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Minnesota Blogs You Can Feel Free To Avoid if You’re Liberal
By Jeff Fecke | November 18, 2009
North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Margaret Anderson Kelliher fat and mannish. Of course, it’s okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Also, it’s “snarky,” which is evidently now code for “place where people who claim to be liberals can ignore liberal values.”
For the record:
1. Fat jokes aren’t funny.
2. Jokes that paint women are mannish aren’t funny.
3. A site that claims to be “liberal” would understand that.
Yeah, you can steer clear of them. They aren’t liberal in any meaningful sense of the word.
UPDATE: I guess we can at least be glad they pulled the part making fun of Paul Wellstone’s death — which they used to attack Tom Rukavina. Incidentally, where were Paul and Sheila going again when their plane crashed?
On October 25, 2002, Wellstone died, along with seven others, in a plane crash in northern Minnesota, at approximately 10:22 a.m. He was 58 years old. The other victims were his wife, Sheila; one of his three children, Marcia; the two pilots Richard Conry and Michael Guess, his driver, Will McLaughlin, and campaign staffers Tom Lapic and Mary McEvoy. The plane was en route to Eveleth, where Wellstone was to attend the funeral of Martin Rukavina, a steelworker whose son Tom Rukavina serves in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Wellstone decided to go to the funeral instead of a rally and fundraiser in Minneapolis attended by Mondale and fellow Senator Ted Kennedy
Oh yeah.
You guys stay classy, now.
Topics: Blog Navel-Gazing, Fat Phobia, Feminism, Margaret Anderson Kelliher | 2 Comments »
November 19th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
[...] an Avogadro’s number of variations on “She is teh crazee”) that’d leave the left writhing in fits of PC disgust if it were directed at someone whose politics didn’t make them Untouchable; keep up the good [...]
November 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Thanks for calling out that immaturity. It’s sad that it has to be done, but it’s good to see that they may have actually paid attention to the criticism in this rare case. Well done.