"He's right- you guys are the losers.

I don't see you putting your butt, your time, and your personal money on the line.

Just sit back there in your ivory tower and keep thinking your juvenile jokes are funny. Meanwhile, watch other responsible upcomers like the Voice eat your lunch and put you and your fellow hacks out on the unemployment line.

Apologize. Or I'll be happy to make sure your advertisers know how much I look down on the MP and how much I look up to the Voice and others, and suggest they move their ad dollars."

** I suggest we make comments to the advertisers as well **

"To stamp "Loser" across their faces is about the worse journalistic decision I have seen in this community all of my life."

Really?

To heck with the rest of the thing. They also had the unmitigated gall to trash Louis' Restaurant yesterday. At least someone or other put foward a fairly decent defense of the place in the online comments. But sheesh! Trash Louis'? That's near as bad as callin' my momma a bad name.

Kathy Bryant, Albert Baah, Chuck Ward and Thomas Baer are good folks who offered themselves and for whatever reason were not selected. To blast them as "losers" was low. And where was Chuck Bolus?

For that matter, where were Mike Padgett, Randy Tyree, Andrew Graybeal, Robert Bratton, Amy Henley Vandergriff, etc.?

Selective losership?

I may be projecting too much of my own opinion into this, but I took the art direction of the MP piece as a comment on the turnout for the election.

You want to bitch about county government? Fine, but statistically speaking, you probably didn't vote. And you know what? The person who might've represented your views in some manner that might've made a difference:

BAM! Loser.

Steve,

Real sorry to you and the others that the MP choose that layout and graphics. Bad choice on their part.

Thanks for running and addressing the issues. I hope you will try again.

Pamela

Ian: So you're saying it WAS selective losership. Makes perfect sense. Duh. That accounts for the pictures of generally more progressive and less establishment candidates. -- s.

I fail to get the connection. If you wanted to lampoon the low turnout show a cartoon of an empty voting booth next to a cartoon of a guy on the couch and stamp loser on the couch potato.

As it was you are just being juvenile. And not helping the cause of democracy which requires a choice of candidates to function.

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"Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."

I'm suprised nobody had complained with Ear cracking jokes about those present at the UU shooting less than one week afterwards. I thought the picture was in very bad taste.

You are a Loser. you lost the race.

The Metro Pulse, while not perfect, does serve a purpose.

It makes an excellent bird cage liner and when shredded, works quite nicely in hamster cages too.

I have never commented on line before but I feel it necessary to say something in regards to the Metropulse article and its use of "loser" over my and several other candidates pictures in this last issue. I chose to run to give the citizens in District 6 a choice. I ran on the premise that the citizens wanted a voice on County Commission and someone who whould listen to them and act on their behalf. I remain hopeful that my opponent will do just that. I find it juvenile and absoulutely inapproriate for the Metropulse to call anyone willing to put themselves under the policital microscope a "loser". I was painfully reminded why decent people choose not to run for public office when I saw the article. I have thick enough skin and I also have a healthy understanding that all this is really not so important in the end. The people have spoken. It's time to move forward. While an apology would be nice, I won't hold my breath. The Metropulse and the Newssentinel will do what they want, don't they always??

Tasteless? Sure.

But if you don't want to be ridiculed, libeled, insulted, lied-about, cheated, or slandered -- don't run for public office or become a public figure. It's a nasty business and wishing it weren't so, or complaining about it, generally doesn't make a darn bit of difference.

As someone who has run for office, I agree with Scott. I was slammed with a vicious personal attack at age 23.

Politics is a game -- it's football time in Tennessee. You work in the weight room, run sprints, get into condition -- then you run like heck to win.

To say you "offer yourself" for public service is like suiting up 11 skinny freshmen and putting them on the field against Bama. They're gonna get killed. -- s.

It is one thing to anticipate being "ridiculed, libeled, insulted, lied-about, cheated, or slandered" by one's opponent or their minions. Fortunately the majority of our local candidates haven't sunk to this level.

I would never expect a mass market newspaper to be so juvenile.

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"Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."