Dan Snyder doeth protest too much

“Carny or carnie is a slang term used in North America and, along with showie, in Australia for a carnival (funfair) employee, as well as the language they employ. A carny is anyone who runs a "joint" (booth), "grab joint" (food stand), game, or ride at a carnival.”

“Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder just spent $600,000 on two alligator leather desks with matching alligator-skin chairs for his offices at FedExField in Landover, Md.

Snyder ordered the desks from the new Giorgio’s of Palm Beach store on Madison Avenue. A rep for the store said, “Mr. Snyder ordered two desks and two chairs, and they will be delivered in around six weeks.”

Let’s see if PETA marches in Maryland. Probably not…but the fans of the Washington Redskins should. The cost to attend and enjoy a game at FED-EX is ridiculous. Do y’all see where the $$ is going? His ass vs. the offensive line. uh uh uh

I know it wouldn’t be long before he made a stupid offseason move.”

“Redskins owner says retraction from City Paper would have ended dispute

By Paul Farhi

Washington Post Staff Writer 
Friday, February 4, 2011; 10:53 PM

Dan Snyder says all he wanted was an apology and a retraction.

The Redskins team owner said in interviews Friday that his legal dispute with Washington City Paper could have been averted had the newspaper retracted its Nov. 19 cover story detailing his alleged misdeeds as an owner and businessman.

"We were hoping [they'd] apologize, hoping they'd say they were sorry," Snyder told The Washington Post. "All they had to do was apologize and retract their lies."

Instead, City Paper and its parent company, Atalaya Capital Management, has stood by the story and its author, longtime staff writer Dave McKenna. That prompted Snyder to file a libel lawsuit against the weekly newspaper this week that seeks $2 million, plus additional punitive damages.

In more than a half-dozen interviews with radio, TV and print outlets Friday, during Super Bowl week in Dallas, the usually press-shy Snyder repeatedly said that the article - "The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder" - had defamed him and insulted his wife, Tanya Snyder.

Among other things, he disputed the article's statement that he "got caught forging names as a telemarketer with Snyder Communications." Snyder was never personally accused of forgery. His former company, Snyder Communications, paid a fine to the state of Florida in 2001 for "slamming," the illegal practice of changing customers' phone service without their authorization, without admitting wrongdoing.

Snyder also alleged Friday that the article had questioned the sincerity of his wife's efforts to raise awareness of breast cancer research and prevention.

"You can't call people names, [can't call them] criminals," he told The Post. "You can't make fun of someone's wife and her effort for breast cancer awareness as national spokesperson for the National Football League and as a breast cancer survivor. It's just wrong. What's wrong is wrong, and this is wrong. And this guy [McKenna] crossed the line."

City Paper Editor Michael Schaffer said Snyder was mistaken in his characterization of the article. "I'm a little baffled," he said. "The words 'breast cancer' never appeared anywhere in the story. The idea that we made fun of his wife in any way is inaccurate and a distraction from the real issue. The real issue is that we have our facts right."

The Nov. 19 article includes a comment Tanya Snyder made in a television interview last year, saying her husband has "grown and evolved" and is now surrounded by "better people." Those comments came in the middle of a long interview that touched on several subjects but did not mention her involvement in breast cancer awareness efforts.

In his comments Friday, Snyder also expressed anger over a photo illustration accompanying the City Paper article that showed him with drawn-on horns and facial hair. Snyder, who is Jewish, alleges in his lawsuit that the illustration is anti-Semitic.

The lawsuit has drawn considerable media attention to the illustration, which has been featured prominently in national TV news reports this week.”