Note: Gutless Sycophantics and Blowhards
On Monday, Bart Hubbuch and the New York Post were the only newspaper to spin Jerry Manuel’s positive comment about fertilizer in to a negative, while trying to pit Manuel and his team’s fans against one another.
Since, Hubbuch and the Post were listed among the Worst Persons in the World by MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, while also drawing criticism from bloggers, radio hosts and other newspaper reporters.
In a post to his blog today for the New York Post, Hubbuch fires back, writing, among other things:
“Here’s the bottom line for Olbermann, the radio and blogger blowhards, one of my gutless, sycophantic counterparts (yeah, I’m talking about you, Adam) and all the cranks that have been filling my inbox with e-mails I never read and automatically delete: Every reporter in the room at Coors Field laughed out loud when Manuel said the word “fertilizer.” I know this because I was sitting right there. You know why we all laughed? Because every one of us knew exactly what Manuel was talking about. The fans.”
…wait, am i one of the blogger blowhards…hmm…if so, that’s new…
despite nearly 15,000 posts to my blog in five years, and roughly the same number of negative comments and e-mails, i’ve never been called that before…
…anyway, to me, the interesting part here is that hubbuch is firing a shot at Adam Rubin from the Daily News, a fellow beat reporter, which brings up an interesting idea: i think it’s high time that the entire staffs of the Post and Daily News duke it out in some sort of street brawl…and the bloggers can cover it…
…i think that would be pretty entertaining…
Speaking of beat writers, David Lennon will be answering your Mets questions live on his blog for Newsday starting 1 pm.
