Author Archives: Scott Fisher

About Scott Fisher

I'm opinion page editor and blogging coordinator for the York Daily Record/Sunday News and Yorkblog.com. Phone: 717-771-2049. Email: sfisher@ydr.com. Twitter: twitter.com/YDReditpage.

The “bitter” ad war

First, Barack Obama said something about people from small towns being bitter. Then came the ads. Here’s Hillary’s: Here’s Obama’s:

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Dear President Bush: Wish you weren’t here

Dear President Bush, Can I call you Dubya? I guess I can, knowing your fondness for nicknames. Thanks for stopping by the other day. Really. It might not seem that way — a lot of Harley workers were torqued that … Continue reading

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PAC man dines in Dillsburg

By MIKE ARGENTO When a lot of us think about our state’s junior senator, the image that comes to mind is an alternative meaning to his name that cannot be described here. Let’s just leave it at that. That alternate … Continue reading

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Lights, camera … retraction: Mel bounces back

We now take you to the office of Mel Gibson’s agent …

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Bush statements a sign of our ironic times

Any day now, an obit will be appearing in the newspaper. It’ll read: “Irony, a perfectly useful literary device, died today, having been on life support ever since being dragged behind the barn and beaten savagely by members of the … Continue reading

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Terror targets they missed

MIKE ARGENTO Not to alarm you, but our sleepy little town here could be a target of terrorists. Certainly, at least according to the standards set by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, we could be sitting here, feeling fat, … Continue reading

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Yeah, we’re rude; You got a problem with that?

Once again, some writer or something comes out with a book that says, as a people, we Americans are becoming ruder and ruder and that common courtesies are falling by the wayside and generally, many of us act like that … Continue reading

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Welcome to ‘1984’ — Dubya style

MIKE ARGENTO In George Orwell’s prescient novel “1984,

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Coulter mangles Dover case

By MIKE ARGENTO There is an irony buried deep under the vitriol, idiocy, slander, vileness, ignorance, stupidity and simply breathtaking inanity that passes for the contribution to the public discourse of an alleged carbon-based life form that goes by the … Continue reading

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Watch out Dover, Robertson might be telling the truth

By MIKE ARGENTO Last time we checked in with televangelist Pat Robertson, the Most Reverend Pat was telling us that the election results in Dover — the good citizens of that school district rejecting the board members who got the … Continue reading

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