Re: Just as I thought

Jackasses driving drunk concerns everyone who uses the road.

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Nick
On Jun 22, 2011 9:27 AM, "Mike Findlay" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Timing is everything. He was an asshole for tweeting that when he did; it
> didn't and doesn't concern him and to stick his half a face, (I'm not
wrong am
> I? He does have only half a face - granted it is a result of a terrible
disease
> - nonetheless it is true), in there the way he did was mean spitited.
Obviously
> that's my opinion, but it coincides with the other impressions I have of
him
> -arrogant, narcissistic and narrow minded.
>
> Mike F.
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> From: Johne Cook <[email protected]>
> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 8:40:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Just as I thought
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> Roger explains:
> http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/06/_bam_margera_i_just_lost.html
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> Again, was what he actually said wrong? I don't think so. Insensitive,
> perhaps, but my tolerance for drunk drivers is nil. If he was some average
> Joe driving drunk, he was a jackass. If he was a celebrity driving drunk
> whom many people genuinely liked, guess what? Still a jackass.
>
> Ebert was perhaps crass for pointing out the truth, but that makes the
truth
> no less relevant. Sorry he's dead and that his passenger paid the ultimate
> price for taking that ride with him. Still, he had a history of driving
too
> fast, and he'd been drinking before he left the bar. Roger's not a villain
> in my book for commenting on that.
>
> Johne Cook
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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I saw that Ebert doubled down.
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>> Well, it seems that he meant it in the way I originally interpreted it.
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>> > He regrets if his tweet was taken as cruel. Nothing more
>> weaselly/assholish
>> > than the non-apology apology.
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>> I'd think it more weaselly to offer an insincere apology. He stands by
>> what he said, he's sorry people thought it cruel, he didn't mean it
>> that way, what more can he say?
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