Gov. Tim Walz released a statement Sunday condemning comments made by Rep. Cal Bahr, R-East Bethel, during a Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus rally at the Capitol on Saturday. Walz said Bahr’s comments risked inciting violence.
“There’s a lot of us in this room that have had enough, and it’s time to start riding herd on the rest of these people that want to take your rights away from you,” Bahr said, according to a video posted on the gun caucus’ Facebook page.
“They will not go quietly into the good night. They need to be kicked to the curb and stomped on and run over a few times,” he said.
Look, I'm not going to say I approve of Rep. Bahr's rhetoric. Given how pro gun activists have every single solitary word/action overly scrutinized, it's best to forgo such imagery even if it's obvious hyperbole. But given how many DFL elected officials (Walz included) support legislation which literally allows law enforcement to deprive a law abiding citizen of his/her legally owned firearm without due process, they really don't have any moral authority to criticize Bahr here.
- Speaking of faux outrage:
On Tuesday, Iowa radio sports broadcaster Gary Dolphin made what some are calling an inappropriate remark following a basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Commenting on Terrapins player Bruno Fernando, Dolphin said: "That’s some pretty good long-range shooting, and then Fernando was King Kong at the end of the game."
Fernando, as Hawk Central notes, is an astonishing 6'10" and 275 lbs. Fictional gorilla Kong first appeared in the 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack-directed film "King Kong."
For this remark, Dolphin was suspended for the rest of the season. However, according to Hawkeye Nation, the press release from Hawkeye Sports Properties indicates that the suspension might be "indefinite."
When one thinks of the movie King Kong, one obviously recalls the big ape that is the title character. But when talking about a player being in the motif of "King Kong at the end of the game", it seems pretty obvious to anyone paying attention to said game that it was in reference to Fernando wreaking havoc.......much like the character in the King Kong movie.
I believe it says a lot more about the people who automatically assume a "King Kong" reference is used solely in a racial context than it does about Mr. Dolphin himself.
- There was no lefty elected official of whom I have been more critical than former U.S. Senator Harry Reid. However, Reid seems to be no different than a lot of leftists who suddenly have strange new respect for George W. Bush in the era of a President Donald Trump.
"(Bush) and I had our differences, but no one ever questioned his patriotism. Our battles were strictly political battles," Reid said.
Sorry Dingy Harry, but the internet is forever.
Here is what Reid said of Bush while the latter was still in office:
“The man’s father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.”
“President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country.”(but no one ever questioned his patriotism, huh Dingy? - ed.)
CNN reports Reid previously called Bush the worst president of America ever.
Reid even insulted Bush’s dog, calling the pet “fat.”
The New York Times reported in 2007 that Reid referred to Bush as “this guy,” as in, “I am mystified, dumbfounded about how difficult it is to work with this guy.”
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's a darn good thing Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.
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