david jennings

“I’m a dinner jacket.” That’s how someone instructed Tim Pawlenty “the other day” to say the name of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the governor told his weekly radio audience Friday morning. The presidential prospect also tried to show he’s no empty suit on international affairs, twice pronouncing an Iranian nuclear-weapons program a certainty. 

There’s nothing subtle about Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (popular?) radio show: He makes the most of the hour WCCO-AM gives him every Friday to broadcast his political views, boldly and baldly. But beneath the banter and partisan bluster — sorry, swagger — Pawlenty has in each of his past two shows stealthily slipped a blade between [...]