with their legion of New Jersey fans, The Record and other media, which continue to support and glorify the team instead of organizing a boycott to force a name change.
Editor Martin Gottlieb has me doubled over with laughter. Can you imagine all the money fans waste on a team that rejects them?
Look at today's nonsensical coverage on Page 1 and in Sports about how the Giants "came home" to East Rutherford and there's "no place like home." LOL.
Limp Christie
Even our brash Governor Christie seems powerless, lamely referring to the team as the "New Jersey Giants." In your wet dreams, governor.
The Port Authority is another institution Christie has been unable to control since he took office in 2010, as shown by today's lead story on an audit that condemns wasteful spending at the agency -- which is packed with the governor's cronies.
In letters to the editor on A-10, two readers, Casey Connors of River Edge and Mary Blum of Paramus, say the real heroes are veterans, not the Giants. Amen to that.
Leaves a bad taste
But on the same page, Margulies' cartoon on the pro-Democracy movement in Egypt is in bad taste, especially in view of the brutal crackdown on protesters and recent soccer riot that killed more than 70.
No one there is trying "to build a network of Super PACs" by any stretch of the imagination. Previously, I was incorrect in saying the cartoon was about Syria, but my objections remain.
How could Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin approve such an wildly exaggerated, callous cartoon?
The Local news section continues to disappoint. Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes seems to endorse the Road Warrior's lazy method of assembling another column from reader e-mails.
Today's laughable piece addresses hoaxes and other false information on the Internet (L-1). How lame.
Screw the locals
The section also is light on municipal news from many towns, including Hackensack, but Sykes found room on L-2 for the photo of a diner fire that injured no one.
What was Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill thinking with a recipe for chocolate pancakes with chocolate maple syrup (Better Living front)?
Victor Cruz
I published a long comment from Jerry DeMarco at the end of Tuesday's post, Sports section glorifies unwed father, about Victor Cruz of the Giants.
Click on the following link to read the comment:
"I have a beautiful, amazing son ..."
The cartoon is on EGYPT, not Syria. Read it again.
ReplyDeleteIf people wanted to hear what Gerrie DiMarco had to say, they'd become crooked cops.
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ReplyDeleteEgypt, Syria -- it'all the same. Many people died to bring about change. The SuperPACs have nothing to do with it.
ReplyDeleteHe should have made his point referencing the U.S. and the corrupt Supreme Court that approved anonymous funding of political campaigns.
Here we go again.... Of course I'm sh*t. That's why I was asked, and selected, to lecture on media relations to police from throughout the county. Sorry about that. The best line from the group: "Can you imagine if Mike Kelly tried to stand up in front of that room?" If only....
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