Open Letter to St. Paul City Council President Dave Thune

I sent this to Councilman Thune and his assistant:

Councilman Thune,

Mitch Berg here.

I just got off the phone with Ms. Lindgren, who said she’d leave a message for you. It occurred to me that she never asked me for any contact information – an oversight, I’m sure. In any case, I’m writing to follow up.

I’d like to extend an open-ended invitation to join Ed Morrissey and I this weekend on the Northern Alliance broadcast, any time between 1PM and 3PM, at your convenience. We’d love to discuss to your statements, in public and on the Saint Paul Information Forum, about the 28-40% of your constituents who vote Republican, and are (or so you seem to believe) drunken, puking, drug-dealing warmongers.

Now, I know that every time I’ve requested an interview in the past, you’ve pled “busy”. And I know you’re a busy guy, and respect that fact.

So in the interest of reaching “across the aisle” to make sure you’re able to communicate with Saint Paul’s Republicans, and the other Republicans nationwide who’ll be travelling to *our* city, I’d like to stress that this invitation is good for ANY SATURDAY between now and the end of human existence on this or any planet (or your retirement or ejection from politics, whichever comes first). You can come into the studio, or appear via phone – whatever’s most convenient!

If you are not available on a Saturday, I will be happy to *tape* an interview with you, in studio or via phone, at ANY TIME convenient to you, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I will also be happy to meet you with a tape recorder, any place, any time, at your leisure (provided I’m not incapacitated by fits of drunken vomiting and delirium tremens). You, as an elected official, DESERVE the opportunity to reach across the aisle and speak with the 28-40% of your constituents who likely voted against the DFL and you, but whom you nevertheless still represent as president of the city council of one of America’s great cities.

Finally, in the unlikely event that you can’t free up fifteen minutes between now and the end of time for a radio interview, I’d like to submit some questions – under separate cover, obviously – for you to answer at your leisure via email. Pardon my presumption, but this seems reasonable, given that I am a Saint Paul taxpayer.

I will hope you will do me the estimable honor of responding to this invitation (which I’m making public via my various blogs and, this weekend, the show), rather than having to lead a contingent of “drunk, puking, warmongering, drug-dealing, family-values-flouting” Saint Paul Republicans to deliver it in person at an upcoming City Council meeting.

Sincerely,

Mitch Berg
Sober, peace-loving Republican and 21-year Saint Paul Taxpayer

Northern Alliance Radio Network
AM1280thepatriot.com

Shot In The Dark
www.shotinthedark.info

I’ll keep y’all posted.

13 thoughts on “Open Letter to St. Paul City Council President Dave Thune

  1. It is amazing how irresponsible elected representatives can be with their words.

    “You got elected with that mouth?”

  2. Grammar Nazi time.
    I’d like to extend an open-ended invitation to join Ed Morrissey and I this weekend
    That would be “Ed Morrissey and me”, not “I”.

    I thought you were an English major. Sheesh.

  3. Mitch, I really doubt Thuney will accept. He comes across as the kind of person who has had little diversity in his life. Probably has never really talked to a Republican-American.

  4. Oh, and if Thune has time to set up housing the idiots coming here to scream at Republicans later this year, I’m sure he can find time to talk to you if he wanted to.

  5. Are your written requests for on-air interviews always this snide? No wonder you can’t get anyone to take your little radio show seriously. Good luck working up some outrage over this.

  6. Are your written requests for on-air interviews always this snide?

    I’m thinking he wanted to put it on a level that Thuney would understand.

  7. Are your written requests for on-air interviews always this snide?

    You call this snide?

    Oh, you tender little flower.

    No wonder you can’t get anyone to take your little radio show seriously.

    Have you seen the NARN’s ratings, streaming connections, and podcast download stats lately?

    Obviously not.

  8. Considering you:

    a. don’t ever mean to be sincere in reaching across the isle and more (much more) importantly

    b. Couldn’t give a rip about the fact that, for 6 years, the President and your brand of extremism wilfully and happily even desirably discounted the roughly 38% of the country that is identified as being part of the Democratic Party, or identifies themselves as Democrats. You, in fact, cackled with glee when I asked you about this situation, reacting in the way some snot-nosed geek reacts when his churish little plans are exposed for the fraudulent duplicity they represent. In short Mitch, why are you asking Thune to do something other than what YOU think is perfectly right to do? Moreover, why did your letter not applaud him for ignoring your plight, I mean, it’s what YOU do everyday, every time you can. You ignore the opinions and facts of those you don’t like. If you don’t like it Mitch, maybe you should stop.

    I suppose the more important question is that while I and fair-minded folks (i.e. NOT you far-rightofcenterbloggers) think Thune is an ass for what he said, I wonder whether you think YOU are?

    As for your ratings, as you’ve said in the past, ratings below 2.0 get pretty hinky (which I tried to explain is the very non-technical, non-math way of saying that the sample size for those numbers is so small that even a one person shift really has a dramatic effect). So, when you want to evade the point that your ratings fall you bring up ‘hinky’, but funny, yet again, it’s time to cackle with glee when they look good.

    It must be hard to talk out of both sides of your face so often.

  9. a. don’t ever mean to be sincere in reaching across the isle and more (much more) importantly

    Not half as insincere as your efforts to try to convince people you don’t hate black people and Jews.

    What? You say that’s a grossly-presumptuous set of words to stuff in your mouth? So what – it’s what you do all the time!

    No, Peev, when I want to reach across the aisle, I do so most sincerely.

    b. Couldn’t give a rip about the fact that, for 6 years, the President and your brand of extremism wilfully and happily even desirably discounted the roughly 38% of the country that is identified as being part of the Democratic Party,

    Jeez, what a whiner you are! The President met you all more than halfway, passing an education bill that might have come from Ted Kennedy, and spending like Jimmy Carter – even though he was elected as a Republican, not some smooshy “compromise” candidate. That’s the nature of elected office!

    But – and this is rather important, so try to stay with me here – the President has never referred to the opposition as “a bunch of puking, whoremongering, drug-addicted porn-addicts”, now, has he?

    reacting in the way some snot-nosed geek reacts when his churish little plans are exposed for the fraudulent duplicity they represent.

    Are you going to publish some sort of reference to help the layman figure out what your non-sequiturs refer to?

    In short Mitch, why are you asking Thune to do something other than what YOU think is perfectly right to do?

    What on earth is that supposed to mean? Should I ask him to do something I DON’T think is right?

    Moreover, why did your letter not applaud him for ignoring your plight, I mean, it’s what YOU do everyday, every time you can. You ignore the opinions and facts of those you don’t like.

    No, no, no. I don’t ignore things I disagree with.

    Merely things that I disagree with that are stupid.

    I suppose the more important question is that while I and fair-minded folks (i.e. NOT you far-rightofcenterbloggers) think Thune is an ass for what he said, I wonder whether you think YOU are?

    A random thought just occurred to me; you think you’re being clever in writing that, don’t you?

    Oh, dear lord.

    As for your ratings, as you’ve said in the past, ratings below 2.0 get pretty hinky

    Right.

    Ours. at last report, aren’t.

    It must be hard to talk out of both sides of your face so often.

    Not half as hard as it is to either figure out what the hell you’re saying half the time, or keeping a straight face on the occasions when I do.

  10. Oh God. If a miracle occurs and Bucky’s wife lets him have his testicles for the afternoon, you have GOT to invite me to do the “counterpoint” part of the interview Mitch.

    Good radio? No my friend; great radio!

    Hahaha!

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