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The Carcieri-ProJo Wars (IV)

Rhode Island's dominant daily is out to get the governor because he is partially of Italian ancestry. So says one of the people who called to speak with Dan Yorke this afternoon as he discussed the media-governor conflict with Steve Kass. (The caller noted how the ProJo has previously gone after people named Celona and Bevilacqua, although he didn't say anything about some Patriarca guy.)

You mean the same newspaper that recently published an overstated op-ed decrying America's enduring fascination with the Mafia?

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3 Comments

  • Linda said:

    Ian, the caller to the show who made that observation was the highly respected Dr. D'Alessandro. What is it with you liberal media types and your difficulty in properly ID'ing radio callers? Come on "buddy"! ;-) It is interesting to note the rather glaring lack of Italian-American reporters/editors/columnists/management within the ProJo given the large Italian-American population here in R.I. Perhaps the good doctor is onto something.
    November 2, 2007 8:33 PM
  • Ian Donnis said:

    Me thinks the good doctor doth protest too much, Linda. Calimari is the official unofficial state food here. Italo-Americans have long since passed from facing discrimination in America to being properly celebrated and admired. I think the doctor's gripe has as much credence as those who maintained that the Sopranos was an attack upon Italian-Americans.
    November 3, 2007 12:33 AM
  • Mike said:

    If the mayor was really Italian and not a Gay East Side Jew every day the Projo would be running hit pieces on his corrupt administration. Ditto the Phoenix. 1. The doubling of the unfunded pension liability. 2. The crushing property tax increases and proliferation of boarded up houses-unseen for 15 years. 3. The quiet cover-up of the Marcus Huffman case. A child molestor left on the police force to rape another teen. Previously CONVICTED of assault-he was not legally able to possess a firearm. The mayor and his $200,000 police chief (another East Side Jew-how's that for diversity-LOL) nonetheless left him on the force to continue his sexual predation. 4. The pathetic blaming of the Head Start implosion on a mayor who left office over 5 years earler. 5. The upcoming federal corruption trial of the mayor's brother on charges of conspiring with yet more of the mayor's corrupt cops. 6. The "retirement" of the notorious John Simmons. A whole 4 years on the job and he is getting a FULL PENSION, with lifetime COLA's. 7. The complete failure of the public schools as every East Side hypocrite who "supports the public schools" demonstrates that support by sending their own kids to private schools. The Projo, NPR and yes, the Phoenix hates Italians, French Candians, Portugese and all catholics in general-other than the handfull of extreme leftists. They love millionaires, atheists, Jews, illegals, transvestites, homosexuals and other degenerates.
    November 6, 2007 2:14 PM

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