What a triumph for Rancho Cordova that the 47-year-old Grapevine newspaper survived the cowardly attempt to shut it down two years ago. But it's sad the paper has lacked great prose for so long, some poor, misguided folks reflect on a recent childish, babbling bigot cracker as some kind of standard. The Grapevine is 100% better now simply WITHOUT it's former "editors". That former hick sports guy with that awful column is the RC Poster Boy for racial intolerance, zip code envy, bad sportsmanship, narcissism, cowardice and dismal failure -- All things NOT Rancho Cordova. He seriously thought it would be cute to write about his own racial profiling.
(Now here's an essay of truth to counter the 7-year lie).
The once-great Grapevine, founded in 1968, a venerable RC institution, took a vertical nosedive in quality after RC sports icon Doug Hawkes retired in 2004, and Bob Ling and Shelly Blanchard sold it about 2006. Since then, an utter DISASTER, a farce, under the "leadership" of incompetent frauds, delusional novices, self-absorbed, pretentious Facebook bloggers. There was more chicken___, racist Rancho-bashing coming straight out of the Grapevine than heard anywhere. OUR OWN HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER! This is what happens when a home-grown product is invaded by hideous aliens from the Planet Amateur.
One RC friend called the Grapevine during that time, "The Rabbit Hole," in an Alice In Wonderland allusion: Up is down, down is up, nothing makes sense. Rampant run-on sentences. Glaring inaccuracies. Buried leads. Tombstones. Misnamed streets, including the news office street. Worthless website. Complete ignorance of simple, recent local history, as if nothing happened in RC before yesterday. Columnists writing about anything BUT Rancho, yet repeatedly echoing "Rancho Cordova's bad reputation." An "editor," (no editing going on) an oblivious city council puppet, babbling of Wyoming relatives, including pets, like a psycho stranger shoving baby pictures in your face. No football kickoff time, place, or even day found posted on the sports page weekly in about five years, even with previews of upcoming opponents! (Like a schedule of weekly events is not important, doesn't belong). A ridiculous, 120-word (140?) sentence, ten inches, jumping from one column to another, all amid yammering in delusion about "Journalism Professionalism." Like Barney Fife dreaming he's Joe Friday. Prolific, but prolific poop. What fool would advertise in this holocaust, do business with these pitiful creatures? Circus Chimps on crack could do better...
This is another example how an advanced communications degree means NOTHING if you never learn to write properly by junior high in the first place, are "taught" by fellow lackeys, judged and praised by fellow flunkies (CNPA, always reaching new heights in trite, socialist mediocrity) have no competition, lack common sense, project a cracker view of race relations, don't know what "news sense" even means, can't improve on a 6th-grade level, 1st-person narrative, and never learned anything from a real editor not afraid to tell you it's garbage.
They did EVERYTHING wrong. When they ran out of journalism mistakes to make, they invented new ones. A comedy. Tried to close the newspaper down for good, but couldn't even do that right. Even publicly blamed RC for the paper's proposed closure. Real class...(It fortunately may have been the only way for us to punt those irresponsible hacks, extract the juveniles from their carnival carousel high horsey. Make-believe time is over kiddies, you burned the house down).
It's no wonder Rancho Cordova has exploded with sports success almost the moment of their ignominious exit (slither, slink, crawl) from the stage. Defending basketball champs, baseball champs, little league Sacramento area champs, 6-0 football team. After a long dark age of bad taste, it feels like morning in RC without "Sports Soapdrop" insulting us every week, polluting RC with mindless, stinking, sophomoric drivel.
In honor of MLK, Cordovans are now "Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are FREE AT LAST!" The tyranny of idiocracy finally broke itself.
Goodbye to your pathetic, despicable 7-year inferiority complex about living in RC. That obsession. with what fellow shallow white people from elsewhere say about RC, wearing their racism on their sleeve. Who cares? What like-minded baboons, dumb jocks and always wise white teenagers from Lilly Whiteyville babble about RC on Facebook. Who cares? RC is 10% black, less than US average. Who cares...
."I just want you to go home."
(A quote, what the above "professional" actually wrote in the Grapevine to ALL Latinos, as an "American In General" (White)....Que? Latinos -- 20% of the RC population, readership. ((Hitler's first rule: Consider your audience before making incendiary, openly-racist remarks. Fool)). Hear that, Dewey Guerra Family? Jordan? Leo? The Grapevine hick wants you deported. Adios, Muchachos! read more
