Frater Perdurabo
12-02-2005, 09:26 AM
Mods, I apologize if this belongs in the Roadhouse.....
Joseph Goebbels said that if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually people will accept it as the truth. Apparently that lesson in effective propaganda has been well-learnt at the Tribune Corporation.
I'm not even going to give this mediot or his paper the benefit of a link, but in today's Trib, Morrissey defecates all over Frank Thomas' legacy while trying to give the reader the impression that he's giving him a sympathetic pat on the back.
He also is (cq) the biggest pain in the patoot, non-Black Sox Division, in franchise history.
That's why many of us are struggling to find a way to gracefully and meaningfully say goodbye to him. Sometimes it feels as if we're saying goodbye to a possible Hall of Famer, and sometimes it feels as if we're saying goodbye to a bad case of prickly heat.
The mediots are trying to destroy his legacy. The Cubune doesn't want him in the Hall, and the Cub-Times and the Cub-loving national media just defer to the Cubune's slanted coverage of his career when talking about him. The Cubune knows that perception is reality, and this is the first salvo in the anti-Frank propaganda assault.
Rather than a disrespectful dirge, the Chicago media should be celebrating his steroid-free career, in which he proved himself to be one of the greatest right-handed hitters for power and average in the modern era. Instead, Morrissey (and others are sure to follow) simply chose to focus on the negative.
**** Morrissey. **** the Cubune. **** the Frank-Haters.
Next week, a story on Dybas and Ligue.
:angry:
Joseph Goebbels said that if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually people will accept it as the truth. Apparently that lesson in effective propaganda has been well-learnt at the Tribune Corporation.
I'm not even going to give this mediot or his paper the benefit of a link, but in today's Trib, Morrissey defecates all over Frank Thomas' legacy while trying to give the reader the impression that he's giving him a sympathetic pat on the back.
He also is (cq) the biggest pain in the patoot, non-Black Sox Division, in franchise history.
That's why many of us are struggling to find a way to gracefully and meaningfully say goodbye to him. Sometimes it feels as if we're saying goodbye to a possible Hall of Famer, and sometimes it feels as if we're saying goodbye to a bad case of prickly heat.
The mediots are trying to destroy his legacy. The Cubune doesn't want him in the Hall, and the Cub-Times and the Cub-loving national media just defer to the Cubune's slanted coverage of his career when talking about him. The Cubune knows that perception is reality, and this is the first salvo in the anti-Frank propaganda assault.
Rather than a disrespectful dirge, the Chicago media should be celebrating his steroid-free career, in which he proved himself to be one of the greatest right-handed hitters for power and average in the modern era. Instead, Morrissey (and others are sure to follow) simply chose to focus on the negative.
**** Morrissey. **** the Cubune. **** the Frank-Haters.
Next week, a story on Dybas and Ligue.
:angry: