April 27, 2005
It's in the P-I
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Joel Connelly gave me some free advertising in his column today
Naysayers are still out there. Gregoire gets a daily, almost hourly, dose of bile from right-wing blogger Stefan Sharansky [sic].
Connelly and I proceeded to have this e-mail exchange :
Sharkansky: It's an honor to be in your column, whether in a favorable light or otherwise, but either way, please spell my name correctly.
Connelly: My apologies, but consider it an honor that I confused spelling of your name with heroic Soviet Jewish dissident writer-turned Israeli cabinet minister.
Honor accepted. Those e-mails were sent on January 14, the only other time Connelly plugged me in his column,
similarly misspelling my name.
UPDATE: A friend e-mails to suggest that I start spelling Joel Connelly's name "Connerly", in honor of the great civil rights leader.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 27, 2005
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1. "In Olympia, after a thudding fall campaign, Gregoire is off to a splendid start. Whatever the future holds, a tip of the hat is in order."
Yeah Right!!! so Gregoire breaking her campaign promises regarding taxes deserves a tip of the hat??? What a joke. Leave it up to Connelly to back a Liar.
I found this interesting...
"We must now get our money's worth, or don't ever expect the voters to front funding again"
He is right we must get our Money's worth on these road projects! But when did we ever vote to front the funding in the first place? We didn't! In fact we voted down the gas tax recently and No matter what we say at the polls THIS legislature and governor will do what they want anyway, and then be rewarded in a article like Connelly's for being "tough."
Tough on what? The only thing I see is the destruction of democracy and lies!
Thank you Joel Connelly for continuing to reward those who violate the public's trust. You make it quite clear that my decision to cancel my PI subscription months ago was the right one!
2. I'm telling you, this is only the beginning. The lamestream, 'Rat-dominated media will pull out all the stops to legitimize and build up Fraudoire. That will be done for two reasons. First, to blunt, in the public "mind", any legitimate issues that come out of the election challenge. Second, to bolster Fraudoire's standing with the electorate, in preparation for either a re-vote, or the 2008 campaign.
IMO, they are looking to 2008. Rossi will get no justice from the corrupt courts in this country, no matter how strong his case is. But he is right to stand and fight against The Fraud because after the stroke job the lamestream press will do on Fraudoire in the next four years, Rossi or any other opponent won't have a prayer in 2008. Four years is a lifetime in politics, and Fraudoire will use every second of that to solidfy support among 'Rat special-interest groups and various scumwad hangers-on, and the idiot press will use that time to trumpet Fraudoire as "an effective leader".
3. Wow. Connelly is so filled with self righteous arrogance that he considers it his duty to continually misspell your name as a way of discrediting you and your discoveries.
One more reason for anyone with a conscience to cancel their P-I subscription.
4. "We must now get our money's worth, or don't ever expect the voters to front funding again"
Huh? I don't recall that the *voters* front-funded anything in the past couple of weeks. I believe it was all done by our the legislature, turncoat Republicans included.
5. Ummmmm! A daily dose of what the people REALLY think. How painful it must be for the Queen.
6. Steady...steady...
It looks to me as if the misspelling is a "clever" way to avoid linking anyone to your blog.
On the Reed thing, regarding non-citizen votes not being included in the illegal column, I say: "great!" That gives the challenging legal team another category for a judgement in our favor. Specifically illegal votes that specifically threw the vote to the Democrat (thanks for the narrow burden, judge!), AAANNNDDD extra votes from non-citizens AAANNNDDDD falsified KC reports AAANNNDDD intentional deceit from the canvassing board AAANNNNDDDD probable ballot stuffing... you get it.
7. As noble a character as Sharansky may have been, that's a pretty big error, in my opinion
8. Mr. Connely, the arrogant elitist, takes umbrage at being "pigeon-holed" as the leftist that he is, referring to conservative critics as jingo-ists. Yet he resorts to said jingoism and pigeon-holing on a regular basis.
As mentioned before by others, another reason I am glad to have canceled my P.I. subscription last year.
9. Oh, and you can bet Connelly's mispelling of Sharkansky is intentional...what a lout.
10. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/221825_gasprices27.html
Also in the Pee Eye, High Gas prices sting low wage earners, when was the last time you saw a headline in the MSM to the effect that high taxes (9.5% gas tax as just one example) hurt low wage earners?
