Another post named after Nasser Kazeminy, the guy Twin Cities media never ever mention in print

Jeff Rosenberg’s widget says Franken gained more votes overnight and now trails by only 221 votes. ECFish thinks he knows how to resolve this election without a runoff.

If you were foolish enough to trust the Star Tribune to update you on the Minnesota Senate race recount, you’d be treated to this free “ad” for Gov. Tim Pawlenty on each page of the story.

As you can see, there are links to the other state officers. Yes, I clicked on them and yes, everyone else in state government gets dinged for something, just not our spectacular governor who’s never ever done anything wrong, certainly nothing that would kill 13 Minnesotans.

Molnau: Not well regarded by DFLers, even before the collapse of the I-35W bridge last summer, Molnau was removed from her commissioner job in February, when the DFL-controlled Senate voted not to confirm her. [Let's insult the Dems too!]

Ritchie: In his first attempt at elected office he ran an aggressive race against a controversial GOP incumbent also known for strong ideological views and was swept into office on a DFL tide. [He didn't win, Kiffmeyer lost.]

Swanson: Swanson was quickly embroiled in controversy, as dozens of staffers departed and a union accused her of retaliation against lawyers attempting to organize the office.

Otto: Rebecca Otto served one term in the Minnesota House before being defeated in a rematch contest. She ran a vigorous campaign against incumbent Pat Anderson in 2006, complaining prominently of some admitted mistakes in auditor’s reports. She won handily in the general DFL sweep. 

If these attack bios had been written by the Republican party they wouldn’t be that shameless. They serve no purpose other than as little political ads the Strib puts up for their friends and against their enemies. With the Strib, the stunner isn’t that liberals still read them out of habit, but rather that the cognitively impoverished right still doesn’t get how hard the Strib is working to help them achieve their goals.

The Strib does have a long recount story up, but it’s long because it includes so many whiny quotes from Norman “Iranian lawsuit defendants buy my suits and give money to my wife” Coleman’s campaign staff. Which is pretty stunning, really. Saxby Chambliss down in Georgia is doing a recall election without a whimper, despite being an even bigger asshole than Coleman. 

To win his first election to the U.S. Senate, Coleman had to let surrogates heap abuse on the memorial service for Paul Wellstone. That’s nothing compared to Chambliss who spent the fall of 2002 smearing a triple amputee Vietnam war hero, repeatedly calling Max Cleland an America-hating coward who sucked Osama bin Laden’s dick.

I bet Saxby Chambliss wishes he had the Strib and not the Atlanta Constitution-Journal covering his runoff election.

And yes, the Minneapolis City Council’s decision to put a tax on newspaper vending machines is a good one. Next spring the legislature should tax ink bought by the barrel as well.

Late but related, the same NRSC that kept running negative anti-Al ads despite Norman “Foreigners buy my clothing and slip money to my wife” Coleman’s swearing off all negative advertising, that NRSC, just independently and with no prompting from Norman “no one’s ever seen my wife’s job description” Coleman announced that Al Franken is trying to steal this election.

I won’t argue with them if they promise to admit that George W. Bush had Paul Wellstone assassinated just before the 2002 election. That is, after all, the real context here. No dead Wellstone? No Senator Coleman.

Think I’m whacko? Read this to see who really runs this country.

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Gail Collins:

[T]here is a fine line between good sportsmanship and being played for a sucker. I am thinking of McCain’s other BFF, Senator Joseph Lieberman, who not only endorsed the Republican ticket and spoke at the Republican convention but also said, in the course of the campaign, that unlike McCain, Obama did not always put his country first. Since Lieberman is part of the Senate Democratic caucus, all this is not normal like squirrels climbing trees. It’s more like squirrels breaking into your house and setting fire to the sofa.

On the other hand, the most Lieberman accomplished with months and months of nonstop campaigning was to push McCain support in his home state of Connecticut to 38 percent. Treachery is bad, but inept treachery is easier to get over. Since Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, needs the vote, you could understand him telling Lieberman that he’s still welcome.

