And sometimes “I haven’t said anything” has an implied “…yet” after it.<\/p>\n
One the most dull-witted bit of comment-section rhetoric is the old “I see you’re silent on…[some issue you haven’t written or spoken about]”, usually written to imply “silence equals assent”.<\/p>\n
I’ve had a few commenters, tweeps and other people say “I notice you’re completely silent on the issue of the MNGOP “Sex Scandal”, the “coverup”, and the principals involved”.<\/p>\n
Well, there’s a grain of truth to that, in that I haven’t written anything on the subject.<\/p>\n
Yet.<\/p>\n
There are a few good reasons for that.<\/p>\n
I Have Little To Say<\/strong>: \u00a0All of the principals in the case are, to some degree or another, friends. \u00a0More importantly, they all have families. \u00a0Others may believe that their ends – pillorying the opposition – justfify their means, including piling on a couple of families who, let’s be honest, didn’t ask to be part of this. \u00a0So go read them, if that’s what you want. \u00a0But before you do, remember…<\/p>\n If You Ever, Even Once, Said “It’s Just About Sex” During The Clinton Administration, You Need To Just Shush<\/strong>: Seriously. \u00a0It’s private business. \u00a0It didn’t affect government. \u00a0Move on. \u00a0Just mooooove on.<\/p>\n Some might respond “But the relationship was inappropriate! \u00a0What kind of management style is that?” \u00a0To which I respond:<\/p>\n It’s An HR Issue<\/strong>: \u00a0Is every complaint about “inappropriate relationships” aired out in the media where you <\/em>work? \u00a0Not until it goes to court, if at all.<\/p>\n Yeah, I know – Koch is an elected official in a position of some considerable power, so it’s a little different. \u00a0Suffice to say I have no opinion. \u00a0Yet.<\/p>\n But…<\/p>\n Much Of The Discourse On The Subject Has Nothing To Do With Amy Koch<\/strong>: \u00a0The “relationship” with the unnamed male staffer is the issue that’s got a good chunk of the Twin Cities leftyblogosphere cackling away with their prurient, projection-addled glee. \u00a0A name has been popping up, over and over again. \u00a0But none of the MSM’s sources on the subject have gone on the record with that name yet – not to a standard that a “real” news media outlet can run with yet.<\/p>\n And I’ll confess this to you all right now – I hope the “rumor” is wrong. \u00a0And I hope that the reason the subject of the tittering speculation is lawyering up is because so many of the Twin Cities’ leftybloggers and less-scrupulous media outlets<\/a> have stuck their tender extremities into a meatgrinder; that they’ve defamed the “rumored” staffer, and done it because they \u00a0ignored the standards of fact-checking required to defend a defamatory assertion, and exercised “reckless disregard for the truth” – which is a form of “malice”<\/a> under Minnesota defamation law that might, with a good lawyer, be enough to void the First Amendment protection they’re all hoping to hide behind. \u00a0I’ll cop to it; my Christmas cheer is marred by a hope against hope that the next year sees an awful <\/em>lot of smug leftyblogging and City-Pages-writing prigs bussing tables at Panera to pay off a humongous legal judgment.<\/p>\n A guy can dream, can’t he?<\/p>\n But What About The Coverup?<\/strong>: \u00a0We’ll see. \u00a0I’m going to do something that a whoooole lot of – I’ll be frank – dumber bloggers could stand to try; waiting until I know enough to have a perspective worth writing.<\/p>\n Now – as to all of you leftybloggers and comment-section-lawyers who haven’t specifically condemned the massacre at Katyn Wood? \u00a0Why do you support Russian genocide against the Poles?<\/p>\n Does your silence speak volumes, or what?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And sometimes “I haven’t said anything” has an implied “…yet” after it. 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