Comments on: ODE Reacts to Reaction Over Insurgent

By: Oregon Commentator » Blog Archive » The Insurgent Controversy: A Primer

Fri, 19 May 2006 15:23:39 +0000

[…] The Commentator’s own Tyler Graf (who appeared on the O’Reilly Factor tonight) wrote a guest commentary in the Daily Emerald, the UO’s campus daily. […]

By: CG

CG — Tue, 02 May 2006 18:32:49 +0000

Shhh! The topless Buddha sounds like a friggin’ fantastic idea for the OC! Don’t just GIVE the shit away, niedermeyer!

By: niedermeyer

niedermeyer — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:58:40 +0000

Methinks this story is only flirting with its potential hilarity… Just wait untill someone gets shivved for a copy of “Jesus Porn” in prison (probably as good as it gets there). Hell, maybe the Insurgent will even change their format completely… Given all the publicity around this, maybe “Deity Porn” will be the silver bullet to pull the Insurgents circulation out of the gutter.

Next issue, Bhudda topless as the page 3 “Deity next Door!”

By: WWB

WWB — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:45:02 +0000

I especially liked “images viewed primarily by Oregon’s prison population.”

I’d forgotten they did that. Weird — as if the guy doing thirty for armed robbery is a political prisoner.

But now that I think about it, maybe the OC should send issues to the Oregon state pen. No reason why, except maybe to further agitate the Insurgent.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:46:32 +0000

Oh, that was me above. Doi! I should probably check and see what the office computer has set as the default comment name before posting.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:41:25 +0000

I was fairly pleased with how the guest commentary turned out, though I had to whittle it down to a paltry 550 words from nearly 800. If I had been allotted more space, I would have been able to enumerate my position better. But as it stands, I think I made myself pretty clear.

The stuff I cut out included a passage from our Mohammed cartoon editorial (all props go to Bryan on that one, by the way), and a short paragraph about our situation last year, and how the Insurgent, true to their name, insurged against us. To the Emerald’s credit, their editorial expands my position in ways that I couldn’t, given the space requirements, and they deserve credit for that.

Further, looking back through the posts on this topic, I noticed that Olly had used the “teachable moment” line from our editorial and applied it to the Insurgent cartoon situation. Dammit!

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:33:57 +0000

Dude, remember when we took them over? Proved our air superiority then, I’ll tell you what.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:31:17 +0000

The B-2s are on their way to the ODE office as we speak…

By: Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio López de Santa Anna — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:50:15 +0000

“(Oh, and the ODE appears to have inserted a superfluous comma into the second sentence of the second paragraph. The draft Tyler showed me a few days ago was grammatically correct, so I don’t know why they changed it.)” - El Jefe

Sounds to me like a blatant act of provocation.