Posted on Friday, 18th May 2007 by Patrick Dorwin
A few days ago, Jessica McBride did a spoof interview with Eugene Kane. Since Kane refuses to talk with Jessica, she asked a series of serious questions to “Eugene Kane” and played a sound effect of a chicken clucking in place of the answers.
If I remember right, all of the questions were serious questions about the murder of a young child on Milwaukee’s streets. Questions that we would have liked to hear the answers to, but Kane would not answer. This was clearly not intended to cause pain to the family of the little girl, it was a jab at Eugene Kane. She didn’t ask any questions that a decent reporter would have asked Kane or any other community leader after such a tragic death.
Now a group of lefties are trying to lump this bit in with the likes of Don Imus and Michael McGee… And now the papers TV & Radio guy, Tim Cuprisin is jumping in as well, with both blog postings and a mention in his column. This group of bloggers are clearly trying to use the outrage of what has gone on in the past few weeks with Don Imus, Michael McGee (Jr. & Sr.) and Opie & Anthony, but to compare the mean and racist statements by these people to what Jessica did is almost laughable… Almost.
I would suggest that you go listen to the bit yourself and make your own decision (the way you could with Imus and McGee), but WTMJ wimped out and pulled the audio and Jessica’s post. Way to stand up for your employees!
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May 18th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Tim Cuprisin joins those that compare what Jessica did to the McGee’s. I hope that audio does turn up, I already checked my computers cache trying to recover the audio, because I don’t recall Jessica saying anything offensive about the murder of a little girl, she asked, or would have asked, questions that a reporter should have asked of someone that touts himself as an opinion leader in Milwaukee.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Humm, Cuprisin’s post just disappeared…
May 18th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
The Journal sentinel is surely trying to CMOA on something.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Jessica McBride has been fired, Cuprisin pulled his last post about me and posted the notice about the firing in its place.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Cantankerous also noticed Cuprisin’s disappearing post.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Eugene Kane is fair game under any circumstances. He’s contributed so much to the climate that led to Jasmine Owens’s death, that her blood is on his hands as much as Junior McGee and Senior McGee and the rest of the thug enablers, almost as much as the shooters themselves.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
For the record, I though the bit was funny … the leftards are going to start collecting scalps now. TMJ gave them one, but they won’t stop there. Their goal to silence all dissent.
And yes, I will be blogging about this at my place over the weekend.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Peter,
Your post #6 was way to over the top. Have a glass of wine, a big of cheese, and settle down.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Cuprisin’s Sunday column is up.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
The culture needs to be condemned, and Eugene Kane contributes to that culture by enabling and defending The Alderthug and Daddy Thug.
The blood of innocent victims is on their hands.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Oh contraire Shelly! Peter’s post #6 was dead on! By his byline in the state’s largest fish wrapper, he’s is a public figure so to speak, and as such IS fair game. As are his comments regarding McSr and as some have called him, the Alderthug.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Dennis, I just think that saying that Eugene Kane having Jasmine’s blood on his hands was wrong. McKnuckleheads, yes, but Eugene Kane just comments on things from his viewpoint. I know he doesn’t condone what the thugs do, but he does sometimes try to explain it away. Eugene Kane is as much of a community leader as is McGruff The Crime Dog.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Shelly says: “I know he doesn’t condone what the thugs do, but he does sometimes try to explain it away.
Like there’s a difference? You are in essence condoning the actions by either trying to explaining them away, or the mere refusal to speak out against them.
If you can, look at his past articles, such as the one regarding the Mayfair bus incident, basically poo-pooing it. His somewhat insulting piece regrading bloggers, claiming that they would “give a lung” to have his job, and questioning their relevance. The “yawn” type of writing (If do any at all) of the McGee saga, actually by both Kane and Cuprisin. If Patrick hadn’t recorded McSr, virtually NOBODY would have known about this!
“McKnuckleheads” and enablers such as “McKane” are part and parcel of the problem.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Shelly, Peter is correct. Those who consider themselves Conservatives who are sucked in by these lib tactics simply don’t get it. Jessie has done nothing wrong. NOTHING. There is no debate here. Kane and McGee and their ilk have fostered a culture that directly leads to this kind of bloodshed. Even after poor little Jasmine’s death does nothing to get their attention. They are anti-cop and anti-social. Libs have a knack for changing the subject and getting nothing accomplished. In this case the race baiters see “their own” being gunned down by the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, and yet they are too entrenched in their racial hatred that they would rather allow “their” little 4 year old girls to die, than to face the decomposition of the inner cities moral and family structure. So of course a red herring is reeled in and the subject is changed because the moral fiber and back bone is non-existant in the “community”.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:10 am
So we’ve come to this, a poorly rated radio program is about to be cancelled and in the process commits the one act that will make its host a martyr in the eyes of the red-meat true-believers. The radio station does what it can to salvage its dignity and ratings and has its target market demo turn against it.
How much fun is that?
McBride has blamed everyone but herself in this gig. Maybe she should use that “poorly-told-joke” defense that went over so big for John Kerry. Charlie and Mark loved that one. Maybe they will treat her as well over this.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:08 am
McBlather, in her blog repsonse, stated that station management should defend the hosts in these matters.
This proves she is an idiot, and a self-grandizing hack.
The station has one obligation, far greater than any ‘host’. That is keeping the advertisers happy. WTMJ could have had a large number of advertisers finally give up on her program, due to low ratings and many may have already, cut back on WTMJ for other stations.
This is the simple fact of any media.
The station has no obligation to release that advertising response information, if it occcured to the general public, and especially to a former employee. She served at the pleasure of the President of Journal Communications, to use a conservative dedense.
For her to claim that she has, as a host, some inherent right of defense, by the station, because of her perceived victimization by forces other than, the bookeeping department of the station, is arrogance, at best.
McBlather made one fatal error. Her assumption that her voice, was a requirement for the station.