News Nov 10, 2011 at 9:43 am

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GOOD MORNING, SMIRK! YOU GOT THE JOE PATERO STORY TOTALLY WRONG. HE WAS FIRED FOR NOT BEING DILLIGENT ENOUGH ON REPORTING THE CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS, NOT FOR ACTUALLY ABUSING ANYONE. THEY ALSO FIRED THE PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE. AND ARRESTED TWO MORE PEOPLE FOR PERJURY. ESSENTIALLY EVERYONE IS GOING DOWN IN FLAMES. I'LL BE SURPRISED IF THE NCAA DOESN'T SUSPEND THEIR ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

IS THAT A BANANA OR A ONE-EARED PIKACHU?
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BUENOS DIAS.

WHAT GRAHAM SAID RE: PATERNO & BANANA.
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And beloved commenter Andy from Beaverton wrote something that -while not legally actionable as libel per se- approached libellous language:

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/Blogto…

See, there's a big difference between stating an opinion -i.e. "Andy from Beaverton never has anything worthwhile to say,"- and accusing a public figure of spousal abuse. Note this, as sometimes it can have legal consequences.
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WHAT JONESER SAID ABOUT WHAT GRAHAM SAID. I KNOW NO ONE WAS RAPED ON A BIKE, BUT C'MON.

ALSO RICK PERRY = OOPS MCGEE
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I IMAGINE ANDY AS A TEA PARTY VERSION OF THE LORAX: HE SPEAKS FOR THE BEAVES.
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Rick Perry should've brazened it out by laughing and saying "Ah hell, let's shut 'em all down." And then blowing Herman Cain.
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WHY DID YOU LINK TO THOSE GRAPHS? THOSE ECONOMIC FIGURES MADE ME SAD. I AM SAD NOW.
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Stay classy Andy from Beaverton! And don't come to tonights Blogtown meetup. You smell of troll and failure.
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I want Andy to come! However, he probably has a previous engagement to get Applebees takeout, peruse the blogs of other cities he doesn't live in, and then cry/stroke himself to sleep again.
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I'm half convinced Andy is some kind of right-wing trolling bot. There's probably just one central server web crawling alt weeklies nationwide and posting inflammatory comments.
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I AM SAD we dont have a fruit salad, but we do have fruit cup.

(if its an one eared pikachu its a keeper)
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As has been pointed out already, your text on the Penn State story is wrong and misleading. You really should correct it.
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Three hours now and smirk's libelous statement still hasn't been removed. Sad making.

I hope Perry stays in the race. Hilarious.
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Sorry! I'm just reading through these comments now. You're right - I should change the text on the Penn State story. Since the original joke relied on a strike through, I'm just going to erase what's there and rewrite it, rather than striking through the whole thing. Thanks for noting the error.
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Back on that comment thread from yesterday, Andy is now telling me that I need to do some "on the record reading," and that I will certainly find that what Andy has been saying is true. I've never even heard any of these rumors, so I don't know. I imagine if I Google "Randy Leonard drunk wife beater," I'll get a bunch of right-wing bullshit engines.

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