“I Think She Sold Out Minnesota!”
By Mitch Berg
That was the line that a number of media outlets featured prominently on a couple of the evening newscasts last night – corn-fed, well-padded Minnesotans (of unrevealed political orientation, naturally) grumbling “I feel Michele Bachmann threw in her lot with Iowa”.
To all of those people; please take your faces and pound your kitchen counters with them for a few moments. I’ll tell you when to stop.
Keep going.
This is the USA. We don’t have internal passports. Decades of living in Minnesota, working in Minnesota, representing a district in the Minnesota Senate and then a Minnesota district in DC is not negated by observing a bit of Iowa heritage. And – let’s face it – Minnesota’s provincialism is cute in an annoying kind of way at best, kind of pathetic at worst.
No, keep bashing. I’m not done yet.
I live in Minnesota. I grew up in North Dakota. If I were running for President, I’d play that for whatever it was worth in both states Because I can. Because this isn’t a place where peasants are tied to the land, like a bunch of Russian serfs or Chinese subjects who need to show their papers to leave their home province.
No, keep bashing.
The fact that it’s mentioned at all in the media is part of the media’s attempt to start digging up anything they can find to try to jack Bachmann out of office next November. They’ll need all they can get.
OK. Stop bashing yoiur face now.
I hope we’ve learned our lesson.
January 5th, 2012 at 5:43 am
And – let’s face it – Minnesota’s provincialism is cute in an annoying kind of way at best, kind of pathetic at worst.
No kidding. The worst part is the clinging to celebrities that goes on. Vince Vaughan and John Madden happened to be born here, but never really lived here. But they’re both Minnesotans, doncha know?
January 5th, 2012 at 5:48 am
Except when somebody returns to Minnesota from New York to run for the U.S. Senate, right? That’s still bad?
So confusing.
January 5th, 2012 at 6:27 am
No, no, Clown. It’s not bad that he returned.
It’s bad that 50%+212 Minnesotans thought he could make a Senator.
January 5th, 2012 at 7:18 am
You nailed it, Mr. D! The pathetic excuses of yammering news bobbleheads are always looking for an angle to get a Minnesota connection in. Some things that come to mind are pointing out that a person sitting at a Cubs game wearing a Hamline sweatshirt when the fan interfered with the play, but the refs let it go, supposedly causing the Cubs the playoffs or something. Further, they also refer to Jessica Biel as a Minnesotan. She was born in Ely and lived there for like 2 years, but of course, she belongs to the state. Sheesh!
January 5th, 2012 at 7:48 am
No, no, Clown. It’s not bad that he returned.
It’s bad that 50%+212 Minnesotans thought he could make a Senator.
And he didn’t really return anyway. He lives in the Washington, DC area, last I heard.
January 5th, 2012 at 8:52 am
Has Michele produced her birth certificate? The people demand to know!
Because, in the eyes of the media, it makes absolutely no sense that anybody would take pride in being born in Iowa.
January 5th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Why are all the football fields in Iowa astroturf?
Why do birds fly upside down over Iowa?
January 5th, 2012 at 10:23 am
Q. What do you call a dead pig draped over a tractor?
A. The University of Iowa homecoming parade.
We also would have accepted “Angryclown’s junior prom date.”
January 5th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Heh. We all know Clownie never went to prom.
January 8th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
By the lib media thinking, Hubert Humprey sold out Minnesota when he campaigned for President while in South Dakota. For that is where he was born. Wallace, Doland and Huron SD was his home. Well into his twenties. Go figure.