Things That Are Not News: Richard Justice Is A Cockgobbling Douchenozzle
Aug 27, 2008 Dancing With the 'Tards, Richard Justice is a talentless hack.
So, it seems Lil’ Dickie Justice (age 12) got his underoos in a bunch when a bunch of people took him to task for being as asshat toward Stephanie in the comments to his blog. When pressed by various people, including many of the folks who frequent Texans Talk, Justice finally showed just how professional and mature he is, as he unleashed this beauty of a comment. Let fisk this motherfucker.
I don’t know what Stephanie’s real name is, but she creeps me out.
Well, Dick: 1. You do know Stephanie’s real name because you’d have to be borderline retarded to not realize that she’s the same person who used to do the fanblog on the very same site you are writing for, especially since your dislike of the fanblog has been documented by more than one person.
2. Moreover, you know enough about her to know that “she has her own blog,” thus you are probably also cognizant that, on her own blog, she goes by the name Stephanie Stradley. Which, coincidentally, is the same name she used in her fanblog for the Chron.
3. Why does her real name matter here? If you knew her real name, would she not creep you out? What if her real name was D’Brickashaw? Would that make you more or less creeped out?
4. Do you really think someone would make up an alias of “Stephanie?” Seems rather normal, doesn’t it? When I am going incognito, I prefer Captain Hercules Strongmember III.
She writes a little too often, wants to discuss and debate.
Hey, cumstain, you write a BLOG with COMMENTS on the website of a major(ly shitty) newspaper. THE FUCKING GOAL SHOULD BE FOR PEOPLE TO WANT TO DISCUSS AND DEBATE, YOU INSOLENT RETARD. If you don’t want people to write and discuss what you have written, then close the comments. Then you will be free to fellate Vince to your heart’s content with nary a word from the peanut gallery.
She has her own blog, so why is she so interested in mine?
See above, shit-for-brains. (Hint: It has something to do with Houston having only one daily newspaper, you writing a blog for said newspaper, and you writing things designed to elicit a response.)
Ask yourself that question.
Asked and answered. NEXT!
Maybe I’ve watched Fatal Attraction too many times.
And maybe you’ve put gerbils in your ass while dry-humping an 8×10 glossy of Bevo and watching the Rose Bowl DVD.
If something happens to one of my rabbits, she’s going to be in big trouble.
OH, I get it. You think Stephanie has some sort of psychotic obsession with you due to a brief affair you had with her, that she will eventually turn from adoration to vengeance, and that she will kill your pet rabbit by putting it in a pressure cooker while you are out with your wife and young daughter.
No, wait. That can’t be right. Hold on…let me see if I understand you: You think Stephanie is obsessed with you because she actually discusses and debates the things you write on your blog for Houston’s only daily newspaper rather than leaving comments about how you are a hack or how you should stick to baseball or how your columns are clearly influenced by your desire to get your asshole distended by Vince Young? The rational comments are what make you think she’s nuts and obsessed?
Or were you just trying to by funny in a hip, pop-culture sort of way…by referencing a twenty-fucking-one-year-old movie?
–Richard
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
*slow clap*
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
It looks like he has erased many of his reply’s to the comments others made on his blog. Please enjoy this picture and consider adding it to your photo essay.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc138/kdcoughlen/prettyjustice4.jpg
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August 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
*Standing ovation*
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August 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The worst part about all this is that he never even tried to answer Steph’s question which was a very good question. He didn’t even give a sarcastic comment, he just went straight to insults.
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August 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Richard is terrible. Fuck him.
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August 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
@GlassHalfFull: Wow, you aren’t kidding. There’s barely even a reference to Steph on that entire thing. And thanks for the heads up on this.
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August 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
A - FUCKING - MEN. Fantastic. I avoid his blog, so I totally missed this. Great job getting Steph’s back.
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August 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
@GlassHalfFull:
LOLOL that pic is great!!
