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| Several Hackensack Fire Department vehicles responding to a homeowner's call about a problematic gas stove lit up a street in the Fairmount section like a Christmas tree on Sunday night. |
By Victor E. Sasson
Editor
I searched The Record today and Monday in vain for mention of Saturday Night Live's scathing satire about the roles of House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Michele Bachmann in the government shutdown.
"It's our party. We can do what we want," the gay Boehner and slutty Bachmann characters repeat over and over as they take part in an orgy.
The Boehner character, his face glowing with the speaker's odd coloring, is shown kissing the bare chest of another man.
Click on the following link to see a video clip:
'We can do what we want'
No local reporting
I also haven't been able to find a report in The Record about all of the North Jersey residents hurt by the shutdown -- a GOP attempt to blackmail President Obama into delaying or "defunding" the Affordable Care Act.
The front page of today's paper is dominated by two news stories discussing state and federal politics, including another attempt to fool readers into thinking crackpot Steve Lonegan has any chance against Cory Booker in the U.S. Senate race (A-1).
On TV news, I heard snippets about the shutdown affecting Head Start and the nutrition program known as Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
They're just folks
What the federal programs have in common is that they serve minorities, people of color who aren't exactly considered The Record's demographic.
The Woodland Park daily has devoted more space to Ridgewood residents complaining about the proposed expansion of The Valley Hospital within its own campus and the installation of tall utility poles than it has to Head Start, WIC or other government programs for the working class.
That's no surprise, considering the newsroom's lack of diversity and the white hacks writing news and feature columns.
This kind of editorial racism is being mirrored by congressional Republicans and Tea Party radicals who still have not gotten over the election of a black president.
What else can you conclude from the repeated attempts to derail health-care reform, which will give coverage to 30 million uninsured people -- blacks and whites?
Shoot 'em up
If today's front page doesn't bore you to death, check out all the Law & Order news Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza displays on the Local front and just about every other page of the section.
It's Sforza's way of telling blacks and Hispanics that getting arrested is a sure way of making the local news section he supervises.
Christie-Buono
Why isn't a rare column about issues in the Nov. 5 gubernatorial election on A-1 instead of L-1 today?
Isn't tonight's debate between Governor Christie and state Sen. Barbara Buono important enough?
How's your cholesterol?
The Better Living feature on a new french fries stand at Garden State Plaza in Paramus is indistinguishable from an advertisement (BL-1 and BL-3).
No byline or other staff credit appears with the text, which quotes the millionaire owner as gushing, "I love french fries; they taste amazing" (BL-3).
On the opposite page (BL-2), the photo of a ricotta-vegetable souffle looks like vomit.
