In a recent hit piece on outgoing Cincinnati Councilman Jeff Berding, über-liberal City Bleat's Kevin Osborne, who I have repeatedly voted for as "Best Journalist" in his paper's Best of Cincinnati thingie, condemns Berding for filing a complaint with Cincinnati Police, alleging local activist, Mary Kuhl, had threatened a public official after it was reported (by Osborne) that she had stated she’d like to "stick a shiv in Jeff Berding".
Osborne reports on the angry, bombastic rhetoric she uses in public which he and the folks at the über-liberal Bacon have condemned in the past. Apparently Kuhl perceives it as just "schtick".
In local political campaigns, the vocabulary has become increasingly lurid as the burner under desperate FUD has been turned up higher & higher.
Osborne describes Berding's actions as being "the last petty, vindictive and mean-spirited act of a petty, vindictive and mean-spirited man".
Is Berding wrong? Osborne's own summary sounds like it could apply to himself in this case. Even Alex Jones has tired of the barrage of threats of violence made against him.
Another local who used such a "shtick" was a fella locally known as Kabakka Oba (SP?). He died outside City Hall in a hail of gunfire. Perhaps Berding's complaint could serve as the splash of cold water in the face that might ultimately save some lives.
