Modern Life in Northern Minnesota
Kudos to my fellow greater Minnesota blogger Sally Jo Sorensen for her shout-out on last night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central. She was the one who found the weird TV ad Tom Emmer did in Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District, where he endorsed a construction company as a candidate for Congress. This is blatantly illegal, and also hilarious.
Sally writes Bluestem Prairie, which is kind of like the MinnesotaBrown of southern Minnesota, though arguably with better investigative writing.
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Thanks, Aaron!
What’s annoying about the clip is not the Emmer ad, which is funny and weird, but the way Colbert follows it up by doing an on-show ad for Sunny D orange drink in the guise of pretending to spoof the idea of on-show ads. The idiotic, sheeplike audience ha-ha-has obligingly, of course. The Sunny D marketing department must have been quite pleased.
Funny it is. But it doesn’t hold a candle to politicians illegal acts:
Short list BO’s firsts:
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period – Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)
• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)
• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)
• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending — Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Issue Unlawful “Recess-Appointments” Over a Long Weekend — While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department – Source: United States Court of Appeals)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
• First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador’s Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)