Carrying Ellison’s Water
By Mitch Berg
Earlier this morning I wrote a piece about Keith Ellison’s endorsement of fascist thuggery focused against enemies of the Democrat Party.
But I noticed something beyond that. In the PiPress story on the subject (bylined from the Associated Press). The article said:
Ellison’s post said the book should “strike fear into the heart” of President Donald Trump.
Which is a grammatically correct construction. Almost sounds like an educated person speaking proper English.
But this is what Ellison wrote:
He “found the book that strike fear”… into his enemy.
Now, I’m not going to make much of Ellison’s mangling verb tenses on Twitter. Everyone has their moments.
But why is the AP cleaning up Ellison’s grammar for him?
January 5th, 2018 at 1:18 pm
Duh. Because you can’t have your law school educated party spokesman coming across as an ignorant buffoon as he makes physical threats against his party’s opposition.
Send a note to the editor? I’m guessing they would not have shown the same courtesy to the President. The veil is off; they’re in the bag for the left.
January 5th, 2018 at 2:06 pm
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January 5th, 2018 at 3:14 pm
Actually, they committed journalistic malpractice. They put something in quotes that wasn’t a quotation. In other circumstances they might be in legal hot water. But hey, we can’t expect journalists to be responsible and sensible now can we? *sheesh*
January 5th, 2018 at 3:16 pm
Nevermind, I just did fake news there and retract my statement.
Now, is that so hard to do? You’d think that the media could do the same, but it rarely does.
January 5th, 2018 at 5:26 pm
I am sure that his constituents will now think twice before voting for that poor excuse for a human. Bwaaaahaaaahaaaa!
January 5th, 2018 at 8:25 pm
Translating Ebonics is their job.
January 7th, 2018 at 10:20 am
I suspect Ellison wasn’t serious, I also suspect he was saying it to get a rise out of the fascist right.
That said, maybe not, Keith is not someone I support, maybe he’s just that dense. As far as his grammar goes, Mitch, at least the man can speak in complete sentences and he normally uses the correct proper pronoun. Which is, the Democratic Party, Mitch. Log.in.eye.
January 7th, 2018 at 1:45 pm
” . . . the Democratic Party”
That would be the party that puts its faith, not in the peoples’ elected representatives, but in unelected bureaucrats and judges.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an abomination. It was purposely created, by democrats, to be beyond the reach of elected officials. The CPFB is not funded by congress, so elected reps can’t even cut them off.
January 8th, 2018 at 9:18 am
Oh, yes, Penigma. I’m sure that you would be so gracious if a conservative were caught endorsing a book that endorses violence against liberals.
Sorry, buddy. Sauce for the goose.
January 8th, 2018 at 10:02 am
I suspect Ellison wasn’t serious, I also suspect he was saying it to get a rise out of the fascist right.
Who and what is this “fascist right” that you speak of, penny? Just wondering.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:55 pm
Who and what is this “fascist right” that you speak of, penny? Just wondering.
Berg’s 7th law, JPA. I always find it so amusing when they use that term. The left is FAR FAR more fascist than the right. The left is the side that wants to ban just about everything out there. The only thing not already against the law that part of the right wants to ban is abortion.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:01 pm
Penigma is slow on the uptake, as he does not quite suss out the fact that limited government is not, in fact, compatible with fascism, the bundling (hence the name) of the public and private sectors.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:11 pm
Just curious to see how penny responds. Of course that would mean a departure from his usual poop and run modus operandi. Maybe he thinks I asked a rhetorical question. To clarify, I did not.
January 9th, 2018 at 2:49 pm
Checking in with Penny re “fascist right”. Yep, crickets. Poop and run. As usual.
January 11th, 2018 at 8:52 am
Seeing that spent penny posted yet another tl;dr screed in a new thread, I decided to check if he addressed “fascist right” question. Nope. That’s a lot of pooping and even more running. As usual.