go get him charles

*rubbing hands together*

this is going to be GOOOOOOOD.

//where's the popcorn pudding?

I can summarize Townsend's side "Nanny Nanny Frickin' Boo Boo."

What is this townsend fool like 12 years old?

Arrogant little pissant, isn't he?

*Bugs Bunny Voice* Of course you realize, this means war!

I really, really hate to see the MSM having to continuiously defend themselves in the public arena from attacks by those less enlightned.
/NOT!

Why is it that when I read his replys the image of a scruffy looking 8 year old boy comes to mind?

Asshole.

Asshat.

Monkey turd.

Gotta head to work, so I'll leave it at that.

(But at least I work for my paycheck, which is more than I can say for Tim Townsend.)

I wonder which journalism school Mr. Townsend spent 4 years in.

Spin, Spin, as fast as you can,
You can't touch me, I'm a reporter, Man!

MSM theme song

Charles,
This is why most in the city don't bother with that paper. I have forwarded an email to 97.1 talk radio to see if they will contact you about this issue. This 'journalism' is so very infuriating. Please don't let this stand.

One more thing. There were no threats against a mosque. The threats were against a minaret and the loudspeakers on that tower. I and others called for civility when dealing with this issue.

Indistiguishable from arguing with a low grade troll.
And just about as pointless.
Hey, Tim. C-/D+ on the troll scale.

JWM

what a tool

Arrogant, condescending, disingenuous.....and they wonder why they're losing their audience.

Charles, for the love of God please don't get involved in a battle with a wordsmith of this caliber! The man can weave a tapestry of logic the likes of which are, even now, making me re-think some of my basic assumptions of society.

/

You do realize that he is prolly getting tons of emails from offended people like me, he might be a tad cranky.

Not that this is in any way excusing his lack of professionalism. I just think it's fun to think of him getting frustrated at the continuous chiming of "You've got mail!" on his computer.

Un-freaking-real.

I am front-line in my job and talk or correspond with hundreds of customers. If I used Mr. Townsend's tone with ANYONE whatsoever, I would be out on my keester before you could sneeze.

Grauate cum laude of the "Close cover before striking" School of Journalistic Ethics and Air Conditioning Repair

A**hole punk journalist...

Holier than thou...

re: #5 piraticalbob

Arrogant little pissant, isn't he?

Shhh! He doesn't know it and we wouldn't want to wake the sleeping little worm. "Arrogant little pissant." LOL! Too perfect.

He doesn't report news...he makes it up.

re: #7 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Hey, lay off of the scruffy looking 8 year old boys. I got one of those around here somewhere........

We had better watch what we write here folks or we might get pegged as "anti-journalist" by CAIR and the SLPD.

/S

re: #22 BulgarWheat

re: #7 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Hey, lay off of the scruffy looking 8 year old boys. I got one of those around here somewhere........

;)

Mr. Townshed,
Please read the disclaimers that we are simple commentors and they do not reflect Mr. Johnson at all. Answer his questions in a professional way, as you are not professional.

Oh and piss off,
Sarah

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Tim Townsend wrote:

Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic. So smart.

So professional...Ive seen High school newspaper reporters with more integrity.

Maximu§
3/11 ACR

He's a dope.

Well hell, Charles, since the reporter has said to Go_Fish (at #93 in the prior thread) that he knows all of the CAIR members in the area and he trusts them, why would you expect him to actually, you know, investigate the accuracy of what his buddies at CAIR told him? He obviously has no reason to think they weren't telling the truth - he trusts them.

Journalism, as practiced by this creep, is almost giving Dan Rather an improved image! LOL!

What a worm.

If journalists and college professors were, on the whole, rational and decent like Nat Hentoff I would respect them more. If seems that most journalists and professors are of The Weathermen mold. Damn shame they are now in positions of power. No possibility of dialog with True Believers.

The thot plickens.

re: #16 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

You do realize that he is prolly getting tons of emails from offended people like me, he might be a tad cranky.

Not that this is in any way excusing his lack of professionalism. I just think it's fun to think of him getting frustrated at the continuous chiming of "You've got mail!" on his computer.

He got one from me.
God knows how many more.

It's time decent people stand up in the face of slander and crap like this.

Where'd he go to school? Columbia?

It is a standard journalistic rule to ask for a response of BOTH parties.

These guys are not reporters, they're tabloid apes.

You ranted to a reporter, demanding an apology for his story

It's his story, Charles, not yours.... You are not the important one here, he is. His story.

What a tool - I wonder if he would feel the same about all his stories. It's not the economy that's important, it's his treatment of it. I could go on, but it hurts my heart that he has a keyboard and a place to air out his tripe.

Charles, you get millions more readers than Mr. Townsend will ever get. He's in a dying industry while you're helping to lead its replacement. It's natural for him to be bitter and petty. Insolence is all he has left.

I recieved the same lame answer.

Who said LGF was a hate site, John? Not me. Try reading the story before
e-mailing the reporter next time

But, hey, he's an unbiased "Jooournalist", only gathering the facts and reporting them without a slant, right? right?

I cannot understand why newspaper circulation around the USA is going down with professionals such as this gentleman doing the reporting...not.

The funny is that now this "Timmah" (No insult to TImmah on SouthPark) is going to be very busy trolling about and looking to stir up the pot.

The FBI will behave professionally, this dickhead is going to take anything that he can out of context in a manner that might even shame Hoppie.

Sign, behave out there Lizards. This dickweed will be lurking about.

re: #17 Catttt

Un-freaking-real.

I am front-line in my job and talk or correspond with hundreds of customers. If I used Mr. Townsend's tone with ANYONE whatsoever, I would be out on my keester before you could sneeze.

Point is that LGF is not the customer.

It is the target. Thus the shabby treatment and lack of fact checking / attempt at balance.

Post Modern Journalism does not require either facts, examination of alternative viewpoints or even cursory critical thinking - why do you think Obama is riding the media wave he is on?

Good luck with that Charles. The Post has been a liberal rag forever, but since it was bought a few years back by new owners, it's not even a well-written liberal rag anymore. My mother, who is a liberal herself, is appalled at the many typos in the Post these days. There's also very little local writing--the vast majority of the stories are taken from the wire services. But, hey, Macy's still needs somewhere to advertise.

