16 Responses to “My New Senator…”
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Post request: could someone who has been following the MN Senate election and recount go through this WSJ editorial and explain what is fact, what is opinion, and what is on the level of the WSJ’s classic “isn’t it suspicious that so many people have died around Bill Clinton?” (MN recount edition: “isn’t it suspicious that most of the canvassing board’s decisions help Franken?”).
I’ve already seen the editorial on a Republican acquaintance’s Facebook feed and had it quoted to me by another conservative friend. And yes, I am too lazy to come up with my own rebuttals in fact-intensive arguments I haven’t been following closely.
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January 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
whoa! Franklen sang “under my thumb.” could this be his maccaca moment? alas, its too late.
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January 6th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I believe the short answer is, “No, because the canvassing board does not lean Democratic, and may actually lean Republican, yet their decisions have been largely unanimous. This indicates to me that they were likely good decisions based on the law, rather than based on helping Franken.”
—Myca
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Huh? Explain?
—Myca
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
well, at least it wasn’t “brown sugar’
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
myca:
just joking around. but its a song famous for its misogyny. was a big 2nd wave issue, back in a the day,
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
“Under My Thumb” is probably my favorite Rolling Stones song. Sometimes aesthetics doesn’t match up with politics.
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
pg: i like sympathy for the devil…sometimes they match up perfectly.
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Your political sympathy is with “a man of wealth and taste”?
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Well… I would certainly be more inclined to politically link myself with a man of taste than a man of no or bad taste.
One can forgive a lack of wealth. One can never forgive a lack of taste.
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Of course. Have we not met? Please allow me to introduce myself.
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I don’t think my politics have much to do with good taste. Taste is almost entirely an aesthetic concept, not a political one. After all, some of my political allies will respond to attempts to constrain women’s reproductive freedom with pictures of wire hangers, which is not precisely in good taste. Nor is sitting in an establishment where you are unwelcome — but I admire the civil disobedience of African Americans demanding an end to Jim Crow. (At the time of the sit-ins, my alma mater’s newspaper editorial board stated that the bad taste of going where one was unwanted was a good reason to oppose sit-ins.) If I cared about good taste in politics, I’d probably be a latter-day William F. Buckley.
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Defiance of despotic authority and racism is ALWAYS in good taste.
Anyone who disagrees suffers from bad taste. :)
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Check out pics of the Hungarian Revolution. Now, that was in very good taste. All those well-dressed people in trenchcoats fighting the Evil Empire.
That should show Che who the real revolutionary fashionistas are. Though I must admit, Stalin had great hair.
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January 6th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
[...] Over in this post, commenter PG asks a question: Post request: could someone who has been following the MN Senate election and recount go through this WSJ editorial and explain what is fact, what is opinion, and what is on the level of the WSJ’s classic “isn’t it suspicious that so many people have died around Bill Clinton?” (MN recount edition: “isn’t it suspicious that most of the canvassing board’s decisions help Franken?”). [...]
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January 6th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
See, I think that picking “Under My Thumb” as your parody song takes it to another level. Yes, Franken has had some misogyny issues in his past, which is a reason I wasn’t an enthusiastic backer of him (I voted for him, and am glad he won, but I wasn’t a big supporter). But I don’t see this as one of them.
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