DU This Poll!

[GDoyle]

There is a right-wing jackass named Gerry Callahan who has a radio show and column in the Boston Herald in Boston. He is mainly a sports columnist/talk show host, but gets into politics a lot too. He is a brazen racist who was suspended for on-air racist comments in 2003. He should have been fired.
Please go to this site:

http://pub40.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=3393388804

and DU him for the categories of: worst local print columnist (4th category on list); worst talk show host (6th category)and worst talk show, Dennis and Callahan (12th category).

If you are unfamiliar with the rest of the categories, you can just vote for "No One Deserves This Award" for them, or you can fill them out if you want and know the people/stories involved.

But Callahan is a special kind of a-hole, a true believer freeper type Nazi who deserves to be DUed. Believe me, people in the media will read and take this poll seriously, its run by a very credible, local, well-known media watch site.

Thanks. GDoyle

[Beaverhausen]

1. I think you are on the wrong website. We don't freep anything here

[Arkana]

2. Freep? I do not freep, sir. I DU.

If you want to say "DU this poll," that's fine with me.

[dbonds]

3. Reluctant to vote in that poll.

You used the word 'freep' the poll, which is not what is done here. Also I don't know any of these people or issues and have to take your word that they are bad guys. Sorry, if you supply some background links where I can know what I'm voting on, then we may 'DU' the poll.

Edit for spelling.

[manly]

6. improper procedure

This is not the way to do things, you telling folks how to vote about something they may have no knowledge of, just on your say-so. Provide checkable facts, or links, and we shall make our own decisions.I think you have overstepped the bounds here.

[GDoyle]

7. Sorry

Sorry for using the term "freep"....believe me, I did it sarcastically, mocking their technique and hoping to turn it against them.

In any event, here is some background on "Dennis and Callahan" and the time they mocked African-American children, equating them with gorillas. Metco is a program in Boston mostly for minority kids to attend high school at better funded, more succesful high schools.

D&C equated an escaped gorilla from a local zoo to "metco" kids.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/10072003/south_of/53997.htm

Callahan is a total right-wing tool. In fact, they both are. Their show was formerly included in DU's Top Ten Conservative Idiots in the past.

http://www.polstate.com/archives/004482.html

http://kmarx.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_kmarx_archive.html

GDoyle

[dbonds]

8. Good links and background.

I might recommend starting a new thread giving those as background in the main topic and just asking people to vote.

[tx_dem41]

4. Title of this thread....

what a dreadful yet thought-provoking mistake.

On edit: The title was edited.

[liberal N proud]

5. Do you know what FREEP means?

The Free Republic - the neo-cons discussion board.
They do all the freeping!

I think you just got your terms mixed up.