Published by
Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor
Normally I don't work on Sundays. Sunday is the Lord's Day ..... a day of rest!
But today I am moved to speak out about a few things that have been bothering me this past week.
Have you noticed that increasingly things seem to be upside down, topsy turvy? Up is down, down is up. Black is white and white is black. Have you noticed that actions and behaviors which are evil and shameful are too often overlooked or brushed aside instead of being confronted head on while other actions and efforts to expose the truth are attacked? Have you ever noticed that actions and behaviors which are righteously indignant (and understandably so) are "misunderstood" and criticized as mean and "nasty"? Have you ever noticed how so many people rally around, protect and even support people who should not be protected and supported while so many people seem to abandon those who should be protected and supported?
- On Thursday, 7/22, Jerry Lairmore,an elected official of Gasconade County called his colleague, Matt Penning, another elected official of Gasconade County, a "lieing son-of-a-bitch" during an official county meeting which was attended by three county employees.
- Previously, when out of earshot of other people, this same elected official (Jerry Lairmore) has called the same colleague (Matt Penning) a "dickhead", apparently attempting to goad him into a physical confrontation.
- On Thursday, 7/29, the elected public official who was called a "lieing son-of-a-bitch" on 7/22 (i.e. Matt Penning) confonted his colleague (Jerry Lairmore) during the County Commission meeting at the courthouse. No apology was offered by he who has a very foul mouth and is very disrespectful of others. Instead, Jerry Lairmore stood by his comments from the previous week.
- During this same meeting on Thursday, 7/29, John Penning, the elderly father of the elected public official who was called a "lieing son-of-a-bitch" waited patiently until the public portion of the County Commission meeting to confront the foul-mouthed, elected public official (Jerry Lairmore) and ask that he apologize publicly to the Penning family. Again, the foul-mouthed, disrespectful elected public official (Lairmore) refused to do so.
- During this same meeting, Ron Jost, the Presiding Commissioner of Gasconade County threw John Penning out of the meeting and said nothing to the foul-mouthed elected public official who called his colleague a "lieing son-of-a-bitch" during a county meeting the week before. No reprimand of the foul-mouthed, disrespectful elected public official was handed down by the Presiding Commissioner. The subject was immediately dropped when Presiding Commissioner Jost abruptly adjourned the meeting.
- Twenty-two minutes later (nearly as fast as a speeding bullet) and in his apparent zeal to slam the two Pennings, Jeff Noedel, publisher of CountyNewsLIVE.com, published a report on the County Commission meeting in which he focused on the storyline of John Penning's ejection from the County Commission meeting and Matt Penning's supposed "controversial role" on the County Commission over the county's tire purchasng program RATHER than Jerry Lairmore's foul mouth and disrespectful treatment of his colleague, Matt Penning. Why? In this article, Noedel would have you believe that BLACK is WHITE and that WHITE is BLACK. Why? In this article, Noedel quickly glosses over Lairmore's foul mouth and disrespectful treatment of Penning. Why?
- Like flies drawn to a rotting fish, CNL commenters quickly pile on with negative comments about John Penning and Matt Penning Out of eleven comments received (as of today, 8/1), only one commenter, Myron Harris, has questioned why Noedel's account of the Commission Meeting is not more fair and balanced. Some of the criticism of the Pennings comes from as far off as Shanghai. Quite remarkably, this person, a half a world away, seems to hang on every word published by Noedel. She is quite persuaded by Noedel that the Pennings are the villains in everything.. Other than a general criticism of Noedel's "journalistic" bias, not one single soul has had the moral courage to come forward to condemn Jerry Lairmore, the foul-mouthed, county bully who created all the disturbance in the first place! No one has yet to observe and comment on Noedel's CNL that Ron Jost should have reprimanded Jerry Lairmore for his unprofessional behavior during the 7/22 Road Department meeting. Why are Jerry Lairmore and Ron Jost always being "protected" by Jeff Noedel? What's their connection?
So, I ask you ..... Is the world upside down? Are things topsy turvy? An elected county official bullies and curses his colleague in an open meeting attended by county employees, and he is not stopped or confronted by the leader of the meeting. The foul-mouthed bully is asked to apologize to his colleague, but having no common decency, refuses to do so. There is no official reprimand of the foul-mouthed bully by the titular "leader" of the county. The elderly father and an Alderman of the City of Hermann who seeks only to defend the honor of his son and of his wife is thrown out of a county meeting by an angry, intolerant elected public official. The publisher of a so-called online "news" organization gleefully rushes out to publish a report in which he emphasizes the ejection of the elderly father from the meeting and the so-called "controversial personality" of the elected official who has been cursed at for months by his foul-mouthed, bully colleague rather than emphasizing the unprofessional behavior of the foul-mouthed bully.
Yes, I think the world is completely topsy turvy.
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