Compare And Contrast

A few weeks back, Tom Emmer appeared on MPR’s “Mid-Morning with Keri Miller”.

Now, while I have credited MPR’s Newsroom with making a game attempt at providing balance, MPR’s programming is pretty much a pro-DFL morass.  Miller is less overtly a DFL flak than her predecessor, future former “Air America” prop Catherine Lanpher, but only barely.

Her interview with Emmer should have been an embarassment.    Tough questioning is one thing – and a good thing! – but Miller’s stock questions were accompanied with condescention, badgering and hectoring.

So all three DFLers are going to be on Miller’s show today.  Think Miller will be as concerned about specifics as she was with Emmer?

Think we’ll see questions like “Mr. Dayton, if we end state contracting, will we just stop doing the work, or will the work go to more-expensive unionized state employees?”, or “let’s say you tax “the rich” at confiscatory rates; how much of that five billion deficit your DFL caucus ran up; how much of the deficit will it kill off?  Be specific!”  “Mr. Entenza, you talk a lot about “Green Jobs” – but the record of “Green Jobs” in the US at large and in Spain has been dismal at best.   How is your plan not doomed?”  “Speaker Kelliher – so get specific here;  your “plan” makes a lot of vague blandishments about squeezing money out of people; how exactly do you close the deficit and spend as much as you’ve promised?’

How often will Miller sharply, mockingly purr “That won’t save much!”?

Any bets?

And when, not if, the DFLers squeeze by without any serious challenge, will Erik Black sniff about how vague they all were?

I’ll be an interesting day.

5 thoughts on “Compare And Contrast

  1. The question I want to hear her ask: “Do you think MPR should be made to pay its ‘Fair Share’ of taxes?”

  2. Some one should ask Entenza why he keeps promoting Emmer in his commercials. “Palin endorsed Emmer”. Cool, that makes me want to vote for Tom Emmer.

  3. I heard Entenza’s commercial on KTLK on the way to work this morning. Talk about unwise use of ad dollars. You have to figure MAYBE 3% (and I’m being VERY generous there) of KTLK’s listener base would respond positively to that ad. Unless Entenza is just doing that to piss off Emmer supporters.

  4. even if Entenza only reaches 3% of KTLK’s audience it will still be more effective advertising than anything he puts on MSNBC.

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