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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on May 12, 2026, 07:26:34 AM
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Bennet Kelley (152 posts)
DU Nominated for LA Press Club Award
The Los Angeles Press Club just announced its Finalists for the 68th Southern California Journalism Awards, and my column, "A Call to Action on a Somber VE Day," was nominated for Best Online Editorial. This is my third nomination for DU, with prior nominations in 2006 (won 2d place) and 2014.
hlthe2b (114,539 posts)
2. WOW! I just now skimmed your piece (I missed it earlier) and am so impressed!
Thank you for writing that and submitting it. Kudos on your accomplishment and willingness to give DU the nod as well.
EarlG (23,694 posts)
4. Very well done!
Congratulations on reaching the finals (again)! Most impressive, and thank you for bringing your work to DU.
https://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/SoCal-2026-Finalists-051126-0125.pdf
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221232246
I don't want to read it. I am sure its full of stupid.
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I don't want to read it. I am sure its full of stupid.
LPC n00b can't be any worse than Nads' journalistic "brilliance"...
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LPC n00b can't be any worse than Nads' journalistic "brilliance"...
Nads was a whack job
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Nads was a whack job
And LPC n00b will prove just as looney tunes as Nadine. If not, s/h/it would never have showed up on The Island of Leftist ****-Ups in the first place.
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In a quick DDG, I didn't find any MSM source that published his "column" online-only, nor any major blogsite that carried it. The LPC noob published it on his own blogsite, and may also have posted it on DU (in May 2025). I don't know what, if any, standards the Los Angeles Press Club has for its "Best Online Editorial" award. LPC noob might have reader by the 10s or 100s of thousands, or his readership might be a few DUpipo plus the other three in his golf foursome, one of whom - golf buddy or DU-member - nominated his "column". Anyway, here it is:
A Call to Action on a Somber VE Day
https://bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/a-call-to-action-on-a-somber-ve-day/ (https://bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/a-call-to-action-on-a-somber-ve-day/)
When Germany and Italy declared war against the United States, Roosevelt summoned a nation to respond to an unprecedented “challenge to life, liberty and civilization” to ensure a “victory of justice and of righteousness over the forces of savagery, and barbarism.”
The American people answered that call. A military of under 500,000 in 1940 grew to 12.2 million by 1945, my father among them. Over 400,000 did not return home. At home, people sacrificed with rations and curfews while working in factories to double production. Today we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory won by the sacrifice and righteous might of the U.S. and its Allies in defeating Nazi Germany.
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At home, the second Trump administration has embraced white Christian nationalism and is dismantling civil rights protections; has pardoned violent extremists; is attacking the press and suppressing speech on campuses; is using the government to punish his enemies; attacking lawyers and judges and undermining the rule of law; while seeking to seize and deport Hispanic and Asian immigrants to gulags in El Salvador and Libya without due process or regards to citizenship status — and that is just the first 100 days. In addition, President Trump is attacking the institutions and allies that have given us an abiding peace in the West.
To truly honor the sacrifice of the 16 million Americans who served along with our allies, however, we must recognize that the torch the Greatest Generation carried at Normandy and ultimately to Berlin has now passed to us. We must summon the same terrible resolve and courage to fight with righteous might to ensure that the dark cloud of MAGA fascism never takes root at home.
Ignoring, as best I can, my having a differing POV, his "column" makes a mud puddle look deep. It's 3/4 or 7/8 deserved paean to the men who fought in WW2 - reams of which get published every year and the two paragraphs of standard-issue Hate-Trump pabulum I quoted above.
His meta tags (don't remember the technoid term) for the column are:
FASCISM / TRUMP ADMINISTRATION / UKRAINE / WORLD WAR 2 / WW2@80
IMO, his "column" is just regurgitation of the Hate-Trumpery one could find on any Prog discussion site or from Progs on FB or Reddit or Blue Sky.
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And LPC n00b will prove just as looney tunes as Nadine. If not, s/h/it would never have showed up on The Island of Leftist ****-Ups in the first place.
Why did Nadine leave the DUmp. I forgot
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"Journalism" is not the description that it was 20-30-40 years ago. It is now, to my humble self, a dirty word. Most "journalists" aren't: They are activists advocating for the left.
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Why did Nadine leave the DUmp. I forgot
IIRC, Nads was a Bernie 'bot when the DUmp's powers that be demanded ideological purity for the Hillary camp.
I could be wrong, but that's what sticks in my wee noggin.
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IIRC, Nads was a Bernie 'bot when the DUmp's powers that be demanded ideological purity for the Hillary camp.
I could be wrong, but that's what sticks in my wee noggin.
Interesting
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Just more participation trophy BS. :whatever:
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He's definitely no William Rivers Pitt.
LOL
KC
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He's definitely no William Rivers Pitt.
LOL
KC
Sober and dead? :cheersmate: