Thursday, September 7, 2006
Candidate Viewing and Your Neighbor Lies
For those of you who didn't make it to the City Council
Candidate Forum on August 28th and who may not subscribe to Time
Warner cable television, Costa Mesa TV, Channel 24, now provides
those of you with high speed internet service - DSL or cable -
the opportunity to view their coverage on streaming video. You
can reach that link by going to my "Useful Links" page, click on
the Costa Mesa link, then on the Costa Mesa TV link and choose
the Archives, then Special Events. I highly recommend that each
interested voter take the opportunity to view the candidates in
this first forum. The streaming video provides you with a chance
to hear them state their views over and over again - kind of
like a Chinese water torture.
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Our old pal, Your Neighbor, has been keeping a relatively low profile around town these days. He didn't show at the candidate forum and was absent from the most recent council meeting. My guess would be that the Mayor and his running mate have told him to stay out of sight until after the election.
From the looks of his blog, he seems to be hunkered down with his ear pressed to his police scanner, listening for reports of more pseudo-illegal aliens disrupting the tranquility of his neighborhood so he can scamper out to the scene and provide another of his convoluted, inaccurate reports.
In a recent posting he could hardly wait to report that the wife of a planning commissioner had written to the Daily Pilot criticizing recent letters from outsiders supporting his pal, Mayor Mansoor. The only problem is, he was flat out wrong! The woman who wrote the letter is not the person he assumed her to be. (You know what they say about that word, right? If you break it into it's component parts it may make an ASS out of U and ME - just as it did in this particular case.) So, Your Neighbor continues to provide half-truths and flat out fabrications to induce a gullible readership to buy into his views. He certainly knows that fiction sells. He's instilled that philosophy in our young jailer/mayor, too. Mansoor plays fast and loose with the truth as he attempts to retain his council seat.
A quick peek at his blog shows that he's removed the inaccurate entry. I have this image of him in my mind now, cowering in a corner, tail between his legs, like some mongrel mutt that has soiled the carpet. Seems like an appropriate image to me.
4:25 pm pdt
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Our old pal, Your Neighbor, has been keeping a relatively low profile around town these days. He didn't show at the candidate forum and was absent from the most recent council meeting. My guess would be that the Mayor and his running mate have told him to stay out of sight until after the election.
From the looks of his blog, he seems to be hunkered down with his ear pressed to his police scanner, listening for reports of more pseudo-illegal aliens disrupting the tranquility of his neighborhood so he can scamper out to the scene and provide another of his convoluted, inaccurate reports.
In a recent posting he could hardly wait to report that the wife of a planning commissioner had written to the Daily Pilot criticizing recent letters from outsiders supporting his pal, Mayor Mansoor. The only problem is, he was flat out wrong! The woman who wrote the letter is not the person he assumed her to be. (You know what they say about that word, right? If you break it into it's component parts it may make an ASS out of U and ME - just as it did in this particular case.) So, Your Neighbor continues to provide half-truths and flat out fabrications to induce a gullible readership to buy into his views. He certainly knows that fiction sells. He's instilled that philosophy in our young jailer/mayor, too. Mansoor plays fast and loose with the truth as he attempts to retain his council seat.
A quick peek at his blog shows that he's removed the inaccurate entry. I have this image of him in my mind now, cowering in a corner, tail between his legs, like some mongrel mutt that has soiled the carpet. Seems like an appropriate image to me.
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