RE: #4
Because leftists exist in a state of perpetual childhood oblivion

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

I'm a JOURNALIST! How dare you question me!
/Tim Townsend

re: #31 Dirk Diggler

The thot plickens.

Your dislexia won't shield you this time Dirk, we know you're a registered member of the great lizard conspiracy.

What an unprofessional pompous asshole.

WHOA. Some "professional" HE is.

/NOT.

re: #43 MandyManners

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

He doesn't rate a great galloping?

Incredibly childish. These are they idiots that continually laud themselves as they grow into the Dan Rathers of the world. Should we nominate Townsend for a Pulitzer prize, anyone?

Where's Cognito to tell us all how wrong we are?

Jesus, Townsend is a walking talking dick with legs.

re: #47 buzzsawmonkey

re: #43 MandyManners

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

You forgot "Gramscian."

Is he Gramscian? Sometimes whores are just plain whores.

OT, but this just in:

Can anyone say Presidential Nominee Obama?

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

Reminds me of the exchanges I used to have with Jonathan Alter and Keith Olbermann; they would inevitably sink quickly into the gutter and call me all sorts of names.

Alter just hated it when I would Fisk his columns. Didn't take more than a single email for Olbermann to go apesh*t on me. He's very sensitive to ridicule.

We've already established what he is, now we are just working on price.

Sensors have detected a dense smug, set phasers to "Rather-inate"

Tim Townsend at work?

re: #19 tfc3rid

A**hole punk journalist...

Holier than thou...

Holier than God

(Note to Townsend, CAIR, et al: that's NOT meant as equating CJ with the Deity)

(Sheeesh, th' way you gotta cover your *ss these days!)

re: #52 maddogg

Jesus, Townsend is a walking talking dick with legs.

Don't insult dicks!

Nomination for rotating title:

"Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic. So smart."

Imagine a sanctimonious, overweight twerp with jelly doughnut all over his rumpled shirt, too lazy to pick up a phone and call the object of an accusatory press release before printing it, and you've probably just about got the image you need.

Judging from a search of his name on the P-D site, he mainly writes on religion.

re: #51 MandyManners

5..4...3...2...1.... ; - )
Seriously, what a jerk this "journalist " is. Let us know how we can all help, Charles.

re: #41 Palandine

Good luck with that Charles. The Post has been a liberal rag forever, but since it was bought a few years back by new owners, it's not even a well-written liberal rag anymore. My mother, who is a liberal herself, is appalled at the many typos in the Post these days. There's also very little local writing--the vast majority of the stories are taken from the wire services. But, hey, Macy's still needs somewhere to advertise.

And that's not likely to be all that much longer if they also continue to piss off the locals and continue their own slide into obscurity.

/Macy's and the newspapers they advertise in can rot.

re: #58 EC Marm

Tim Townsend at work?

Where's the giant bag of Cheetos and the 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew?

Are you KIDDING ME?

That's the response from a PROFESSIONAL reporter?

I am totally convinced that the media and the left consist of adults who never grew up. I don't know a single mature, responsible professional that would answer that way, unless they are moonbats. Incredible.

Thats what you call journalistic integrity.

Charles, who does this guy report to? His editor needs to know about the shabby journalism being practiced. The shareholders aren't going to like this one bit, either.

re: #54 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

How about President Obama?

re: #9 daughter of patriots

I wonder which journalism school Mr. Townsend spent 4 years in.

Apparently he went to Boston College.

Boston College
1987 — 1991

He's probably around 38.

Snotty little shit, ain't he?

You'd think a journalist wouldn't hesitate to defend his writing.

You'd think.

J-School at Columbia, Mo. or Columbia, Manhattan, I reckon.

As they layoff the old high paid dogs, they are left with the children.

re: #54 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

OT, but this just in:

Can anyone say Presidential Nominee Obama?

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

He is going to be easier to beat than Hillary would have been.

He can't go to the center.

He can only accuse McCain of being Bush. Hardly the case given how McCain has been received within the ranks, and given McCain's track record as a "Maverick".

re: #70 tfc3rid

re: #54 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

How about President Obama?

My advice...do your best to get out of as much debt as possible by January. I am.

re: #54 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

OT, but this just in:

Can anyone say Presidential Nominee Obama?

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

I do believe Hillary may be toast.

re: #64 seekeroftruth

Maybe the thing between me and Cog is actually repressed sexual desire for each other.

Nah.

re: #58 EC Marm

now thats funny

re: #69 Golem Akbar

Charles, who does this guy report to? His editor needs to know about the shabby journalism being practiced. The shareholders aren't going to like this one bit, either.

They should know that this great newspaperman has just slandered thousands of decent people.

I think they will be interested in knowing more about it.

This is one of those classic memo to self moments:

THINK BEFORE YA HIT SEND

Oh, someone found a better link above. Never mind.

re: #67 Israel4ever

Are you KIDDING ME?

That's the response from a PROFESSIONAL reporter?

I am totally convinced that the media and the left consist of adults who never grew up. I don't know a single mature, responsible professional that would answer that way, unless they are moonbats. Incredible.

Maybe he drank his lunch.

BBL

this is journalism today? he isn't after truth. he sounds like a spoiled arrogant brat pushing his own agenda. what a snarky toad.

re: #79 MandyManners

LOL

This "journalist" for the St. Louis Post demonstrates the mentality of some pimply kid working for the high-school news paper.

#71 Apparently he went to Boston College.

Boston College
1987 — 1991

Nice work! (I shudder -- BC saddled us New Yorkers with the insufferable Mike Lupica.)

re: #77 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I've got a lot of it but I am really cutting corners to get out of it, ASAP.

I can just hear what is going through ole tim's brain right now. "Courage, courage, courage".

re: #64 seekeroftruth

re: #51 MandyManners

5..4...3...2...1.... ; - )
Seriously, what a jerk this "journalist " is. Let us know how we can all help, Charles.

I'm with you. Anything you need from us, Charles?

re: #40 karmic_inquisitor

re: #17 Catttt

Un-freaking-real.

I am front-line in my job and talk or correspond with hundreds of customers. If I used Mr. Townsend's tone with ANYONE whatsoever, I would be out on my keester before you could sneeze.

Point is that LGF is not the customer.

It is the target. Thus the shabby treatment and lack of fact checking / attempt at balance.

