President Hanson,
My name is Mitchell Berg. I’m a modestly-successful blogger (www.shotinthedark.info), covering Minnesota politics and current events from a broadly conservative viewpoint; .think Locke, Buckley and P. J. O’Rourke, rather than Larry the Cable Guy. As a parent of two college-age kids, I write a lot about education; I have been an occasional critic of Hamline’s policies.
I am also the host of a radio program – “The Northern Alliance Radio Network”, along with national blogger Ed Morrissey. We’re heard in the Twin Cities every Saturday on WWTC-AM 1280, and nationally via the internet.
I’m also a neighbor, living a block off the Hamline campus.
I’d like to request the honor of an interview with you, via any medium convenient to you, regarding both the Tom Emmer fiasco, as well as about Hamline’s commitment to “diversity” about which you wrote in the Star/Tribune this week. This interview could be…
- on the radio show, on any Saturday you’d be available
- in person, at Hamline, at any time convenient to you
- failing either of those, via a list of emailed questions.
I (and Ed, if you choose to come on the show) are acerbic but civil and respectful interviwers; I submit for your reference our interviews with R.T. Rybak, Dane Smith, David Brauer, Rochelle Olson and Erik Black as evidence that we seek a useful dialogue rather than to throw plates at our opposition.
So it would be great pleasure to have the chance to have a dialogue about academic diversity, in general and at Hamline University.
I will eagerly await your response.
Respectfully,
Mitch Berg
Yes, you are acerbic, but remarkably well mannered. I should think a left-of-center public figure would delight in the opportunity to exchange views
. I will now go laugh my narrow, Scandinavian ass off.
Is there a way you can convince them the Northern Alliance is a satellite operation of MPR? If you can – you’re in.
Dear Mr Berg,
Thank you for your offer. And while our University is both culturally and poltically diverse, accepting all viewpoints and promoting an open dialog on all subjects, I can not accept your offer.
As you know, one of our faculty members (let’s call him: “Davey”) has expressed a high level of concern regarding this matter and has threaten the entire University faculty with holding his breath, if we do not submit to his view of “diversity”. Additionally, he has promised to take his ball and go home if we continue to discuss this issue in public. To help reduce the level of stress Davey is exhibiting, we have given him a glass of warm milk and a cookie, in the hopes that he will recover to a more calm state of mind.
Sorry.
Signed,
President Eunich Hanson
Hamline University
Mitch, you need to drop the word “Shot” from the name of this blog. You ignore the now disclosed 3 month sex-scandel cover-up by the GOP to continue harping on whether some private college should have hired a guy or not.
The silence speaks volumes, Me’Boy!
Ears,
Just a point of information: The whole “You’re ignoring…” whatever you want to talk about because I haven’t written about something yet is one of the dumbest logical fallacies in the world of comment-section debate.
I haven’t written about it yet because I don’t have a position on it that I’m ready to publish. A lot of people would do well to emulate that; think first, then write.
I have yet to read a Mackbee comment about the refusal of the Obama Justice Department to enforce a law passed by congress and signed into law by a Democrat president (DOMA).
His silence speaks volumes!
Did Koch perjure herself infront of a Federal Grand Jury? On tape? And did that result in her being DISBARRED by the US Supreme Court? Which was all part of a sexual harrassment suit?
AT LEAST KOCH HAD THE COMMON DECENCY TO RESIGN HER LEADERSHIP POSITION (and may still resign all together). At least REPUBLICANS have a conscience and the good sense to resign, as opposed to Hillybilles from Arkansas.
The way journalists are supposed to handle these sorts of queries is to announce that after consulting your editorial staff you’ve found that the story is not “newsworthy”.
So apparently now the poor man’s Angryclown thinks he gets to set the editorial schedule of Mitch’s blog.
Yeah Mitch, you’re right, you’d expect you to comment on a breaking story rather than beat a dead horse for the 3rd day in a row. Nice attempt at misdirection. And you haven’t formulated at response yet? I’ll give you 90 days, the same amount of time it took the 4 Whoresman of the Senate to disclose their cover-up. Waiting until all the evidence is in? Show me Emmer’s employment contract. After all your bloviating, surely that crucial piece of evidence must be in your smarmy little hands. Go back and amend your letter to Hamline….”modestly successful” is a gross exagerration.
And all the defense your little sycophants can offer up is “well, look what the other side did”, as if I ever tried to excuse them. Fascinating.
Ears
“You’d expect…”
Your expectations are irrelevant. This is a blog – my blog – not a newspaper. See todays’ latest story for more.
So Peevish just outed himself . . .
i am amused when Hamline/Schultz supporters say “show me the signed employment contract.” it is a valid point, but only to a point. it would be highly relevant for employment-related litigation purposes, but utterly irrelevant when arguing whether Hamline caved into “non-diversity” forces within the faculty. it is barely disputable that the university intended to hire Emmer, and utterly indisputable that the administration acquiesced to faculty pressure to limit the diversity within the faculty by not following through with their hiring decision.
Ears still has not addressed why he can hold Mitch to a higher standard than he holds himself.
Now the I noticed you haven’t commented on ,,,,,, seems more like the rift that came from Penigma’s Chihuahua than from Peeve, himself.
Earsall Mackbee said:
“The silence speaks volumes, Me’Boy!”
Silence only ‘speaks volumes’ to people who are willing to interpret silence as the thing they want to hear most. Those people are crazy.
Troy for the win.