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ODE Watch: Can You Smell What Anthony Warren Is Cooking?

College Republicans Chair Anthony Warren exercises the nuclear option on ODE cartoonist, here. Offending illustration here. Warren does not address the cartoon’s scandalous deployment of scare quotes, but does use the phrase “the smell of freedom”.

In other news, ODE sub-editors have just given up trying to headline Ailee Slater columns, here. (I would perhaps have gone with “blah dysfunctional society blah”, but it’s fine the way it is.) The piece itself seems to have had vital explanatory paragraphs excised; the good ol’ five Ws are running at no better than sixty percent strength. We also have the spectacular sentence

Lucila Ventura, 18 years old, is charged with murder, attempted murder, child endangerment and so on.

It’s the “and so on” that really kills you in front of a jury, isn’t it? Hard to blame the editors for not making much an effort on this one.

  1. Danimal says:

    Although I will point out that by my reading, the “misdirected passion” in the original cartoon was the person’s passion for sports — implying that it might be better directed into political involvement. On this reading, the only problem with the cartoon is that sports fans naturally would fit best with the CR’s.

  2. Danimal says:

    Jesus, I turned my back on this thread and look what happens.

    Anthony, my “BS” comment, in all truth, wasn’t even directed at you or your earnest defense of your organization. It was more of an innocent riff on your “truth goes well with beer” line, because in my experience the amount of BS to come out of a person (myself, for instance) increases in direct relation to alcohol consumption.

    Settle down, in other words. I have no beef with you. Can’t even muster the interest in this “controversy” to have one.

  3. Olly says:

    Anthony: I thought the “Smell that, Aaron? That is the smell of freedom…” was exactly the kind of political rhetoric the campus needs more of: punchy, concise, memorable, and so forth. I did find it a little ironic that the specific thing designated as reeking of liberty was a bunch of anti-gay-marriage amendments, but that’s a whole other argument.

    The best way to raise the profile of the CRs (and the same advice would apply to the CDs, if they only had a pulse) is to say lots of provocative things in the ODE. Keep it up.

  4. Anthony says:

    I prefer the boxer briefs.

    And to comment to “JS” last time I checked I dont work for the Pentagon so me thinking of ways for us to win in IRaq dont matter, same with the budget, your smart ass comments dont really help you form any real substantive thought or argument. You have to realize that as the Chairman at the start of the year I have to do all I can do make the club look attractive for new members. This comic certainly didnt help any Christians or other students of faith that would want to join CR’s but then might not because of a comic showing us all as drunks.

    For the paper to just flat out single out my club and attack us on kind of people we are is what outraged me. As for you PC comment if you had EVER even talked to me you would know that PC can take a hike for all I care. If you want to email me and discuss it further feel free to. Im on the UO directory.

  5. Timothy says:

    Do you think Anthony wears thongs or briefs? Or do you think he’s more the granny panty sort of lass?

  6. JS says:

    “I was doing my best to stand up for all CR’s on campus that were outraged at the cartoon.”

    You’re the head of College Republicans at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, and a lame cartoon is what got you so “outraged and disgusted” that you had to write the editor?

    As a the leader of the College Republcians, shouldn’t you be doing something more meaningful and productive? Perhaps you could figure out a way for us to quickly declare victory in Iraq? Or you might figure out a way for us to wean our federal spending from its dependence on Chinese financing? Or since you claim to love freedom so much, maybe you could send the RNC a memo asking them to leave Oregon’s twice-passed-by-referendum physician-assisted suicide law alone?

    Just don’t waste your time drawing further attention to a stupid cartoon.

    And if a stupid cartoon get’s your panties in a big twist, you probably don’t belong on this particular blog. It’s not exactly PC.

  7. bryan says:

    Yes, Anthony. Very clear indeed.

  8. Anthony says:

    Lol, Danimal you hater. I assure you that when I do spout bs, it is clear. In all honesty me writing in repsonse to the cartoon was not bs. I was doing my best to stand up for all CR’s on campus that were outraged at the cartoon. You KNOW if it would have said the “Black STudent Union” instead of CR’s that the streets would have been loaded with the likes of Jesse Jackson and the city of Eugene prolly would have been burning at some point.

    The can you smell that line was obviously in part comical yet in my opinion still showed how the Conservative movement is leading the direction of the country. That being the case, being a CR is certainly not out of step with the majority of America and shouldnt be labeled mis-directed passion. Eugene has this horrible problem forgetting that they LOST the 2004 election and that their train of thought, thank God is not what our current policies are based on at the momment. Liberals will comment on Bush’s approval ratings and what not right now, but we both know that polls are fickle and that we could sit down and debate about that inparticular for about a week in its own right.

  9. Danimal says:

    Truth goes well with beer, but not as well as bullshit does.

  10. Anthony says:

    Yes it does go well with beer, because whatever I am cooking is commonly referred to as the truth, and yes the truth goes most excellently with beer and most meats. Truth=meat=beer=pissed off commies that love PETA, let it be written, let it be grilled and drank.

  11. Timothy says:

    Personally, I think Jarret White was a much better cook. Even if he was the littlest state’s rights guy on campus.

  12. Danimal says:

    This thing you are cooking, does it go well with beer? If not, I don’t want any.

  13. Anthony says:

    I am having a good laugh at the comments being sparked by my article. As for the one written today by Mr. Limbaugh he actually sent me a couple threatening emails telling me how he was my worst nightmare, a socialist. Knowing how much everyone to loves the commentator hates socialism I thought yall would have a good laugh at that.

    I stand by my smell of freedom comment because well as we all know Eugene is filled with hippies, too often we only smell dirt and weed. I am proud of what I wrote and well the feedback from actual College Republicans thanking me for sticking up for them made it all worth it. In all honesty I’m not worried about my PR status with the commies and dirty liberals on this campus. You all can expect much more of the same from me this year when libs step out of line and verbally assualt my fellow CR’s.

    That is what Anthony Warren is cooking.

  14. Big M says:

    Well, don’t look now…but someone named “Limbaugh” is trying to take Mr. Warren to task for his opinion.

    I knew it would only take a day or two for the crazies to come out and go “OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!1111!!!” (Direct quote)

  15. Timothy says:

    Thanks. But only Timbo got the King Missile one.

  16. Marla says:

    Sweet Cake reference, Tim : )

  17. Gabrielle says:

    My goodness, I can hardly even begin to sputter what I am thinking about Anthony’s opinion piece. As a matter of fact “I am litterally outraged and disgusted”….and ejecting a good beer out my nose.
    What do I smell? Freedom and a good beer.

  18. Timothy says:

    Yes, but Satan is my motor.

  19. Danimal says:

    Jesus built my hot rod.

  20. Timbo says:

    He could have built the most delicious cake.

  21. Timothy says:

    Jesus was way cool, he turned water into wine, and if he’d wanted to he could’ve turned wheat in marijuana, sugar into cocaine, and vitamin pills into methamphetamine. Jesus was way cool.

  22. Danimal says:

    Having Olly in Australia is like having somebody on night shift.

  23. bryan says:

    Good catch, Olly. We were just talking about posting a blog re: the Warren letter, but then by the time we got around to it, you’d beaten us to the time-clock– from halfway around the globe, no less.

    The real gold is the phrase “College Republicans who take their faith and prohibition of alcohol seriously.” I’m guessing that if he were mindful of the distinction he’d have used some word denoting the personal choice to abstain, as opposed to some sort of nostalgia for the 18th Amendment– but then again, I’m not so sure.

  24. Timothy says:

    Oh, it’s easy to blame them. FOR LETTING HER CONTINUE TO PUBLISH!

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