It Was A Glorious Day
By Mitch Berg
So I did the show at the fair last night. Had a great time talking with Ed Matthews, who’s running for Congress in the Fourth District, as well as Andrew Campanella from the Alliance for School Choice, and Big John Howell from WIND’s John and Cisco show live from the convention.
Of course, while I always had a blast broadcasting from our old digs on Judson near the southeast corner of the fairgrounds, our new location – just inside the front gate, on Dan Patch Avenue, is a complete hoot. Largely because we’ve installed tables and chairs and sun-umbrellas, so it’s genuinely a nice place to stop and decompress (when you’re not outraged at the mess the Tics want to make of this country) from the hustle and bustle of the fair, of course…
…but also because the DFL booth is right across the street.
As always, I make a point of interviewing them whenever I can; on the NARN II show, we always take liberal callers first, and that includes the ones that come into our lair on foot. Most of them aren’t up to talking on the air – most of them seem to be acting more from inchoate rage than considered thought.
Especially one woman last night.
As I was interviewing Matthews, a woman – short, leathery, fiftyish, with a mop of cairefully-coiffed short brown hair, wearing an Obama shirt and a face that bespoke a middle-aged life that had never brooked any disagreement – stood in the far corner of the Patriot’s area, and just grimaced; the look was partly “that wasn’t a Baby Ruth I just ate”, and partly pure, undiluted hatred.
I waved to try to defuse things, and maybe induce her to hang around for a quick chat. Her faced tightened up, as if someone had brought her a plate of steamed refugee. She scampered away, holding her head, as if the cognitive dissonance was making her immune system reject her brain.
We have to share a country with these people.
Oy.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I think I can identify what she was thinking. It is the pure unalloyed rage of someone whose intellectual superiority has been challenged. That you dare to even exist, let alone challenge her tightly-held (perhaps TOO tightly) belief system, is simply too much to bear.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Mitch, if you really want to feel the love…oops, hatred, sorry…..go to the crop art (in the Hort building,) which I will from now on refer to as crap art. It has several crop Bushes and crop Cheneys and oh, lots of crop elephants and oh, do they hate conservatives and Republicans. There are the usual names associated with them, Laura Melnick, I believe, who is the most talented hater in the bunch. It’s too bad they use their art to hurt, isn’t that what THEY would say?
August 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
The new digs are perfect for getting in the diggs!
I was out there on Sunday and was initially bummed to see you guys had been displaced ( worried for a minute that maybe the city of St. Paul had condemned and torn down the place), but when I found it right across the street from Moonbat Central, well all I could say was “Sweeet”!
You need to put some speakers on the roof so that those ‘bats can hear the festivities from the comfort of their “swamp away from swamp”.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
And we have to share the country with people like swiftee.
I think we’re even.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Isn’t is something how ‘tolerant’ the left is?! Please explain how you figure, you lefties that post here. And explain how you get away with it while you’re at it…like the crop art stuff. Imagine the right doing that and how it would go over with the press. And yet we’re the ones accused of intolerance and ‘hatred’. Amazing.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
To quote Jim:
“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
August 28th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I’m afraid I’m not familiar with crop art. What horrors were put up against President Bush and the Republic party?