Comments on: Hey Dave Bossert, Get over it!

By: Konrad

Konrad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:45 +0000

Being one who tends to lean right, I appreciate your insight and perspective. I try to keep a balanced view of things, and Although I have linked the WRB I rarely visit it, I find your summaries more relevant, and thus only read in depth what really catches my interest.

I am usually content to just quitely sit in the corner and read what other have posted here, but on this I just had to speak out.

Bossert is a Republican that gives conservatives a bad name. Someone who blames every misstep, or slight as a personal attack of the left wing, rarely if ever taking the time to do some personal introspection.

I thank you for what you do here, before I found your site I was very much in the dark about local politics accept when it came to the SCV Historical Society (for whom I docent), and even then it was not always clear.

So keep up your left wing work and I will keep reading it so I can make sure my view are tempered and have both sides of the story.

By: navigator

navigator — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:49:33 +0000

I haven’t had a 40 hour-a-week job since I was a teenager. I have long envyed those that can work 40 hours, take 2,3,4 or more weeks in vacation time every year and be totally able to forget what’s going on in the office while they’re away. I guess that’s what grates on others like me who watch as 1/2 their check vanishes every week while many sit around watching Oprah and wait for the postal carrier to bring them their check. Cash is correct. When my daughter, a democrat, got her first “real” job and received her first “real” paycheck I had to laugh we she said, “dad, they took away almost a third of my check with deductions!” You can imagine my response.

Jeff, you have a full-time job yet you still find time to keep this blog going. It’s an obvious passion that you have and a job well done. Those of us who can, do. Those of us who can’t, wait until someone else does it for them.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:49:21 +0000

I thought it was a great move of Dave’s to bring TIm on in the first place, but one has to wonder if it was just to spite the Signal. He should also have taken notice that Myers doesn’t shake off his publishers lightly. It’s now obvious that Bossert doesn’t cast off talent lightly. You’d be crazy to write for this man after this fiasco. Interesting that with all this supposed reader e-mail about Tim Myers and his “liberal ways”, the only comment to Simon Weston’s juvenile diatribe was a perfect one-liner from Tim.

You’re right Jeff, Bossert does hardly any news whatsoever, and beyond linking like the Drudge Report, he actually lifts entire paragraphs verbatim from news stories without attribution. Nearly all stories are either out of context or old news for anyone who reads a major paper. He frequently regurgitates press releases without labeling them as such.

He’s got a definite point of view, as do most of his columnists, which is always interesting, but there are illusions of grandeur of his civic role and the mission of his website that are rather pathetic.

He shouldn’t be one to talk about censoring comments, either.

By: cash

cash — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:47:11 +0000

Hey Jeff. You do seem to bend to the far left. I hope you have achieved the American Dream as you wish to define it. These days it is tough to defend and maintain that dream; this because so many are demanding that someone else pay their way.

The mouth from the west is just that, and a big one I might add.

You do a fine job with this blog and I appreciate your effort. I must assume that the blog is part of your dream, or you would be spending your time differently. Many have had to work 60 to 70 hours a week to build their dream. A price not without sacrifice, and perhaps too expensive for some.