Post Modern Journalism does not require either facts, examination of alternative viewpoints or even cursory critical thinking - why do you think Obama is riding the media wave he is on?

Yeah, I dig their mindset. It really ticks me off, though.

#75 bill-tb
As they layoff the old high paid dogs, they are left with the children.

Well put, but Puppies is more like it.

re: #47 buzzsawmonkey

re: #43 MandyManners

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

You forgot "Gramscian."

I once was puzzled by the term "Gramscian Whore". Then I looked up Antonio Gramsci. It seems that many Baby Boomers believed all the leftwing porridge that was placed before them.

re: #33 Ward Cleaver

Where'd he go to school? Columbia?

Go to the head of the class, my man.

Tim Townsend has been the religion reporter at the Post-Dispatch since June 2004. He previously covered personal finance and consumer news for The Wall Street Journal. His religion reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and The Village Voice. He holds master's degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Divinity School. In 2005 he won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, given by the Religion Newswriters Association.

Check out the bad goatee covering up his chins.

This is what passes as discourse from a man who uses language in his job? Mom and Dad should ask for a refund from his college.

I'm so glad the time has come for bloggers like Charles and his Lizard Army tofinally show what true, reasoned, journalism can be.

I'm pretty young, so I don't really know exactly when the MSM fell off the deep end. Actually, were they ever respectable or was it always a sham with little kids like this?

that's why i don't read the fishwrap anymore.

It's all starting to make sense....
Muslims, Christians find common ground here By Tim Townsend

Panorama of Islam (Paperback) by Tim Townsend (Editor)

Mosques are struggling By Tim Townsend

once again, folks, here it is:
The CIAR Song!

Don Henley got it right:

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybodys pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When its said and done we havent told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!

re: #34 Jfundie

It is a standard journalistic rule to ask for a response of BOTH parties.

These guys are not reporters, they're tabloid apes.

Don't tell him how to do his phony-baloney job!

re: #87 seekeroftruth

I'm a seeker of truth, no matter where it takes me.

re: #84 MandyManners

re: #67 Israel4ever

Are you KIDDING ME?

That's the response from a PROFESSIONAL reporter?

I am totally convinced that the media and the left consist of adults who never grew up. I don't know a single mature, responsible professional that would answer that way, unless they are moonbats. Incredible.

Maybe he drank his lunch.

Only when CAIR is picking up the tab

Tim Townsend. Bachelors Degree in Divinity from Yale, Masters in Journalism from Columbia. Asshole from God.

Here's his page at the paper

re: #79 MandyManners

Maybe the thing between me and Cog is actually repressed sexual desire for each other.

You know, Mandy............. I seriously need to not think about that at all.

re: #88 Yank in the EU

This "journalist" for the St. Louis Post demonstrates the mentality of some pimply kid working for the high-school news paper.

Mike Royko this asshat ain't.

Wooooo!
I wouldn't want to be at odds with lizardia.
What power of digging out the truth LOL

Charles, a little friendly advice?

I'm a journalist... Here's what you should do:

When this happens again. Call, do not email, but call the Managing Editor. Calmly explain the situation/your side. DO NOT use language such as "You Owe Me." Reporters are hassled frequently by Public Relations persons who are always shilling for their clients. "You Owe Me" is a favorite refrain of a shrill PR person who's ticked that their client got bad/no press. It puts you in the "Ignore this Insane Person" box.

Encourage all contact through telephone. Use email as a follow-up tool or as a way of verifying the accuracy of your quotes or basic info such as name, number of readers, etc.

DO NOT directly call a reporter directly. Contact his boss (Managing Editor usually). DO NOTE specifically state things such as: "This little thread of emails will be forwarded to your editors." Be more vague. Such as: "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to escalate this matter." Keep the editor/reporter guessing as to what you are going to do next. Contact a lawyer? Are you friends with his/her publisher?

Apparently Tim Townsend won an award from Christian Century magazine in 2005. I clicked the link to try to find what it was for but it didn't load.

Charles,

For a 'Religion' reporter, he sure doesn't seem to have the patience of Job in his sesponses to you...

The immaturity, lack of professionalism and writing skills is stunning. No wonder the media is considered the bottom-feeder of news reporting.

Thanks for all you do Charles.

re: #100 Killgore Trout

It's all starting to make sense....
Muslims, Christians find common ground here By Tim Townsend

Panorama of Islam (Paperback) by Tim Townsend (Editor)

Mosques are struggling By Tim Townsend

Check his income.

Follow da moneh.

Charles-here's some background and a cute pic of your new friend from St. Louis.

Tim Townsend has been the religion reporter at the Post-Dispatch since June 2004. He previously covered personal finance and consumer news for The Wall Street Journal. His religion reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and The Village Voice. He holds master's degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Divinity School. In 2005 he won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, given by the Religion Newswriters Association

re: #100 Killgore Trout

He's a dhimmi.

A visual.

re: #82 WriterMom,

And never, ever say something in an email you wouldn't want to see plastered all over the internet. On a blog with 100,000 (give or take) daily readers :-)

re: #61 Creeping Eruption

Nomination for rotating title:

"Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic. So smart."

-I second this suggestion. Wear their ridicule as a badge of honor! Or something.

re: #107 Kenneth

He holds master's degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Divinity School.

Heh.

I also asked TT.."tim townsend" if he ever read any of the Koran. he did not answer that one.

re: #61 Creeping Eruption

Nomination for rotating title:

"Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic. So smart."

Seconded.

re: #104 MandyManners

re: #87 seekeroftruth

I'm a seeker of truth, no matter where it takes me.

Oh, my goodness. How did your nic get into my answer?!

Well, in defense of Mr. Townsend, (defense of Mr. Townsend - did I really type that?), he didn't say LGF was an anti-muslim website. That actually came from the cretin who wrote the story for KMOV. But Mr. Townsend is still a sanctimonious jerk.

re: #112 zmdavid

See #100

The new journalistic standard. Reporting by press release.

Receive press release, forward to editor under byline, spend the rest of the day at DailyKos.

Mr. Townsend, have you every in your entire life heard of the 5Ws?

Hint:
1) Who
2) What
3) Where
4) When
5) Why

You covered half of 1) the complainant side, but not the accused. You just printed the complainants 2) nothing more. Doubt you did any research of 3) visiting LGF and using the provided search function. Didn't cover 4) or 5).

