Nasser Kazeminy and Norman Coleman joined at the hip by DonorGate

And if you live in California or are just curious about Prop Hate, watch this:

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MPR’s Bob Collins posts a tribute to Gary Eichten, but in so doing reveals that Gary rigged the audience questions in last night’s Minnesota U.S. Senate race.

There’s a good reason MPR’s Gary Eichten is in Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame. After five Senate debates, three presidential debates, and one vice presidential debate, only Eichten got a candidate to answer the question: If you had to, what of your campaign’s agenda would you give up?

That question was, in fact, the first question that came from the audience. I think Bob Collins just revealed that Eichten, a more pain the better fiscal conservative, used the presubmitted audience questions to advance his personal agenda.

If you listen to MPR you’ve heard Eichten and his style of questioning candidates. Eichten is the epitomy of the somewhat affluent investor who is way way way too locked into the stock market to be objective regarding the economy. His pet question, if you had to, what of your campaign’s agenda would you give up?, is 100% bullshit.

An objective reporter would first add up a candidate’s agenda and put a price tag on it, submitting that number to the candidate. IF the candidate agrees (unlikely in Franken’s case since Eichten pulls his numbers from conservative sources 100% of the time), then and only then is the question appropriate.

The rest of the time it’s a moronic gotcha question that’s best described by this formula:

IF you assume Republican talking points to be true

THEN you agree that your Democratic agenda is a budget buster

AND you MUST agree that you MUST kill part of your agenda in public

THEREFORE making Gary Eichten happy

Eichten’s not a card carrying Republican (to my knowledge), but he is overly invested in the MPR money shows and Chris Farrell’s investment advice. Listening to Gary Eichten on the radio most days is like listening to Baby Boomers obsessing about their IRAs at the water cooler. Like his drive time dino-rock peers, Eichten approved of the entire Republican march to meltdown, and now wants the poor crucified until such time as he has every penny of his money back.

I predict Gary Eichten will die an embittered hack, lamenting right up until his final breath the failure of Democratic leadership to give back all the money George Bush’s policies stole from Gary.

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More pundits on DonorGate:

Talking Points Memo Muckraker on Coleman’s corruption

Andy Birkey on the ads

David Brauer on the debate

Michael Brodkorb and his fans’ takes on the debate (lest we forget how wretchedly in the bag GOoPers are — no matter how corrupt their candidate proves to be)

Jeff Rosenberg on Norman Coleman’s actual record

Steve Perry says Norman told us DonorGate was coming ages ago

WCCO’s Kessler says Franken camp didn’t leak squat to him about Norman’s flagrantly corrupt dealings with Kazeminy

City Pages: Coleman/Franken spend last weekend screaming (well, Coleman does anyhow but I have yet to hear Franken raise his voice over Norman’s phony attempts to drag Al into Norm’s corrupt, clothed by Iranians lifestyle)

Ron Carey publicly masturbates while reciting math tables (and he breaks his personal record by not coming for 90 whole seconds)

Phoenix Woman

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In a brazen move to suppress the Democratic vote in Dayton, a newly reconstituted police task force busted 400 Daytonians just in time to keep some of them from voting tomorrow.

Seized were an average of $400 and 2.5 grams of coke/crack/pot apiece.

I am not making this up.

Yes, my personal election night festivities will involve far more than 2.5 grams, and if it were in my power to drink $400 worth of Imperial I.P.A.s, I would.

More on vote/voter suppression around the country:

Colorado SecState howls at moon, gnashes teeth and whines a lot after courts make him stop disenfranchising voters

Cheesehead SecState preparing unprecedented raids on polling places

ABC gives up on lies, pushes ridiculously optimistic election predictions to dampen Dem turnout

TBogg on the end of 400 years of gobsmacked racist bullshit

McCain folks can’t provide a single example of registration fraud translating into voter fraud (not one example!)

Encouraging white trash/supremacists — another form of voter suppression

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More election-related links:

All the Keating Five the media refuses to recount

Ohio is leaning Obama, the WaPost looks at the reasons why.

Howie the Whore spreads his legs and shares some pussy farts with us

The real stab in the back: how the national right to lifers have abandoned a grassroots pro-life state constitutional amendment in Colorado

Mau Mauing the left into doing the wingnuts’ will

Reid says Stevens must resign, convicted still means convicted

Hilzoy on how Obama’s dialed it down to avoid achieving his own Palin effect (in other words, had Obama chosen to go with red meat, wingnut homes would be ablaze from California to Virginia, and the reckless right should thank their gods that the left is not as agenda-driven as the haters on the right who consistently put Republicans first, country second)

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Last week’s winners, this week’s quiz, and a baleful hint that this Movie Quiz will be the last ever!!!

 

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