Shot In The Dark: Demonology

February 11, 2005

Demonology

I'm seeing a pattern here.

(Some things are too obvious even for me to miss).

The Star/Tribune is maintaining via its editorial board and its star columnist Nick Coleman that the right wing of the blogosphere is on the payroll of powerful right wing ~~boogeymen~~ financiers.

The president of the Minnesota State Patrol Employees' union has compared the Taxpayers' League with the Posse Comitatus, a dangerous racist tax-protest group. I'm told that to many liberals, "Neo Nazi" is almost as bad as "Neocon".

C.Ford Runge is comparing David Strom to the devil - literally.

Nationally, once Hillary Clinton claimed a "vast, rightwing conspiracy" and Bill famously blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on talk radio, it was all history; the lefty has been turning up rocks and seeing (so they say) a massive conspiracy, absent any quaint relics like "proof".

It's called "demonization", and I think it's part of a concerted campaign by the the DFL (in Minnesota) to build a huge army of strawmen in time for the next election.

Why?

To cover the fact that they still have no ideas.

Posted by Mitch at February 11, 2005 05:52 AM | TrackBack

Comments

I like the idea that Sen. Dayton had. Looks like the Northern Alliance is melting the ice in Minnesota and the "blue" is turning "red". We appreciate you at Getting Elected Blogline.

Posted by: Dan England at February 11, 2005 07:58 AM

What were the republicans great ideas again? When we had a good economy and government running surpluses, we needed to lower taxes. When we had a bad economy and government running nearly debilitating deficits, we needed to lower taxes. It's an all purpose, one size fits all policy and it worked brilliantly.

Posted by: JoeyJoeJoe at February 11, 2005 08:49 AM

Mitch, please take an extra 5 seconds and search for topics more interesting, this Coleman/Franken stuff is boring- I already agree. Newsflash: Moronic behavior from morons... details at 11... and on almost every channel, every day....

Posted by: Captain Mainline at February 11, 2005 10:13 AM

Slowly but surely the StarTribune, WCCO, PBS and MPR is losing its news monopoly over the Minnesota electorate. Immigration to this great State is doing its part too, so it makes sense that the editorial boards and their useful idiots will escalate their efforts to demonize any new sources of information. The irony, of course, is reinforcements have arrived in the form of Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher, who are possibly reaching more of an audience here than they are on the radio.

When a cause as dedicated as this is bound and determined to go straight to Hell, prudence suggests we get out of the way.

Posted by: Eracus at February 12, 2005 11:07 AM

By the way, JoeyJoeJoe, when a government runs surpluses it is because it has taken more of your money than it can possibly spend. When it runs a deficit, it has already spent more money than you can possibly afford. The Great Idea of republican government is to account for the taxpayers' money in projects and programs that benefit the taxpayer, so that it is not merely a transfer of wealth from those who create it to those who consume it and then demand more.

Posted by: Eracus at February 12, 2005 11:21 AM

I think we could all use some right wing financiers

Posted by: Martin Andrade at February 14, 2005 03:45 PM

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