Abridged Daily News Columnists

Ronnie Polaneczky: The Daily News columnists can’t stop writing about Wilson Goode’s aide, the one who held up the Fox 29 are racist sign. Yes! Apparently, this is an important story. Polaneczky is upset still because no one got up to grandstand when she held up her stupid signs.

Now she’s decided the city will not prevent hate speech! Of course, one might say the city has no authority to prevent any speech, hateful or otherwise, but Polaneczky is having none of that. The law has “no teeth.” It’s just not tough enough on black people.

And why no one from Council took a stand against Bryant’s actions is baffling. This is the legislative body that, last year, voted to strengthen the prohibition of ethnic intimidation in the city by forbidding the display of three “symbols of virulent animus: a noose; a burning cross; or a swastika.”

Yet they still couldn’t see fit to at least chastise Bryant for making a sign implying that a white reporter belonged to a group that routinely uses these symbols to intimidate blacks and other minorities. [...] Ironically, it seems fitting that a new law with no teeth resulted from an incident that no one can prove even happened.

I won’t quibble with the use of ironically but of routinely. You’d think if the KKK was out there every day routinely putting up nooses, burning crosses and drawing swastikas, it wouldn’t be too hard to find an incident one could prove. Welp, it’s off to jail for me, I believe I just violated a new speech law the Daily News columnists dreamed up.

John Baer: Hey, a Harrisburg aide went against the family!

Michael Smerconish: This column is about Bill Ayers, apparently, and how everyone has friends that do bad things. Smerconish then gives some hilarious examples of his friends who have done bad, such as one person who tried to commit suicide and another who succeeded. He also took G. Gordon Liddy to lunch! Clearly, Smerconish is unfit for duty.