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Gawker hates on all of Minnesota

Filed under: Media

We dumb Midwesterners voted for Jesse Ventura and now might vote for Al Franken. Yeah, cause New Yorkers never let celebrity interfere with common sense.

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Snarky much?


Midwestern State Determined to Embarrass Self


Because Minnesota cannot bear not being the laughingstock of a nation with plenty of contenders to that title, they may very well elect comedian Al Franken to the United States Senate this year. Or perhaps Jesse "The Body" Ventura, the noted Predator star and former professional wrestler. And governor of the state. Great work, guys. (Well, Ventura doesn't actually seem that inclined to run. He's just threatening to because he so dislikes Franken and Norm Coleman. Which, yeah, we do too, but we'd still rather see Carl Weathers in that seat. Someday all of our elected officials will have their political resumes replayed on TBS every Saturday afternoon.) [KARE11]

Posted by Kevin Hoffman at May 16, 2008 2:09 PM

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We have higher graduation rates and higher ACT/SAT scores than New York. To the dumbshit from that fair state I quote Perry Farrell. "Some people should die, that's just unconscious knowledge."

Posted by: Helm Matthews at May 16, 2008 8:30 PM

To that laughingstock list don't forget to add Mark Dayton, the Star & Tribune, and the Mpls City Council with their red light cameras.

Posted by: East Coast Doug at May 16, 2008 11:08 PM

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer and Mike Ciresi were superior candidates to Franken, but too many delegates to DFL conventions were star-struck. Yes, Al is a Harvard graduate and all that, but the distant third-place candidate, Jack, had a resume and policy stance that mirrored the late Wellstone far more closely and was inarguably more impressive than Franken's. Alas, that wasn't enough to overcome Mr. Franken's celebrity status.

I was depressed to find at my district convention just how many delegates had little to no knowledge of the candidates' backgrounds and policy positions - especially those of Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. Few had actually read Franken's books, and not many more had listened to many of his radio broadcasts. Only a handful knew Franken had been as wrong as Hillary on the invasion of Iraq.

We're saddled with a choice between the ambitious Sen. Coleman whose only moral compass is "Will this get me to the White House someday?" (Hillary with a penis) and a class clown because too few did too little to put better people on November's ballot. But it's not just Minnesota whose population watches TV for hours on end and then excuses themselves for never cracking books because they "just don't have time". We're a stupid country.

Posted by: Jeff Davis at May 17, 2008 5:22 AM

And to think that Tim Pawlenty makes them look like political geniuses. Luckily the country seems to like embarrassment if they consider him a viable VP.

Posted by: Robb Rossi at May 17, 2008 11:48 PM

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