We're happy to see the new pic of Sherm Frederick. Now if only he'd update his view on reality.

On Jan. 3, Sherm Frederick took the right-wing talking points to a new low when he wrote stuff that isn't even close to true.

"Then, as now, the Obama administration fails to swiftly acknowledge the threat," Sherm wrote, despite the numerous times Obama has talked about terrorism in the wake of the attempted airplane bombing Dec. 25.

Sherm also talks about: "the two cases of domestic terrorism since 9/11 -- both on Obama's watch" without remembering all of those terrorism acts that occurred after 9/11 during the Bush administration.

Here's the erroneous crap: http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/obama-cant-keep-us-safe-80528827.html

At least he spells Napolitano right in this screed. He's gotten her name wrong twice in a 2010 blog post, and, as you can see from the image here, he can't even get his own reporter's names right.

We know RJ Publisher likes to brag about the new media helping fill his in-box, but maybe he should stick to some old school Texas Instruments.

In today's rant, er, Complete Las Vegan blog post, Sherm Frederick not only can't combat his inability to spell, he once again forgets for whom he works.

Sherm couldn't let the holiday season hit without a slam against Harry Reid.

How priestly of him.

His column would be laughable if the paper didn't present it along with a supposed point-counterpoint about whether to re-elect Reid that ran right to the left.

Sherm actually puts in a disclaimer "for those who might have found this column for the first time." http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/a-hard-week-for-sen-reid-79750242.html

The only people who found Sherm for the first time this year are the Fox News watchers who loved his news manufacturing this summer.

The Bad Year For Sherm started at the end of last year when he rid his staff of many veterans in an effort to save money. The cuts continued -- he closed the paper's cafeteria; laid off staff at weekly publications; furloughed the paper's staffers; killed sections on Mondays and Tuesdays; shrunk the size of the page and left countless positions unfilled.

The economic recession did not stop Sherm from slamming Congress for trying to right the nation's economy. Nor did it stop him from ginning up the national story about Reid "threatening" the paper's ad director. Reid didn't, but that didn't stop Sherm, or his paper from covering all the coverage Sherm got.  In case you just found this site for the first time (which is actually possible), we detailed this in the section Sherman's March, where it is archived.

Anyway, all this new-found love from those around the country who hate Reid seemed to push Sherm off into teabag world. He started appearing at the events favored by the 15 percenters. Before you knew it he was actually invited to moderate a Senate candidate forum.

He's written 18 columns slamming Reid. That's 18 columns out of his 37 for the year. And that doesn't count the dozens of blog posts used to gin up the anti-Reidites.

Some of his headlines, notable only for their singular thread, were:

"Why Harry can be beat."

"Blago-mano: Reid gets KO'd:"

"Shall we give Harry the boot?"

"Harry Reid: too big to fail"

"Enough is enough, Harry"

"Reid's chances look really dim"

"A hard week for Harry: Enough to say, 'I quit' "

The rest of his columns were largely spent slamming President Barack Obama. One was about the Arizona Cardinals; one about the DMV and one about gay marriage.

At a real paper, if a reporter or columnist wrote the same story week after week he or she would be put on a new beat. At the RJ, not only does Sherm write the same thing each Sunday, he encourages his paper to follow suit.

It all adds up to a bad year for Sherm and an even worse future for his paper.

RJ Publisher Sherman Frederick wrote another incoherent blog post Wednesday.

Break out the vinyl. That skipping sound you might have heard Sunday was Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick writing his umpteenth column about how Sen. Harry Reid is vulnerable.

Now as a former columnist we were always reminded not to stick to the same old song. Even if the news thread had great value and was continuing to develop, it was hard to justify re-writing the same column again and again.

Gov. Jim Gibbons provided such folly in such rapid time, it was hard to ignore. But even that became tiresome.

Apparently, Sen. Reid's low polling numbers in the Review-Journal's own survey is just more fodder for Sherm's jihad against Nevada's most powerful ally in Washington.

At any rate, Sherm's back in his comfort zone, attacking his easiest target with the "new" revelation that Reid's polling is low in Nevada. The apparent news hook is that Reid's numbers haven't moved up despite the senator's TV ads.

Someday, perhaps next spring, the Review-Journal will actually begin looking at the qualifications of those seeking to replace Reid. At this point, it appears Frederick can't find any value there, so he'll just keep kicking it old school.

The only remastered tunes we accept these days are the recent Beatles release on CD. So, it's very easy to tune Frederick out. Even if he is running on a Sunday when the paper might still have a few readers.

Sherm Frederick warned us recently that his list of things he's thankful for wasn't exactly politically correct.

But we've rarely seen someone with the modern day equivalent of Flat Earth Society worshipping trying to couple a love for bacon and Israel at the same time. He's big on kicking ass apparently, whether by his digital-age-phobic editor Thomas Mitchell or by the soldiers in the so-called War On Terror. This lack of a keen eye distinguishing things is also notable in his apparent assault on all Muslims.

How else to explain Frederick's views? He's grasping for some scientific straw to prove his disbelief of climate change and wishing we kill all Muslims.

Well he buys the tax-free ink and newsprint, so we'll just let him drown in it on his own. Here is his actual Sunday column. http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/lets-toast-our-blessings-78063292.html

So, Sherman Frederick recently blogged about the lay-offs over at the Sun. Too bad we couldn't quite follow the general's argument as he marches again to irrelevancy.

He was either criticizing those who lament the situation, myself included, or he's blaming Congressional Democrats for the economic recession. Either way, we can't really follow his argument. http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm/Bloody_Sun_Day.html

Why is my view "cross-eyed?" Is it simply because in this tiny journalism universe I worked at both papers and watched my spouse get the axe last week ? Strange commentary indeed. And why criticize Steve Friess for his blog post? Is it because Friess also once worked for the RJ and is trying to shine a little light on the darkest of journalism's days?

And how do you, as a publisher, greet horrific news about the future of your industry with a pivot against those who have actually helped stem the country's slide from recession to depression?

We know facts aren't easy for a publisher of a paper with so many daily errors, but we still marvel at his ridiculous argument in the post Bloody Sun Day.

So, you can close your eyes to make him go away, but we'll keep reading his version of the news today to make sure you get the real picture.

We know Sherm Frederick was a Democrat before he was a Republican. And we know he once actually carried the demeanor of a publisher (well, at least he didn't go bat crazy in public).