{"id":9142,"date":"2009-11-18T19:51:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2009-11-18T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:51:19","slug":"minnesota-liberal-blogs-you-can-avoid-if-youre-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9142","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Liberal Blogs You Can Avoid If You&#039;re Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liberal.mn\/\">North Star Liberal<\/a>, which decided to launch by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.mn\/2009\/11\/18\/goobers-part-i\/\">calling Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, fat and mannish<\/a>. Of course, it\u2019s okay because they <em>also<\/em> mocked the appearances of <em>male<\/em> politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Also, it\u2019s \u201csnarky,\u201d which is evidently now code for \u201cplace where people who claim to be liberals can ignore liberal values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the record:<\/p>\n<p>1. Fat jokes aren\u2019t funny.<\/p>\n<p>2. Jokes that portray women are mannish aren\u2019t funny.<\/p>\n<p>3. A site that claims to be \u201cliberal\u201d would understand that.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you can steer clear of them. They aren\u2019t liberal in any meaningful sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I guess we can at least be glad they pulled the part making fun of Paul Wellstone&#8217;s death &#8212; which they used to attack Minnesota State Rep. and gubernatorial candidate Tom Rukavina, DFL-Virginia, Minn. Incidentally, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Wellstone#Death\">where were Paul and Sheila going again when their plane crashed<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 25, 2002, Wellstone died, along with seven others, in a plane crash in northern Minnesota, at approximately 10:22 a.m. He was 58 years old. The other victims were his wife, Sheila; one of his three children, Marcia; the two pilots Richard Conry and Michael Guess, his driver, Will McLaughlin, and campaign staffers Tom Lapic and Mary McEvoy. The plane was en route to Eveleth, where Wellstone was to attend the funeral of Martin Rukavina, a steelworker whose son Tom Rukavina serves in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Wellstone decided to go to the funeral instead of a rally and fundraiser in Minneapolis attended by Mondale and fellow Senator Ted Kennedy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p>You guys stay classy, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Star Liberal, which decided to launch by calling Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, fat and mannish. Of course, it\u2019s okay because they also mocked the appearances of male politicians, which, er, only makes things worse. Also, it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}