Conundrum Watch, Fact Check

I listened to Wild Wendy for a couple of minutes this morning on the local FrankenNet affiliate.

Remember three months ago, after the tsunami? When the President busied himself with, oh, I dunno, practical, useful responses like diverting a navy Task Force and a Marine Ampbibious Unit en route to Iraq to the scene? The left sniggered; "how insensitive"; rather, said they, that he'd swept to the nearest camera with a dramatic flourish and issued a Clintonesque "message" displaying his sorrow, anguish and sympathy.

So this morning, on the subject of Governor Pawlenty's day of remembrance for the victims of the Red Lake shootings, she demanded that the Governor "get off his big holy butt" (?) and "do something". Now bear in mind that in the past week, elements of the local left were in a snit that he hadn't literally dropped everything and led the SWAT team in a moment of anguished silence before entering the building. No, now the fully appropriate remembrance that he is able to do as governor is the problem.

It's almost like there's nothing a conservative can do to make these people happy! Go Figger!

In the 90-odd seconds I could stomach Wilde - as inept a talk host as this market's seen since Jim Klobuchar graced the airwaves - I gathered that these were her suggestions for that action:

• Spend More Time Learning To Spot Kids With Issues: She squawked (I'm closely paraphrasing - I have yet to install a digital recorder in my car) "These kids get one assembly a year to teach them what to look for...". What, so we're supposed to take even more already-overstretched class time to try to turn kids into amateur psychologists? Not to mention to teach our already-overwrought, hyperdramatic, emotionally hormone-addled teenagers to spy on each other's emotional states? Even kids aren't this stupid.
• Pony Up!: Again, paraphrasing: "The governor ought to cough up some money so they can get the new school they so desperately need". Ah. A new building - no, more funding will solve the problem? Remember what Columbine looked like? The school was a suburban palace of a building, funded by absolutely luxuriant local taxes by a community that wanted a kick-ass school. And yet "Columbine" is now a canonical synonym for "school massacre".

An interesting look into the thought process of the local left - where "interesting" equals "flipped back to MPR after 90 seconds".

Posted by Mitch at March 28, 2005 12:28 PM | TrackBack