The Peasants Are Revolting
By Mitch Berg
Kerry emails Councilman Thune, via me:
Mr. Thune, You, sir, are a terrific embarassment. Nothing beyond, “If we let one bar stay open until four, we must let all stya open” needed saying. You ought to have left it at that. Where is your Christian charity that you decide 8000 people you have not and never will meet will be 1) “….puking” and 2), doing so on your lawn. To keep a man down, one must be in the gutter with them. In this case, you occupy it alone. Is this decent? Loving? Why broadcast your personal opinions about national policy in this case? You have, in Mark Twain‘s words, removed all doubt in opening your mouth. A great city does not have offical city council members who ridicule others in public. Like a lie, a slander travels at least halfway around the world before truth puts on its pants. Will St. Paul benefit or lose if parts of its reputation includes people in Peoria or Buffalo chortling at “some guy named in St. Paul named Thone or Thune” and the word “puking”? Please, next time, keep silent, I beg you.
Need I say more?
I think not.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I’m thinking of puking on Thune’s lawn.
Hey, related to St Paul moonbats…..I KSTP has a short thing on the ACLU wanting people to go to their web site to report racial profiling. These reports will then be used to sue people.
Now if I can just get Republican-American to be declared a race or some other protected class……
April 10th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
“KSTP has a short thing on the ACLU wanting people to go to their web site to report racial profiling. These reports will then be used to sue people.”
Flood the zone: report Thune, since he just profiled Powell and Rice who will be in town soon.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Mr. Thune has one point. Had they closed the bars the day of Paul Wellstone’s funeral and Minnesotans would have not been subjected to catcalls, insults, Wellstone’s son yelling like a drunk at a football game (as his father’s and sister’s body were still warm), Mr. Mondale might have become a US Senator again. But that was his political party’s actions.
I don’t recall any such comments by a major local official when Philadelphia or New York hosted Republican conventions – and those are two majority Democrat towns.
And I have got news for you DFLers. If you think a jerk like Thune wouldn’t step on people’s toes if the Democratic National Convention was held in the Twin Cities, you are deluding yourself. I’m sure a jerk like Thune could come up with a way to alienate Democratic officials without even half trying.