I am SOOOO glad Daylin Leach isn't my state rep.
I tried to visit his blog to confirm the postings quoted in the story and see the overall tone of his blog but was rerouted to Yahoo. I tried in two different browers with the same result.
Just as a tip to any other male legislators who want to try their hand at blogging, women voters may not find it funny that you ask women if you can see their "ta tas" and I, for one, don't want to hear about your "jimmy" either.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Daylin Leach
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AAJ --
Do you even know where Leach stands on any issue? If you did, maybe you'd think twice about your conclusions.
Also, are you aware that two days before the article appeared, Leach ridiculed the reporter's coverage of the legislature on the blog? Are you aware that the sources quoted in the article only became aware of the blog when they were contacted by the reporter? Should reporters write articles about people who've criticized them personally, without disclosing the conflict?
Let's be honest, the lead paragraph in the article should have been: "Daylin Leach mocked me on his blog. So I'm taking out of context some of the 'outrageous' things he says and calling up a few sources to see if I can stir up some trouble for him. You, see, I am a big important reporter for a major daily paper [with an ever declining circulation, wonder why?] and we buy ink by the barrel and can ruin people's lives if they tick us off."
Chuck,
I know that Rep. Leach voted for the pay raise. I know that he seems to have had a good reputation otherwise. Even with all that taken into account, I'm glad he isn't my state rep. In part because I know my state rep and if I ever heard him/her making comments or read comments similar to those written by Rep. Leach, and I had previously had a good opinion of him/her, I would feel deceived. I would not think well of anyone who would voice the things he did (and I did read five of the entries myself), nor do I think those things can be said entirely in jest. Anyone in any kind of position of any authority cannot afford to make jokes like that. As I have gained seniority in my job and gotten older I have tempered my humor accordingly. Things I could have said when I was younger or further down the ladder, I cannot say now. People can say them about me, but I can't say them back. It isn't fair, but it is the way of things.
As for his ridiculing reporters, well, he is about my age so he should remember what happened to Gary Hart when he taunted the press. As for his being judged by something he writes, he should remember Scott Paterno, who was held accountable for things he had written years earlier. Rick Santorum was recently flogged in the press for things he wrote. John Roberts is being held accountable for things he wrote years ago. Blogger Chris Bowers is running for office. I'm sure he assumes his opponent's team is going over his blog with a fine toothed comb. If I were to run for office, even if it were not widely known that I had written this blog, I would assume the press and my opposition would have read all of it and be looking for things to take out of context and use against me.
If he assumed he could place his blog on the Internet and make it available to the world and not have it be publicized at some point, was extremely naive. For him to assume he could say the things he did and not offend someone (or lots of someones) was extremely naive. Someone that naive and unaware of how the electorate and the political system works, may not belong in politics.
"Anyone in any kind of position of any authority cannot afford to make jokes like that."
But Bush's sketch where he searched his office for the WMD's was HILLARIOUS!! What's next, a sketch about fishing along the Gulf coast and only reeling in corpses? THAT would be a wicked-pissa!
I think Bush took some flack for that WMD sketch. Even if he had not, it still would have been, in my view, in poor taste. Billy Graham had to apologize numerous times for comments he made decades ago that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic. Jesse Jackson apologized for similar comments. Even in jest, you can't say these things any more, at least to anyone likely to repeat them. To post the comments Leach did in a public place with name attached to them is self-sabotage. Any way you slice it, no matter who else may or may not have done it, it's stupid.
Does it matter if the reported was mad at "The Leach"? Does that make what "The Leach" wrote O.K. for anyone to write?, let alone an elected public official that is supposed to represent us! How about the age of consent that he is "joking" about...or the racial slur on the room keeper with a hispanic name? Dominatrix issues? He may stand for certian issues in Harrisburgh, but I think most people with moral and ethical values would have an issue with his comments...
If the site wasn't so offensive, then why did he take it down? Remember Michael Jackson seemed innocent when he first hung out with the little kids....
Everyone has their own taste in humor, but no one would find Daylin's satire about sexism and racism biting unless they already knew and agreed that sexism and racism were wrong.
Jonathan Swift's wrote A Modest Protest taking Britain's apathy for the starving Irish to an extreme in order to ridicule it. Many of Swift's contemporaries, took Swift's satirical pamphlet serious - in effect hypocritically criticizing Swift for the very thing Swift despised.
I found Daylin's satire "Minyan Maker in Harrisburg" hilarious. Obviously, he does not really want to make Pennsylvania's motto "The Simchas Torah State". Rather he is trying to use satire and irony to criticize people like George W. Bush who as Governor of Texas signed into law a bill declaring an official "Jesus Day" in Texas.
-- Dan Loeb, publisher, Philadelphia Jewish Voice, www.pjvoice.com
Dan,
Did you find his comments about the Palestinian wedding with the groom being blown up funny also? or the the subscription to a porn magazine featuring "Barely Legal" girls? How about the trips to the strippers? What a hoot ! This is what we need, "Andrew Dice Leach" representing us. More taxpayer money being spent employing some slick lawyer who is trying to fit into society by being an idiot.
So I try to muster as much enthusiasm as possible for each class. I try not to roll my eyes as I talk about something for the 6th time. I only say “blah blah blah” occasionally, and have only shouted out “Kill Me NOW!!!” three times this semester. But my students seem to like me. I think its because of the nice little extras I do. For example, I will now provide the answers to this semester’s upcoming Midterm:
1. Freedom of Speech
2. False
3. The Constitutional Convention
4. The “Single Publication Rule”
5. You bet your sweet ass.
6. Lemon Meringue Pie
7. Nine inches, I’d bet
8. “Vixens in Heat”
9. “Vixens in Heat 2″
10. My Mom would never let me do that, even if it meant I got an ‘A.’
11. Look, I’m just holding it for some dude. I don’t even use the stuff.
12. Wylie Coyote, Super Genius
13. Yeah, sure, I got a sister.
14. Mass x circumference = the square root of volume (still trying to get my foot in the door on the whole ‘Advanced Physics’ thing)
15. 16 in Florida, 14 in Pennsylvania, but guess what, 10 in Mississippi!!
Bonus Question: Why yes professor Leach, you would look good in a Speedo!
Representative Leach (LeachVent)
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