19
May
2008
May
2008
McIlheran: Drunken Violence Against Children Is Bad
That was quite a bold stand Patrick McIlheran took in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel, disapproving of the Sheboygan mother who got drunk and shot her 8-year-old with a BB gun on a bet from her boyfriend. Seriously, who in the world is defending this woman? The Dirtbag Mothers of America?
It’s not as if McIlheran was making any political points (though I suppose it’s possible to read into his “Quick Hit” a general criticism of single mothers). He didn’t even blame the government!
Not that many people get to use the Journal Sentinel editorial page as their pulpit. Is it too much to ask that those who have that privilege actually have something to say?
Janice M. Eisen
Janice M. Eisen, Watchdogging the Media
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On a relatively related note…this morning WISN’s Jay Webber was wondering “aloud” whether seeing a drunk driver on the road was an emergency or not. He went on to posit that he had the type of really important job that would preclude him from followuing such a driver beacuse he would have to get right to the station. “911?” he asked, “Is this really the number I would use if I were to see someone driving drunk”?
What a moron.