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F-Bomb Dispute Resolved Quickly

Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 03:22:10 PM

BY DAVID MARTIN

Kansas City, Missouri, Councilman Terry Riley called me this morning to complain about this column. Riley accused me of misquoting him when I wrote that he said: “All you guys do is fuck me every time we interview.”

Riley said this morning that he used the verb “screw.”

I told the councilman that I quoted him accurately. “No, you did not quote me accurately,” he responded.

But a recording of the conversation exists, and it supports what appears in print.

A digital recording device was running when I approached Riley on February 7 and asked for an interview. The device was in my coat pocket, which explains (a) the less-than-stellar quality of the recording and (b) Riley’s apparent willingness to drop an f-bomb and later deny it. Here's the conversation:

10 Comments:

Josh says:

Ha ha ha! What an idiot.

Posted at: February 27, 2008 3:37 PM

gus says:

Why is saying "screw" better? Don't they mean exactly the same thing? How can a word be unacceptable but the concept a-okay?

Fuck me, man.

Posted at: February 27, 2008 4:04 PM

Xavier Onassis says:

Isn't recording someone without their knowledge illegal?

Since you didn't have a microphone in his face and you didn't tell him you were recording the conversation, didn't he have a reasonable expectation of privacy?

How do you justify this sort of guerilla, vendetta-based, gotcha, pseudo-journalism?

When did The Pitch devolve into TKC?

Posted at: February 27, 2008 10:04 PM

effbombs mcgee says:

Hey Xavier, since you're a blogger, presumably with a full command of the tools of your trade (i.e. the fucking Internet), why don't you google "Missouri Statutes on Tape Recording" and answer your own question?

Missouri's eavesdropping statue allows recording with the consent of only one party.

Gah. Old men and their blogs.

Posted at: February 27, 2008 10:39 PM

Tony's mom says:

XO,
You give my bloggin' spawn too much credit! Secretly taping someone would involve getting off his ass, dusting off the Cheeto crumbs and leaving my basement to go do some actual reporting. My wittle pride and joy prefers to make shit up and use that as the basis on which to attack someone.

Besides, you must be smart enough to realize the Pitch has lawyers, right. Lawyers who vet stuff like this?

By the way, this was hilarious. Poor, poor rude-ass Terry Riley. PWNED!

Posted at: February 28, 2008 8:48 AM

mainstream says:

the recording doesn't appear to be working.

Posted at: February 28, 2008 12:56 PM

Heh? What? says:

Mainstream, it works for me.

Terry Riley: "You FUCK me every time we interview."

What was that, Terry?

"You FUCK me every time we interview."

Heh? (Cups hand to ear.) Could yeh repeat that, Terry? I can't hear?!

"Fuck me every time we interview."
"FUCK me every time we interview."
T.R. said, "YOU FUCK ME EVERY TIME WE INTERVIEW!!!"

Posted at: February 28, 2008 3:14 PM

Anonymous says:

maybe you guy's should find a criminal are some shit to fuck with.

Posted at: February 29, 2008 5:33 PM

Sam says:

Does anybody know if the Charlene Luster who sat on the Board of Zoning Adjustments last year when Terry Riley was voting on things is the same Charlene Luster that he defaulted on a Mazda loan with and is currently having his wages garnished for?

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