Score:
1) 10 of 20
2) 5 of 20
3) 0 of 20
4) 0 of 20
5) 0 of 20

15 out of 100 on journalistic basics.

re: #103 Dar ul Harb
Hah! A Blazing Saddles allusion, not bad at all. This is just sad. Edward R. Murrow needs to come back and bitch slap all these faux journalists.

re: #104 MandyManners

Me too - thus my screen name. My journey began on 9/11.

He knows who these guys are, and considers them trusted sources...

(i.e. he'll take their word for it.)

re: #119 Iron Fist

FOR SURE

re: #96 JammieWearingFool

chins

Would that give him a valid claim to being a heavyweight. His article sure doesn't.

re: #98 ModerateWolverine

I'm so glad the time has come for bloggers like Charles and his Lizard Army tofinally show what true, reasoned, journalism can be.

I'm pretty young, so I don't really know exactly when the MSM fell off the deep end. Actually, were they ever respectable or was it always a sham with little kids like this?

The blogosphere is doing major hurt on the print media, with LGF and similar blogs taking its toll on the MSM's unthinking leftist tilt. Stick around for awhile. It'll be fun and educational, too.

Actually, this guy's petulant, superior attitude is quite in keeping with most of the reporters I have had to deal with in my career.

My guess is his editors will be quite similar.

re: #105 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

re: #84 MandyManners

re: #67 Israel4ever

Are you KIDDING ME?
That's the response from a PROFESSIONAL reporter?

I am totally convinced that the media and the left consist of adults who never grew up. I don't know a single mature, responsible professional that would answer that way, unless they are moonbats. Incredible.

Maybe he drank his lunch.

Only when CAIR is picking up the tab

Or, doing something else for him 'cause that stuff is haraam.

Oh, wait. They could use booze as a form of taqqiyah.

What will be Mr. Townsend's new word in the Urban Dictionary? Let me think....

You embarrased him Charles and his reaction proves my point.

Maximu§
3/11 ACR

Little Timmy Townsend, poster boy for the modern journalist.

No wonder the msm is circling the drain. Their talent and integrity reservoir is the size of a puddle of rat whiz.

re: #96 JammieWearingFool

Those may just be aspirations (ASSpirations?)... The date on that bio is -- 8/5/2050...

/what a freakin' dolt!

re: #71 Tasty Beverage

Tim Townsend has been the religion reporter at the Post-Dispatch since June 2004. He previously covered personal finance and consumer news for The Wall Street Journal. His religion reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and The Village Voice. He holds master's degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Divinity School. In 2005 he won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, given by the Religion Newswriters Association.

re: #61 Creeping Eruption

Nomination for rotating title:

"Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic. So smart."

I'll second that.

Little Timmy Townsend, new posterboy for what's wrong with newspapers today. What a childish excuse for a reporter. PIMF.

re: #108 Wishbone

re: #79 MandyManners

Maybe the thing between me and Cog is actually repressed sexual desire for each other.

You know, Mandy............. I seriously need to not think about that at all.

Just don't tell Cognito. He jus might get a raging clue.

After reading the emails, it is all about 'smearing', nothing else. This is why newspapers very soon will be dinosaur bones.

Any chance the comments that started this mess came from CAIR, as a setup?

Boston College
1987 — 1991
He's probably around 38

And he's hit the big time at the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Woo hoo. Covering religion, to boot - to steal a line from "The Office", I don't know how you get up and go to work each day facing that. I couldn't.

Sort of the journalistic equivalent to slinging burgers in your fifties, spitting on burgers while you ponder the long list of bad choices that got you there. He gave Charles the email equivalent of the lung biscuit.

/just lost craving for Jr Bacon Cheese....

re: #23 karmic_inquisitor

We had better watch what we write here folks or we might get pegged as "anti-journalist" by CAIR and the SLPD.

/S

The St Louis Pissant Dispatch?

Speaking of journalism...here's an OT:

Transvestite TV Anchor Pakistan's Surpise Hit

[Link: www.stltoday.com...]

The article is posted online by the Post.

Fatboy looks like he's got some male pattern baldness developing as well.

So in a few years he'll be fat, stupid and bald.

Probably looking for a job as well.

re: #112 zmdavid

Apparently Tim Townsend won an award from Christian Century magazine in 2005. I clicked the link to try to find what it was for but it didn't load.

Is it published by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Yale Divinity School?

Incredible. My publisher would have my head and very likely my job for pulling a boned-headed stunt like this. In fact, the story would have never made print without the other side represented. Me thinks the editor has some explaining to do as well...

re: #143 buzzsawmonkey

re: #115 Jfundie

re: #100 Killgore Trout

It's all starting to make sense....
Muslims, Christians find common ground here By Tim Townsend

Panorama of Islam (Paperback) by Tim Townsend (Editor)

Mosques are struggling By Tim Townsend

Check his income.

Follow da moneh.

I note he is sporting a goatee, the Club Insignia of the Moonbat the world over.

....and bald bikers (like my ex).

An excellent example of the consequences of reducing the operating budgets of the mainstream media outlets. (For you folks in Rio Linda, that means the newspaper can only afford to hire a junior college journalism major for the minimum wage. [ pulse tips ])

I'm sure the reporter never considred the possibility that Cair themselves have been cruising the site forever looking for some slight they could cry about. That CAIR possibly even got commenting privileges and played here for some time hoping to incite something juicy. And further, it is entirely possible that CAIR themselves posted or instigated the comments that they are so offended over.

Or not.

As a veteran who personally fought for the right to speak freely I will not curb my tongue for any Hirabist apology group and I hope no other American feels such a need. Speak freely, that is what I and my comrades fought to insure you could do. If you think that eye sore phallic noise post should be demolished, say so. That is a far cry less than the death threats made daily by the Hirabist for the slight of drawing a cartoon or tossing an old book in the trash.

Ok after the return of my BP back to normal. I'll go have lunch.
God bless all lizards.
Bye for now :)

re: #144 Sounder

After reading the emails, it is all about 'smearing', nothing else. This is why newspapers very soon will be dinosaur bones.

what is this thing "newspaper'? is it made of paper? what is it used for?

#109 Mike Royko this asshat ain't.

