Some supporters of the Center for Sex Positive Culture protested Marlee Ginter’s idiotic hit piece last week by giving money to the Center via KOMO’s “Problem Solvers” donations page. It was a creative way to express displeasure with the piece, support the Center, and let Ginter and her bosses at KOMO know that “the community” isn’t a monolithic, sex-negative collection of prissy douchebags. “I can’t wait to get a check from KOMO,” Allena Gabosch, the Center’s executive director, said on Friday.
Allena can stop waiting: the Center won’t be getting a check from KOMO. Folks who gave money to the Center via KOMO’s “Problem Solvers” donations page started getting this email today:
From: KOMOAccountingMail
Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Subject: RefundKOMO is retuning [sic] or crediting your contribution to the Center for Positive Sex Culture or the Foundation for Positive Sex Culture.
While the “Problem Solvers” at KOMO couldn’t bring themselves to cut a check for the Center—which is utterly pathetic—they were kind as to enclose the Center’s physical address, and that anyone who wanted to “benefit these organizations” could, presumably, drop a check off in person. Perhaps at one of those scandalous, federally-subsidized sex parties where they tie people up for fun—and secks.
Anyway, we’re over here being nice—see where humanity gets you?—and they’re still being total douchebags down at Fischer Plaza.
And yeah, yeah—I have a lot of nerve sticking a “sic” in someone else’s email. And just for the hell of it…
You are who we thought you were Savage.
I am a bad, bad man. Please don’t read my blog.
Seeing as how that “good news” story of yours only got 10 comments, I’m not surprised you’re revisiting goats.
Get back on the bus, St. Dan faithful, the attack is back on!
it’s like having someone in a head lock, then having them beg you to let them go. the second you do, they punch you in the nuts. just like that.
Egg, EXACTLY. That’s the exact reaction I had to this but couldn’t put into words.
God, so much to make me full of rage just in time for the long weekend. This is the year that people are going to learn not to poke “the freaks” with sticks.
so now you can uncensor all those posts, dan…don’t need to be “nice” right?? dan? hello? lol
I thought Slog belonged to Jen Graves.
it is kind of funny to watch you try to save face – but being very careful to not do anything KOMO’s lawyers told you you couldn’t.
This blows goats.
The way this just keeps going reminds me of the Sarah Palin clothes thing.
@2, I can’t help that you dilute the power of your message by not knowing when to stop pushing a dead end story.
pls stop beating me kthxbai
i just checked the komo website, it gives you options of the problem solver fund or the foster kid fund. it asks where you want the money to go, but gives no promises. so you’re really mad komo is giving back money to people instead of giving it to the problem solver fund like the page says. I guess you’d be happier for the station to just keep the money and not cut the check to the whatever sex spot place. wow, now you’re just being petty.
You have no ground to stand on, Danny boy. You bitched out days ago and lost all credibility on the issue at that point.
Have fun at the “little kids table” this Thanksgiving
Have you posted KOMO station management names, numbers and emails?
If you have could you post them again please?
Geez….blowing goats?? who woulda thought…dear dear me….poor girl.
Again – the vitriol in these comments is amazing. It is a rather minor story (TV news – sensationalistic!?! Film at 11) that has spun a drama in and of itself.
Who cares that Dan went all nice in the end? (insert pun here (insert insert pun here))
At least Sound of Music will now forever be associated with goat sucking in the collective SLOG subconscious…
So we got that going for us.
I think someone should use ‘Prissy Douchebag’ as a drag name.
Dan, how could you? I didn’t even have to press play for the song to get stuck in my head. Arrggghghghhg.
waiting for “ginter” = “goat blowing” in the common lexicon… or it could be more generalized, to include ‘any sexual act with odious societal repurcussions, enjoyed whilst engaging in but loudly and shamefully decried after”… thereby becoming far more useful in everyday chat.
there should be a vote. what is a “ginter”?
…and now i have that fucking song in my head.
Since this is strictly a Seattle brouhaha, I just want to thank Dan for making me want to watch The Sound of Music for the 60th time.
Dan, you owe them a big apology. Goats would never associated with Marlee Ginter (though its been rumored she sucked off goatse).
“Anyway, we’re over here being nice—see where humanity gets you?—and they’re still being total douchebags down at Fischer [sic] Plaza.”
Wow, that is fun. It’s Fisher Plaza, you transplant.
I bet you were the kid that threw the pieces off the table and stomped off whever you lost a board game.
Okay, now I’m complete behind the komo-is-a-bunch-of-douchebags thing, but can you please please fucking PLEASE stop saying ‘secks?’ I know you’re saying it to make fun of prudes, but it really just makes you sound like an eleven-year-old from 1998 who just found IRC.
Take that misspellers!
I can’t believe that Marlee Ginter may have sucked goats off.
@26
Around here we don’t end our sentences with prepositions. What I believe you meant to say was, “I can’t believe that Marlee Ginter may have sucked goats off, that kinky freak.”
I love that song. And it was just the thing to get that pesky Schubert 9th out of my brain. Thanks, Dan!
Thank you Dan for standing behind this issue 100%. Some people may not understand that just because you post about something that the issue magically goes away, because it doesn’t. New things happen that build on old things (well, “old” being a relative term, seeing as the original airing was just over a week ago), and any new development is a new part of the story that deserves telling.
I’m thankful this Thanksgiving for journalists like yourself that aren’t afraid to stand up for the truths that they believe in (like Marlee blowing goats).
#27, One time I looked up the word “pedantic” in the Oxford English Dictionary because it came up in a software installation as an option and I didn’t know what it meant. The usage example they gave was a story of when someone corrected Sir Winston Churchill on the preposition at the end of a sentence thing. He said “That is the kind of errant pedantry, up with which, I will not put.”
Keep the budget cutters slashing funds for the vice squads!
#30
Luke, that’s the funniest quote I’ve seen in a long long time. A Churchill biography is now on my Xmas list. Thank you.
You’re complaining? You’re the one who fucking cried uncle after championing this whole thing!?
Now you want to report that their still acting with impunity? Of course they are, they’ve defeated a challnge.
Scoreboard, Savage. You got owned by these fucking dullards.
Maybe if you’d stuck to your guns they wouldn’t be continuing with this bully shit toward the Center.
I imagine now they’re feeling pretty well empowered to fuck over anyone they want. Shit, they might be able to book Buju Banton without any worry of The Stranger giving them the business over it.
I just want thank Dan Savage for taking up the fight in the first place. I personally feel it’s everyone’s fight, although I know the 4th estate has been up for lease for a long time, I still feel we as Americans need to keep institutions like the press in check by holding them accountable. I’m still pissed off. I may be alone in this, but I won’t stop the pressure. Monday I was walking by 4th and Pine, and lo and behold, Ginter doing an interview. She was facing me, lights in her eyes, camera on her, and I let out a “Baaaaaaahhhhh” loud and clear. Let that be my battle cry, bitch….A.
I think it’s sad that the Youtube video from the Sound of Music didn’t even last 12 hours. I try to keep up with this thread, but it’s hard!
@30 – Shouldn’t that be arrant pedantry?
HAHAHHA! okay, i’m probably the only person in the western world who hasn’t seen sound of music, but that clip was an excellent accompaniment to the overall bleating coming from KOMO central. “where’s the humaaaaanity?” (bleat, bleat)
humanity? oh sure, we can do that too.
oh wait, you can’t reciprocate??
back to goats we go, then!
BWAHAHAHHAHAHA!
i love the age we’re in, where the bullies who pay big bucks for their teevee noooze stations can be taken down by a sarcastic bastard with a tiny alt weekly and a laptop, and a readership.