MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015

More The Public Has A Right to Know

In Saturday’s “Cincinnati Soap Opera” E-dition, The Blower reported how the wife of Cincinnati Police Officer Sonny Kim, who was fatally shot in the line of duty, was pleading with the City not to release a video that shows the shooting aftermath. Local media outlets, however, have asked to review the video recording so they can exploit it, just like they all did with the Tensing Body Cam Video, especially if Hamilton County Prosecutor “JayWalking Deters” would favor them with another rant at one of his over-the-top press conferences.

“Pshaw!” say our Feckless Fishwrappers (Editorial: Why we’re asking for Sonny Kim dash-cam video) “We don’t want to get our grubby hands on a dead police officer’s Body Cam just to wring more stories out of a Cincinnati Police Officer’s murder by creating more sympathy for the slain Black killer to further our Politically Correct Liberal Agenda,” they all say. “Trust us. We’d all be responsible with that Body Cam Video.”

Delhi Township Resident Karl Buelterman’s letter to The Fishwrap (“Put bodycams on politicians, too”) said “The growing popularity of body cameras for law enforcement officials is obviously money well spent. The evidence, good or bad, is right there for the world to see, as was witnessed with the recent events in Cincinnati.

“I’d like to see it taken a step further. Politicians, of course, are taking a stand supporting the more widespread use of these cameras. That’s fine. But while they’re at it, let’s equip the politicians with body cameras, too. It just might separate the lousy, shady, dishonest politicians from the good ones, if there is such a thing!”

That’s a fine thought, Mr. Buelterman, but since The Blower has always said our Feckless Fishwrappers are too lazy, too stupid, or too dishonest ever tell us the truth, maybe we should be putting Body Cams on their reporters, too.

Hurley the Historian remembers the 1954 McCarthy Hearings when Joseph Welch (chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations) asked McCarthy, “Have you no sense of Decency Sir?” Many our shameless stringers should take a look at that now.