See no evil? Speak no evil? (and an obligatory West Wing moment)
Some of the blogs are alive with chatter today about the words spoken at the 6th District convention on Saturday toward Michele Bachmann. One state senator referred to her as
evil
"the devil in the blue dress."
Patty Wetterling, the candidate Bachmann faces now says she's bad on several fronts. Here's the actual speech. (RealAudio)
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Did that cross a line? If so -- and this is my West Wing political science training here -- can Wetterling's opponents seize on that without also allowing her message to be repeated? (It was the episode when someone slipped a political ad tape to Sam Seeborn and he gave it to a friend who, as it turns out, wasn't really a friend and the thing ended up running for nothing on all the news channels).
By the way, as long as we're on West Wing, I've commented here a number of times on how good the researchers were for little political drop-ins that would appear in the dialog from time to time. All of that was undone last night when -- if you saw it, this will make sense. If you didn't, it won't -- a train derailed between Exeter, New Hampshire and Haverhill, Massachusetts. The person telling the president referred to the city as HAVE her hill, which is pretty much like calling Cloquet CLOE-kett. It's pronounced HAY-vrill. And the thing is, the president -- Jeb
Bartless
Bartlett -- is from New Hampshire.
Reminds me of the time he stopped his Saturday morning radio address taping because the phrase "leaf peeping" was in it. He pulled off his glasses and turned to the writer to inquire what "leaf peeping" was. Right, a guy from New Hampshire -- the leaf-peeping capital of the free world -- didn't know what leaf peeping was?
It's like a president not knowing what a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread sells for.