Is it just me, or

Is it just me, or is Governor Ventura coming across as completely incoherent in the Strib today?

State GOP leaders criticized Target Market, a front for the state's anti-tobacco bureaucracy, and a rock concert that TM is promoting.

For starters, Target Market is an organization that you are paying for with the "excess premiums" that the state of Minnesota got from the tobacco companies during the the Great Minnesota Tobacco Money Grab (aka lawsuit) The organization apparently exists to "provide information" to teenagers about smoking, which apparently they don't get from school, any media that isn't actively advertising tobacco, and the side-panels of every cigarette package these teenagers have ever seen.

They "provide" this "information" through a series of abrasive, juvenile TV commercials, packaged rock concerts (Goldfinger used to be kinda cool), and "events" like a winter rally at the capitol. Now, I haven't been a teenager for about twenty years, but I have hunch if someone had come at me with a series of events that were such obvious pandering, I think I'd have walked into Mini Mart and bought a pack of filterless Chesterfields. If kids today do take TM seriously, then my generation will be the first generation to be right about what morons kids today are!

Look at the pictures. The teenagers are posed with the supple dexterity of an East German propoganda photo. The villains are such perfect caricatures of evil [white Euro] men, it's as if Michael Moore's febrile racist imagination has come to life..

So the GOP criticizes this manipulative propaganda boondoggle - and suddenly Governor Dimbulb rockets into action?

What a crazy state.