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
That’s great. It’s like arguing with a 13 year old boy, except at least you know the 13 year old has a chance to be a decent human being. Is there any doubt that he is probably the worst employed sports writer in the entire nation anymore? I mean Pete Prisco, Peter King, and Bill Simmons might have some outlandish opinions, but none of them ever resort to school yard name calling.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Steph - hope you’re reading this thread. I’m a frequent reader and infrequent poster who has always enjoyed your insightful comments (unlike the uneducated comments of your supposed “replacement” on the Comical blog). Keep up the good work.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
hey, at least he didn’t yell at her. For that would have been childish and uncalled for.
/complete and total sarcasm if you’re reading this, li’l Dickie.
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I believe she sent Justice straight into “It’s *MY* ball, and I’ll take it back to *MY* house if you guys aren’t nice to me.”
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
If only someone with great Photoshop skills could superimpose his picture on the ass of the rhino.
I quit reading his columns and blogs some time ago, so I missed all this. I can’t imagine why he would pick on Stephanie. Because he knows that she won’t stoop to his level? I would guess that this kind of behavior could cause him to lose his job. Maybe he’s got nothing to lose? Maybe his contract wasn’t renewed.
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Oh. My. Thanks for the uh unholy hand grenade, er spirited defense. Though I have to say it is sort of funny given that I’m the one that is always preaching that we attack arguments and not people, and then this sort of thing blows up even though I wanted no part of it.
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I don’t really understand why he gets short with people who disagree with him. I mean, he is a main columnist for the fourth largest city in America. Why should he be upset when a reader asks him a legit question? I know he is fairly sensitive when people question his writing, but I have to say the ugliness of his comments (remaining and wiped from his blog) really were surprising.
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The reason he wiped my comments I guess came from my response to when he called me creepy and compared me to a Fatal Attraction. This is what he didn’t publish (and then erased my comments to that post and the follow up one about yelling coaches):
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“RJ-
I’m not sure why a Chronicle subscriber asking reasonable questions about a peculiar article is creepy behavior. At least it shouldn’t remind you of Fatal Attraction, unless that blast is just your way of marginalizing females who question or otherwise disagree with you.
In any event, you should have no fear of a Glenn Close obsession about you. I mean, no offense intended, but I got to give even the idea of that a resounding….ew.
Though I think commenter Senor Stan might have a point about Vince’s rabbit:
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/archives/2008/08/sure_there_have.html
Hey, man, can’t everybody just get along? Or are you just trying to bait me into writing about this stuff to get you more page hits?
-Steph”
I guess he was unamused. Thanks to all of you who support fair, reasoned writing about sports and the Texans in particular, and thanks to you who have my back.
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Justice is in the “I give up” phase of his career. Up against a dead-end, his dreams of a big radio gig languishing on the far, far edge of the dial (though I applaud getting Granato and Lance back together–who doesn’t?).
It is obvious he despises his city, his (literally dozens) of readers and his two listeners. His recent columns have been about (1) Dallas being better than us and (2) the greatness of Bud Adams’ current QB. Now, he is attacking the few people who even bother reading his online crap closely enough to present a response.
I suppose after the humiliation of his whiplash-effect Clemens coverage, he’s thrown in the towel. I wonder if he’s got a bet on how quickly he can get the absentee landlords who run the Chronicle to fire him.
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I suspect that he and other newspaper columnists have seen their power and prestige ebb away since the internet came along. Back in the old days, a guy like Richard was the middleman between the teams and the public. Teams had to kiss up to him because reporters were able to frame the team’s image in the mind of the public. So they gave him scoops and special access. The public had no other source of information, so he would spoon feed the information the team gave him to the public.
Nowadays, the team has their own website. Brooke Bentley and others who work for the Texans get those scoops. Anybody can have a blog. So it quickly becomes apparent when the quality is inferior to that of the general public. He was probably well aware the Gibbs column was stupid, and well aware you wouldn’t sink to his level.
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Incredible.