Lieberman, however, apparently is demanding that he also be allowed to keep his chairmanship of the homeland security committee. CNN reported that he turned down appointments to less prestigious posts and went home to mull his options. I know what you’re wondering, but Lieberman did not promise to drown himself if Connecticut failed to go for John McCain. 

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Will political parody shows survive Obama?

[h/t Rex]

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Get Your War On: New World Order

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Too funny for words. Share with your wingnuttier friends — they’ll buy it straight up.

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Ed Brayton has some of godless Liddy Dole’s loser speech:

People from faraway places poured tens of millions of dollars into North Carolina, funding tough, unfair negative ads against me. I responded forcefully. I’m not happy with the tone this race acquired, but I must say I will never regret fighting as hard as I could for the privilege of continuing to serve the people of my state.

Also from Ed, here’s some tripe being posted by such wingnutterati as Atlas Juggs:

i do not recognize obama as my president, nor as the legitimate president of the united states. it is all pretty simple and straight forward to me. the man is a political fraud. he hid who he was. he hid what he is. he denied his friends, and he denied their beliefs, and he denied his adherence to them as friends and their shared beliefs. so, while this son of a bitch paraded himself as an honest, open and fresh breath of air, … , a rebirth of honest politics, he did so while running a campaign of deceit about who he is, what he believes, and what his convictions are. i believe that there can only be one reason for this. he is also hiding what he intends to do as president. he says he is a democrat. i think he does so to hide that he is a committed marxist leninist who intends to impose a marxist dictatorhip upon this country, which advancig the interests of islam. he will attempt to either impose or import sharia, and sharia financing into this country. he will stifle free discussion by the use of the “fairness doctrine,” and he will seek the imposition of hate speech law, laws prohibiting discussing islam critically, and will seek added preferential treatment for muslims in our immigration law….

Ed’s response to that last bears repeating: “I also love…the talk about how Marxist dictatorship supposedly advances the cause of Islam. Because if there’s one thing Marx was for, it was Islamic theocracy.”

The bedwetters have spoken. Sadly, I doubt they’ll stop at this, and I fear we’re in for years of unintelligible spam from the my IRA right or wrong crowd. At least Pearl (MS) school administrators are apologizing for the coach and bus driver who both forbade students to mention Obama’s name in their presence. (I think it’s time for that coach to become a bus driver, and for that bus driver to get a new job.)

Still, a Clinton-appointed judge just ruled that the Secret Service can remove anyone they like from presidential appearances with or without cause, i.e., the Denver 3.

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Automatic End User Licenses explained so that even Satan “gets” it.

Hopefully, Obama’s election means an end to the lawless days of cyber-unilateralism. 

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I’ve been holding this link but if you haven’t heard, United Features is finally setting the comics free. About ten years after I gave up and stopped reading them because they were such a hassle online. TechDirt’s dictum to the news media applies to cartoons as well: Online news has no choice but to be free.

There is, however, always some real news the powers that be don’t want us knowing about. It’s sad that corporate delusions about profit models so closely resemble the actions of a government frantically suppressing the truth. I guess business folks call that partnering.

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The NFL player’s union is getting pissy about the penalties on “illegal” hits. To the extent that football is meant to resemble war, referees are war crimes tribunal judges and penalties are their way of flagging the war criminals.

Needless to say, the rank and file war criminals don’t like this and insist they were only following orders. I think that’s probably right. 

If the NFL wants to stop cheap or unnecessarily brutal hits, they should start suspending generals coaches and fuhrers owners. That would put a quick end to this nonsense.

If, that is, the NFL really cares about stopping the violence that packs the stadiums every Sunday.

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Thrilling tales of inventory management.

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Someone at Linwood Pizza really, really, really doesn’t understand the Internet.

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