Maybe Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak doesn’t really want a job with the Obama administration after all. In a YouTube video released this week, hizzoner momentarily toys with a small felt replica of the person who has the power (among other powers) to hire him. “These are finger puppets?” Rybak exclaims. “Barack Obama finger puppets? I love this!”
(UPDATE: Okay, it’s not as momentous a cinematic moment as, say, the cavemen discovering the monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” But we’ve been reading these Rybak-Obama tea leaves for months now, so we take it as it comes.)
If the stunt sets a poor example for the state’s growing legions of job-seekers, the video – which is meant to promote free weekend parking at Gaviidae Common in downtown Minneapolis during the holiday shopping season – actually lives up to its “fun” billing in the mayor’s tweet about it today. Other highlights: Rybak abusing escalator protocol and poking fun at his checkered driving record (news video).
And if the finger-puppet clip does nix R.T.’s chances for a D.C. gig, at least the video gives a taste of what a Bill Hillsman-type Rybak-for-Governor ad might look like. See it after the jump.
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Comment posted November 21, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Wow. Lighten up, buddy.
Comment posted November 21, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Hey, give me a break. I blog for a living. My kids have to eat. You want them to keep wearing high waters, Grim, because I can’t afford to buy them clothes that fit?
All of the above, by the way, was meant tongue-in-cheek.
Comment posted November 21, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
Dude, if you are trying to feed your kids with this LAME attempt at “tongue in cheek,” your kids must be near starvation…
You don’t need us to “give you a break,” as much as you need to either learn how to write better, or just stick to the facts, and leave the “tongue in cheek” reporting to those more adept at it than you.
This was BAD. Really, REALLY, bad. You did NOTHING to improve anyone’s opinion of “hizzoner” (REAL classy on your part, there), job seekers, OR the whole concept of the “free parking during the holidays” promotion.
What was your purpose in this crappy little “expose?” You sounded like a McCain staffer during the election, trying to make something bad out of a non-event.
Tongue in cheek it wasn’t.
FUNNY it wasn’t.
Rude, condescending, and lame, it most definitely was!
You should SERIOUSLY try writing as if you were a nice person, instead of some jerk trying to pretend he’s a “hip” e-journalist.
Comment posted November 21, 2008 @ 7:13 pm
Wow, SammyJo, your entire comment is pretty much a waste of hard disk space. Why do you care so much what he wrote? Moreover, if you can do better… well, why aren’t you? Put up or shut up
Comment posted November 24, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
I would prefer to see them in high waters.
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