It’s bad enough that Jack Sweeney and Jeff Cohen empowered MeMo effectively to destroy the Chronicle Features section, renaming it after a symbol that the Chron presses apparently can’t reproduce in small type (since corrections always refer to the “star” section) and populating it with vapid content (replete with references to “ABC’s Dan Rather“).
But letting the woman actually write is even worse than turning her loose as a content and style editor!
Here’s her latest mean and spiteful rambling on what she calls a blog:
One tiny, tiny cavil: U.N. Ambassabor John Danforth quit yesterday because, he says, he wants to spend more time with his wife of 47 years. Oh, and check out Tommy Thompson. Why do you, Gov. Thomspon and Sen. Danforth and your likes in the corporate and sports and entertainment worlds, even bother? We don’t much care why you quit, really, unless it involves clear liquid and white creams and injectable substances, but please, please, please don’t try to make us believe you want to spend more time with your family! Do we look like we just fell off the pickle truck? No one wants to spend more time with family unless it’s a daycare issue and for you, my dear sirs, it is manifestly not.
MeMo thinks she’s being cute.
Sorry, chick, but it’s not cute. It’s ugly as can be.
See, MeMo, as it turns out, Ambassador Danforth, one of the nation’s more accomplished statesmen at the age of 68, really does seem to want to go back to his beloved Missouri, to be with his ailing wife — and he’s surely earned the right:
Speaking to reporters the day after his resignation as U.S. envoy to the United Nations was confirmed, Danforth said he decided he didn’t want “to sign on for a four-year stint at this point in my life.”
“I want to go home. It’s just that simple,” the 68-year-old former Missouri senator said. “What’s most important to me is my wife and my home and having more time with both. I’m a St. Louis guy. That’s the place I love, and my wife of 47 years.”
Danforth’s wife, Sally, is still suffering from the effects of a serious fall about 1 1/2 years ago.
Here’s more from Danforth’s hometown newspaper:
Danforth said his decision to leave was based solely on a strong desire to spend more time with his wife, Sally, and his family back in St. Louis.
“It’s really about, that at this point in our lives, we really don’t want to live in a hotel in New York,” said Danforth, whose official residence since July has been the top floor of the Waldorf Astoria.
“It’s the usual tug that a lot of people have between working life and the rest of life. You ask, what is most important. Two things most important to me are Sally and St. Louis,” he said.
Danforth delivered much the same message in his letter to Bush last week.
“Forty-seven years ago, I married the girl of my dreams and at this point in my life, what is most important to me is to spend more time with her. Because you know Sally, you know my reason for going home,” Danforth wrote.
Leave it to a depraved, bitter, cynical dinosaur-media hack to turn THAT story into something ugly.
Why stop at the Features/Star section, right?
