{"id":2760,"date":"2008-06-24T05:55:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T10:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:15:50","slug":"hysteria-and-consensus-manufactured-while-u-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Hysteria And<\/i> Consensus: Manufactured While U Wait!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night after work, I went to the “No Primate Pets” rally at the XCel Energy Center. Of course, the X only holds around 20,000 people with the floors entirely opened to an SRO crowd; as I walked up to the press box, I saw crowds standing eight abreast all the way up Fifth Street, circling around the Travellers building, and over to the Saint Hotel, waiting patiently as the doors closed on a full house. Some waved signs – “Keep oar Monkeez in the White Haus”, “Primates Make Bad Mates” and so on – as they trudged over to Kellogg Boulevard to watch the proceedings on the Jumbotron.<\/p>\n

Inside, a tripartisan coalition of Ellen Anderson, Brian Sullivan and Dean Barkley (wearing a “Will Advise Your Administration For Food” T-shirt) led the crowd in a mass “chant-in” on behalf of apes around the world; former Genesis singer Peter Gabriel provided interstitial music, keynoting his set with a newly-rewritten “Don’t Shock The Monkey”.<\/p>\n

And when former Governor Jesse Ventura – perhaps the most respected man in Minnestoa politics today – took the stand and bellowed “No primates for…um…pets”, the building shook, as the 20,000 voices inside, and at least as many outside, joined their voices as one to demand that Congress ban monkeys as pets.<\/p>\n

No, really! Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros Monitor<\/span> Independent <\/em>says that Minnesotans are really, really fired up<\/em> about this issue<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Michele Bachmann is out of step with Minnesota citizens who want common-sense animal welfare policies and want their communities protected from dangerous attacks and diseases,” Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund said in a press release Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah. Well, if the Humane Society – AKA “the voice of Minnesota” – says it’s so…<\/p>\n

Bachmann – Minnesota’s Sixth District congresswoman, who excites more unthinking hysteria than any other politician in Minnesota (indeed, some have called her “The Katherine Kersten of Politics”) voted against the bill, doncha see. And if Rep. Bachmann – who won her office in 2006, a famously bad year for Republicans, by the biggest margin of victory in any seriously-contested race with her rigorously conservative message – votes against <\/em>something, well, most Minnesotans just have <\/em>to be for it.<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n

Of course, we don’t know why Bachmann voted against the bill – not from Birkey’s story, certainly.<\/p>\n

Perhaps monkeys as pets are not rightfully a federal issue, <\/em>and that Rep. Bachmann was correct <\/em>in voting against it?\u00a0Perhaps?<\/p>\n

The Minnesoros Monitor<\/span> Independent’s <\/em>spiral into self-parody continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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