Tramel: You Are ‘Part of the Problem’

From using such cutting-edge terms as “bull feathers” to equating message boards to porn sites, Oklahoman writer Berry Tramel has made this very clear: he hates you.

Don’t feel bad. He hates us too. We, like you, enjoy getting the latest information that his antiquated print medium can’t provide. It’s these message boards — of which I’ve been associated with for damn near nine years — that allow me to find up-to-the-minute breaking news, injury reports and interviews.

Berry Tramel wants me to wait until my morning print vehicle to read slanted, bias garbage. Nice try, sport. His latest video rant, embedded below, is nothing more than a weak-attempted pussy slap as he’s falling to canvas, just having been KO’d by a stronger, better medium (i.e., the Interweb).

I know Tramel thinks that all bloggers, message board posters and other Internet trouble-makers are the same: uneducated, lowly cretins. Sure, he’s got years of experience on me — and it appears he crawled out of a coffin three days ago — but people on the Internet are witty. Smart. Clever. Hell, the mighty RDK consists of humans that work professionally as a writer, attorney and for the U.S. government.

If we’re such jackasses, why do mainstream media outlets continue to snoop the blogs and message boards for stories? How do I know this happened? The Sam Bradford-Landry Jones hoax wouldn’t have materialized otherwise.

Hell, I know for a fact that TWO employees at The Oklahoman — an editor and a sportswriter, mind you — have PAID subscriptions at OUESPN.com/OU Insider. One even used his corporate domain. Did you know that, Berry? Better check your aim, son.

And don’t even get us started on how The Oklahoman “borrows” ideas, stories and creativity from The Lost Ogle.

At one point Tramel said, “Message boards are weapons. Havens for people to carry out anonymous attacks.” Going by his logic, cars should be banned because people use them as getaway cars. Well, actually, he made that analogy too. You can’t have it both ways, chief.

Further dissecting his pathetic rant, I found this gem: “I don’t participate in the peep show, I just watch.” Sure, I think he was paraphrasing what message-board lowlifes might say in their defense, but I really want to take this out of context just the same.

He did make me smile at one point. Not only smile, but basically laugh out loud. “They’ve got no more redeeming qualities than a porn site.”

If we should only be so lucky. Thanks, Berry. We knew you’d see it our way.