It further demonstrates Mr. Pilchesky's undying desire to see his name in print. I signed up to this board simply to respond one time to the hate, rhetoric and nonsense that he and his (David Koresh/Jim Jones-like) followers spew. He has referred to me as Uncle Tom and other things and, just like in the days of slavery, he has a couple of black men siding and kissing up to him. Seems to me they are the one's saying "Yasser Boss" to "the white man." What's funny is, every time I see Pilchesky, he walks up to me shakes my hand andwe havepleasant conversation. What's also funny is, when he and I have spoken about stories I've reported on, he has almost always told me he thought it was fair and good. When I've asked him then why is it that he says something different on his board, he says something to the affect that he has to set an example for his followers. The bigger joke is the constant call among the 25 to 30 people who post there to cancel the paper. Fact is, and they've long proven this, they cannot and will not live without the Times-Tribune. At least half come in and pay their bills at the paper, while the others pay the paper boy (one being a certain controversial DD poster). Another fact is this: they have continued to fail to realize that nothing, absolutely nothing they say can bother me. I've been on the other side of bigger and much more venomous attacks by those with as much power as Pilchesky and his minions probably dream every single night of having. Yet, I remained undaunted and this, in Scranton, is supposed to deter me? Someone said he wrote my career will never be the same or is done because of my job at the Times-Tribune. Lame. I've won a number of awards at The LA Times,MSNBC and have won some AP awards and in house awards here. since I've been here, I've been offered- and turned down- jobs at MTV News, An NBC affiliate and two big city newspapers. I don't believe I would give up the Times-Tribune for another media outlet. This is an outstanding family company, best I've worked for and- in the words of Judy Gatelli- "I'm not going anywhere.."

I also wish to add my welcome and good job to you Mr. Brown.
While I know those goons do not now nor have they ever represented my (or my friend's, family, and community's) point of view, I feel they have unfortunatly given all of us a bad name by their behavior. So in light of that please allow me to apologize to you and your family for the disgusting and vile things said about you by those goons. I hope you know that vast majority of people do not feel the way they do and that we are proud to have you and your family as part of our community. Hope to hear from you again. While we love to make fun of those goons, we also love a good debate on current issues, without the vile comments naturally. LOL LOL


OH and as to this comment in your post Mr. Brown

"What's funny is, every time I see Pilchesky, he walks up to me shakes my hand and we have pleasant conversation. What's also funny is, when he and I have spoken about stories I've reported on, he has almost always told me he thought it was fair and good. When I've asked him then why is it that he says something different on his board, he says something to the affect that he has to set an example for his followers."

Where I come from we call that having "beer balls", the person is always a big tough guy when they have a few in them and the object of their ire is far far away without any possiblity of hearing them.

The truth is...Joey is nothing more thana school yard bully and a coward. You of course, already knew that and more I am sure. Sad thing is Joey doesn't know it.He also has no clue how much of a fool he is making himself look like and his family with him, sad very very sad.


-- Edited by IHavehadenoughofhaters at 12:36, 2007-08-06

And does anyone know if Sam Patilla will take time out of his busy days to hand deliver this bi-weekly repository of information that the old man will be pinching out, eventually? Will he be the one to slap it around....I mean slap it onto my doorstep?

Stacy, why does Joe get any press at all?

I would venture a guess that question was the consideration for banning his name from their site. Why would they give free access to him and all of his minions harping endlessly about him? Makes sense to me. Either that or preemptive strike to avoid the inevitable lawsuit.

I would guess his "newsworthy" days are behind him at this point. They covered him at first but as you have all mentioned, at this point it is just more of the same, and no longer newsworthy.

Welcome Stacy, and even if your post really was a one-time-only event, I'm glad that you took the time to post here.

One observation: Finding contradictions in the world-o-Pilchesky is like finding drunks on the street after the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Pilchesky himself is a walking contradiction...

...he seems to despise the local judges, but yet he probably gets a volume discount on court filing fees
...he encourages "give me all the dirt on..." postings, but don't dare to even mention a negative thing about Janet Evans (such as the dubious manner in which she got her full-time teaching job)
...he has allowed postings about the daughter and granddaughter of Judy Gatelli, but will not allow postings about the husband of Janet Evans
...he bows to Police and Firefighter union heads but then allows posters, such as that RACIST PIG AntiSemiticMovements, to claim that Scranton is full of racist cops

Why all the contradictions? As mentioned by others, this is a classic case of the school yard bully that is now becoming a shriveled-up old man. He can't physcially intimidate others anymore, so now he has to resort to a message board and the court system to do that work for him. The problem is that, unlike kids on a grade-school playground, adults tend to fight back.

Free Speech does't require a multi-paragrah disclaimer Mr. Pilchesky.