Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Scott Dickensheets Responds

The other day, I wrote a post regarding Scott Dickensheets column in the Las Vegas Sun: http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2011/01/scott-chickensheets-err-dickensheets.html
Scott did respond to the post and was fairly professional about it.
And I also want to apologize to Scott for calling him "Chickensheets". I thought I was being cute, but in reality, it was stupid. I also know I had some other spelling errors int he post regarding his name, those were unintentional.
I still disagree with Dickensheets statement about where Brian Sandoval should hold his press conference.
Unlike the Desert Beacon, I print negative about myself, or other people's view points.
Here is Scott Dickensheets reponse:

For Dan, proprietor of The Las Vegas Badger:
1. Yeah, I have a funny name. How utterly original of you to notice.
2. I see your blog post went up at 5:14 yesterday. Way to give me a fair
chance to see it. I don't obsessively haunt the comment threads under my
columns, just hoping for the chance to engage with original thinkers like
you. In your shoes, a competent blogger would have 1.) made sure, using my
easily available e-mail address, that I'd actually *seen* the comment before
flapping in public about what a weasel I am; or 2.) at least given me 24
hours. I mean, my liberal brain-washing sessions take up a lot of time.
3. In any case, until I saw your blog post, I was unaware you had posed this
question.
4. But it does have a relatively simple answer: There are plenty of
conference rooms at libraries, at the university...any patch of neutral
ground that wasn't symbolically at the heart of the state's
money/power/access establishment would have sufficed. Or: I'm sure the state
would have let him use a state conference room, unless they're really
stickling on technicalities. Or: He could have held the entirely
content-free press conference this week without harming anything. Or, best
option, he could have done exactly what he did, which is his prerogative,
and I could have done what I did, which is mine. See, it worked out for the
best after all.
5. I'm sorry you found the column so hard to understand. I'll try to do
better in the future.
6. Go Frogs.
Scott

Again, I apologize for misusing Scott's name.

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