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I just ignore him. Dont click on his stories anymore. Don’t comment on the website anymore. Just pretend like he doesn’t exist. That’s the only way to get rid of him. The majority of the shit he writes these days, is just to produce a reaction, be it positive or negative, from the fan base. So just don’t react to his crap anymore. When nobody reads you, that is the ultimate failure for a professional writer or journalist.
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
@tyler: Oh, I agree completely. Had he not completely lost his mind with this latest shit and become a petulant child when pressed on it, I’d have gone on ignoring his shitbag column.
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August 28th, 2008 at 8:28 am
@GlassHalfFull: Nice work.
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@Steph: Keep fighting the good fight and staying classy. You kick Dickie’s ass from here to Tiananmen Square.
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:06 am
@b0ng: Dude, my 5 year old can argue better than that, and he never resorts to calling me a “poopy-head.”
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@Hooston Texan: Agreed. He’s the new Jay Mariotti now that the old Jay Mariotti is dead.
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@tyler: I think that’s the plan from here on out.
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am
And maybe you’ve put gerbils in your ass while dry-humping an 8×10 glossy of Bevo and watching the Rose Bowl DVD.
nice…and why do I think of BFD when I read that?
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August 28th, 2008 at 10:14 am
@1Texan: Dammit, I must’ve left my webcam on again. Speaking of which, I need to buy a new frame today…
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August 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Tyler, I tried to ignore him… I just suck at ignoring things like that.
http://www.thedreamshake.com/2008/08/at-least-hes-giving-me-material.html
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August 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am
@tyler: I understand the point of view of ignoring him. The problem is that most Houston fans get their news of Houston teams through the newspaper. And the reality is, especially with the interwebs, outsiders get their news from the Chronicle as well.
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And we as bloggers, to some degree have to rely on reporters to use their access to teams responsibly to get news that official websites may be reluctant to report.
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So with this reality in mind, there is value for readers to try to encourage more responsible and complete reporting. That reasoned comments to editors may be able to make a difference. And that if journalists know that they are going to catch hades in their blogs for saying durn fool things, maybe they will think twice before doing stuff.
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Usually, RJ has nothing in his columns that I particularly care to comment on. Certainly you shouldn’t comment when he does his pot stirring sorts of blog articles. But suggesting in a front of the sports page article that Alex Gibbs was a bad coach for yelling, that the players will tune that out and that maybe he isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer…well you want to know whether RJ is basing that opinion on things he has learned about the Texans, or if he was just ramblingly to make an intro to a story.
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But to make it clear, I did not want to start any trouble with RJ. In fact, he was the one that suggested to me in an email last December that I should comment on his blog. And then when I offer a legitimate question about one of his articles, he belittles and insults me before other commenters insisted that interrupt his insults to actually answer my question.
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And then it turns out that the concerns behind my question were right! That there wasn’t a particular problem with the Texans and Gibbs, but rather Justice dislikes him because he doesn’t talk to the media.
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Given Justice’s ax grinding writing, would you want to talk to him?
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BTW, I find it funny that “WillFist4Food” is encouraging me to “stay classy.” Thanks.
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August 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I have had two comment I made to Dickless posted and then deleted like no one would know. Well, ok usually no one would know because usually no one reads that fucking worthless piece of shits vile spewege. Yesterday all of the comments from the 26th were gone and today some of them are back. Is he this big of a fucking loser that he can not handle just a little bit of critique.
I know I should be taking the high road and not going off like this but when someone attacks unmercifully someone who has done more for the Texans fan base than the teams media relations department then I will come to her defense with both barrels.
This one of the post that was deleted, unfortunately I had a dick justice moment and did not save the other.
[Q] [I]I didn’t have a single anger issue until that Stephanie woman got me riled up.[/I]
You mean Mrs Stephanie Stradley who used to write a blog for the Chron and now all her work has someone elses name on it. Ask your lawyers what they call that. Seriously, you owe her an apology for the total lack of respect. Just because a LADY knows more about football than you is no reason to get your panties in a huff. Have just a little class and dignity, please!
