I’d say “I’m not hungry right now”, but then someone on the left would try to link me to the murder of any waitresses that turned up dead in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
Oh, speaking of which – someone named “MNBearBud” over at Minnesota Michele can talk about being opposed to gay rights, but when it comes to questions about the murdered census worker, she avoids an answer.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n No, MNBearBud.\u00a0 She ignores a stupid question<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n She quotes from “ThinkProgress”, a leftyblog that is to blogs what Rachel Maddow is to cable TV or M”P”P <\/em>is to Minnesota – a screeching, simple-minded, demented production that even lowest common denominators with a modicum of self-respect find insulting:<\/p>\n The Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel attended the conference and attempted to catch up with Bachmann to ask her about the murdered Census worker in Kentucky, but she evaded his question: <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0“After the speech, Bachmann had only a few minutes to sign autographs and collect a stack of CDs and books from fans who’d followed her into the lobby. I caught up to her as she headed outside and asked if she had any response to the murder of a Kentucky census worker, having noticed that the Census, a constant target for Bachmann, did not figure into her speech. Bachmann recoiled a little at the question and turned to enter her limo. “<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0“Thank you so much!” she said. “<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As I noted last week, Weigel is usually a pretty intelligent commentator<\/a> on the right. But asking her about her feelings about a murder with whom her only association is the slanderous free-association of a pack of (I’ll be charitable) hacks,\u00a0and which is\u00a0increasingly unlikely<\/a> to have been a political statement at all,\u00a0\u00a0is like asking the M”P”<\/em>P’s Grace Kelly what she’s going to do with her MacArthur grant.\u00a0 It’s just not relevant, and frankly nothing she needs to comment about at all.<\/p>\n Over the summer, Bachmann waged a high-profile, wildly-dishonest campaign against the Census, going so far as to claim that the data collected had been used to round up and intern Japanese-Americans in the 1940s<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Er, really, MNBearBud\/”Think”Progress?<\/p>\n Um, how do <\/em>you “think” the government found the Japanese-American citizens?<\/p>\n Do you think they drove down the street in a truck, looking for people with high math scores?<\/p>\n Question, MNBearBud:\u00a0 how does government gather demographic data<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n Question for the M”P”P at large;\u00a0 How many tests did you have to flunk to get accepted as writers for Minnesota’s most embarassing blog – history and <\/em>IQ, both, or either one of them?<\/p>\n UPDATE:\u00a0 I got a bit of feedback from a rather overwrought, solipsistic and confused person who, despite himself, did make one valid point.\u00a0 My original take on this story mixed a serious point about the census and\u00a0the myopia of Rep.\u00a0Bachmann’s detractors\u00a0with a rather childish jibe at the M”P”P writer involved.\u00a0 I’ll cop to it.\u00a0I’ve fixed the latter, to better focus on the former.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’d say “I’m not hungry right now”, but then someone on the left would try to link me to the murder of any waitresses that turned up dead in the next few weeks. Oh, speaking of which – someone named “MNBearBud” over at Minnesota Tragedy of Spirochaetal Paresis “Progressive” Project apparently apparently believes that conservatives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tragedy of Spirochaetal Paresis<\/strike> “Progressive” Project <\/em>apparently apparently believes that conservatives should answer on command, like puppies<\/a>, even the most demented accsations:<\/p>\n