Andy Birkey is very, very concerned about violence at the Republican National Convention this September.
Well, at least about violence that hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of ever happening – like the button-pushing comment of a couple of morning talk show hosts.
The Twin Cities’ newest conservative talk show host has an idea for managing the thousands of protesters coming to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September: machine guns.
Chris Baker, formerly a talk radio host in Houston, took over the morning spot on KTLK in early March. On Friday, he took issue with the debate among Minneapolis law enforcement personnel as to whether police should limit the use of Tasers and pepper spray on protesters in Minneapolis (link to audio file). Baker’s suggestion is violent suppression of what he calls “stinky protesters” that are part of “an industry funded by billionaires and communist organizations (and) they are well-coordinated and incredibly dangerous.”
Dog bites man. The MNMon gets its monthly stipends from Mr. Soros. A talk show host pushes peoples’ buttons to elicit a controversial, emotional reaction from everyone in the audience, thereby generating more publicity, ergo more traffic.
Which doesn’t fit?
Trick question, of course; they’re all the same.
Baker continued: “So we’ve been talking about police protection during the upcoming convention when all those stinky protesters are coming. There seems to be a big debate over whether or not police officers will be able to wear helmets, carry shields, use pepper spray and Tasers on this crowd. You know, I’ll tell you what works on a crowd like this — a machine gun, that always works very well.”
Baker’s co-host, “Jordan,” agreed: “Mow ’em down, baby!” he added.
Yawn.
Seriously. So friggin’ what?
Does Chris Baker run any police department?
Closed-Circuit to Birkey: talk with Media reporter Paul Schmelzer; talk radio is all about pushing buttons. Not to say I agree with this particular stunt or statement – doy – but please.
Peace advocate and former FBI agent Coleen Rowley heard the violent rhetoric on Friday. “It doesn’t take an expert on the First Amendment to recognize that suggesting the ‘good ol’ boy network’ hand out ax handles and machine guns be used to mow a crowd down comes close to inciting violence,” she wrote at the Huffington Post. “This inflammatory rhetoric looks no different than the reason we are not allowed to falsely yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”
Ah. So Colleen Rowley – via the left’s paid stooges in the Sorosphere – is calling for censorship.
Whew. To think we coulda had her in Congress!
She continued: “I can also speak from personal experience — having worked almost 24 years as an FBI agent — that such remarks would almost certainly elicit investigative concern if the tables were turned and such speech came out of the mouth of someone critical of the government.”
Well, about that…
I have no idea what the “official” level of concern is, but I can’t help but notice that while Andy Birkey is right on the remarks of an obscure morning host in Minneapolis who has absolutely no police command authority, neither he nor the Monitor have ever written about the many, many remarks by the anarkids, and their plans to disrupt the convention, and life in Saint Paul in general (either actively or by passive, tacit approval), plans that are even making putative peaceniks nervous. Plans to stalk delegates, to attack military recruiters and war memorials, plans (and rehearsals) to actively provoke violence.
So answer me this question, Andy Birkey (or anyone who is paying attention to this story): who is more likely to actually cause any sort of problem at all in Saint Paul this September?
The “anarchists” – upper-middle-class fops who are taking out their anger at mommy and daddy by playing at being working-class heroes, who’ve been chattering like a bunch of lemurs on amyl about the disruption they want to cause, the vandalism they want to wreak, the mayhem they plan?
Or a talk show host?
Backup question: The Minnesota Monitor has been, since its founding, largely a joke. So what’s the next step down from “joke?”
So what’s the next step down from “joke?”
Peevish.
so what’s the next step down from joke?
Lewis Black.
I stand corrected. Peevish is a better answer.
Meanwhile you wingnuts are soiling yourself from fear of the hackey-sack brigade. I guess that must come from your Richard Mellon Scaife funding.
Oh yeah, angryclown, all caught up in the “ScaifeNet”. *snicker*
soiling yourself from fear
Where “mentioning them” is “soiling self?”
Hm.
AC criteria for what constitutes “soiling oneself” is apparently fairly easy to attain. In his tiny, little mind, this comment is akin to soiling myself.
“Soiling Myself” would be a great book title.
Or a niche porno flick.
MiniMoni’s crack reporting has pretty much been reduced to posting Utube videos.
Their long slow demise would be sad if it wasn’t so frickin’ enjoyable.
What??? No comment from Peev?
I guess he must be over at the MinnMon site right now asking if Birkey et al condemned FrankenNet host Randi Rhodes when she played bits on her show which threatened the President.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44025
Given what Peev writes here, he’s hell-bent on making sure both sides are covered.
Oh, Peev’s hell-bent, there’s no getting around that.
Meanwhile you wingnuts are soiling yourself from fear of the hackey-sack brigade.
