A Good Sign

From our friends at MNDemEx:

"R.T. Rybak was booed at the Humphrey Institute at the U of M today when he said in front of a crowd largely comprised of Brits, at the 'Symposium on International e-Democracy', that the Iraq War is based on lies being promulgated by the government in the media--something he claimed happened during the Viet Nam era and said he didn't think would be able to happen in the internet age."

Some context here: Minnesota E-Democracy is a non-profit which runs a series of putatively-neutral email discussion forums on local, state and national politics. As noted in this forum before, in practice they are about as "neutral" as a MoveOn.org or Democrats.com forum; unlike conservatives (who seem to thrive in the anarchic, do-it-yourself world of the blogs, the left seem to thrive in the hierarchical, hive-like world of the email discussion groups; some of their list management was furthermore openly hostile to conservative opinion to the point of suspending conservative commentators for dubious-to-the-point-of-ludicrous pretenses. As a results, E-Democracy tends to be a DFL/Green safe house.

And yet they managed to put together a group of like-minded foreigners who allegedly booed R.T. Rybak for essentially parroting the same line most of the principals at E-Democracy put forth.

It's a great day.

UPDATE: Or not. There's more-than-credible evidence the story is bogus.

Bummer.

Posted by Mitch at July 29, 2005 07:09 PM | TrackBack