Shot in the Dark

Tag: A-Klo

  • Compare and Contrast

    The subject is constituent meetings related to healthcare. Senator Klobuchar:  “Meets” with constituents via a “tele-town hall”.  To te accurate – the technology was exceedingly buggy. To be fair, she and her people by all appearances tried to put on a fair show; it’s also worth noting that her stance on Obamessiahcare Kennedycare differs from the…

  • Pretty Vacant

    In reading Doug Grow’s account of A-Klo’s “Tele-Town Hall” “meeting”, it occurs to me… One caller tried hard to pin her down. “Do you support a public (health insurance) option?” he asked. That seemed to call for a “yes” or “no” answer. The caller got neither. Sen. Amy KlobucharInstead, here’s what he got: “I will…

  • In The Interest Of Fairness

    So after writing about the apparent bollix-up with Senator Klobuchar’s “Tele-Town Hall”, I figured that in the interest of presenting a balanced picture of the news I’d invite the Senator to appear on the Northern Alliance Radio Network at the Fair next week. So I went to the Senator’s “Press” page, and noted the contact…

  • Miss The Meeting?

    I’m going to do something I haven’t done in a while:  issue a call to the MOB. MOB bloggers – of all political persuasions – did you get an “invite” to Amy Klobuchar’s “tele-town-hall?” Did you get the “callback” from A-Klo’s office to join the meeting?  Did you actually get to “attend” the meeting? And…

  • He Had A Golden Ticket

    Fresch Fisch got an invite to Senator Klobuchar’s  “Tele-Town Hall”: And it sure sounded on the up-and-up: Dear :_____ As someone who has previously contacted our office to share your thoughts on issues important to you, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a live statewide healthcare tele-town hall…

  • Perils Of Partisanship

    Most everyone thought Norm Coleman’s concession speech was gracious and classy.  There were some risible exceptions (see previous)… …and Charlie Quimby, who notes: I heard an MPR reporter say that cameras from The UpTake were excluded from livestreaming Coleman’s announcement. Instead, the news service shot shaky video from a neighbor’s yard and posted it here…

  • I, Obstreporous Peasant

    I sat in on “Radio Free Nation”, Marty Owings’ Blogtalkradio show last Saturday night. Marty had booked Minnesota Fifth District representative Keith Ellison.  Ellison appeared for about 45 minutes.  For the first 25 minutes, the Representative talked about his economic platform: “Reform” of regulations for financial services companies “Strengthening Union Rights”, as he referred to…

  • Saberi: Hoping For Change?

    As I noted earlier, free-lance journalist, former NPR reporter/Miss North Dakota/Fargo North alum Roxana Saberi is being held incommunicado in Iran. Ed at Hot Air notes: This puts Barack Obama’s “smart power” foreign policy to the test. If Saberi’s case gets a lot of attention, the State Department will feel the pressure to get her…

  • Light ‘Em Up

    There are indications the Dems are going to be scraping to get to sixty in the Senate. Here’s the complete list of Senators and their staffs. Naturally, pick the ones from your state (singular in Minnesota – perhaps good under the circumstances) and get cranking. It’s unlikely Amy “A-Klo” Klobuchar will be one of the…

  • If You Think You Have It Bad…

    …at least be thankful you’re not stuck at this Super Bown “party” The invite of the year (so far): Barack Obama’s Super Bowl watching party. . .elected officials break out 11 Ds, 4Rs Senators: Bob Casey (D-PA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Arlen Specter (R-PA) House members: Elijah Cummings (D-MD); Artur Davis (D-AL); Rosa…

  • 2008 Shootie Awards

    It hardly seems like it’s been three years since the staff of this blog issued the first-ever “Shot In The Dark Academy Of Blogging Art, Science and Engineering Awards For MetaJournalistic AntiExcellence” – known and loved as the “Shooties”. During those three years, the online metajournalistic world has expanded – and, like a Peter-Principled fog,…

  • The Long, Patient Slog

    Bing West – Vietnam Marine veteran and author of The March Up and The Strongest Tribe among many other writings on the Iraq war, writes to Rich Lowry at NRO, urging caution about applying apples to oranges and, along the way, taking an oblique poke at a Dem campaign meme: The Chairman of the Joint…

  • Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Two bits of news from talk radio that tie into a larger industry-wide trend. Brain Maloney notes that Citadel Radio – one of the chains of broadcasters that has led the way in trying to jam left-leaning programming down the listeners throats, and largely failing (judging by their stock, which has gone from a solid…

  • Not Saying Rick Kahn Had Anything To Do With It, But…

    Mary LaHammer ponders yesterday’s vandalism of the homes of most of the Twin Cities congressional delegation – mostly Republicans (along with Rep. Ellison and Sen. Klobuchar):   If these images get a lot of attention I wonder if this could evolve into something like the Rick Kahn comments at Wellstone’s memorial.  While the partisan in…

  • Our Neighbors

    The Twin Cities’ tolerant lefties are hard at work vandalizing Norm Coleman’s house: [Senator ] Coleman and his wife, Laurie, live in the Crocus Hill neighborhood of St. Paul. Spokesman Mark Drake says Wednesday morning that grafitti left on the outside of the garage says: “You are a criminal resign or else”; “Scum,” which is written…

  • Orientation Issues

    To:  Dennis Lien, St. Paul Pioneer Press From:  Mitch Berg Re:  Fact Checking in your 10/9 piece Mr. Lien, Mitch Berg here.  Not sure if you’re new in the market because, like an awful lot of people to the right of Amy Klobuchar, I don’t actually read the daily newspapers in this town.  I know…

  • From The Mouths Of Senators

    Senator Amy “A-Klo” Klobuchar is all a-twitter about the Biden selection. Or is she? (emphasi9s added): What he brings to Barack Obama is the fact that he is not a ‘yes’ man. He’s going to challenge Sen. Obama to be the best president he can be,” the Minnesota Democrat said. He reminds her of former Vice…

  • Didn’t See This Coming…

    The Carpenters Union has endorsed… …Norm Coleman? Rachel Stassen-Berger notes: The backing is a switch — the 13,000-members union endorsed Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone in 2002 and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2006. How bad are things going for Franken when even labor unions are shunning him? UPDATE:  Ed is right:  the Carpenters Union did…

  • The Two-Way Sluice

    When I cast my first-ever conservative vote – for Ronald Reagan, in 1984 – I didn’t tell anyone. Part of it was that the whole conversion from mushy-left to right was so very recent. Part of it was that I was still feeling my way around an unfamiliar place. And a big part was that…

  • I’m Gumby, Dammit

    I’m a little late with this one – but, given Al Franken’s latest ad buy (“I was a comedian, er, satirist; sometimes the jokes went off the mark, but that’s comedy.  Minnesota’s future is no joke to me”), I think it’s timely enough. Last week sometime, Aaron Brown of “Minnesota Brown” kind of summed up…

  • An Opinion Is For Closers

    Alec Baldwin – who broke his promise in 2004 to move to France or Canada or Angola or whereever – has all sorts of reasons for voting for Al Franken against Norm Coleman this fall: Norm Coleman, a former Democrat who had the unusual luck to run against a retirement-age Walter Mondale in order to fill…

  • Note To Sen. Klobuchar: Take The Deal

    (Norm should, too, although he’s voted generally correctly over the past seven years). Senator Klobuchar: I know you’re busy – too busy to respond to your consituents, indeed! – but I think you oughtta make time for this offer from Michael Yon: One of the biggest problems with the Iraq War is that politics has…

  • A Bill So Bad…

    …that even the Strib, which has never met a spending program it doesn’t like, gets it: A number of members of Congress have celebrated this week’s passage of the $290 billion farm bill as a great victory for bipartisanship in Washington. Proof, if any were needed, of the dangers of “bipartisanship” on any issue that…

  • Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Media, Part VI

    So a little over a month after Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros Monitor pondered Rep. Bachmann’s reticence about giving time to regional non-conservative/Christian media, and my challenge in turn to Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, Growth and Justice leader Dane Smith and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, I can report the following: Stuart…

  • Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Media, Part V

    It’s been a month since Andy Birkey at the Minnesota Monitor complained that Rep. Michele Bachman (GOP, MN6) fails to disregard the Minnesota mainstream media’s anti-conservative hackery, and limits most of her media to conservative and Christian outlets. I responded by sending invites to half a dozen key DFL office-holders and candidates. I left emails…