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Oh, yes. Bill Conlin. The Daily News columnist (and erstwhile king of the world) has been suspended from Daily News Live because of a comment he made on Tuesday’s program.
Responding to an email from Raul from Vineland, Conlin said: “Amazing that guy would leave the blueberry harvest to send that off.” Oh-ho! How offensive! You see… um… well, the blueberry harvest is probably usually done in Hammonton, right? Or… hmm… okay, how about this: The people working on the blueberry harvest are usually Mexican, and to say that someone in Vineland is Mexican is offensive! (If only Anthony DiMeo were here to clear this up!) Or maybe Comcast SportsNet just wanted Conlin off the program to make it a little less watchable.
Look, Daily News Managing Editor Pat McLoone has defended him: “I’ve known Bill Conlin for 28 years. I know he would never say anything racist.” Um, then why is he suspended?
Anyway, Neil Hartman’s apology the following day was way more hilarious than Conlin’s original joke. Courtesy of The Fightins, it’s after the jump.
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dmac | 10:03 AM | 3 Comments
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Sep
24
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From your friend and mine, Anthony DiMeo:
“Without a doubt, Tucker Max has exploited my good name and image, and he and his following have published scurrilous lies about me on his Web site . . . I did not file the DiMeo v. Max lawsuit out of vengeance but to stop further damage to my good name, character and solid reputation.”
U.S. Court of Appeals Third Circuit dismissed DiMeo’s appeal of his lawsuit against Tucker Max for a hillion jillion dollars or whatever. You hear that, Mark B. Cohen and your penis? Inane, angry ridiculous commenters always win! Now somebody get me Alycia Lane in a bikini.
A break for bloggers [Daily News]
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dmac | 1:23 PM | 14 Comments
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Mar
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Yesterday, Anthony DiMeo father’s Columbia Fruit Farms Inc., agreed to pay a $45,000 fine for violating federal labor laws. According to an investigation, Columbia Fruit Farms was housing more than 300 workers in a camp designed for 197, was paying workers below minimum wage and failed to maintain proper records.
How dare they not maintain proper records! The farm has agreed to upgrade conditions at the Hammonton farm, and lost a bunch of artwork that the underpaid migrant workers stole from the farm’s 197-person camp.
Update, 2:14 p.m.: An earlier version of this story called it DiMeo Farms. That was incorrect. The farm, Columbia Fruit Farms, is owned by Anthony DiMeo’s father along with William Dimeo. I suppose that’s why he’s “Anthony DiMeo III.” As DiMeo notes in a in an email: “The DiMeo family with all of our farms combined own over 1000 acres of farm land in the State of New Jersey and there are SEVERAL different farms owned by various members of the DiMeo family.” DiMeo confirmed he has no involvement in this farm.
He’s correct. I misread the AP story wrong, which is pretty impressive since it was only four paragraphs long. I apologize for my stupid mistake. The story has been corrected.
Blueberry farm to be fined for workers’ conditions [AP/Inquirer]
Archives: Anthony DiMeo
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dmac | 11:21 AM | 0 Comments
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Jul
20
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As he plans his appeal after his lawsuit against Tucker Max was thrown out of court, noted blueberry heir Anthony DiMeo is sticking to his main job as a party promoter.
And, according to a recent email to his listserv, he’s throwing a party with someone named “Breakfast” at ZBar tonight. However, it’s invite-only — i.e., you have to be on the Renamity listserv — and, if you’re a guy, you better have a bunch of butterfaces to bring along. From his listserv:
Through our close friend, “Breakfast”, RENAMITY has secured a very limited number of VIP Guest List spots. Also, as you may have heard, this will be a wild, highly produced event filled with celebrities, hot models, music, and of course everything is complimentary for guests…ALL NIGHT!! One warning: These guys run their door like they’re in Miami (no joke). But once you get inside it’s worth the trouble. Example, here’s what he said when I requested RENAMITY List members receive invites:
“Anthony, the only caveat we have is that we keep our ratio Vegas-style.” That means:
GUYS : please be aware that you will need to come with a minimum of 3 female(s) accompaniment to enjoy the festivities. (They aren’t kidding)
LADIES : bring the girls out, we have got you covered.
You see… oh, whatever, you already laughed.
But I do wonder how this fits in with his bashing of Tucker Max for “demean[ing] women.”
Full release after the jump.
