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May 23, 2005

I'm a Compassionate Guy

I was driving around yesterday, and I inadvertently caught about three minutes of a rerun of the Coleman "program". It was the day he was ripping, in his clumsy-puppy way, the bloggers' visit to the Governor's mansion.

It was a lot of the same bla bla bla - but one thing he kept mentioning that's popped up in his previous references to the Northern Alliance and the MOB: "they're bullies".

Bullies.

Wow.

So we - the NARN bloggers, a bunch of schlemiel middle managers and technogeeks and professors and a couple of lawyers, who blog in our pajamas in our basements to audiences that come to our blogs purely of their own volition, for (largely) no money whatsoever, purely for the love of working out our First Amendment muscles without the backing of any corporations or publishers or much of anything else, are...

...bullies?

Nick Coleman - who works for one of the largest media conglomerates in Minnesota, scion of a political and media family ("connect the dots!"), a man who's not above leaving the dangling semi-threat in private email to his detractors, a man at the "sharp end" of a radio network backed by some of the biggest, most powerful financiers out there, a man who publicly claims to be 6 feet and 200 pounds and to know how to use a hockey stick and proclaims an affinity for the boyos and yobs that wear violence like Babs Carlson wears MuuMuus - thinks we're bullies?

[Bullwinkle on]

Guess I don't know my own strength!

[Bullwinkle off]

By the way, oddly enough, he talked for a bit about the stadium - which he opposes. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, I guess. But as part of his transition from whining about the blogger reception to stadiums, he muttered "The ba-LOG-gers support the stadium!"

Really?

Show me where any NARN blogger has said any such thing, Nick.

Either he doesn't even care when he's lying anymore, or he assumes his audience is too dumb to know the difference.

I choose "All of the above".

Posted by Mitch at May 23, 2005 05:13 AM | TrackBack
Comments

You NARN guys did a nice job shooting lead bananas at the monkey-boy last Saturday. Particularly the part where you described the activities in the Red Star newsroom.....too funny.

Posted by: Dave at May 23, 2005 09:05 AM

No surprise there, Mitch. Bullies never know that their bullies.

Posted by: blogesota at May 24, 2005 10:17 AM

And idiots frequently think they're intellectuals. Like you, Blogestoa.

Posted by: Josh at May 24, 2005 11:39 AM
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