I guess Clownie wasn’t paying attention to what the “hackey-sack brigade” did in Seattle a couple of years ago. St. Paul doesn’t have nearly as many jack-boots on the ground as NYC does.
Oh boo hoo. A couple broken windows. In this town we have blackouts, people crashing planes into buildings, anthrax attacks…not to mention the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Cowboy up and stop being such a pansy, Kerm!
“Cowboy up” eh? You and Birkey spend some time up on Brokeback Mtn. lately Clown?
Assless chaps and floppy shoes…how’s *that* for a visual nightmare? Heh.
No, psycho, but your mom nearly broke my back. Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of.
Hey, I’m hoping forward to a few broken hackey-sack brigadiers. The idea of Mayor Chris Coleman apologizing for the excessive use of force gives me that thrill Chris Matthews gets when he looks lovingly at Obamassiah.
Mitch says: “neither he nor the Monitor have ever written about the many, many remarks by the anarkids, and their plans to disrupt the convention, and life in Saint Paul in general (either actively or by passive, tacit approval), plans that are even making putative peaceniks nervous. Plans to stalk delegates, to attack military recruiters and war memorials, plans (and rehearsals) to actively provoke violence.”
False: I wrote about the plans of your “anarkids” several times.
Mitch says: “Closed-Circuit to Birkey: talk with Media reporter Paul Schmelzer”
I speak with him daily. He’s the site editor at the Monitor. If he didn’t think it worth posting, I doubt it would be there.
Mitch: “So answer me this question, Andy Birkey (or anyone who is paying attention to this story): who is more likely to actually cause any sort of problem at all in Saint Paul this September?”
Since I already wrote about that issue, you already have your answer.
Swiftee: You seem to like to comment on my sex life quite a bit. Is it just a healthy curiosity? Or is there another reason it’s always on your mind?
“an industry funded by billionaires and communist organizations (and) they are well-coordinated and incredibly dangerous.”
Which part of this statement do you have a problem with, Andy? It’s the truth, isn’t it?
Yeah Birkey, the thought of you and AssClown “ridin’ the range” haunts me! Hahahahahaaa
Yippe tie yi oh, li’l cowboys!
Andy,
Robin was obliging enough to email me the list of links to stories where you’ve gone into the anarkids’ side of the issue.
A bit of sub-Stewart-level snark:
Three that dealt with peaceful protesters, not the wanna-be thugs and
anarkids:
http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3370
http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3329
http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3212
One that was sorta kinda close, but no cigar.
One that could be read as either reporting or
pseudo-approval of the anarkids,
One that seems to take umbrage on behalf of protesters
actually having to follow the law…:
One that actually was on point and did a decent job of
reporting what I was talking about – but was hardly an
editorial dispproval (which seems important, since the
Monitor seems to have abandoned “reporting” and become
a snarky opinion site since Perry took over).
You were very clinical about all of those stories. Today’s was a lot more an opinion piece.
Did Andy just try to insult Swiftee by insinuating that he was gay?
Kind of self-loathing isn’t it Andy?
Andy,
A conversation with one of my kids interrupted writing my first response last night, so let me finish here.
The Monitor has, indeed, covered *protesters* – most of whom plan on being peaceful, and who are not really the issue here.
I’ve found one story – your piece last 11/26 – that mentioned the plans for violence and mayhem. And it was, at best, “journalistic” – just the facts, more or less – and, at worst, mildly dismissive to slightly approving (ending as it did with your link to the cutesy RNCWC video).
On the other hand, your piece on this – let’s be honest – non-story was a fairly strident condemnation, which included a
laughingstockformer Congressional candidate issuing a not-very-subtle call for censorship.All for…what? An offhand quip from a morning host at a failing talk station?
While I think that Birkey’s professed worries about protesters being machine-gunned are nutso, I’m very worried about what could happen in the streets of St. Paul this summer. No, we’re not going to see a replay of the pig riot (and while I am more than mildly admiring of many police officers, thugs who tape over their badges before wading into crowds of protesters, swinging their clubs right and left with vicious abandon should be dropping-to-the-knees grateful to be referred to as pigs, rather than something worse, and the only reason they are not is because I don’t have a metaphor handy) of Chicago in ’68.
But there are going to be lots of folks with badges and guns out there, and while some of them will be calm, well-trained professionals, some of them may not be. And there will also be, and you do keep pointing to this, quite appropriately, because it will be a problem, at least many people out to deliberately provoke violence, and some of them may succeed.
I may or may not be up there, myself; I was hoping to stay away, but I may end up feeling that I have to go. But my kids? Not a chance.
I hope after it’s all over, you can have a good laugh at my expense, and say how my misgivings were misplaced.