He's still my hero, politics aside. And it's very telling you mention him here, because his replies to outraged letters were hilarious, not smug.

re: #116 WriterMom

Charles-here's some background and a cute pic of your new friend from St. Louis.

Tim Townsend has been the religion reporter at the Post-Dispatch since June 2004. He previously covered personal finance and consumer news for The Wall Street Journal. His religion reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and The Village Voice. He holds master's degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Divinity School. In 2005 he won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, given by the Religion Newswriters Association

He's got the beard thing going.

re: #79 MandyManners

Maybe the thing between me and Cog is actually repressed sexual desire for each other.

Nah.

He's just sucking his thumb cause you told him to take a hike.

He'll be back. Arrogant jerks like that can not stay away for long.

re: #139 christheprofessor

re: #96 JammieWearingFool

Those may just be aspirations (ASSpirations?)... The date on that bio is -- 8/5/2050...

/what a freakin' dolt!

Good catch. I was so mesmerized by the glazed look on his face I didn't even notice.

re: #17 Catttt

Un-freaking-real.

I am front-line in my job and talk or correspond with hundreds of customers. If I used Mr. Townsend's tone with ANYONE whatsoever, I would be out on my keester before you could sneeze.

That was my reaction too. I've had to respond to many dissatisfied customers, and my tone was always polite and professional. This silly guy is definitely not a professional.

Bio for Tim Townsend above in link list.

re: #153 Catttt
I had a goatee with my 'stache, then the boys became teenagers and it turned white. I shaved it off. This boy defines the term asshat.

re: #127 jcm

Townsend's list appears to have only one W -- Weasel.

Everyone (Charles, you too) go back and read Townsend's story, he does NOT mention LGF being "anti-muslim." He DID represent LGF commenters as bloggers, but that's trifling.

The "anti-muslim" accusation came from the KMOV story. Townsend didn't write that one, as far as I know.

Charles, I'm thinking you went off half-cocked on Townsend. He's still an arrogant little pissant for the way he reacted, but he may have been in the right.

Bob

re: #129 seekeroftruth

re: #104 MandyManners

Me too - thus my screen name. My journey began on 9/11.

I woke up then but, hit the snooze button. I was sure that Islam is not the ROP but, I didn't wake up permanently until I joined LGF.

THANK YOU, MOLLYS., WHEREVER YOU ARE!

Smug little asshole. He really doesn't care about CAIR's connections to terrorism. Hope he enjoys the future he's helping to build.

What a shame.

This must be satire.

Judges praised Townsend for his "exemplary legwork and keen news judgment [which] combine to produce compelling and highly informative journalism. What stands out is the authoritative tone and relentless focus on hard news, thoroughly and fairly reported. This is journalism that takes on significant conflicts directly, calmly and analytically...This is mature work by an exceptionally talented reporter."

re: #159 chinesearithmetic

#109 Mike Royko this asshat ain't.

He's still my hero, politics aside. And it's very telling you mention him here, because his replies to outraged letters were hilarious, not smug.

That's why I mentioned him here. This guy is no Mike Royko by any means. He could learn a thing or two about investigating a claim from Royko's articles.

Does this guy even deserve to be a reporter? He is fired at any company I have worked at. It sounds to me like he agrees with CAIR and their motivations and supports. Thus the slanting and the denials and the lack of any common courtesies. Plus he knows if he starts to honestly state what he really believes he will dig himself onto a whole. Letter to the Editors is good.

re: #125 Semper Gumbi

Well, in defense of Mr. Townsend, (defense of Mr. Townsend - did I really type that?), he didn't say LGF was an anti-muslim website. That actually came from the cretin who wrote the story for KMOV. But Mr. Townsend is still a sanctimonious jerk.

That's right -- he didn't. The phrase comes from KMOV, and that's why I linked my post about it in my email -- to explain further. Townsend jumped on it, without even reading what I wrote.

I wonder if he is in his (cubicle) office now; reading these posts; typing "AM NOT!" and "YOU ARE!" over and over and over and...well, you get it.

re: #161 3 wood
Did cog get mad and take his ball and leave?

How to be a religion reporter in St. Louis:

1. Receive CAIR press release in email from trusted source.
2. Reword slightly, contact CAIR for additional quotes.
3. Run it past the editor for grammatical input.
4. Yes! Another deadline made.
5. ?!PROFIT?!

re: #134 3 wood

Actually, this guy's petulant, superior attitude is quite in keeping with most of the reporters I have had to deal with in my career.

My guess is his editors will be quite similar.

If you've ever read a newspaper story about yourself, or about some topic with which you have total knowledge, you'll find that there are ALWAYS loads of errors, leaps of logic, and fundamental misunderstandings on the part of the reporter. And that is even when the reporter is at least TRYING to do a decent job. This guy clearly mailed it in, and his perception of LGF was clearly pre-formed based on what CAIR dictated to him.

re: #167 piraticalbob

bob, See my #125. GMTA.

re: #134 3 wood

Actually, this guy's petulant, superior attitude is quite in keeping with most of the reporters I have had to deal with in my career.

My guess is his editors will be quite similar.

That attitude is one of the things that lead me to get out of the newsroom. Well, and their castration fears when faced with a strong woman.

re: #127 jcm

...
Score:
1) 10 of 20
2) 5 of 20
3) 0 of 20
4) 0 of 20
5) 0 of 20

15 out of 100 on journalistic basics.

With a score like that, he's liable to get another journalism award.

re: #173 Charles

re: #125 Semper Gumbi

Well, in defense of Mr. Townsend, (defense of Mr. Townsend - did I really type that?), he didn't say LGF was an anti-muslim website. That actually came from the cretin who wrote the story for KMOV. But Mr. Townsend is still a sanctimonious jerk.

That's right -- he didn't. The phrase comes from KMOV, and that's why I linked my post about it in my email -- to explain further. Townsend jumped on it, without even reading what I wrote.

Thanks Charles. That makes sense.

re: #151 MandyManners

re: #112 zmdavid

Apparently Tim Townsend won an award from Christian Century magazine in 2005. I clicked the link to try to find what it was for but it didn't load.

Is it published by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Yale Divinity School?

I don't know about the award, I couldn't open the link. I suppose it might be the Templeton award mentioned in #116.

Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic.

No Tim. Charles IS a master of logic.

BIG JOHNSON IS RIPPING US OFF!

Good for you Charles. What a jackass this reporter is! I guess he earned his MSM bozo button for the day.

Why would the article post that quote from the Gateway Pundit poster? I don't think that was hate, was it? Seemed like her opinion... And an opinion that might be shared by more people than the author thinks... Am I wrong?

re: #150 JammieWearingFool

Fatboy looks like he's got some male pattern baldness developing as well.

So in a few years he'll be fat, stupid and bald.

Probably looking for a job as well.

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life son." -Dean Wermer

I believe that outside of professional psychic, journalist may be the laziest occupation in our society. CAIR sent this guy their propaganda, told him here is our, "research and fact check info for you." All he needed to do was type his name on the bottom, and whammo! my work for the day is done by 10:15. What time to the reporter bars open for the day in Missouri? Now, the idiot is mad that someone has actually read his work.

re: #148 NJDhockeyfan

Speaking of journalism...here's an OT:

Transvestite TV Anchor Pakistan's Surpise Hit

Cool! Not sure why it's a hit there, but it's definitely cool.

Hey Tim, if you bothered to read the comments section below every post Charles places on his site you would notice this...

Comments are open and unmoderated, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Little Green Footballs.
Obscene, abusive, silly, or annoying remarks may be deleted, but the fact that particular comments remain on the site in no way constitutes an endorsement of their views by Little Green Footballs.
Posts that contain phone numbers, addresses, or other personal information will also be deleted, as will posts that consist only of a variation on the word, "First!"
Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal.
REMEMBER: posting comments at LGF is a privilege, not a right. Abuse that privilege, and your account will be blocked.

So what we say is our own opinion, not the posting opinion of Mr. Charles Johnson.

So he may tell you what he believes...

Then he gives me the privilege to tell you what I believe...

Tim,

I, Capt_Faust, believe you are a F**ktard of the utmost variety.

Go stick your head in a jihadist friendly guillotine, (ironically enough, the people you support by not exposing them, CAIR, support your death by allying themselves with jihadist fiancées, organizations, and individual fighters.)

Tim, make sure that you Eat a bag of s**t...and have a nice day.

re: #161 3 wood

re: #79 MandyManners

Maybe the thing between me and Cog is actually repressed sexual desire for each other.
Nah.

He's just sucking his thumb cause you told him to take a hike.

He'll be back. Arrogant jerks like that can not stay away for long.

I didn't tell him to take a hike. He took his jacks and went home after some other Lizards started in on him.

Whew ... I guess Charles is still letting me log on after getting tangled up in a reply to the d..... comment yesterday morning.

Isn’t modern journalism snarkyism wonderful? Fixed that for ya, and even made up my own word to do it.

Sort of OT ..

I agree with everything Charles was saying is the last post about this being a rather large open discussion forum and as such hard for one person to moderate. I guess I've learned a little lesson over this. Although my remark was a facetious one, there are just some things (e.g. d.....) that you just shouldn't try and crack jokes about. Sorry for any hassle this may have caused.

The fact that the original d.... comment in question started with "I suppose ...." clued me right off the bat that the poster was being facetious. Hopefully somebody at the FBI will have an American sense of humor. Unfortunately in some cultures, for instance the Chinese culture, facetiousness or joking sarcasm isn't taken in the context it is given, it's almost like "does not compute." Maybe the Muslim culture is the same way, I don't know.

At any rate, I now have the proud distinction of having a comment deleted at LFG (Lizards I'm being facetious). Thanks, and keep up the good work Charles.

whata maroon

re: #5 piraticalbob

Arrogant little pissant, isn't he?

*Bugs Bunny Voice* Of course you realize, this means war!

But war isn't good for rabbits and other living things, Bugs!

/vegan moonbat off

Like GoFish, I also registered at KMOV---used a fake name tho, to ask them to consider their source, whether it be this TTownsend or CAir. Invite all Lizards to do so also :-)

Oops - no offense meant to the Chubby Vegan!

Does this guy remind anyone else of Jayson Blair?

re: #173 Charles

re: #125 Semper Gumbi

Well, in defense of Mr. Townsend, (defense of Mr. Townsend - did I really type that?), he didn't say LGF was an anti-muslim website. That actually came from the cretin who wrote the story for KMOV. But Mr. Townsend is still a sanctimonious jerk.

That's right -- he didn't. The phrase comes from KMOV, and that's why I linked my post about it in my email -- to explain further. Townsend jumped on it, without even reading what I wrote.

Check his bio - maybe Yale divinity is planting seeds.

re 178 semper gumbi

Noted. Good catch, you get the credit.

My son was excited because his soccer team was in the news last year. They had a nice shot of him scoring a goal. I showed the article to him when he got home. He was so excited.

He asked me, "Daddy, don't you want to be in the newspaper?" I told him that if he ever sees me in the newspaper it probably won't be a good thing and will most likely cost us a lot of money.

He'll figure it out eventually. They are the enemy.

Well, at least he didn't call you Chuck.

re: #180 Old Buick Tanker

re: #127 jcm

...
Score:
1) 10 of 20
2) 5 of 20
3) 0 of 20
4) 0 of 20
5) 0 of 20

15 out of 100 on journalistic basics.

With a score like that, he's liable to get another journalism award.

Maybe we can get a bunch of conservative blogs to do a piece on what a great guy he is, then have Rush, Hannity, Levin et. al. pick up on this great reporter in St. Louis.

He'd never work again.

BAWHAHAHAHAHA.

re: #182 zmdavid

re: #151 MandyManners

re: #112 zmdavid

Apparently Tim Townsend won an award from Christian Century magazine in 2005. I clicked the link to try to find what it was for but it didn't load.

Is it published by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Yale Divinity School?

I don't know about the award, I couldn't open the link. I suppose it might be the Templeton award mentioned in #116.

I couldn't get it either.

re: #158 mrsoc,

I use it to line bird cages :-P

re: #177 JohnAdams

re: #134 3 wood

Actually, this guy's petulant, superior attitude is quite in keeping with most of the reporters I have had to deal with in my career.

My guess is his editors will be quite similar.

