Welcome to day 2 of the Second Annual Golden Poo Awards in honor of our third anniversary. Ten lucky winners will receive a fancy pile of golden poo. And you, our terrific readers, are going to help give the awards.
See how great the poo is? Everybody wants it, just because, amen.
Which elected/public officials, candidates, reporters, public figures and so forth are absolutely full of it? Your input is needed!
Each day for the next however (it’s tough to count) many days, we’ll announce a new award category and you’ll submit an unlimited number of nominees. Yesterday’s category was Person Responsible For Legislation (or Legislation-Related Mess) Requiring the Most Lubricant. Click here to nominate someone for yesterday’s category.
After all nominations are received for all announced categories, we’ll announce the winners and send the golden piles of magic along to eagerly awaiting recipients. Please remember to make your nomination as scandalous and inappropriate as possible.
Today’s category is:
Submit your nomination – along with your reasoning (this is required) – in the comments. Keep it hilarious.
44 responses so far ↓
1 Belknap Banquo // Jul 27, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Betty Winston Baye, as long as all of those things were white or conservative. Actually, it’s a tough category, because most reporters I’ve ever known would do all of those things with a few drinks in them. Of course, I’m old and reporters have cleaned up their act over the years. Hell, some of them even join gyms and are in bed by ten every night.
2 Gabe // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I was named runner-up in this category last year. Let me tell you, I’ve really stepped up my game.
3 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Please provide spaspifics, Gabe!
4 Jonathan Meador // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:23 pm
LEO Weekly’s Phillip M. Bailey, because he spreads lies.
5 Jonathan Meador // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Also: The entire editorial board of The Courier-Journal/A Kentucky Newspaper/whathaveyou for obvious reasons.
6 Gabe // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:44 pm
My two strongest competitors from last year have left town.
I am the only person to put robots on the air.
Worst beard isn’t a category.
If I win, I’ll submit it to my school’s alumni magazine.
Whatever it is I’m doing here: http://www.thevillevoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/allentolls.jpg
And here http://twitpic.com/28b3z9
7 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Is THIS what you’re talking about, Gabe?
Maybe?
8 Curt Morrison // Jul 27, 2010 at 2:54 pm
“He is unsuited for the job of mayor.”- Courier Journal Editorial Board in their 5/9/10 description of Tyler Allen
Not because he beat his wife, or because he denied existence of global warming. Not because he made a back-room deal with Cordish. Not because he believed people were controlling his mind with radiation. Not because he had a strange sense of fashion with a re-affirming last name, or because he lied about being the Inc Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year. But because Tyler challenged their authority. Some things are unforgivable in this city, eh.
9 Steve // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:14 pm
I hereby un-nominate Phil Bailey because anyone who quotes “Jerry’s Kids” has no choice but to spread lies.
The latest example of unbridled BS comes from newly hired Greg Fischer Campaign Manager Chris Bizzacco.
For two years, he didn’t remember telling his then-boss, the mayor of Providence, R.I., that his brother had written a $75,000 rubber check to the city.
Suddenly, in a police interview, he remembered the disclosure in detail.
Citing the time lapse, he told the C-J, “it’s entirely reasonable for me to have different recollections.”
Entirely implausible — and poo-worthy — too.
10 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Steve: Pretty sure that doesn’t count unless I’m included in the nominations (since I dug that up first?).
Since I’m ineligible, it’s… well… better come up with another.
11 Joe Sonka // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Andy Frackin’ Wolfson.
Simply because I’m jealous of his mad researching skills. Seriously, where does he find this stuff!
12 Purple Diva // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Chase Cain is gone…darn!!!!
13 Teeper // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Tony McVeigh. Hands down the craziest and most abrasive guy I met on the primary campaign trail. I saw him totally bitch out a FOX News camera guy who used a mic flag at the Rotunda during a Conway press conference. For, like, five full minutes. And the FOX News reporter just stood there and let his camera guy take it.
Plus the camera guy had some sort of Tourette’s-like tick and couldn’t explain that he didn’t realize mic flags weren’t allowed in the Capitol during McVeigh’s little tirade.
Seriously entertaining stuff.
14 Steve // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Sorry, Jake. I forgot that only reporters are eligible today.
But now that you’ve got several nominations, isn’t it entirely reasonable that you might change the category?
15 Sarah Reidy's Hacker // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Can we nominate Chase Cain for being so bad that he still is the most popular nominee despite a year in which he has no body of work?
If not him, then that Fox 41 lady who has a self important Twitter account.
16 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Teeper: That sounds horribly out of character for McVeigh. And I’ve watched him work about a hundred times.
17 Curt Morrison // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:49 pm
And here’s something about Bennett Haeberle’s elitist designer eye wear that bugs me too.
18 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Seriously – enough with the personal attacks.
What does anybody’s appearance have to do with any of this?
19 Teeper // Jul 27, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Maybe a bad day for him, but I’ve heard him go off in a few other instances. I wish I had some evidence, because it was truly hilarious.
