Poor, poor David Reinhard, (RW wack job Oregonian columnist)

[travelingtypist]

A day after he publishes this piece of garbage blaming the violence and hatred on
the left side of the aisle, the ATF arrests some skinheads in a plot to assassiante
Obama.

Couldn't've have happened to a "nicer" RW asshole.

Days of rage: There's something happening here

http://blog.oregonlive.com/reinhard_impact/2008/10/days_of_rage_theres_something/print.html

Days of rage: There's something happening here
Posted by dreinhar October 25, 2008 11:00AM

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
-- Buffalo Springfield

What is happening to us? What explains the boorishness, hate and even violence that increasingly mark our politics?

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Yes, I know this stuff runs both ways. Here in Oregon, we had the hanging of an Obama cut-out at Newberg's George Fox University. The Washington Post reports that Obama signs in Alexandria, Va., were painted with racist epithets. We learned Friday that a McCain campaign worker's claim that she was beaten up and had the letter "B" cut into her face because her car had a McCain sticker was a hoax. Such deranged doings are just as appalling when it comes from the right, though my sense is that this hate-filled intolerance more often comes out of left field.

I also know we're a big country, and a few goof-balls do not a national trend make. But I don't think I'm committing sociology based on a few incidents. We're talking about more than a few beer-addled goofballs here.

A young friend of mine was working for the Bush campaign in 2004. One weekend he left his car outside a friend's Eugene house for safekeeping while he was out of town. Upon returning, he noticed the "W" sticker had been removed from his car. Hey, buddy, you were supposed to take care of my car, he said to his friend. Oh, yeah, his friend said, my father did that when he was here this weekend. He couldn't stand a student having a Bush sticker on his car.

>> more at link

David Reinhard, associate editor, can be reached at 503-221-8152 or [e-mail].

[stubtoe]

1. I've come to the conclusion that David's brain consists of only the "right" hemisphere.

That's how he comes up with stuff like this, column after column, year after year.

[oregonjen]

2. I think he's leaving The Oregonian

http://oregonmediainsiders.com/node/1703

Lots of regular columnists have been taking the buyout. I've noticed that the quality has been going down. We still subscribe though, it's part of our morning habit of breakfast and newspaper.

[stubtoe]

4. Yes! Reinhart is definitely leaving the Oregonian.

What is up with the "buyout"?

[oregonjen]

6. They are trying to reduce costs

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/08/oregonian_publisher_announces.html

[Quantess]

3. I stopped paying attention to David Reinhard's editorials YEARS ago.

He simply can't be taken seriously. I realized that every time I read his editorials, I ended up writing a LTTE that never got printed. Total waste of time, all around.

[gratuitous]

5. I quit reading that particular column muy pronto

He was crying about how "uncivil" all those mean Democrats are. I didn't realize it was his valé or I would have read it for the hilarious payoff. I mean, this column appeared in the same newspaper that hired an aerial photographer to count the turnout for the anti-war rally in February 2003, just before Commander Bunnypants launched his imperial invasion. They also editorialized that the marchers were "naive" in thinking that the war was being contemplated just for all that nasty, icky oil. The Oregonian has never retracted that characterization, even though it turns out all those dirty fuckin' hippies were 100% correct.

So old Room Temperature Reinhard (a reference to my estimate of his IQ) is hanging it up because the mean old libruls make the baby Jesus on his dashboard cwy. I'm sure that he'll soon land a sinecure at the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute.

[funflower]

7. "My sense is"... nobody cares what Reinhard's "sense" is.

Give us facts, Dave. If you have any, that is.