Last Monday two media guys made themselves available for City Club. Since I’m not allowed to cover City Club in person, or to even to write about the catering service they use, I guess I’ll just post the video for readers of this blog so you can see for yourself why local media is in such a deplorable state of SUCKING.
Matthew Frank told the audience that his publication, The Pulp, has eschewed political op-eds because they want to cover the kind of quirky stories that won’t make powerful people uncomfortable. That’s how I interpreted Frank’s proud reference to one of The Pulp’s most popular stories, a 2024 article about a man who picks up dog shit.
Since Matthew Frank and his colleague, Erika Fredrickson, do everything themselves, the picture of dog shit in a bright pink bag accompanying this hard-hitting piece of journalism was taken by Frank himself. Amazing!
After the City Club event, one of the “social media” platforms the two media guys scapegoated for their contracting industry posted about Missoula’s need for investigative journalism.
Here’s one of the comments I found worth highlighting:
According to “Rocky Missoula” there is no investigative journalist in town “worth mentioning” and any future reporter, says Rocky, should be an outsider who should “only intend to live here a short period” because, the assertion goes, only an aggressive outsider will lack the fear that holds back local reporters from asking the “hard questions”.
Ok. But would an outsider be able to put a seemingly random commenter on Facebook into the narrative-control context she deserves?
Who is Sue Reber Orr? Six years ago, during a tense Zoom meeting about homelessness, Sue acted like she was just an average resident of Orchard Homes instead of what she REALLY was at the time: a Democrat operative helping people like United Way’s Susan Hay Patrick do narrative damage control.
Sue Orr’s husband is ALSO someone I’ve become familiar with, since his law firm, Orr McDonnell Law, employed the substitute judge who helped kick-off the years of lawfare I’ve been dealing with ever since ending a toxic relationship that nearly ended me.
In a Democrat document available online, Sue Orr’s name is listed along with another name I’ve written about, Lisa Davey, who works at a non-profit called “Common Good Missoula”. I guess Common Good Missoula isn’t too worried about that pesky IRS restriction on non-profits engaging in political activity.
Considering Lisa Davey’s political role with Missoula County Democrats, her other work exploiting teens for the climate agenda, for example, appears even more shady and legally dubious, but saying anything more about THAT topic could put ME in legal jeopardy because of who is involved.
Does Lisa Davey and Susan Orr really want an aggressive investigative journalist asking tough questions about serious issues, like openly wondering if there’s something connecting all the clumsy women in Missoula who “accidentally” drown, including my co-worker, Leah Hartley?
No, I don’t think they do, and I have the figurative legal scars and empty bank account that proves (at least to me) how much this town DOES NOT WANT their own biases and narrative blindspots challenged.
To further make my case about what Missoula needs and doesn’t need regarding information and transparency, it should be noted that investigative journalists have come to Missoula in order to make media products for wider public consumption. Too bad both Jon Krakauer’s Rape book and Connie Walker’s Stolen podcast relied heavily on THIS Guy for their narrative.
Asking tough questions at this point in our country’s 250 year history means taking information that’s already available about the Epstein class and using that information, like I have done, to make uncomfortable connections regardless of what those connections indicate, which is that BOTH political parties and almost ALL our criminal justice jurisdictions are deeply compromised.
If you’d like to help support THIS investigative citizen journalist, I’ll be at a brewery this Friday for an informal meet and greet where I will be able to explain some of the stuff I’m currently working on and NOT able to write about yet, so stay tuned!
And, as always, thanks for reading.
I’ve run into Susan Orr. She may still be affiliated with the UM Journalism and TV folks. She’s one of the worst local Democrat propagandists I’ve ever had the pleasure of humiliating in public. She attempted to debate me about a previous political campaign I was working on. She used every logical fallacy and discrediting op she could to try to deter me. When that didn’t work she suggested that people would boycott my place of employment if I continued to support my candidate.
Now she’s pretty smart, and most people wouldn’t have been able too hold there own against her browbeating hen pecking, but the best part was after she threatened to economically sanction me, so as too silence my political opinion, I pointed out the camera she had just done all of that good work of exposing who she really is. She ran away so hard, she nearly caused a 4 car accident in her Blue Honda CRV with a Bernie sticker in her escape. I’ve never seen her since.
I didn’t know who she was while we were debating but she leaks so much OSINT, I found out everything about her before she probably got home to whine to her husband about the bad man with wrongthink. I could doxx the shit out of her if I wanted too, but unlike petty Orr, I’m above using coercion too get my way. But if she still harbors some thoughts of punishing me for my political ideals, I hope she realizes now that I’m not easy, and am capable of defending myself politically.
The Missoula Democrat clique is perhaps one of the most toxic and ultimately self-destructive groups I’ve ever run across. It appears, after today, they are going full victim card against evil Bodnar. Kurt Alme must be overjoyed.