He didn’t realize that the camera man had a condition, though. I think he just thought he wasn’t responding fast enough. He kept saying, “So, are you just going to ignore me? You need to take off the damn mic flag. We have a gentleman’s agreement here!” Maybe it was b/c it was FOX News, but he was seriously pissed about it.
True story, however out of character. The funniest part is that he was the only person really pissed. The radio guy. All the TV peeps there weren’t even worried about it.
20 PKC // Jul 27, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I would like to nominate DAWN GEE. She has no idea what the hell she is talking about, will read any crap that appears on the teleprompter and mispronounce just about all of it.
The worst part is, even though she doesn’t know what she is talking about, she will have her own foolish opinion about whatever it is.
21 Monty // Jul 27, 2010 at 4:13 pm
As a friend and ex-colleague of Tony, I can verify that it’s totally out of character. But, he was correct about the agreement and the mic flag thing. Same thing applies to the TV folks here in Louisville. Notice you never see a flag in a gaggle type of interview.
22 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 4:16 pm
PKC: Gotta be able to correctly spell the individual’s name in order to nominate them.
And provide specifics. (Though, Dawne Gee hasn’t really produced any journalism lately, so no dice)
23 wondering // Jul 27, 2010 at 6:50 pm
The category says “reporter,” so that eliminates both Betty Baye and Merlene Davis, although I still think they are the same person writing under two different names for two different papers. Has anyone ever seen them in the same room together? Their racial recitations are wearisome.
That would also eliminate Larry Webster. My comments about him from yesterday still stand.
It would also eliminate Larry Dale Keeling. I’ve never seen such a stretch as what he tried to pull out of his ass regarding Rand Paul and the Angle/Reid race in Nevada this past Sunday. I wouldn’t translate his comments into being a prediction of the outcome of that race. It was merely another wise attempt to lump Conway in with the abhorrent Reid, Pelosi and Obama.
So can I nominate “all of ‘em?” If there is a journalist out there who truly “gets” Kentucky, I’m not aware of them. There are too many imports who don’t understand this state, its history and its real shortcomings. The natives seem to have been co-opted by some sort of philosophy that is not grounded in history or reality. I’d be hard-pressed to choose one who particularly infuriates me.
I would nominate Payne and Sonka but apparently bloggers aren’t eligible either.
So I’ll pull a name out of a hat and come up with … Andy Mead. I get the feeling that he’s not entirely a disinterested person when it comes to environmental issues.He strikes me as being the type of reporter who’d be right at home on a tree-hugger version of the discredited JournoList.
24 jake // Jul 27, 2010 at 7:32 pm
There are 8 more categories to go… so you never know where they’ll fit in, wondering.
25 Steve Magruder // Jul 27, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Dawne Gee is lovely — leave her alone. And like Jake sez, she’s not a reporter.
As for Chase Cain, the stench of his reporting style does linger, no? He was so bad, he was like the only reporter I’ve ever heard of essentially being run out of town.
As for the nomination, I like Curt’s nom very much, but alas, this isn’t about editorial board writers, it’s about reporters. Editorial boards never do straight reporting. They don’t know how to. And I would love to use this opportunity to again criticize the ridiculous C-J editorial board, but I don’t way to go too far astray here.
Anyway, my nomination is for WHAS reporter Gene Kang on his April 14 coverage of the first anti-bridge toll protest in downtown Louisville. It was the sloppiest piece of reporting I’ve seen in a long time. I explain fully how sloppy it was here.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Second, Mr. Kang reports the project “could mean 56,000 new jobs”. However, Mr. Kang fails to mention how many jobs will be lost due to paying the new regressive taxes in the form of tolls. I assume he fails to mention this as the ORBP folks don’t provide this information. Also, in my opinion, this jobs number is a “propaganda estimate” to market the project to a community depressed over a lack of jobs in these recessionary times. At best, if the number is correct, it is spread out over a long period of time, but that isn’t mentioned, is it?”
Interestingly, later that month, it was discovered that the Bridges Coalition was lying about this jobs figure. LouHI and LEO’s FatLip reported that the 56,000 figure was actually person-months and the actual number of new jobs was to be a mere 5,400, a 90% disc0unt.
So, it’s sickening to me that a WHAS reporter would simply act as a stenographer and not review the information at a deeper level. Why did the alternative media have to be the ones to uncover the simple truth here?
Further, know that even today, the Bridges Coalition is touting the 56K figure, 19 days after David Nicklies admitted that it was incorrect on WFPL’s State of Affairs program.
As a runner-up nomination, I would offer C-J reporter Jere Downs for the navel-gazing piece “Proposed Ohio River bridge toll is comparable to others” on July 24. So rife with errors, this propaganda must have been either paid for or ordered by the C-J editorial board.
26 Crutnacker // Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54 pm
I nominate Mindy Peeeeterrrrrssssssoooonnnn from WHAS, who seems to be a competent reporter but ends every report by extending her name into the commercial break.
