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:

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

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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.

re: #43 MandyManners

WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

You forgot "Gramscian."

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.

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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

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.

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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:

re: #54 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

OT, but this just in:

Can anyone say Presidential Nominee Obama?

[Link:

re:

re:

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:

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.)

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

re: #64 seekeroftruth

re:

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!

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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

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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.