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mountain grammy

(26,656 posts)
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 01:33 PM Apr 2015

Sometimes I forget why I quit the Denver Post

then my husband takes me out to breakfast this morning and there's the Sunday Perspective page on the table. I see Cory Gardner's face on the Op Ed page and make the mistake of reading. He's telling us how he knows all the answers in the Iran deal because of Beruit, blah, blah, bullshit, and Obama is selling us down the road of destruction and eeeevil....

And there goes my peaceful breakfast. Fuck you Denver Post for promoting this idiot's ideas. Fuck you Cory Gardner, you climate change denier piece of shit. You want a fucking war, put on a uniform and go fight it yourself.

Thanks, I feel better. Now I can go make my deviled eggs without poisoning anyone.

Have a nice day.

Edited to add: My husband and I actually solved the problem by talking to each other instead of reading the Post. Worked out fine.

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Sometimes I forget why I quit the Denver Post (Original Post) mountain grammy Apr 2015 OP
We used to subscribe daily to the Denver Post. kaiden Apr 2015 #1
Yes, I quit in 2004. mountain grammy Apr 2015 #2
I subscribed to the locks Apr 2015 #3
So true.. mountain grammy Apr 2015 #4
I'm told a new version of RMN is being resurrected Smithryee Apr 2015 #7
I miss the Rocky Mountain News, too Rhiannon12866 Apr 2015 #8
my dad gets the sunday post just so he can get the coupons fizzgig Apr 2015 #5
How much is it now? $2 on Sunday mountain grammy Apr 2015 #6
Did you see their editorial about Bernie Sanders? Democrats_win Jun 2015 #9
No, I didn't see that.. I don't read the rag. mountain grammy Jun 2015 #10

kaiden

(1,314 posts)
1. We used to subscribe daily to the Denver Post.
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:19 PM
Apr 2015

When it endorsed Bush over Kerry in 2004, we only subscribed on weekends. Then, when it endorsed Gardner last fall, we said "fuck it" and threw in the towel.

locks

(2,012 posts)
3. I subscribed to the
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 09:22 PM
Apr 2015

Rocky Mountain News for years until it folded. Then I went to the Post (at first it wasn't quite so conservative), but after their endorsement of Gardner I just gave up and wrote to tell them so. I still read it online some of the time, the same way I watch FOX until my BP starts climbing.
It's really hard to watch almost all US newspapers, including our local papers, being bought out by big news corps and spouting RW lies. We can never have a democracy until we take money and corporations out of elections and the media.

mountain grammy

(26,656 posts)
4. So true..
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 09:29 PM
Apr 2015

I miss the Rocky Mtn News. It was more conservative, but honest and had a good labor column on Saturdays.

Rhiannon12866

(206,157 posts)
8. I miss the Rocky Mountain News, too
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 04:23 PM
Apr 2015

I used to work with them as a part of my job, conscientious people, felt really bad when they folded.

mountain grammy

(26,656 posts)
6. How much is it now? $2 on Sunday
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 12:30 AM
Apr 2015

probably get that much in coupons, so for free, the crossword is good. My husband loves the crossword and I clip coupons, but I hate to start buying the right wing rag again. I'll never forgive them. Udall was a fine Senator who put the environment first. The Post couldn't live with that. They made that teabagger Gardner legitimate.

Democrats_win

(6,539 posts)
9. Did you see their editorial about Bernie Sanders?
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 01:19 PM
Jun 2015

It was pretty bad. They mentioned something about what he wrote in the 1970s. (I don't trust what they said so I won't repeat it.) You can check out the whole editorial here:
http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_28208194/bernie-sanders-history-odd-views

The editorial is about his "history of odd views." Then they call his idea of 90% tax on the wealthy an odd view. They say this even though this tax rate existed before JFK.

They signed the editorial as the Denver Post editorial board but it reeks of Vincent Carroll, that old hold-over from the failed Rocky Mountain News. At that newspaper, they often put his editorials box--a border. You know, so the bad ideas couldn't escape. Its amazing that they don't criticize the GOP that much--given that the GOP is nothing but a front for misogynists, homophobes, war criminals and tax-dodging cranks like the Koch brothers.

mountain grammy

(26,656 posts)
10. No, I didn't see that.. I don't read the rag.
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 04:37 PM
Jun 2015

It's not allowed in my house. I will rarely even follow a link to it, but I followed yours, mainly to read the comments. Even comments from the right wingers have more intelligence than the Denver Post editorial board.

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