A Sense of Proportion, Please
Jan 18th, 2006 at 7:26 am by Susie
John over at AmericaBLOG went a little wacky the other day, flipping out because someone from Patrick Murphy’s campaign dared to send him a press release and John already has so much email, he’s missing “really important” emails.
John said some pretty nasty things and announced he’d banned Murphy’s campaign from his email list. After an overwhelmingly negative response from his readers, he shot back, saying if someone thought he’d care about someone building a house in “rural Pennsylvania,” they had the wrong blog.
Well, Patrick Murphy (who, incidentally, is not in “rural” Pennsylvania but in my very own 8th congressional district) is running in a mostly suburban/exurban area that includes many of the country’s major pharmaceutical companies - it was represented until recently by Republican Jim Greenwood, who left to lobby for Big Pharma). I happen to think it’s important to get a Dem in there.
And the home remodeling project about which his staff sent the oh-so-offensive email? Murphy and his volunteers were working on that Iraqi vet’s house as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service. I believe they were building him a wheelchair ramp. (I was planning to work with them myself until the Gore speech was announced.)
Oh, and did I mention Patrick is an Iraqi war vet, one of the “fighting Dems” we have lined up for the Congressional mid-terms?
Duncan’s raising money for him. You can donate to Patrick’s campaign here.
MLK memories, music, message interweave VIDEO…
From not long after sunrise to well after sundown, thousands of Kansas City area residents on Monday…
Yeah, he sure seemed to go a tad batshit over that.
What a prima donna!
He’s gone off the beam on a few other issues which I just passed over without leaving a bitchy comment or two.
At least now, I know why I never got a thank you from him after I donated some money. He’s the first (and only) blogger that ever did that to me. I’m not whining but those sort of things I don’t forget.
Ben,
I donate to support the blog, not for the thanks. I expect to be “thanked” by having a good blogger continue to publish good work. If they take the thirty seconds it would take to write a thank-you email and spend it on the blog instead, we’ve come out ahead.
Those guys are pretty shrill. Great news source, one of the five or so ‘east coasters’ I read early in the morning, but as far as their commentary goes I rate it at about the same tongue-in-cheek level as What Really Happened and Capitol Hill Blue. In that Mr. Black yesterday (I believe) suggested donating to Mr. Murphy’s campaign, the whole hoopla is indictative of the divisiveness amongst ‘yawl that we outsiders find so distasteful.
Thanks modus potus. I guess you put me in my place, didn’t you.
One of his monthly “help me I’m so broke I’m eating catfood” ads hit me in my soft spot, and I helped him out (more than a few times). Too bad for him that he gets so many emails he can’t distinguish the spam from the ones with subjects like “Here John! Glad to help you out with a donation.”
Thanks so much for sharing.
What did you guys expect from a man that had been a republican up until he decided to come out of the closet. He worked for ted stevens for god’s sake.
He is and always will be essentially a one issue blog. If it is even tangetially about a gay issue, then he is all over it. Racial issues? forget it. Working class issues? Nada. Many of these guys make far more than you or I do, but whine and whine about needing money for this or that. Once they release their tax returns, and I see that they are middle income, i’ll send some dough. Jesus general is the exception.