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dmac | 12:04 PM | 8 Comments
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Jun
5
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• People in Philadelphia, apparently, don’t know when they’ve been shot down, even if it takes them a year to notice. (I’m past that point; I know when I’m being rejected. It comes sometime in the five minutes following, “Nice to meet you.”) They also, apparently, have the “worst year ever,” which is kind of confusing until you remember this is Philadelphia. [Starting A Landslide in My Ego]
• Anthony DiMeo, III vs. Tucker Max, Philly Future and You. The headline says it all. [Philly Future]
• CHOP to build $400 million facility, to keep kinda creepy “CHOP” acronym. [America's Hometown]
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dmac | 2:56 PM | 0 Comments
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• City Councilman Michael Nutter knows how to run for mayor: He says he’s going to get our kids to stop being fat! This may work with parents, but crotchety old people could be all “How about you show them some manners first!” [KYW 1060]
• Your Anthony DiMeo update, courtesy of Metro DiMeo beat reporter Josh Cornfield: “He said in previously filed court documents that the comments made about him on Max’s site caused him to live ‘in constant fear for his safety and the safety of his loved ones.’ DiMeo said in the documents that he was forced to seek out psychological counseling, that he suffered a loss of privacy and his business was affected.”
• Hey, when he’s not bashing those free AOL CDs about five years after people forgot what AOL is, and when he’s not playing with his doggy, we can always count on John Grogan for some good old fashioned Philadelphia optimism. Wait. Philadelphia optimism? [Inky]
• We Americans say goodbye to Katie Couric. Only, uh, she’s just going to be doing the news on a different station. Is she really leaving? [Gawker]
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dmac | 12:19 PM | 1 Comment
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May
30
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 Most legal decisions don’t begin with the words “Tucker Max describes himself as an aspiring celebrity ‘drunk’ and ‘asshole,’” — well, at least not since Marbury v. Madison’s similar opening — but then again most lawsuits aren’t as hilarious as this. On Friday, right about when I packed it in for the long weekend, the lawsuit filed by Anthony DiMeo against Tucker Max was dismissed.
Anthony DiMeo was suing Tucker Max (that’s him in the photo, with Morimoto) because of mean things said by forum members about DiMeo on Tucker’s eponymous website, and he’s now received a legal smackdown from the judge in a fairly entertaining decision that not only contains a reference to a Philadelphia Weekly article — you’ll be possibly read over in law schools for years, Cassidy! — but has references to names like ‘Jerkoff’ and ‘footinmouth.’
Max, on his website, writes:
The judge’s decision is awesome. … The best part is the last quote, it is fucking awesome:
“Here we do so by protecting the coarse conversation that, it appears, never ends on tuckermax.com”
Well, that or the part where a FEDERAL JUDGE quotes someone from my board using the phrase, “getting fisted by an angry gorilla” and “mold your face to what you think you would look like if a leper were about to take a shit in your mouth.” Best. Legal. Decision. Ever.
If I ever become president — and if I do ever run for office, all anyone needs to do to derail my campaign is quote from any random selected post on this website — I would propose a law that requires all court decisions to contain the phrase “fisted by an angry gorilla.”
This isn’t really surprising, though. After all, DiMeo’s lawyer for this case was a man who had this on his website:
A true “Lawyer’s Lawyer”, Matthew is proud and flattered by continuously receiving referrals and praise from unaffiliated attorneys (even suprisingly from those who were once his opposing counsel).
You might think the fun might be over. No more DiMeo randomly threatening to sue any independent blogger who happens to report on a disastrous party he has or says things about him other than “Anthony DiMeo is awesome and throws the best parties!” You might think that this decision has affirmed that the Internet is a place where people who are, say, blueberry heirs can’t simply use their money to threaten to squelch any criticism of them. You, of course, would be wrong. According to our buddy Daniel Rubin, DiMeo is planning on appealing:
Tucker Max should not only expect a possible appeal to this one judges decision, but select members of his TuckerMax.com following should expect individual lawsuits to be filed against them for the countless false, inaccurate and misleading statements they have clearly posted on Mr. Max’s web site. Without a doubt, these type of legal battles are very, very costly… but, to me, it’s most certainly worth it to make people like Tucker Max pay for their wrongful actions. Tucker Max demeans women and promotes character assassinations; and this is something we must not allow in our society.
