Two Righties and a ‘Left-Wing Nut’

Editorial Page Speaking of the Strib’s editorial page, today’s headlines sounded suspiciously like the parodies. “A Measure of Relief on Airport Noise,” and “Hutchinson a Good Fit for Bush Foundation.” Good thing Jim Boyd was wrong about that no sharp elbows thing.

Say it ain’t so… Two conservative pieces in the Strib in one day?

Well, sure, there’s a huge amount of good conservative opinion writing across the country, and not all of it by Mark Steyn or Charles Krauthammer; but this is in the Strib, after all, and all good people know that it’s supposed to be an island of liberal conformity, with only a “figleaf” or “codpiece” of pretense at openness to nonconforming opinions.

One every once in a while?  Well, okay, begrudgingly.  But an insistence that there be one a day was obviously sacrilege.

And now two?  Say it ain’t] so, Paul

Heaven forfend, and Saint Al (peace prize be upon him) preserve us!

Combine that with the fact that it’s been raining for forty days and forty nights, and you’ll understand why Jim Boyd has been spending so much time building that boat in his driveway. 

Conservatives treated worse??? Last year at the U of M, a conservative group called CFACT, decided to “come out” as conservative, asserting that they were more prejudiced than the LGBT crowd on campus. Give me a break!

Read it here:
http://www.wakemag.o…

For me, the issue isn’t that pieces by two conservatives ran in the same issue (although, I can’t recall seeing two liberal features on the same day by columnists who are as far to the left as Pearlstein and Kersten are to the right).

What I think is fishy is the fact that both are from the Center of the American Experiment, the same rightwing thinktank Strib political editor DJ Tice has written for. Seems like a conflict of interest to me.

Break, one (1) each, give me a If that sort of “conflict of interest” on the Strib editorial page gives you a bit of an itch — two conservatives who are members of the same organization having pieces published on the same day — I assume that when you discover that on many occasions, multiple liberals who have joined the same multiple organizations have had pieces on the Strib on the same day, you’ll have to OD on Vicodin for the pain. 

Then show me.

He won’t, Paul. He has nothing other than what he can either distort or make up out of whole cloth.  But he’s an expert at what Digby calls “hissy kabuki”.

Happy to… … just as soon as the Minnie Mon acknowledges, and responds to, my supplying of a cite in response to its previous challenge to provide one.

Until then, your demand for a cite is just the Minnie Mon again saying, do my homework for me, like you’re some sort of pheonix woman or something.

Uh… You’re trying to make a point you can’t substantiate.

So it’s your homework you’re not doing.

Editorial Page Speaking of the Strib's editorial page, today's headlines sounded suspiciously like the parodies. “A Measure of Relief on Airport Noise,” and “Hutchinson a Good Fit for Bush Foundation.” Good thing Jim Boyd was wrong about that no sharp elbows thing.

Say it ain't so… Two conservative pieces in the Strib in one day?

Well, sure, there's a huge amount of good conservative opinion writing across the country, and not all of it by Mark Steyn or Charles Krauthammer; but this is in the Strib, after all, and all good people know that it's supposed to be an island of liberal conformity, with only a “figleaf” or “codpiece” of pretense at openness to nonconforming opinions.

One every once in a while?  Well, okay, begrudgingly.  But an insistence that there be one a day was obviously sacrilege.

And now two?  Say it ain't] so, Paul

Heaven forfend, and Saint Al (peace prize be upon him) preserve us!

Combine that with the fact that it's been raining for forty days and forty nights, and you'll understand why Jim Boyd has been spending so much time building that boat in his driveway. 

Conservatives treated worse??? Last year at the U of M, a conservative group called CFACT, decided to “come out” as conservative, asserting that they were more prejudiced than the LGBT crowd on campus. Give me a break!

Read it here:

http://www.wakemag.o…

For me, the issue isn't that pieces by two conservatives ran in the same issue (although, I can't recall seeing two liberal features on the same day by columnists who are as far to the left as Pearlstein and Kersten are to the right).

What I think is fishy is the fact that both are from the Center of the American Experiment, the same rightwing thinktank Strib political editor DJ Tice has written for. Seems like a conflict of interest to me.

Break, one (1) each, give me a If that sort of “conflict of interest” on the Strib editorial page gives you a bit of an itch — two conservatives who are members of the same organization having pieces published on the same day — I assume that when you discover that on many occasions, multiple liberals who have joined the same multiple organizations have had pieces on the Strib on the same day, you'll have to OD on Vicodin for the pain. 

Then show me.

He won't, Paul. He has nothing other than what he can either distort or make up out of whole cloth.  But he's an expert at what Digby calls “hissy kabuki”.

Happy to… … just as soon as the Minnie Mon acknowledges, and responds to, my supplying of a cite in response to its previous challenge to provide one.

Until then, your demand for a cite is just the Minnie Mon again saying, do my homework for me, like you're some sort of pheonix woman or something.

Uh… You're trying to make a point you can't substantiate.

So it's your homework you're not doing.