[I]I don’t like Alex Gibbs. I think he’s part of a team sport, but tries very hard not to be part of the team. He has his own set of rules apart from the team.[/I]
So you wrote these two articles because you do not like Alex Gibbs. Just like you writting and askin all the tsips to make up names for Mario cause your boy vy did not get drafted. Yep you are a very petty human being. I would suggest you asking Gibbs if he cares if you like him or his coaching style, but since he is not talking to you maybe you can get McClain to ask for you.
[I]I don’t consider Cowher a screamer. He’s brilliant at dealing with players. So you’re 1 for 3.[/I]
Actually that would be 1 for 2 with the third you do not know so you will make up the answer for it.[Q]
If I was running the media department of the Texans I would not even allow this assmunch to set foot on the property much less inside the building.
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August 28th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@Steph: It’s all about irony, since I only do that stuff for free.
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August 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
re: “stay classy” reminds me of Ron Burgundy.
“Richard Justice, or, in German, Rhinoceros Excrement”
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August 29th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
I only knew this guy was a writer for the Chronicle because of PTI. Now I know why I unintentionally ignored him in the past and will intentionally ignore him in the future…what a fucking tool!
See my comment and his reply:
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/archives/2008/08/only_an_optimis.html
I see a lot of references to this “Stephanie” person but I don’t see any of her comments. Did they get lost in the mail along with Spec’s invite? Come on, Ritchie…post her comments! Are you man enough to let us see the truth and decide for ourselves? Isn’t that what they taught you at journalism school? I sure hope so because it’s obvious by your replies they left logic off the curriculum!
[I posted them all, then deleted them. I got bored with her.--Richard]
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August 29th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Holy shit…he went back and edited his own reply to me…what a douche!
I see a lot of references to this “Stephanie” person but I don’t see any of her comments. Did they get lost in the mail along with Spec’s invite? Come on, Ritchie…post her comments! Are you man enough to let us see the truth and decide for ourselves? Isn’t that what they taught you at journalism school? I sure hope so because it’s obvious by your replies they left logic off the curriculum!
[/Dangit, I forgot that I posted them all, then deleted them. I can't even remember the final straw. Anyway, she has her own blog, so everything she writes is available. Just google her name and you'll find our blog. Oops, I mean her blog. Between her comments and emails, I ran out of patience. She seemed just a little too interested in me if you know what I mean and I think you do. Funny thing is I've never met her. I heard she was hanging around outside the Super Bowl media center a couple of years ago, but I slipped out the back way.--Richard/]
Posted by: LoneSpot at August 29, 2008 11:15 PM
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August 30th, 2008 at 1:50 am
@kozanack: I gave it a quick and dirty shot:
http://www.hudprod.com/Images/RJ_Rhino.jpg
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August 31st, 2008 at 9:14 am
That comment he made to LoneSpot, which he re-edited to make uglier is particularly sick and irresponsible.
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I was CREDENTIALED to be at radio row for some work I was doing for FanHouse. I was invited to be a guest on a radio program. It was one of the most fun experiences in my entire life–there were tons of NFL greats in that room, people I grew up watching. The Texans paid for my trip to go to the Super Bowl because I was voted the Texans Ultimate Fan in 2006.
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Until he wrote that, I had no idea he was even at the media center. Nice way to take a dump on one of the best experiences of my life.
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When I first started blogging, I wanted to use a pen name. I had no interest in being any sort of minor public figure. The Chronicle told me that when you blog for a newspaper, you can’t do that. So after much consideration, I figured that it would be worth blogging under my real name if it meant I could act as a voice for Texans fans (There weren’t many blogs out there).
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I never in a million years thought that a columnist for a major newspaper would use his anger at me in blog as a means to slur my reputation and character personally. I’m not some stereotype of a blogger who lives in her parents basement or something. He might not have much regard for my reputation, but I do. He can’t trash what I write, so he trashes me. Lovely.
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If you call someone a name like “asshat” for instance, people can see that for what it is and judge accordingly. If a reporter who is suppose to be telling the truth says all that garbage he did, it really is disgusting and beyond low.