As state party protests, SD56 GOP webmaster earns ‘Worst Person in the World’ designation

Oh please. Do I have to provide links to all the vile and obscene YouTube videos that democrat organizations have created about Sarah Plain or Michele Bachmann or Condi Rice or Ann Coulter?

What goes around comes around. The only difference is, this clip is actually based on fact.

Dennis you just keep on keeping on. Do you realize how beneficial to DFL candidates this kind of stupidity is? Support it more… make sure to write letters to the editor and post your comments everywhere independent voters, especially women, can see it. Pretty please with sugar on top….

Amuseinc, the video is obviously aimed at straight, white men. Last I looked the republicans were in no danger of losing that demographic and any woman who would be offended by that video has also been offended by the crap thrown at Palin and Bachmann so that’s a wash.

Nice try though and thanks for playing.

Dennis (with his “this clip is actually based on fact”) has just demonstrated the regard Republicans have for women. “Hey, if you ain’t a babe, we ain’t interested.” It’s also all-important that they pander to the baser instincts of “straight, white men (note to men of color: Quit looking at our women, boy!).”

I wonder how many of those “vile and obscene videos” Dennis is referring to were actually created by the DFL and were posted on official party web sites?

I can’t believe I’m saying the Republicans have a point, and I sure can’t sympathize with screaming at the Mother Jones receptionist, but some national outlets reported that the state party posted it. The correction here must have been fast, because it was already SD56 when I first saw it. I don’t know if the parties where those media outlets are based don’t have local parties, but clearly they missed that detail of how it works in Minnesota. Probably the webmaster was one volunteer who screwed up, and I can understand the state party being upset at getting the blame.

But they don’t help their case by screaming at people. Just correct the story and denounce the video, and this will go away. Or yell at people at keep it going, you’re choice.

Actually, I made the correction late Thursday, more than a day after the story originally appeared (it was no longer on our homepage at that point). But to be clear, I only changed the headline (and one word of it); within the body of these stories, I’ve been clear that it’s a district site that carried the video and not the Republican Party of Minnesota. (The intent of my first headline was only to show that the GOP site was in Minnesota, not that it was the statewide MN GOP’s site. Drake has a point about how that choice could be interpreted other than as intended.)

[...] The Minnesota GOP has since been busy pointing out that this wasn’t actually a party-endorsed ad, but just something a local webmaster chose to post. That webmaster first defended the clip as something that was intended to “bring a smile to a few peoples faces, and possibly irritate a few others”, but the clip eventually disappeared from the party’s website (screenshot here). Keith Olberman proceeded to call the webmaster “today’s worst person in the world” on his show last night. [...]

This video has helped me to realize that personally, Betty McCollum is a lady, but politically she is a dog. Who let the dogs out? I mean, look at the list of all those organizations who gave her a 100% rating on her site–what a restricted set of special interests. She’s only loyal to her special interests. Admirable, but running America into the ground, since her party came into power in 2006 and then 2008. We’ve got to take our country on the right road again November 2.

No, qui no sabe, it’s not aimed at white men, it’s aimed at women. Have the self-esteem not to have to break the glass ceiling, but build up America, build up yourself to build up America. I have to admire Sarah Palin for how she stepped up to the plate and took it like a… No, she gave as good as she got. She’s my role model on that one. Oh, and Mr. John McCain, a true statesman, he’s my role model, too. Oh, and Jesse, and Tom Horner, you know. But yes, this video is right on!

I’m very curious- as I believe this organization also took my local Senate District to task for a survey about immigration that included “si senor” in a response. You took the exact same tactics, contacting our local elected officials etc. Obama made a joke days later about immigration with a punchline “adios amigos” that no liberals denounced as racist (of course)…
Are you paid to troll local GOP websites here in Minnesota? Also, I’m working on a story about paid liberal news sites- are your writers all paid? If so, how many are paid vs unpaid on your staff? Thank you very much

There are at least a couple of questionable ‘facts’ in Mr. Drake’s complaints:

- that there are over 100 republican party units in Minnesota. Then some of them must be secret ones, not filed with the state Campaign Finance Board.

- that he never even heard of Randy Brown before this. Come on! Randy Brown has been a republican party activist for many years, and a delegate to the State Republican Convention. Yet the state party office never heard of him? Bet they have him on their donor list!

question:

When the writer states “In Minnesota” does that have any analogy to “Target” “In Minnesota”.
I went to my local Target yesterday and told them that I cannot shop there because of what is going on politically in MN.
I wrote to the Governor and asked him why “Hubert Humphrey played an important role in education” and has he been forgotten in MN? I also told the Governor that I went to conferences in Minneapolis because there was an educational program that was nationally recognized in technology. We also learned about Maynard Reynolds and his work in special education (he is still known nationally). Instead of asking what’s happening in Kansas, I am asking what is happening to MN? My comment last time said “women have gone backwards” since I was on campus in the 60s. Why are women going to bear the brunt of an economic recession? My mom raised 8 kids during the last depression on $20 a week. I worry that some of our kids in our schools are in that desperate situation. I always looked to Humphrey and M. Reynolds and your technology programs as national models.
(female, age 71, Massachusetts)

Steve Carlson if you think that video is aimed at women you really are out of your mind. Who was it that called it “juvenile” and called for the firing of the webmaster? Oh yeah, a Republican woman. All women, regardless of political affiliation, are offended by this. I don’t know of any Democratic organization that has done anything remotely similar to Palin, Bachmann or any other Republican woman. What you and other conservatives can’t seem to grasp is that criticizing their policies and statements is not the same thing as criticizing their appearance.

Glynis,
Pelosi. She f’n nuts.

Jean,
Thanks for missing your meds

So the right wing male response to women who find fault with a totally sexist GOP ad is ridicule even after a female GOP candidate for office finds such ad offensive enough to call for the firing of the person responsible.

I read “How to Wind Friends and Influence People” in the 8th grade. Apparently some people find this difficult. Not surprisingly, these are GOP males. And this demographic is poising itself for total victory in November?

referring to women in the political opposition as “dogs” should be beneath anybody who seeks public office.

politics ain’t bean bag, but it doesn’t have to be a bath in gutterswill either.

let’s hope all the major political parties elevate the debate to serious discussion of pressing issues, rather than nasty and baseless attacks on parties or persons just because they are in the political opposition

“Are you paid to troll local GOP websites here in Minnesota? Also, I’m working on a story about paid liberal news sites- are your writers all paid? If so, how many are paid vs unpaid on your staff?”

Thanks Sheila, for a post that stands out for its stupidity even compared to the other posts from conservatives. You’re doing a story, huh? Does the “news organization” for which you work commonly tell its “investigative reporters” to gather information by posting in feedback forums? Was that a journalistic technique you learned in college? Can you think of any more effective techniques for gathering information, or are you so used to being spoonfed information by the likes of Fox News that you’re incapable of expending a modicum of energy and common sense to gather information on your own?

Thanks, I’m doing a story on conservative thought in contemporary America and couldn’t think of a way of getting this important data other than posting a comment in a forum.

Heh. I must’ve missed that comment from Sheila, theoko. Needless to say, she hasn’t contacted me directly about her questions.

[...] The Minnesota GOP has since been busy pointing out that this wasn’t actually a party-endorsed ad, but just something a local webmaster chose to post. That webmaster first defended the clip as something that was intended to “bring a smile to a few peoples faces, and possibly irritate a few others”, but the clip eventually disappeared from the party’s website (screenshot here). Keith Olberman proceeded to call the webmaster “today’s worst person in the world” on his show last night. [...]