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Pygmies of the Post
First, lets all remember this week when ST. MARY’S TODAY Online Edition broke the McKay Fake Sheepskin story late on Wednesday night. Then the Washington Post was all over our website in Thursday and on Friday ran the story without attribution. For many years The Post has not only given proper attribution on stories but they have repeatedly bought news photos from ST. MARY’S TODAY with one of them actually used as the lead news photo on the front page on Monday, Dec. 6, 1993. Of that day that the Post turned to ST. MARY’S TODAY for news, just one of dozens of times the nation’s best known newspaper has done so, we are very proud. We worked hard covering the sinking of the charterboat El Toro II and the tragic loss of three lives, due to the stupidity of the captain, the lack of due diligence of the insurance company and the incompetence of the Coast Guard and the Maryland State Police. Repeatedly the Associated Press, national network news organizations such as CNN, ABC and CBS along with ABC 7, WUSA 9 News, NBC 4 and Baltimore news stations have used, with attribution, our news photos. The Baltimore Sun had our news photo on their front page just two years ago when ST. MARY’S TODAY photographer Terrance Greenhow was the first still photographer to get to the scene of the Indian Head arson spree. So did the Washington Times, although they picked up the photo from the AP and ran it without credit due to staff stupidity. Post reporters have always looked to the hinterlands to small newspapers for news with a further reach. When our story on Hambone’s lying about earned a college degree appeared Online, the story flew all over.
The story had wings, along with legs. Shame on the bozos at the Post. They have big shoes to fill left behind by Ben Bradlee and the politically correct pygmies of today’s Post evidently don’t even wear shoes. One would think they would still be careful about stealing news after their huge embarrassment of several years ago when a Post reporter invented a story about a kid on drugs.
But we have very different people running things at the Washington Post.
It shows in their editorial endorsement of Bob Ehrlich, even having the leap of logic to say that they picked Ehrlich due to his transportation initiatives. In Southern Maryland, we don’t have a transportation infrastructure. Some years ago, all of the money boys who guided land development in PG County decided where commuter rail was going to go and that is where they bought up the land and then sent the metro out to their chosen spots. Ehrlich had initially decided to join in with Steny Hoyer, Roy Dyson, John Bohanan, Mike Miller, Sally Jameson, Mac Middleton and George Owings in a bi-partisan effort to bring about commuter rail as part of a comprehensive transportation plan for Southern Maryland. But just two months into the Ehrlich Administration, his communications guy, Paul Shurick, failed to have a representative of the Governor at a meeting held in Comptroller Schaefer’s office. Hambone McKay said it was okay for Larry Jarboe to represent him at the meeting. Tony O’Dinner had initially said he would support commuter rail and in fact, first tried to kill Sen. Dyson’s Transportation Study Bill, and then finally voted for it. In short, the Republicans decided to turn our chief public problem into a partisan political football and to kick it back and forth. These guys are just creeps. People are dying each week on our highways, many times due to driver error, but many times due to the crappy road network, overcrowded and crumbling bridges and lack of any commuter rail, despite the existence of a railroad right of way which extends from Lexington Park to the existing CSX tracks leading from the Potomac River at Morgantown to Bowie. This region can quickly become attached by rail to the rest of Maryland and when Rt. 301 is stopped in gridlock for wreckage to be cleared, trains could continue to move people. As good as buses are, they still have to wait behind wrecks just like cars.
Ehrlich has improved his golf game but he failed to do anything about this region’s transportation nightmares and worse yet, he actively opposed the efforts of the region’s legislators to plan a fix for our problems. And Hambone McKay was right there with him, joined at the hip in their mutual stupidity. Just two weeks ago, these two idiots came out and announced they are now supporting Sen. Dyson’s plan for a second span over the Patuxent River at Solomon’s. Holy Cow, Batman! But McKay then turns around and on his campaign literature and website says he is for transportation planning, but then runs a commercial saying he is opposed to commuter rail as it will cause crime. Just can’t wait to see those brothers from the Ghetto hopping onto the 6 am train from Bowie to Pax River so they can burglarize homes in Wildewood and carry out the plasma TV’s back to the train station in time to catch the 7 pm train back up the road with their loot. The biggest danger to this area is the corruption and crime caused by developers, builders and cheap politicians as they subvert public parkland for their own pockets.
And the Post endorsed Ehrlich!
Now they steal a news story from us and give it short play when it comes to Hambone’s latest lie.
Take Hambone. Just think about how he missed out on all those family photos of him with his cap and gown on at that wonderful day when he got his degree in Business Administration, back in 1979. How about Daddy McKay spending all of that money on tuition and room and board so Hambone could party hardy in College Park and then not even get his degree. It’s simple. Just make it up. Is it any surprise that Daddy would tell folks for years that 2 million bucks took a hike and he knew who in his family did the deed? Is it any surprise that when Hambone Jr. made fake twenty dollar bills that Hambone then hid the evidence rather than turn it over to police? Did anyone who voted four years ago cast their vote based on the representation that Hambone would be a better commissioner president than his opponent due to his experience and his college degree in business? It’s all a matter of character. Hambone is devoid of character yet he is a character.
Now watch the Junior Post, the Emptyprize, who thought Hambone got his degree from the University College, a fact that the Post discovered wasn’t true. The Emptyprize will endorse McKay, just like they did with Ehrlich.
O’Malley will be our next Governor and he has pledged to bring about solutions to our transportation gridlock and after he came here and stood in the middle of the railroad tracks with our legislators and Congressman Hoyer, Ehrlich suddenly decides to support Dyson’s bridge proposal, two weeks before the election. Over the past twenty years there have been plenty of Republicans who have been the best candidates. There just aren’t too many of them around this year. Larry Jarboe always remains one of the few. Kenny Dement deserves a lot of credit for his well reasoned votes to check sprawl and limit development in our rural preservation districts. It took the votes of these two Republicans, going against McKay’s developer supported agenda, to vote with Dan Raley to say no to the builders as they attempted to pave the countryside. Vote for O’Malley for Governor. Give him a legislative team that will work with him. Vote for Dyson, Middleton, Miller for Senate. Vote for Norma Powers, Sally Jameson and Murray Levy.
Prediction: Zylak will get his hat handed to him by Tim Cameron and he can thank his own gutless response to the Loot Scandal along with his hapless handling of the issue of his wife running the department.