Very much like a blogger, take a look at a top columnist for the Kansas City Star making a political issue personal and using his position to start a vendetta.
Check it:
Yael Abouhalkah: "How to punish Jeff Roe"
Kansas City GOP Juggernaut Jeff Roe can defend himself, he doesn't need TKC nor have I talked to the guy in quite a while.
Still, Dead Tree Media playing biased and slap fight politics on their op/ed pages as they attempt to claim superiority over social media, blogs and all of the Internets needs to be fact check.
Here's the run down . . .
- This column conveniently forgets to mention that Mayor Sly has sought out Axiom on a number of high profile projects.
- Since when did Dead Tree Media start advocating "punishment" for playing politics?
- Overall, this reads more like the rant some really bitter dude and not anything remotely entertaining.
But more than anything . . .
BLAMING SOME GUY'S SUICIDE ON AN ADVERT IS ONE OF THE WEAKEST, MOST DISGUSTING AND SHAMEFUL TACTICS YAEL HAS EVER EMPLOYED TO PLAY POLITICS!!!
Seriously, think about the exceptionally weak argument that Yael is making here . . . He's blaming an advert for a suicide and then using that as a political bargaining chip.
It's not hardball, or even gutter-ball . . .
YAEL IS MAKING A WRETCHED ARGUMENT WITH ZERO PROOF AND TURNING A TRAGIC DEATH INTO A POINTED POLITICAL PLOY!!!
Of course it's his right to finish his career in whatever way he sees fit . . . But this illusion of "journalistic standards" for op/ed writers needs to stop right now as we realize that the lead writer for The Star seems desperate, out of control, petty and worst of all . . . Irresponsible when talking about life and death issues.
The argument to "punish" anybody for a suicide of another man simply doesn't stand up to any kind of logic and what it really reveals is a formerly serious columnist using his position of fading power to carry out a tragic personal grudge.
Seriously, this bit of writing by Yael isn't even a good social media screed . . . Because there's no chesty hottie . . . And if nothing else shows us that the editorial standards of the Kansas City Star have stooped to a tragically low-point that doesn't have much credibility over blogs.
Developing . . .
Yeal...now that is a stretch there buddy!!!!
ReplyDeleteYael like Hearne Christopher think they are the greatest writers and that their extremist opinions really do matter when it's plain to see is nothing but delusional thinking. It's time for Yael to leave the Star and leave the mid-west as a whole.
ReplyDeleteIs he preparing for his post-Star career?
ReplyDeleteWe.Have.Had.Enough.Of.Yael's.Opinion.To.Last.A.Lifetime.
ReplyDeleteTime.To.Move.On.
I have been a fan and defender of Yael for decades. However, in recent years he seems to lose objectivity with certain individuals, such as Clay Chastain, Richard Tolbert, and now Jeff Roe.
ReplyDeleteAgree, 8:58, he's getting lefter and loonier by the day.
ReplyDeleteYael is definitely an asshole; however, Fat Fuck Roe is in a class by himself, in the world of assholes.
ReplyDeleteGlorioso is worse than ROE.
ReplyDeleteThinking out loud here, but one option might be, don't read his work.
ReplyDeleteOf course, then you would lose the opportunity to bitch about it.
The U-Haul guy is beginning to make sense to me.
Maybe you should practice what you preach 9:27
ReplyDeleteYael is in full on melt down.
ReplyDeleteApoplectic at his diminishing influence he is lashing out at the right in hopes of exciting the liberal base.
Yawn...
I would respectfully suggest that there is only one person responsible for the death of Tom Schweik, and that would be Tom Schweik.
ReplyDeleteDon't read Yael, don't bitch about Yael 936.
ReplyDeleteSimple, at least for most.
So one unpaid low rent hack, TKC, is calling someone else a hack? Why don't you two compate W2s? See who has more to show for their work. What does running a website that is home to some of the most hateful, racist, and vile commenters do for your retirement prospects? Is there a good benefits package for running a low class website?
