Sad Sad Beta-Journalist

The other day, we had a post about an alternative media source pointing out how the Slum Times endorsement of Crimesha was a little bit "tainted" by the three-quarters of a million dollars they've made to her campaign coffers. We weren't mean about it or anything. We actually complimented the effort that went into the reporting.

No good deed goes unpunished though. The writer, an alleged journo by the name of Konkol, decided to skim through our little anti-Crimesha efforts here and try to make some political hay with his rather over-active imagination (no links for him - he has been Mope-rah-fied). He actually called us "scurrilous" in the headline:

• The always contrarian (often racist) Second City Cop blog has jumped into the election endorsement game with an unusual plan aimed at ousting Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx.

This charge has been leveled so many times, it has lost all meaning. We again ask for specific examples of this alleged "racism" so many lefties insist is prevalent here. And not the dog-whistles that libtards employ for anyone telling uncomfortable truths. His interpretation of words is his problem, not ours. We suppose all the statistics over on the HeyJackass.com site are racist because they show something like 85-to-90% of shooting victims and offenders are minority. Same thing with the CPD DataPortal showing almost 100% of wilding youths are minority.

• The post offered bullet-point arguments for its race-based, get-out-the-vote campaign strategy. An astute political consultant told me they are akin to "the genius that comes after six shots of Irish whiskey."

"race-based"? What the actual Hell is he talking about? Has he not read the papers? The blogs? Watched the news? Crime is rampant and much of it is based solely on the refusal to prosecute criminals. That isn't "race-based." That's a poor performance by an elected official and justifiable voter outrage. We're not happy with Crimesha because she's incompetent. And what's with the slam on Irish whiskey? Oh, right. Irish = white so "racism" again.

Then he starts to get mean, like a really angry chihuahua:

• Without citing a source, the phantom cop blogger wrote: "There's some support for it as voters see the outrageous crimes being committed by persons out on bail, not serving sentences, not even being charged, and being released to terrorize the same communities over and over again."

"Without citing a source." You mean like accusing us of being "racist"? Like claiming some sort of "race-based" strategy? Like making veiled references to "Irish" spirits?

Speaking of nameless "sources," he closes with this:

• The know-it-all offered some unsolicited political advice — anonymous guy to anonymous cop blog: "They'd be better off just keeping their mouth shut like they're taught in the academy."
  
  We'll see what happens on St. Patrick's Day, when voters hit the polls and Irish whiskey shots go down easy.

There's that "Irish" thing again. His "know-it-all" persona is a convenient device he invented (like Slats Grobnik) to further mask his "commentary" as something akin to reporting. Those lefty "journos" sure like their anonymous sources. The pop up all the time in the main stream media whenever they've got something bad to say about anyone even leaning to the right. And they're always telling conservatives to shut up, not to venture any sort of opinions, and generally let their betters run the governing.

Also note that his "source" is encouraging cops to maintain silence "like they're taught in the academy" - you know, that "Code of Silence" everyone insists is taught from Day One, but only ever appears when the connected get caught up in something.

By the way, does everyone remember why Konkol is writing for a minor league website like The Patch instead of  an actual newspaper or magazine? Surely his talents are being wasted there? He won a Pulitzer once you know.

Well, he was fired by the ultra-leftie rag The Reader......for blatantly racist editorial decisions:

• Mark Konkol, who promised to “set a new vibe, take risks and make waves” at the Chicago Reader, was forced out Saturday as executive editor of the alternative weekly after the first issue he oversaw ignited a racial and political controversy.
  
  The cover of the February 15 edition featured a caricature of J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic candidate for governor, sitting atop a black lawn jockey and blowing black smoke while an FBI agent listens in on his phone conversation. Three stories inside focused on Pritzker’s wiretapped call in 2008 with former Governor Rod Blagojevich in which they talked about African-American politicians.

In fact, it was two years ago yesterday he got fired (Happy Anniversary Konks!) And also yesterday, one of the subjects of his editorial missteps had his sentence commuted - the other is hopefully awaiting indictment. So all sorts of happy memories for the sad angry writer who barely lasted ten days at The Reader. In any case, on any given day, our readership far outstrips his.