Comments on: Is Sen. Steve Murphy a Nazi?

By: I-live-here

I-live-here — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:19:52 +0000

The Red Wing Republican Eagle newspaper is named after the Republican Party, so you can expect them to be biased, despite their best efforts to deny it. The paper also has this curious habit of publishing front page photos of accused minority criminals, in some cases going outside the community to find good front page candidates.

Further, they promote unbelievable racist comments from their readers; to quote "It's no longer my town randy, it's your TOWN now! When I lived down there(red wing 70's,80's) BACK in the DAY, we didn't have blacks nor hispanics and if we did, then they would have been kept in check!". Good old Red Neck Red Wing.

The Red Wing paper is a pawn of the extreme right wing of the Republican Party and to a large degree responsible for why Red Wing is getting older and smaller. It is a sad future for this otherwise beautiful little river town.

By: spaceman

spaceman — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:53:23 +0000

"Even to a politician, this is unacceptable"

that's awesome.

By: mjm

mjm — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:17:29 +0000

Re: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Huh?

By: Big G

Big G — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:13:33 +0000

Well let's see...Murphy's attitude about the NTSB report is about as close to what the Italians embraced almost a century ago.

Look, I don't care if the guy served in the Marine corps. As far I could tell, he's acting like an adult child with mighty temper tantrums. And the DFL elite likes it at any cost since they can almost deprived themselves into power and provoke their agenda on the entire masses.

By: The Rat

The Rat — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:41:49 +0000

Looks like that cartoonist is more like “fair und ballinst”

By: ---

--- — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:40:57 +0000

It is actually breathtaking they way when Republicans see some accountability coming their way they go straight to “our critics are behaving like Nazis only without the uniform!!!!”.

By: mnblrmkr

mnblrmkr — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:15:46 +0000

I had to laugh when I saw that the cartoon "artist" claims to be "fair and balanced."

I think it's pretty safe to say that anyone that would use those words to describe and defend themselves is anything but.

And it's definitely a beyond the pale cartoon. Even if you were to accept that Murphy's efforts to bring some accountability to MNDOT are over reaching, to suggest that even approaches the Nazis and their genocide is offensive. Not only to Murphy, but to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

It's the reason we have Godwin's Law.

By: jeffk

jeffk — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:13:27 +0000

Yeah bob, that caught my eye too. I can’t help but notice a pattern of Republicans who won’t call themselves Republicans but aren’t fooling anybody, and I don’t think that this phenomenon is symmetric about the, uh, moderate axis. Or something.

By: mazasapa

mazasapa — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:21:57 +0000

Is Sen. Steve Murphy a Nazi?

No, only because he doesn't have a uniform.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:07:09 +0000

I love how the cartoonist claims to have no personal political views, and a desire to protect “the little guy without a voice” from “bullies.” Who exactly is the little guy without a voice in this debate?

I do agree with Murphy that the cartoon in question goes beyond the line of civil discourse and fair debate on this issue. I also have been on the recieving end of “the other N Word” — including on this site — and I don’t like it much either. As a public official, he has to take a lot of heat. But he doesn’t have to take this kind of garbage lying down.