Bill Simmons smites Scoop about the head...

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FB, please pick up the black courtesy phone. It's your mama telling you to come inside and quit arguing with grown folks.

 

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Good, then you should know not to come here, running for cover, when the CJR questions your reportage. (Were you and Brokaw on the cover together? Or how did that work?) They're wondering about some of what you wrote and the best you can do is "the truth is often very fluid."
A staggering bit of intellectual gymnastics, that.
I am in awe, repeatedly.

 

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It is posts like this that make me want to stay off this thread and Sportsbruh's thread about the same column entirely. That ego really makes it hard to be on your side, Jason, though that is where I find myself on this particular issue.

 

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come on, outofplace, the guy was begging for this response.

i apologize, but i just had to do it. how was i supposed to respond?

 

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OK, here's how you should respond.
Be a little clearer than this first post. I'm fairly sure that neither the CJR reporter nor the people in Vegas said "things were quiet and peaceful in Vegas" last weekend. I'm also fairly sure the CJR reporter didn't accuse you straight-out of making it all up.
So, what's the CJR's interest?
Are they questioning the tone of your columns, in which case, as a columnist, you can tell them to piss off with impunity and even I'll applaud. Or are they questioning the actual reportage -- number of arrests, actual incidents, etc. etc? (And considering that you've already accused them here of juking the numbers on the arrests, that's what I suspect they asked.) If that's the case, the reply has to be a little more substantive than a bunch of talk-radio heckling and your ego.

 

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Paging Mike Fannin and Neal Scarborough. Paging Fanin and Scarborough. Your assistance is needed. Immediately.
Someone save this man from misfired synapses sending fallacious impulses to the nerve endings at his fingertips.
This may not end well.

 

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At least Fenian isn't letting his liberal guilt hold him back.

 

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Wait a second.
That first post -- and the headline that Mr. Whitlock attached to it -- sounded like a pre-emptive shot to me. (Why he launched it here, even with his many fans, is a mystery, since it's not going to do him any good.) The CJR has some questions for him. OK, let's see what they do with them.

 

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I'm a liberal but I don't feel guilt about anything. So should I feel guilty for not feeling guilty?

 

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It seems like the questions were fairly spelled out in the CJR story

They want him to reconcile the differences in his KC Star columnn and his AOL column .

 

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Not if you have nothing to feel guilty about

 

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I think you've really answered you own question, now, haven't you?