The Walz Campaign In Two Videos
By Mitch Berg
How It Started
This, of course, is the campaign Tim Walz is used to running: carefully curated photos of him holding animals, being fed corn dogs by Peggy Flanagan, and occasionally spouting risible strawmen via social media.
An “Instagram” Governor.
The bit above may be the perfect metaphor for Tim Walz, 2004-2023.
How It’s Going
Klink, while pheasant hunting with “influencers” over the weekend:
Now, I’ll give him half a pass on this: automatic shotguns are a pain in the ass. I hate ’em. And they are nothing like handling an M16/M4, the “weapons of war” Walz carried in the Guard and on the war-ravaged (checks notes) airfields of Italy.
But only half a pass.
Because when you’ve curated your entire public image as being a “progressive” who also fixes gutters and eats Fair Food and dresses like Elmer Fudd and shoots things for fun, one might think you’d take a little care – maybe check the piece over before the cameras show up – and maybe get it right when doing…
…y’know…
…your big instagram op.
October 14th, 2024 at 7:45 am
Yea, my take on this is either that is not his gun or if it is, he rarely uses it. There is really no excuse for not knowing your weapons well enough to quickly overcome the quirks of each one.
October 14th, 2024 at 8:10 am
The 2019 Governor’s Pheasant Opener took place in Moscow township, near Austin MN on land literally across from my house.
In preparation for the hunt, a large number of cage raised pheasants were released. These birds were pathetic. They would stand on the road befuddled as what to do when a car approached or wander about the DNR land bewildered and confused.
A few were shot, the rest were eaten by coyotes.
It takes an especially manly man to shoot a dumber than usual bird.
October 14th, 2024 at 9:13 am
Interesting, Greg, and not just because I know exactly where that is.
October 14th, 2024 at 10:49 am
I don’t remember seeing much media coverage of previous Governor’s Pheasant Openers, so I can’t prove that Tim actually used his shotgun previously, but for the sake of argument let’s say that he’s used previously. From the video, I get the impression that he uses once a year during for Opener and locks it away in a safe. Obviously, he didn’t have the presence of mind to refamilerize himself with the gun away from the cameras to avoid the optics we now have. It’s an easy mistake to make when your experience is with the lapdog Minnesota Media.
October 14th, 2024 at 7:16 pm
Greg,
I figured that there would be that kind of action. We should all be pissed off, because that’s just more of our tax money being spent for politically motivated photo ops.