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We all make mistakes. Some of us make them in public.
Today we share with you two people who really should have known better.
First up -- Orange County Register columnist Mark Whicker, who decided to weigh in on the Jaycee Dugard tragedy. Did Mark express his shock at the fact that Jaycee was hidden for so long? Sympathy for her family perhaps?
Nah. He pointed out all of the big sporting events she missed out on while in captivity. Important things like, "Some baseball players began taking drugs in order to hit more home runs." And, "For the most part, fans have stopped doing The Wave."
Oh, and he also mentioned there's a new president. Because, you know, after being kept in a tent and impregnated by a maniac who believes he can control audio with his mind, Whicker is certain knowing about a change in the White House is going to be a big concern of Ms. Dugard's.
Next time someone wonders why newspapers are in trouble, perhaps they should read Whicker's column. For the record, he has apologized, although he still doesn't seem to understand how making fun of a tragic situation mere days after it occurred could be considered out of line.
Number two on today's oops list is a caller to New York's WFAN-AM, a popular sports talk radio station. "Chad on the car phone" called host Mike Francesa yesterday to discuss Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain. Nothing unusual about that. But Chad opens the call with a bombshell.
"I'm actually driving home to get my wife's maternity bag...she just went into labor," he told the host. Francesa asked why someone else couldn't get the bag, and Chad admitted that he also wanted to change into his Yankee jersey, "because I want my son to see the logo" when he first enters the world.
Take a listen here.
Francesa is a father himself. Having been through the whole having-kids-thing before, he points out to Chad that his newborn son won't see the jersey, since it will be covered by a hospital gown. Francesa did praise Chad for being a "cool customer" for taking the time to call while his wife was in labor, and described his own experience of finding out that Mrs. Francesa's water had broken.
"I was like Ricky Ricardo," the host said, explaining that he was running around, unable to find her bag, and not particularly calm in the face of impending fatherhood. At the end of the call, he told Chad to, "Stop worrying about Joba, get to the hospital will you please?"
Good advice. Maybe that's why Francesa is one of the most popular sports talk hosts in the country and Whicker... well, he's been a columnist for the Register for 22 years. But maybe it's time to retire, Mark.
So, ParentDish readers, we ask you, who should be more embarrassed? OC Register columnist Mark Whicker, who didn't understand that using the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping as a platform for bad sports jokes was a bad idea, or Chad, who needed to voice his concern that perhaps Joba Chamberlain is being marginalized by the New York Yankees while his wife was in labor at the hospital?
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9-11-2009 @ 9:43AM
Don said...I was listening to the show when Mr. "I have my priorities in the right place called in". Francesa couldn't believe what he was hearing. Somebody should play the tape back for the guys wife and see what visitation priviledges she will give her ex husband.
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9-11-2009 @ 9:45AM
Mick said...Outrageous. This slug has ZERO journalistic integrity. The OC register has been reduced to toilet paper. If the brain trust in the boardroom is still wondering why print media is not selling, look no further than your own masthead.
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9-11-2009 @ 9:48AM
AOL messed up again said...On AOL, this page is linked to a caption that reads something like "Man ditches wife in labor -- calls in excuse on talk show". For a multi-billion dollar company to pay this little attention to detail, it shows me more and more that I have to change my homepage.
Now to the topic at hand: this 'writer' reminds me of the NYC TV weatherman from decades ago, who followed a story about a young girl's rape with this: "Confucius say, if rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it." My whole family was shocked and disgusted. The man was pulled off the air in mid-broadcast, and summarily fired. Sounds like the right move here, also.
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9-11-2009 @ 10:23AM
Lauryn said...Wow, what angry comments! He was in the car getting her bag, and he was probably freaking the hell out, so if concentrating on something else for part of the ride made him calm down a bit then I'm sure he deserves it! Lay off him!
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9-11-2009 @ 10:35AM
Sharon said...I didn't read Mark Wicker's original article/post which obviously related his field (sports reporting) to the Dugard case. I don't follow spor'ts reports . . . but it would seem he would have no other reason to report on the Dugard case. Not in his field.
Maybe he was trying to relate sports to real life events? Maybe he was so taken with this horrible story that he felt a need to acknowledge it?
Perhaps he didn't do a proper introduction to the subject? Would it have gone over better if he'd done something like . . . Sometimes, in the sports reporting, we forget the real world. If we relate current events to sports, we would find that blah, blah and blah happened during the time that Dugard suffered through her horrible ordeal.
Could he have broached this subject or compared events in any way that would have been acceptable to his critics?
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9-11-2009 @ 10:25AM
Sharon said...How did Wicker make fun of the Dugard case? Guess I missed that part.
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9-12-2009 @ 12:00PM
1_bad_MI-6_Agent said...Here is a link to the original column. I do admit it borders, read borders, on the irreverent, but it is not really that bad, IMHO. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/world-won-most-2555260-never-one
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9-11-2009 @ 11:04AM
Karine said...Its realy simple, NEITHER will make father of the year ... Yup One Brick short of an outhouse ...
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9-11-2009 @ 11:33AM
Denverigor said...Put these to idiot's in a burlap bag and throw them in the river. I can't imagine that anyone could be that insensative to another persons tragedy, or in the second case to the man's own wife in the hospital, giving birth, my wife would have had me stuffed and mounted for something that dumb. Everytime I think I've heard it all, some dumbass renews my faith in humanity.
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9-11-2009 @ 11:52AM
Oliver said...Only goes to prove what I've known for a long time: Yankee fans are scum-of-the-Earth Jack*sses. What a d*uche.
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9-11-2009 @ 12:48PM
Jason said...Who ever wrote this column is living in a sad and strange world like so many people today. Why can't someone offer Ms. Dugart something light to read and consider. Don't you think she might need something like that. This author would rather have her read yet again a passage like
'after being kept in a tent and impregnated by a maniac who believes he can control audio with his mind,'
Do you really think this young lady needs to be reminded of what she has been through. Don't you think she is looking forward to a time when people stop brining it up to her and she can have conversations about simple normal things?
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9-11-2009 @ 1:37PM
Sue said...Mark Whicker's should, BY FAR, be the most embarrassed for the way he made jokes at the expense of Jaycee and her tragic ordeal!
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9-11-2009 @ 10:19PM
Kathleen said...Wow....Some people should think before they open their mouths. How inconsiderate can people be.
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