Deseret News | Reader comments: Booing of 'University of Utah fan' was just for fun

Reader comments
Booing of 'University of Utah fan' was just for fun

Wowser! | 12:57 a.m. July 12, 2008

Boy, it is ironically people like this who feel they are defending the country, that are really the ones running it into the ground!

Heaven help us all...

Nic | 2:35 a.m. July 12, 2008

I have met Steven Greenstreet when I was attending UVSC (UVU) a few years back... The little guy is an arrogant, pompous, angry fool.

He is the type of guy that is just looking for a reaction rather than cast an accurate light in his boring documentary's.

I could tell back then that he would become this extreme and entirely out of touch with reality type character, as he now appears.

He is so narrow-minded that he definitely would not comprehend the fun of a sporting rivalry. It makes sense that he would misinterpret the situation with what happened on the 4th.

He's had his 15 minutes of notoriety (more like maybe 5) ...get him out of the spotlight already. And if Utah County is such an armpit (to him) how about he leaves here as well?... no one is holding him here. It's because he loves to stir the pot.

Put him in a place like San Francisco, where they majority are out of touch with reality as well, and he would just become another babbling fool, probably fit right in and no one would notice him any longer.

That's a win/win situation if you ask me! :)

Mark | 7:44 a.m. July 12, 2008

Mr. Greenstreet appears to be frantically trying to extend his 15 minutes of fame. Next!

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93 cougars | 8:26 a.m. July 12, 2008

Why even give this guy any publicity at all?

Seems he lives by the motto of "there is no such thing as bad publicity".

Thanks DN you just gave it to him.

Pathetic.

Mormon Moderate | 2:14 p.m. July 12, 2008

I agree that sometimes, the average Utahn tends to react badly to anything of a liberal slant, especially with the whole Micheal Moore/Hannity fiasco, but this guy gives liberals like me a bad name. There's a difference between (1.) people who are liberal and want change but are still patriotic and appreciative of their country and (2) people who think that ugly, blatantly treasonous displays like this are going to fix things. Mr. Greenstreet needs to get off his media-high horse and do things that actually make the situations he wants to fix better.

Really? | 2:42 p.m. July 12, 2008

This article was full of libelous and slanderous mumbo jumbo.

Mr. Walch is guilty of the same things he accuses Mr. Greenstreet of: taking thing out of context.

Mr. Walch uses the terms "inaccurate" and "manipulatively edited" without getting a comment from Mr. Greenstreet or checking to see if those statements were correct.

Mr. Greenstreet's blog post points out multiple points yet Mr. Walch only focuses on 2 of them. Some of Mr. Walch's comments are twisted and re-worded to make Mr. Greenstreet look like a raving lunatic.

This is lazy journalism at its worst.

Max | 2:55 p.m. July 12, 2008

What kind of bad journalist cares what some random blogger thinks?

Is this seriously newsworthy? And did he do any fact checking? I've seen This Divided State and it was a balanced look at what happened. And I was at the Q & A with Samuelson that Greenstreet filmed and he presented what happened exactly.

And I haven't seen his new film, but did anybody watch the trailer? This film looks important and is about an issue more important than anything Tad Walch has to say in this article and is already getting good reviews.

Bad form Mr. Walch, bad form.

G | 12:33 p.m. July 13, 2008

What does obesity have to do with which football team you like?

Who Cares | 3:32 p.m. July 13, 2008

He's doing it for A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N,
don't give him any.

LOL | 3:52 p.m. July 13, 2008

I can't believe the Deseret News wasted print space for this.

Isn't about 367 other more important things to write about?

I think | 4:07 p.m. July 13, 2008

I think Mr. Walch was just having a bad day. Maybe next week he'll write something that actually matters.

Laughing | 8:21 p.m. July 13, 2008

It's clear that Stephen Greenstreet authored at least 4 of the 11 posts responding to Mr. Walch's editorial.

Sad, but very funny.

Who is Stephen? | 11:34 p.m. July 13, 2008

Who is this Stephen guy? I have never heard of him. Why is there an article in the Deseret News about him?

It sounds to me like Stephen has too much time on his hands and should perhaps get a job! Futhermore, the Deseret News should find some real news to write about.

This Stephen dude just sounds like a looser, but I am sure he enjoyed watching Miley.

Spot on | 1:56 a.m. July 14, 2008

Great article.

Greenstreet is a wannabe bad boy mired in borrowed hyperbole (with a dash of contrived naughty).

Disappointed | 11:00 a.m. July 14, 2008

I was disappointed by the article, which had zero importance, and I'm even more disappointed by most of these comments.

Who is reading the Deseret News? High School students?

Sounds like some kind of inferiority complex.

Also disapointed | 2:39 p.m. July 14, 2008

I am disappointed that the article didn't mention the fact that while Steven Greenstreet was touring the countryside showing tens of people "This Divided State," he shot video of himself talking to the camera whilst sitting in a motel's hot tub. This video was posted for a time on Greenstreet's website promoting his film, but was taken down after the video became a source of ridicule.

Although high school students may read the Deseret News, 18% of adults in the Salt Lake Area read the paper daily (22% on weekends) according to a 2006 Scarborough report.

torture | 2:06 p.m. July 15, 2008

So, should we celebrate our country while we are torturing prisoners, bombing countries, and spying on our people? I think that's a valid question.

re: Greenstreet | 11:48 a.m. July 22, 2008

If you read his blog which is NSFW you will see that Greenstreet is a typical angry, disillusioned former BYU student. I liked "This Divided State" but unfortunately, after reading his blog, it is apparent that he is certainly a divider - not a uniter. His harsh language and rhetorical style make it clear that he has no desire to do anything but contribute to the problems in Utah.

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