Nigel Jaquiss
If ever there is an example of just how ridiculous Republicans make themselves appear, it is the furor over Willamette Week reporter Nigel Jaquiss seen writing “blah, blah, blah” on his note pad during a recent candidate endorsement interview.
It seems that Mark Callahan, claiming to be a Republican this time, took umbrage to Jaquiss’ writing that during an answer given by his opponent, Jo Rae Perkins over the phone.
According to KGW News, it irked Callahan enough for him to light into Jaquiss with “I see what you’re writing down there, you just wrote down ‘blah, blah, blah, blah, blah’ for everything that Joe Rae said. Joe Rae is a respectable woman. Why are you not respecting her?”
Who hasn’t either said or thought the same during some long, drawn out talking by someone else?
And, is it really Callahan’s place to be looking over a reporters shoulder during interviews to see what they write down on their personal note pad?
But beyond that, does it really rise to the level of a major national story?
So far I have seen it in the New York Daily News, the Oregonian, Slate Magazine, the Blaze.com, the Examiner, Mediaite.com, World Net Daily, the Daily Caller, Fox News, Newsmax and even appeared in a United Kingdom report.
All over “blah, blah, blah?”
Of course, the inevitable cry of Nigel being a “Liberal” comes out right away, almost as fast as the cry of racist is heard for disagreeing with Barack Obama.
And while it is likely he is a Liberal, at least more Liberal than I am, so what? Are we to now monitor what any reporter writes during interviews on their personal note pad?
Aren’t many objecting to the words of Don Sterling being exposed from a private conversation with his girlfriend that has the nation ready to lynch him?
And Nigel disagrees with Callahan on Climate Change being a myth. Again, so what? It is a contentious matter that sees major disagreements ongoing, why would they be exempt?
But with the allegations trying to smear Nigel Jaquiss, may I remind our local Republicans of Nigel’s work in exposing the now comatose CRC project when the Lazy C ignores what we needed to now.
Nigel published some 38 reports on the CRC in the Willamette Week, including the report on the Oregon Supreme Court ruling that exposed the CRC was only about enticing Clark County to accept the light rail we had rejected, even if against our will.
Maybe he is a Liberal, but he was being an objective reporter in all of those reports. Something our own local Lazy C sorely lacks.
But really, what with a Governor executing an executive order to form a task force for Cap & Trade that could send gas taxes skyrocketing, Democrats once again striving to increase taxes and the minimum wage, Obamacare threatening to bankrupt us, some 94 Million people in America still not in the workforce, a growing threat from abroad, an out of touch president, stonewalling over the Benghazi Terrorist attack, the IRS targeting primarily conservative groups and so much more, “blah, blah, blah” gets the attention and the outrage of the Republican Party?
Who cares what Nigel wrote?
This whole matter is another distraction from matters of real importance.
Let it go, people. Reel in your desire to create mountains out of molehills, Republicans.
You’re not going to save anything by getting outraged over “blah, blah, blah.”
Willamette Week: BlahBlahBlahGate: Watch What Really Happened When We Kicked a U.S. Senate Candidate Out of Our Offices
I also invite you click on the links towards the top of this post addressing Mark Callahan, for a better view of just who he is as well as view the actual exchange from the interview with the Willamette Week editorial staff.
