The Flak In Summer
By Mitch Berg
I’ve beat around the bush for years.
I finally have to ask.
Read Sunday’s piece by Lori Sturdevant, and tell me – does she get her checks directly from the DFL?
Her column has never served as anything but free DFL propaganda.
Shouldn’t her columns be labelled “advertising?”
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:03 am
“As DFLer Jerry Janezich demonstrated in 2000, give a Senate DFL endorsement to a good guy with no money, and you get a third-place finish in the primary.”
The reason that the DFL endorsement means so little is that the DFL refuses to endorse anyone but raving loons.
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
Mitch, I read LS’s column but I wrote about the other DFL shill’s column about Iraq being the albatross around Norm Coleman’s neck. I wrote about that because his article came a day after the Strib had an article talking about how worried the DFL was that Ciresi & Franken couldn’t beat Coleman.
Sturdevant & Coleman are the gifts that keep giving.
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 am
“does she get her checks directly from the DFL?”
Under your theory, should we be concerned that NARN members are getting checks from the MNGOP or candidate campaigns. Well, it wouldn’t be the first time I guess!
Flash
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
Another local blogger (Powerline?) said recently how stupid it is for a paper to take a position on statewide Republican vs Democratic races.
You spend money to buy a paper and read the advertisments in it, but then you get to the page where the paper tells you you’re an idiot and you need to switch sides.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 am
Under your theory, should we be concerned that NARN members are getting checks from the MNGOP or candidate campaigns
We are overtly Republican. We are honest about our biases; nobody would have any grounds to think that the NARN, or this blog, is anything but right-leaning.
I’d love to hear how Sturdevant describes herself as a journalist.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 am
“Under your theory, should we be concerned that NARN members are getting checks from the MNGOP or candidate campaigns.”
No flash, you don’t need to be concerned about anything. When conservative bloggers are hired to do political work they say so.
And not because they signed some specious “code of ethics” that they then walk all over at will. Honesty is just the right thing to do.
I’m guessing that you knew that at one time.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:04 am
Swiftee, that was remarkably civil of you. What’s wrong?
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 am
I was refreshing for LS to have a different theme in Sunday’s paper. Yes, she looks good in the DFL cheerleading outfit and the DFL pom poms that she wears while writing her Sunday column. She didn’t have the overly predictable theme in her Sunday column, which is………. “Why don’t the Republicans just give in like they used to” theme.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Kermit asked: “Swiftee, that was remarkably civil of you. What’s wrong?”
Jesus, he sounds like he stepped out of a Jane Austen novel. Pussy.
The kids muct be home for summer break and Swiftee doesn’t want to expose them to the vicious sewage he usually uses to express himself.
One of ’em got a 3.65 in high school, dontcha know.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
AC has read Jane Austen!
lol
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Flipped past a PBS drama once while looking for fighting robots on cable, Badda. Gave me douche chills, kinda like reading Swift One prattle that “Honesty is just the right thing to do.”
I’m just hoping some second grade girl used Swiftee’s sign-on.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
angryclown said:
“One of ‘em got a 3.65 in high school, dontcha know”
He was proud enough of his kid to share his super secret, ultra-private GPA information? Oh no, that was unwise. Now that anybody can identify the kid by his or her GPA, how will he or she ever avoid the identity thieves. *rolls eyes*
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
More like he’s so frikken sad he has to trot out his kids’ GPAs in an argument with a pissed-off internet clown, Troy.
Awesome job on the eye rolling, Troy. That means sarcasm, right? Angryclown will have to remember that one. *rolls eyes.*
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Never confuse AC with anything cultured… other than strep. It’s so cool to see him “snap back”.
It’s almost like his smart and funny.
Hey, AC… some 15 year old jagoff called. He wants his personality back.
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I dont know, Badda, sometimes, like today, AC can be pretty funny. I mean, come on. “Flipped past a PBS drama once while looking for fighting robots on cable, Badda.” That’s comedic gold. *rolls eyes*
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Oh, AC has his funny moments.
*rolls intestines*
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Damn, lost my other sarcasm indicator. Try again. *bigalgoresigh*
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
See, wingnuts? *Mitch* is funny. The rest of you, you’re not funny. You should all learn from Mitch.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
*mitch*? is that the new tag for sarcasm? *mitch* (very zen-like of me, I know)
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I only blow my nose on complete lefty assholes like Assclown.
Flash is only half a moonbat and is not beyond redemption.
AC is really steamed because his kids didn’t have to post ACT or SAT scores to get accepted into the Tiger Jack School of Shoe Shinin’ and Such, but he needen’t be so bitter.
Remember Assclown, as Judge Smails said “The world needs ditch diggers” and shoe shine boys too. I’m sure that you’ve prepared your issue well for their role in life.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Shoe Shinin’?!?!?!
I just KNEW that AC had a shinebox.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I’d love to hear how Sturdevant describes herself as a journalist.
Sturdevant would describe herself as an opinion columnist who, like her colleague Katherine Kersten, is paid to opine on various subjects of the day. Beat reporters, which you may have Sturdevant confused with, are supposed to report without influx of opinion. They don’t always do this of course, but we already know that. The issue of reporting inaccuracy due to bias doesn’t apply to Sturdevant as she is an opinion columnist and not a beat reporter.
...nobody would have any grounds to think that the NARN, or this blog, is anything but right-leaning.
Nobody would have any grounds to think Sturdevant is anything but left-leaning.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Pretty weak, Mary. What’s gotcha all pussied up today swiftee? Mourning Tammy Faye?
Of course Republicans think Judge Smails was the hero of that picture.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
“The rest of you, you’re not funny. You should all learn from Mitch.”
Sniff…sniff…and I try so hard. A little song, a little dance, a little Fresca down the pants….
Dang, this comedy stuff is hard.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
You dolt… we consider that film to have no heroes. Maybe Spackler. Maybe Cervix.
We see Smails as a loveable buffoon… you know, just like you, AC.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
“You really do walk into these things… don’t you, Baldrick?”
July 24th, 2007 at 9:36 am
From the Strib “Veteran Capitol journalist Lori Sturdevant writes about state politics and government. ”
There is also an interview out there where she bargs about being non-partisan when she covers the capitol.
Sorry, but Kersten is listed as a columist and Lori is listed as a journalist.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Thanks, angryclown! Awesome job figuring out the eye rolling thing! 😉