Michael Nutter, at his speech: "We had a really good day."
That sounds like a smack to me.
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Michael Nutter, at his speech: "We had a really good day."
That sounds like a smack to me.
Comments (13)
PERFECT!!!!!!! :)
Posted by robert | May 15, 2007 11:05 PM
The corrupt, failed, do-nothing John F. Street has finally been put in his place!
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 11:23 PM
The corrupt, failed, do-nothing John F. Street has finally been put in his place!
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2007 11:24 PM
How in the hell can the statement "we had a really good day" sound like smack?
I just can't believe that a city this large has to have such a brain-dead media shoved down our throats.
I am truly disappointed by the coverage on this Web site and on WHYY.
The Blog site collapsed, two of three "experts" on the panel as well as the moderator are from the suburbs, the lone city representative, Elmer Smith was the only sane person on the panel. The only person who didn't take every opportunity to bash the city. Chris Satullo of the Inquirer said something truly appalling without fact. Something I never heard before.
Dan is a joke. He has yet to learn how to dress, much less provide analysis.
In fact, even the lead-in to the WHYY broadcast focused on the one or two heated exchanges and tried to characterize these handful of exchanges as how the campaign played out. Disgraceful.
Tracy Matisak was the only professional in the studio.
Posted by Fante | May 15, 2007 11:47 PM
Reflecting on this primary election day now past, and with Nutter having won, I feel it can best be summed up as "A Primary Election Gets Held in Palookaville" (Palookaville, of course, being what Brando complained of getting a one-way ticket to in ON THE WATERFRONT.) And that's not a knock at Nutter, mind you. It's just, well, what can anyone hope to do -- at least positive and inspirational -- when we're talking about Palookaville? And what's Palookaville exactly? Well, it's the kind of place that when you're there you say, "There's nobody here, man." That is, step over Mobile, Alabama, Wheeling, West VA, Fargo, North Dakota, etc., etc., etc. The only difference though -- and it's the stinger -- is that Philadelphia did get to be a really great city at one time. But it's all very surreal trying to reconcile that now. Anyway, I think they should officially change the name of Philadelphia to Palookaville just to keep things real on the road that's now ahead.
Posted by Steve W. | May 16, 2007 2:29 AM
I though WHYY's coverage was OK.
Except that Elmer Smith was horrible! All he did was defend Fattah/Brady machine politics.
He sounded like John Street.
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2007 6:52 AM
Do you live in Philly??
"Having a good day" is John Street's standard statement.
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2007 7:08 AM
Elmer Smith gave a perspective of the city that white suburbanities refuse to believe. Instead they choose live in the protection of their ignorance and make dumbass observations about "palookaville" or some other such nonsense. Palookaville exists in the minds of self-hating white suburbanites.
I've lived in the Philadelphia suburbs and I have lived in the city since 1993. There is no comparison, the city is much better place to be, with a better class of people, and a better quality of life.
The only problem is the media in this city is controled by white suburbanites who do nothing but bash the place that provides them their livelihood.
Posted by Fante | May 16, 2007 8:27 AM
It is true that the Inquirer has a very negative view of the city and has trouble separating the people of the city from its politicians. In their view, the city is only as good as its politicians and the lackluster politicians in Philly prove that we are a city in bad shape. I think suburbanites (at least the one's who work for the Inquirer) hate the city far more than the average middle class Philadelphian does. The really poor who live in dire circumstances are usually very likely to hate the city as much as the Inquirer. People in the NE seem to hate the city as well, but there are large numbers of people who do NOT have a dim view of Philly even if the media refuses to acknowledge that.
Posted by sj | May 16, 2007 11:03 AM
Yeah, those who missed the having a good day smack at John Street must have missed the last two elections which were very unlike yesterdays. Also, you do have to give the Inquirer credit that as far as the mayor is concerned, they selected the most qualified and promising candidate to endorse.
Posted by Greg | May 16, 2007 7:30 PM
Actually, the first Street-Katz election focused on the issues and both candidates handled themselves with class and dignity. But memories are short.
The second election was a different story and I place most of the blame it on Tierney (PNI head). What that guy and his little ad staff doesn't know about race would fill an encyclopedia.
Although in the second election handlers for both Street and Katz were clueless. And they were from the suburbs.
I just remembered something about the media. During the first election, I was stopped by the former editor-in-chief of one of the weeklies seeking a quote. I started telling how proud As I was telling him how proud I was that both candidates handeled themselves so well he put down his notebook.
Typical Philly media.
Posted by Fante | May 16, 2007 10:52 PM
When I applied the name "Palookaville" to Philadelphia as it is right now, I was thinking of the city from the Terry Malloy perspective, not as some spoiled suburbanite, Malloy being the bottom-of-the-food-chain central character in the movie ON THE WATERFRONT. For Palookaville in that context is the type of place where you go along with everything you're told by the higher-ups, and your reward is a hopeless deadend of total despair. You take the dives as you're told to take them, you hold silent when they ask you to, you don't complain when you're passed over for things you know you're qualified for, and so on. And that has very much been Philadelphia these past several years. And where does it lead? Well right now it's leading to higher property taxes, a dramatic escalation in prison overcrowding, a runaway cancer center up in NE Philly about to pulvarize all the longstanding neighborhoods right around it, upstanding businesses refusing to set up shop and do business here, and on and on goes the list. Such is the "reward" on the road ahead for years and years of blind loyalty.
And call it what you will, but I call it Palookaville. And right now when people ask me where I live, I tell them, "Northeast Palookaville, Palookaville, PA, U.S.A."
Posted by Steve W. | May 17, 2007 2:31 AM
When I applied the name "Palookaville" to Philadelphia as it is right now, I was thinking of the city from the Terry Malloy perspective, not as some spoiled suburbanite, Malloy being the bottom-of-the-food-chain central character in the movie ON THE WATERFRONT. For Palookaville in that context is the type of place where you go along with everything you're told by the higher-ups, and your reward is a hopeless deadend of total despair. You take the dives as you're told to take them, you hold silent when they ask you to, you don't complain when you're passed over for things you know you're qualified for, and so on. And that has very much been Philadelphia these past several years. And where does it lead? Well right now it's leading to higher property taxes, a dramatic escalation in prison overcrowding, a runaway cancer center up in NE Philly about to pulvarize all the longstanding neighborhoods right around it, upstanding businesses refusing to set up shop and do business here, and on and on goes the list. Such is the "reward" on the road ahead for years and years of blind loyalty.
And call it what you will, but I call it Palookaville. And right now when people ask me where I live, I tell them, "Northeast Palookaville, Palookaville, PA, U.S.A."
Posted by Steve W. | May 17, 2007 2:32 AM