And Bill Lamb for his insipid editorials.
27 Curt Morrison // Jul 28, 2010 at 1:19 am
I echo Steve’s Chris Crocker-esque-”Leave Dawn Alonneeeeee!!!!!” She’s a saint. Spends more time “giving back” in a year than most people do in their entire lives.
And also, I don’t want to go to his head, but I nominate Jake. Because there’s NOTHING more annoying that when he’s right about something and you are wrong about it.
NOTHING!
28 Inquirer // Jul 28, 2010 at 3:53 am
I nominate Patrick Crowley, reporter, turned want to be lobbyist, with his reject partner Jay Fosset. What do they really represent besides the dieing horses and the turd sanitarians? Pat is literally chomping at the bit to be relevant.
29 jake // Jul 28, 2010 at 7:28 am
You just said yourself that Pat is no longer a reporter.
I often wonder if folks read before commenting.
30 Suzanne // Jul 28, 2010 at 8:35 am
The staff of WYMT – for their unbiased coverage of the Ashley Judd poster at Stonecrest Golf Course.
31 Stunoland // Jul 28, 2010 at 11:51 am
I second Jere Downs of the Courier-Journal for truly lazy journalism in the recent article about Louisville’s proposed tolls being comparable to other cities. A balanced piece would have included information about the non-local sub 50% collection rate with electronic tolling. Other relevant issues include St. Louis scaling down a 2 bridges project to avoid tolls and the comparably lower incomes and cost of living in the region versus the other communities described. He also conveniently left out the information that if we scrap the absurd tunnel we can afford to build the East End bridge without tolls.
32 Belknap Banquo // Jul 28, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Dang, I totally mis-read the question. I thought you were asking which reporter I thought would do those things, not me as a reader or listener. I’ll still go with Betty, even though she’s not a reporter. I will say that’s she’s a timesaver, however, in that I seldom bother reading her all the way through. Predictability is what she does best, which probably saves her time, too.
33 Erin Cook // Jul 28, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Does a columnist count as a reporter? Because if so, I’m nominating Dale Moss from the Courier Journal’s Indiana section.
If you read his stories online, where his prose hasn’t been edited yet, you’ll see that he’s an absolutely terrible writer. I can’t imagine an editor consistently accepting his work and knowing that he’s so bad and that they’ll have to make so many revisions. Just fire him and hire someone who can write already!
34 bestmid // Jul 28, 2010 at 3:54 pm
lol@crutnacker
totally agreeeeeee
How’s about Dan Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts Turd in the Fourth Estate Teapot Klepal? Public online meltdowns, biased promotion of politicians and campaigns masquerading as enterprise journalism, blatant abuse of AP style, uncool man-purse.
And, everyone who utters the words “BARGEtown Road” in a news or traffic story, a list far too long to recite but I’ll start with WAVE 3′s Chris McGill, who does it almost every day. I wait for it now, like Chinese water torture…know it’s coming, just don’t know when…
35 geez // Jul 29, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Eric King. Arrogant. Everything is all about him. Ugh.
36 Fred Fish // Jul 29, 2010 at 7:55 pm
That new reporter on Fox41 should get the poo. Rachel Collier seems so nervous that it is painful to watch. She cant read worth a crap either.
37 El Murrow // Jul 30, 2010 at 9:15 am
I say give it to Bullard based on whatever it is he’s doing in that picture. It looks like he’s trying to poke Tyler Allen with a stick, but doesn’t want to get too close. Meanwhile, someone behind him is taping it to put on YouTube.
38 Curt Morrison // Aug 2, 2010 at 11:21 am
@Stu FYI, Jere Downs is not a man, and I’ve since got the 411 that her intent was just to compare what tolls costs across the country if there were, indeed, going to be tolls. Admittedly, she could have framed that better- but from that perspective a lot of our criticisms of that story weren’t as solid as we thought.
@El Murrow – That’s ME that’s taping Gabe with his big stick. I actually went back to look for the video to discover what his intent was but couldn’t find it.
39 Laura Ellis // Aug 2, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Gabe Bullard for chewing gum on Fox TV. That was this year, wasn’t it?
40 Gabe // Aug 3, 2010 at 3:03 pm
That WAS this year. I stared into the face of cable news and blew a bubble.
41 Gabe // Aug 3, 2010 at 4:12 pm
If I’m not worthy of this award, then why is Curt Morrison following me around with a camera?
42 nikkis // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:18 pm
have to agree with erin c. dale moss is the worst writer ever to draw a regular paycheck. Cutting him would help the dying CJ save money without missing a beat.
43 Dim Sum // Aug 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm
I have to agree with Fred. That new reporter (Rachel) on Fox is awful
44 RayC // Aug 5, 2010 at 6:58 pm
I nominate disc jockey turned so-called WHAS radio/TV reporter Joe Arnold for how he “backdoored” Eleanor Jordon during her campaign for Congress. Shameful.
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