If you've ever read a newspaper story about yourself, or about some topic with which you have total knowledge, you'll find that there are ALWAYS loads of errors, leaps of logic, and fundamental misunderstandings on the part of the reporter. And that is even when the reporter is at least TRYING to do a decent job. This guy clearly mailed it in, and his perception of LGF was clearly pre-formed based on what CAIR dictated to him.

You are so right on this. Every newspaper article done on someone in my family or on someone I know has been filled with errors. My ex is a writer/columnist and he constantly 'ad-libbed' facts.

re: #196 cygnus

Beat me to it. :)

re: #43 MandyManners

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

I think that sums it up quite nicely.
If anything, Timmy will "apologize" the same way the Berkeley council "apologized" to the Marines.

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Tim Townsend wrote:

Oooohh. You’re like a master of logic. So smart.

This is, like, the tip of the spear of journalistic professionalism.

Wel, look what we have here.

CAIR-MO: Muslims Denounce Terrorism
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author: Tim Townsend

Looks like doughboy comes pre-approved by CAIR.

re: #118 Catttt

now who does he remind me of?...oh yea...

[Link: www.virginmedia.com...]

"worst email chain ever!"

re: #184 Peacekeeper

YOU AGAIN!

What a chickensh*t little c***sucker. Another lazy journalouse prick with a face for radio.

He should respect the bloggers that are driving his kind of journalice into the unemployment line.

But I'm kinda biased and simple. There may be nuances I am not privy to.

re: #201 Peacekeeper

Well, at least he didn't call you Chuck.

Or worse yet like in "Scent of a Woman" ... Chuckie

re: #203 MandyManners
It is the Sooooper Secret Jihadi Journalist Award.

re: #21 storagemanager

He doesn't report news...he makes it up.

All the news that's fit to line bird cages with.

re: #211 WriterMom

That's right baby.

OT GW Update.

NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world’s ice-caps are melting, it emerged last night.
Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature.

Somebody rescue Algore's cat before he kicks it.

I understand that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade vocabulary level.
Mr. Townsend has taken that directive and made it a personal lifestyle.

re: #200 BulgarWheat

My son was excited because his soccer team was in the news last year. They had a nice shot of him scoring a goal. I showed the article to him when he got home. He was so excited.

He asked me, "Daddy, don't you want to be in the newspaper?" I told him that if he ever sees me in the newspaper it probably won't be a good thing and will most likely cost us a lot of money.

He'll figure it out eventually. They are the enemy.

A little back-ground music.

re: #209 JammieWearingFool

Wel, look what we have here.

CAIR-MO: Muslims Denounce Terrorism
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author: Tim Townsend

Looks like doughboy comes pre-approved by CAIR.

Quite the shill, isn't he. I would hope Rush, Glenn Beck, et.al. pick up on this. Maybe it needs to go national in a big way.

CAIR, you're going down!

I noticed that STL today does not allow comments from it's readers.

re: #175 pingjockey

re: #161 3 wood
Did cog get mad and take his ball and leave?

Cognito only has one ball?

CAIR is an anti-Johnson organization.

re: #204 Iron Fist

re: #158 mrsoc,

I use it to line bird cages :-P

Insulting the poor birds' anuses?

If you look up "condescending" in the dictionary . . ..

re: #221 musicman

I noticed that STL today does not allow comments from it's readers.

I wonder why....

afraid of the light they might shine on your cockroaches?

re: #205 newsjunkie_ky

You are so right on this. Every newspaper article done on someone in my family or on someone I know has been filled with errors. My ex is a writer/columnist and he constantly 'ad-libbed' facts.

Yep. Every article I've ever read in which I had some personal knowledge of the story has had at least one error in it, sometimes insignificant, but always there. Our pastor has politely refused to be interviewed by the reporters that call him frequently. He says even when they mean well, they are dead as far as their understanding of religion goes.

I sent e-mails to Hewitt, Medved, and Prager. I couldn't find a direct contact for Laura Ingrahm or Dennis Miller. Maybe we can turn up some heat on mister Townsend.
JWM

re: #117 Sharmuta

re: #100 Killgore Trout

He's a dhimmi.

LOL,
yup.

What a smarmy little asshat. I wonder what his handle is at Kos and PuffHo.

Pudding-like logic.
/Heh.

There once was a hack named Tim
Who's journalistic skills were slim
He doesn't fact check
He says What the heck
My reader's bulbs are totally dim

re: #188 flyovercountry,

With the LGF link, more people have likely read this piece than any other thing he has written this year. That has to sting.

re: #219 MandyManners

Actually, for an eight year old, I think he'd like that. I'll play it for him when he gets home from school.

Thanks!

I wonder if this dipshit even knows that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, or ever bothered to check that out, or ever will now that Charles has informed him. Actually, I don't wonder.

re: #207 Son Of The Godfather

re: #43 MandyManners

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

I think that sums it up quite nicely.
If anything, Timmy will "apologize" the same way the Berkeley council "apologized" to the Marines.

I highly doubt the pipsqueak will apologize at all. He trusts C.A.I.R..

There is a long and clear history of pro-Muslim apologia in Tim Townsend's writing. Which explains why CAIR selected him to send their propaganda smear to. The fact that he did not fact check his story by calling Charles, and the dismissive tone he displayed in the email, reveals his clear prejudice. Townsend was in on the game with CAIR. They warned him not to trust Charles, or talk with him. Townsend played along like a good little dhimmi.

You might even be reading this now, Tim. I hope your education at Yale Divinity School covered the concept of dhimmitude, because the shoe fits you very well.

Cross-post from previous thread:

Who's funding the minaret? According to their web site, the local congregation is. However, they also just bought a $1.25 million parcel of land in St. Louis County (which is separate from St. Louis city) for another mosque. Here's the story. A local Jewish group helped them with their zoning dispute with the county. Hard to say where the money came from, because no one in the media asked. The Bosnians came here with NOTHING, as refugees. Now, a little more than a decade later, they're building a mosque worth more than a million? They're thrifty people, but are they that thrifty?

By the way, now when you google "Islamic Community Center" and "St. Louis" you get a lot of hits for this story, which is going viral. it was reported in the Southast Missourian, which is a paper 100 miles away. Mahdi Bray and other Islamic bloggers are writing about it.

My son's ex-(oh thank God!) girlfriend was a journalism student. She was looking forward to having the "power to destroy people." Did I express my gratitude sufficiently that she is an ex?!

re: #222 maddogg
I don't know, now I'm laughing thinking about Bill Murray in Ghost Busters, "yes it is true your honor, this man has no dick!"

