Rob Parker controversy

Unless you actually WANT to try the veal..... :-X

 

It's the best in the city.

 

i still don't get this "rob's my friend" stuff so "i'll stand by him no matter what."

what's this have to do with having an opinion of rob as a columnist? he's a great guy, we all agree. his column voice is far different than his real demeanor. fair enough. he's opted to play the role of "tough-guy columnist." also fair enough.

so then, friendships aside, we have an opinion on the quality of a man's writing. rob's a terrible writer. always has been, probably always will be.

being a good guy is irrelevant. being anyone's friend is irrelevant. he's a bad writer and acts in a sophomoric fashion. doesn't mean he's undeserving of our friendship; simply that it is difficult to defend him on a professional level.

imo, of course.

 

Unfortunately, your opinion won't stop the people here who love to drop names like they were coins in a fountain.....as if it gives them a certain cachet.

 

Anyone who knows Rob can see how this happened. He has a propensity for being a bit loose with things. We've all seen and heard him make some wild statements and have his voice rise as he tries to defend them. But because it wasn't a case of something he wrote, but rather something he said, I can't realistically see how he should be fired over this. He might be getting more negative attention than he bargained for, but it wasn't because he wrote something inaccurate or in bad taste. He just picked the wrong time to say something wacky. If he said it on ESPN, would there have been this flap?

 

A) Loose=reckless
B) The ESPN part wouldn't come into account unless they were face to face.
C) Had he not been called out, he would have written something on it. Instead, the subsequent shitstorm made the focus all about him and what he did, instead of his opinion/analysis.

 

no, rob shouldn't be fired over this. but it should be a grand final straw to cost him the column. he never should have been anything beyond a beat writer anyway.

i've always believed general columnists need to be very smart and excellent writers. rob is neither.

again, imo.

 

Well, you know what happened to him after the veal.

 

I do know what happened to Sollozzo and McCluskey.

 

wouldn't it be amazing if one of rob's columns elicited this much passion??@?

 

Thanks dude.

I'll just have the pepper steak, thanks.

 

Smart move...