Apparently, the fun just won’t stop. Although I’m glad DiMeo has attempted to jump on the “Tucker Max demeans women” bandwagon, even though that wasn’t, exactly, what he was suing him for. I’m not quite sure it’ll work. I mean, could there be anything more demeaning than being a model for DiMeo’s PR firm?
TUCKER WINS!!! DIMEO LOSES!!! [Tucker Max Blog]
Matthew B. Weisberg [PPWLaw.com]
April 5: DiMeo v. Max, The Lawsuit — And The Party!
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dmac | 9:53 AM | 0 Comments
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May
4
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This is an actual press release sent out by Anthony DiMeo III’s PR firm Renamity. DiMeo, as you may know, is suing Tucker Max for nasty things written about him on Max’s website.
Max held a party to support his legal defense fun for the case two weekends ago. And, last weekend, Renamity sent out this release:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: renamity.com < info@renamity.com>
Date: Apr 30, 2006 4:24 AM
Subject: RELEASE: Underage Drinking and Arrest at Tucker Max Party
To: info@renamity.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNDERAGE DRINKING and ARREST AT TUCKER MAX PARTY
“TUCKER MAX PARTY VENUE (JAGERS BAR) & PATRON CITED FOR UNDERAGE DRINKING”
According to sources, the Liquor Control Board (LCB) had undercover officers at the Tucker Max Party held on Friday, April 21, 2006. O ne 19 year old female was arrested for underage drinking and in addition the the venue (Jagers Bar) was cited and faces possibly thousands in fines, and/or loss of liquor license.
One unnamed LCB officer told a RENAMITY representative that “hearings are currently being scheduled for the separate citations”, and he also stated “we plan to continue to our crackdown on underage drinking in the City of Philadelphia.”
The Tucker Max party at Jagers Bar was promoted by Philly2Night.com and hosted by Tucker Max himself. See attached police report for more information on this ongoing investigation.
RENAMITY
“…the Public Relations & Special Events POWERHOUSE…”
1730 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
I can’t be sure — and I hope I’m not sued for making a false statement! — but I think this can be scientifically proven to be the stupidest, most unintentionally funny press release ever written. I’m glad I’m a blogger and not a real reporter (at least in theory) so I can just laugh really hard about this and not have to do any BS “balanced” writing about it. Phew.
The DiMeo Lawsuit Thread [Tucker Max Message Board]
Archives: Anthony DiMeo
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dmac | 10:43 AM | 3 Comments
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5
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Remember Anthony DiMeo III? He’s the guy who runs Renamity, which threw the disastrous New Year’s party where the booze was free-flowin’ until about 10:30, then it stopped. 10:30, as you might know, is well before midnight, so paintings got stolen and Le Jardin and Renamity are sparring legally and blah blah blah.
DiMeo has, in the past, filed a lawsuit against a fine alt-weekly in this city, though it escapes my mind which one it was.
Anyway, DiMeo, who’s the heir to a blueberry farm in Jersey and has shaken hands with Donald Trump, is suing another fine American institution, namely one Internet Celebrity Tucker Max.
Max is a Duke law grad who decided that the career wasn’t for him — and now he runs a website dedicated to his tales of debauchery and having as much sex as possible. His just finished up a book tour for I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, which was on the New York Times best seller list for paperback non-fiction.
Anyway, Metro’s Josh Cornfeld — who’s on the Anthony DiMeo beat, I swear — does a great and unintentionally hilarious job of summarizing the facts:
“We’re going to prove it has not only distressed him but it has caused him harm,” said DiMeo’s attorney, Matthew B. Weisberg, “both emotional distress as well as commercial.”
“Awesome,” Max said by e-mail, calling the lawsuit the best news of the week. “Please give Ant-nee my address, so as to expedite delivery of a document I anticipate to be of the highest comedy. [...]
DiMeo is suing Max for more than $1 million.
Weisberg said the comments on Max’s Web site aren’t protected by the First Amendment under a law passed by Congress last year that outlaws anonymously posting or e-mailing messages intending to annoy.
Those paragraphs might be funnier than any intentional comedy I’ve ever read. News as this develops, of course, but for now, here’s one of the threads on Tucker Max’s website that he’s being sued over.
Party heads to court [Metro]
Here’s what’s fun — you’re getting served! [Citypaper]
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dmac | 12:58 PM | 1 Comment
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