.......You owe me an update to your story and an apology for failing to contact me for my side of it.

Charles Johnson
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

———————& mdash;

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Tim Townsend wrote:

Mr. Johnson,

Your Momma.

Thanks,

Tim

———————& mdash;

From: Charles Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:08 PM
To: Tim Townsend
Subject: Re: A very irresponsible report

Is that the only reply I can expect from you on this?

CJ
———————& mdash;

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Tim Townsend wrote:

Takes one to know one.
———————& mdash;

From: Charles Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:10 PM
To: Tim Townsend
Subject: Re: A very irresponsible report

I take that as a yes.

CJ

———————& mdash;

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Tim Townsend wrote:

Neener, neener, neener.

re: #175 pingjockey

re: #161 3 wood
Did cog get mad and take his ball and leave?

I can only hope so.

On the last thread he did his usual condescending lecturing job.

Mandy invited him to leave if he did not like it.

So he said he would.

I somehow think we will manage to struggle on without him.

re: #152 bkm1962

Incredible. My publisher would have my head and very likely my job for pulling a boned-headed stunt like this. In fact, the story would have never made print without the other side represented. Me thinks the editor has some explaining to do as well...

Good thing they have all those layers of editorial review, eh?

Isn't that right, Mr. Rather?

Hey Tim,
U cud be in dis book...

Charles, are you able to track the IP addresses of your commentors? It would be interesting to find out where the comments you had to delete originated from.

These are the kids that as 12 year-olds get pounded on the playground for.......well, for being just like this. Now is his revenge.
/pussy

re: #214 pingjockey

re: #203 MandyManners
It is the Sooooper Secret Jihadi Journalist Award.

Better than a Pulitzer!

re: #203 MandyManners

Tim Townsend of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times won the top two reporting and writing awards, respectively, given out by the Religion Newswriters Association at its recent annual meeting in Miami. The Chicago Tribune's "Struggle for the Soul of Islam" got the best-story prize, while the Houston Chronicle's religion news section edged out a perennial winner, the Dallas Morning News, in that category for large papers.

COPYRIGHT 2005 The Christian Century Foundation
COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group

Sunlight has it in the spinoffs. I think I was expecting a bigger article.

Al insults aside, the guy has good credentials.......why was he so arrogant and unprofessional toward Charles? I think if he were smarter he could have parlayed this into a much larger piece and drawn more attention to his own career. He doesn't seem to bright.

lre: #228 JWM

I sent e-mails to Hewitt, Medved, and Prager. I couldn't find a direct contact for Laura Ingrahm or Dennis Miller. Maybe we can turn up some heat on mister Townsend.
JWM

I imagine I wasn't the first, but I filled Rush in on the details.

.

Tim shills for Haters
While wearing moderate robes
He does not fool us

re: #98 ModerateWolverine

I'm pretty young, so I don't really know exactly when the MSM fell off the deep end. Actually, were they ever respectable or was it always a sham with little kids like this?

I believe the MSM were always like this (without the Gramscian whore baggage). It's just that now, thanks to Charles and others, we have a way of checking their biases. We can also question their basic narratives (like "the Viet Cong were noble peasant nationalists") in a way that we never could before.

Although LGF commenters often sound like a group of like-minded people, the thread a few days ago on Kosovo shows the power of this website. People had a wide variety of opinions and were citing from historical knowledge, personal experience, and many different outlooks.

Little Green Footballs is a national treasure. Thanks again, Charles.

re: #177 JohnAdams

If you've ever read a newspaper story about yourself,

Tell me about it. I once woke up to an editorial in the Washington Post targeting my husband. The swallowed hook, line and sinker some crap from a person who didn't like what he was doing - and they never contacted my husband for his side.

This shit goes on all the time.

You guys are being unfair to Townsend, he does after all, actually make a living as a writer. By comparison I'm afraid we are but one step up from graffiti on the stall wall.
We are unfit to insult his lowliest adjectives, his loosest metaphors, his run-oningist sentences.

re: #222 maddogg

re: #175 pingjockey

re: #161 3 wood
Did cog get mad and take his ball and leave?

Cognito only has one ball?

Oh, now I've got the Colonel Bogey March going in my head...

That has got to be the most juvenile response I've ever seen from someone actually paid to write for a newspaper. What on earth?

re: #248 zmdavid
How can there be a struggle for islams "soul"? It is souless.

re: #177 JohnAdams

If you've ever read a newspaper story about yourself, or about some topic with which you have total knowledge, you'll find that there are ALWAYS loads of errors, leaps of logic, and fundamental misunderstandings on the part of the reporter. And that is even when the reporter is at least TRYING to do a decent job. This guy clearly mailed it in, and his perception of LGF was clearly pre-formed based on what CAIR dictated to him.

It's happened to me repeatedly. I've even had a TV reporter splice a new question into a taped interview with me to change the meaning of my answer.

Townsend is clearly not interested in getting his story right. LGF is a target.

re: #224 MandyManners,

The parrot likes to shred her's first. I don't think she bothers to actually read it, though :-)

re: #234 BulgarWheat

re: #219 MandyManners

Actually, for an eight year old, I think he'd like that. I'll play it for him when he gets home from school.

Thanks!

I think "shit" is in the lyrics. Just so you know.

re: #203 MandyManners

re: #182 zmdavid

re: #151 MandyManners

re: #112 zmdavid

Apparently Tim Townsend won an award from Christian Century magazine in 2005. I clicked the link to try to find what it was for but it didn't load.

Is it published by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Yale Divinity School?

I don't know about the award, I couldn't open the link. I suppose it might be the Templeton award mentioned in #116.

I couldn't get it either.

Perhaps it was the because the award was given by the subscription only "National Proctological Review". Seems that Tim Townsend has discovered a unique oral method of giving suction enemas to Islamists.

re: #60 MandyManners

re: #52 maddogg

Jesus, Townsend is a walking talking dick with legs.

Don't insult dicks!

And please don't bring Jesus into it!

re: #229 nyc redneck

re: #117 Sharmuta

re: #100 Killgore Trout

He's a dhimmi.

LOL,
yup.

Well- that's not entirely fair. He could be a revert for all we know.