Comments on: Notes on the David Feherty Dust-up

By: jdb

jdb — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:19:54 +0000

my son is in the army. i assure he is not your private assassin for politicians the right doesnt like. feherty should be fired. was the idiot drunk?

By: dude in Afghanistan

dude in Afghanistan — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:09:42 +0000

@ Little O and Tim: I don’t mind finding this post right where it was placed — just glad I found it! I don’t like the NBA or NHL very much, either, but I don’t complain about having to scroll past those articles to get to my daily fix or Evan and MJH…I even know a little more about the Mavs than I ever thought I would — and expanding your knowledge is never a bad thing. Please don’t ever be afraid to broaden your horizons a little. Besides, Feherty IS someone from whom I like to hear, and this post was a very interesting insight into his opinions (veiled in HUMOR), as well as the current state of American politics. Heck, I’m not even sure if I’ve correctly learned than I can find more of his wonderful writings regularly here on DMagazine…is this actually the case?

Maybe David’s publicist needs to simply inform the world that the pen-knife he wields is ALWAYS aimed at your funny-bone, and if he misses the target slightly, the resulting wound will probably sting a little but never be cause for hospitalization.

I’m sure Feherty has always presented himself as no less than a willing target for reciprocated ridicule as a consequence of his conservative leanings, but please don’t assault a man for trying to bring a smile to the world’s faces…Make Love, Not War, you leftists…

By: Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:49:27 +0000

@ Little O: I thought the item was sportsy enough to merit a cross post. But having read these comments, I think you’re right. My apologies.

By: chuck Dallas

chuck Dallas — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:50:21 +0000

I already complain that Feherty doesn’t get enough air time during the tourneys on CBS. I love it when he tells a funny joke that the stiffs in the booth don’t get…and all goes quiet while Faldo and Nantz try to figure out what he just said.

If they pull Feherty, so long CBS (which is a shame because they have the best HD and golf coverage).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:29 +0000

I agree with Little O.

By: Mitchell Pezdek

Mitchell Pezdek — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:04:27 +0000

I do not see any humor at all in Feherty’s stupid and insensitive “joke” about Pelosi, Reid, bin Laden, and two bullets. Having lived through the assassiations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy, and the attempts on Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Wallace and Pope John Paul II, I do not find assassinations to be a joke. Maybe we should make a joke about Feherty’s parents being gunned down in Ireland. Isn’t that really, really funny?

By: blackknight

blackknight — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:20:45 +0000

So tell me, Mr Rogers, what exactly would the troops have to be mad at Pelosi and Reid about anyway? If a caught you or Feherty in an elevator alone, you’d have a broken nose. Isn’t that funny. C’mon, laugh. Where’s your sense of humor?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:36:56 +0000

Don’t apologize any further David. The left only has a sense of humor when it serves them. Your joke describes how the majority of this country feels.

By: Little O

Little O — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:26:07 +0000

Mr. Rogers-

This is a sports blog that Evan has worked very hard to build. It’s been a great experience so far because it sticks with sports and the occasional mention of food. Your cross-posting of an item from FrontBurner was obviously done so you could get the kind of comments that you and the other editors decried as uncivil and not in the spirit that FrontBurner supposedly had.

If you want traffic for FrontBurner then enable comments for the posts there. The only connection this item has to sports is that it was written by a golf commentator of a network. It wasn’t uttered during a televised tournament or on anything connected to that network.

I’ll defer to your editorial discretion about the article itself and if it is reflective of the civility that you profess is needed in the D universe.

Evan has a great thing going here. Please let it be.

By: Doug in DFW

Doug in DFW — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:11:34 +0000

When pseudonymous commenters say mean things on a blog then their words must be stopped. The affront to civility is so great
that such words don’t deserve to be associated with a noble enterprise such as D Magazine. When someone famous gets the assassination joke series up and running with the D Magazine editor’s seal of approval then it’s comic genius that needs no apology. Add in those sorry libruls that just don’t preciate jokes bout their violent death and you get a film that writes itself:
Tea Party II – This Time It’s Personal