11. Joel Connelly is such a pompous, elitist, bloated liberal fat-cat hack that I can't believe anyone - including the die-hard, drinking the kool-aid liberals - still bothers to read this guy's bloviated columns. I won't waste too much more typing on him, but you can see what kind of a man he is when he intentionally misspells someone's name for whatever childish reason...
12. I have to say, I'm surprised that Connelly considers Sharansky, a major influence on Bush's war on terror & push for Middle East democracy, to be heroic. Good for him.
13. Isn't there an editor at the Pee I that proofs Con-man-elly's work? Looks like a conspiracy!
14. I believe "Jo Coneley's" intentionally misspelling of Mr. Sharkansky's name was ingenious!
It was the only way to get people with opposite political views and cancelled subscriptions to read his miserable column.
15. One thing that I gleaned from the Michael Medved show when he had the Insufferable "Jo Jo Con-Nelly" as his "Very Special guest" is that Jo becomes unhinged at the hint of being labeled a liberal.
You haven't lived until you have engaged him face to face, and if you get the chance, remember that:
1. He will insult you
2. You're missing a bet if you don't throw "liberal" in his face
Try it, you'll like it!
16. Joel Connola,
As usual, don't bother with any facts, just slippery apocryphal drenched in sulphered molasses.
You say:
"Better to bitch than be on an Alaskan Way Viaduct that shakes, rolls and pancakes in an earthquake. Or an I-405 that turns into a permanent rather than a periodic parking lot."
None of the proposed alternate transportation solutions to the Alaskan Way Viaduct would be safer in the event of anything more than very minimal seismic activity. This is a red herring if ever there was one. If you want to beautify Seattle, throw the bumbs crapping on the streets in jail, but don't pretend that imminent geological events in Seattle won't destroy whatever you place on the waterfront.
Further, given the way the transportation funding phases in, I-405 is on a list so far back in time that entirely new and separate funds will be required if and when they ever get around to fixing it. In the mean time what are we supposed to do, ride a bus?
Connola, as an arrogant wheedling liberal party-hack--we all get your drift, and it calls for a change in habits, and governors.
17. As almost a second thought, he mentions the "tough women" of the legislature, liberals all. Shows where he's coming from anyway. What does what a person has between their legs have to do with politics? Is he trying to imply there's some sort of political predisposition associated with being a woman? He has to go all the way back to Dixi Lee Ray, rest her soul, to find a female democrat he can criticize. What about the democrat women and men who didn't support the gas tax? No criticism there. Nope, because he knows they are running for re-election and needed the cover of the 11 turncoat republicans. Joel Connelly is feebly attempting to appear as a centrist but barely manages to keep himself from calling republicans the New Nazi Party. And calling The Shark "Sharanski" after a who??? A dissident of the Soviet Union turned Israeli cabinet member? What does Comrad Joel think the USSR needed dissintion from, free and fair elections? Or an overbearing government they had no control over? Hmmm... Same thing I guess.
18. No doubt it was an intentional misspelling. He's trying to keep your website from getting hits when people google your name. I'd suggest you embed the misspelling in your html.
We love you man!
Tom
19. Well, I didn't read that earlier Connelly blob until just now. One small thing sticks in my craw afterwards. Connelly writes that "the acid test of politics is the ability to govern." Govern as described in the dictionary, on my desk, reads in part, "to control, guide and direct; to regulate and restrain." I'm not sure I've actually seen anything in Christie's "governing" that would equal any of the above descriptors. What's actualy happening, rather happened now, is uncontrolled, unguided, and unrestrained,"lets get everything we possibly can befor the "reps" get here." It's been absoultely sickening. Talk about scorched earth!
20. have you heard this guy in a live interview? It's no wonder he mispells, he can't speak either. Very painful to listen to him let alone look at him.
21. uh, Stefan, ummm... if he can't get your name spelled right, why would anyone even begin to think he can get his facts stright at all?!
Heck, all it takes is a quick shot off to SoundPolitics to do a little fact checking and...
oops, sorry...
Never confuse a liberal with the facts.
dan
22. Bile ... that's a good one. He's just upset because he knows that he is a loser, working at a loser newspaper, supporting a bunch of loser politicians that have just been exposed for the corrupt bunch they are.
23. Ha! Love the Connerly idea!
24. Connelly has a habit of e-mail debates that have absolutely no relationship to any original discussion. He falls into name calling and pettiness almost instantly. The poor man is pitiful indeed. And almost entertaining.