Jews Take Time Out From Controlling The World’s Money Supply To Complain About ‘PW’ Cover

When PW’s Holiday Guide came out two weeks ago, you might have just thought to yourself, “Eh, I’m not much of a hamster guy, but that’s fairly cute.” Or maybe you said, “Hey, D-Mac finally got off his ass and did some writing.” But it turns out the holiday ode to cuteness wasn’t cute at all. It was offensive.

Yes, PW’s cover pissed off some Jews who felt it was similar to the Nazis. And if making me invoke Godwin wasn’t enough, well, here, you read it:

“Where did your art director receive her training?” wrote Solomon Moses in an angry letter he sent to PW and then forwarded to the Exponent. “At the Heinrich Himmler Academy of Design?”

It’s amazing how much funny shit is in this article.

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Shocking Admissions From Local TV Reporter

The man in the photo at right may have robbed a cub scout in Chichester, but he did do some good: He was directly responsible for the greatest news report since Jim Osman told us that someone had some “’splainin’ to do.”

The unidentified man was quite a piece of work, no doubt. Not only did he rob a cub scout who was selling popcorn outside of a Wawa, but security cameras show him walking in an our a bunch of times beforehand. Which means, of course, that he was casing a 7-year-old. I guess if you’re going to do it, you might as well go all out.

What you’re thinking now is: Okay, this is outrageous. And of course it is. And when there’s an easily outrageous story, the local TV news likes to act holier-than-thou over it. Why? What is the point? Whether it’s the Daily News Ronnie Polaneczky telling us that, hey, bringing a gun to a kids’ football game is wrong! Gee, thanks, Ann Landers. I didn’t know. What is the point of getting extremely outraged about something that’s so over the top that everyone knows it’s bad.

Anyway, NBC 10’s Bill Baldini files a report similar to the Daily News‘ coverage of the kids’ football game/gun mashup. There’s lots of “Can you BELIEVE that?” questions and lots of people responding with similar outrage. But his interview of the robbed cub scout — who, via donations, has made about $450, more than the $200 that was stolen, fortunately — is by far the best.

First, there’s this:

Bill Baldini (voiceover): “What an experience for a seven-year-old and his mother, who were just trying to do the right thing!”

Cub Scout Brennan Starr: “I feel bad that he took the money.”
Starr’s mother: “Annnnd… you want them to catch him.”
Starr: “And I want them to catch him.”

It even gets more touching.

“Did he scare you?… You feel alright about this now. But you were scared when it happened. Did you cry? I would have cried.”

So, if you want to rob Bill Baldini, he’s probably a bit of an easy target, since he’ll just break down and cry.

Cub Scout Robbed In Broad Daylight (Video!) [NBC 10]
Aug. 18: Just Wait Until The Candy Machine Goes Too Fast And Jim Osman Has To Start Putting Them In His Mouth