ReplyDeleteYeah. Like anyone is going to listen anyway, to what this crypto-ragtop, with the last name that sounds like a bar-b-que fart, has to say.
ReplyDelete"Overall, this reads more like the rant some really bitter dude and not anything remotely entertaining."
ReplyDeleteYou're describing tonyskansascity.com if anything.
And yet here you are, 10:21 & 10:35, every day in every way.
ReplyDeleteIt's been decades since I read anything that buffoon yael wrote. Were it not for Tony, I'd have forgotten about him, "ymsh".
ReplyDeleteHere's a challenge for everyone. When was the last time the star wrote anything positive about a republican?
ReplyDeleteYael showed how ignorant he is on the last episode of Ruckus. He is such a tool that it is pathetic to think he is still at The Star.
ReplyDeleteThey must be drinking a lot of Koolaid at their editorial review meetings. Either that, or they are expecting some kind of payday from the current Administration.
Kinda like what Circo appears to be getting from KCP&L.
Somebody call Guinness. It looks like we have a new world record for weasel-worded qualifiers in one sentence:
ReplyDelete"That continues Roe’s attempt to hide in the shadows after Auditor Tom Schweich’s suicide was linked, BY SOME, PARTLY as a response to a despicable ad Roe APPARENTLY was behind."
When you have to torture your syntax to that degree to prevent a lawsuit, you are, by definition, full of shit.
He is an irrelevant and bitter hack.
ReplyDeleteIf Yael was any more of a fag, he'd fart rainbows.
ReplyDeleteWhen Yael decides to write the column about Circo setting up Garza in her basement to meet residency requirements to run for 5th at large seat, I might read him again.
ReplyDeleteThis, I predict will be his undoing. I want you should know that Yael Abouhalkah is a putz, a schmuck, a shmendrik and a year from not no one will remember him. He will probably then be working as a counterman in a kosher deli. He will be as forgotten as year’s Final Four. Why, because he lives in a glass house known as the Kansas Star building. He has no connection and no touch with common people and that is why his writing is liberal gibberish. He wouldn’t know reality if it bit him on the kishter. Good riddens to him and Yael, learn how to tell good pastrami.
ReplyDeleteskimmed past one of his columns recently where he was spouting off about Brownback being a "coward".
ReplyDeleteCriticize his policies all you want,Dude-- but that's something you only say in person to another man's face-
Guy Rules 101..
I find it so bizarre that many of you highly paid rich people who post in here are so worried about Tony's source of income. Who cares how he lives or how he affords coffee and Quick Trip treats all the time. So he lives at home, my best friend lived at home helping his mom till he was 47. He got married and paid cash for a house which seemed like a smart move to me. I just think there are a bunch of busy body jealous people in here who can't stand it that it appears Tony has it easier than them. Hell maybe Tony won the Lotto and is living off the interest and wants to remain anonymous about it. I say you whinny douche bags need to worry about what the city government is doing with YOUR money and not worry about TONY'S money.
ReplyDeleteOhhh, Tony's BFF chimes in. Plenty of seating in the TKC fanboi section I bet.
DeleteI agree with Yael. Jeff Roe is terrible, and works for people hwo are morally bankrupt.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Yael is Jewish, 1:34.
ReplyDeleteIf would be different if Yael and his fellow Editorial Board buffoons had spoken out over Democrats hardball tactics.....Team Clinton smearing of Bill's sex victims, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, etc.....or Team Obama offing Barry's gay lovers, gagging Reverend Wright, etc........but the Star plays their own hardball for Team Democrat against the Republicans.
ReplyDelete"Pot calling the kettle black"??
7:35 PM
ReplyDeleteYael might not be practicing the Jewish faith but his name is 100% Jewish.
There's no such thing as "Jewish" name. Its Hebrew you ignorant clown.
DeleteI like the way his beard tickles my colon!
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