Jessica McBride, the real one not Whallah!, in an email to me on Monday December 12, 2007 said:
I think your commentary is intelligent and informed...I can appreciate how your argue the issues.
Add to this, her recent comment from her blog*
Soglin ...influential members of the liberal political intelligentsia in this state, perhaps in the top 5...frame public opinion both on the left and in the media
Why stop there. I am working on the center as well?
Intelligent, informed, influential. Go team.
Take that, the rest of you left -wing, snot-nosed, disrespectful punks.
(*you can find her on your own, but believe me, anything you need to read is here at Waxing America)
Keep reading. Now she's trying to connect you with the Sterling Hall bombing.
Posted by: Cal C. Fide | December 19, 2007 at 08:51 AM
Eesh, yeah, did you read the rest of her post? Not only does she connect (but certainly not accuse, oh no) you to the Sterling Hall bombing, but then goes on to say "The fact [the bombing] is so well known and so uncontroversial says something by itself. Wisconsin: Meet your liberal blogosphere. Meet the Democratic intellectual elite."
Oh yeah, that's the voice of a person whose endorsement I want.
Posted by: Emily | December 19, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Methinks Mr. Soglin was not entirely serious in touting the "endorsement," but perhaps was pulling someone's chain.
Posted by: xoff | December 19, 2007 at 01:09 PM
I've read the news articles. If I remember right they said:
"Anti-War protesters uncontroversially bombed Sterling Hall this morning."
Posted by: Jesse | December 19, 2007 at 01:48 PM
xoff: Could be you're right. I am sometimes notoriously dense--it's a side effect of being a liberal blogger.
Posted by: Emily | December 19, 2007 at 02:05 PM
Congrats, Paul! I've been trying to get her attention for-ev-er. I'm so jealous. Now, if I could only get Sykes to let me on the air...
Posted by: Mike Plaisted | December 19, 2007 at 03:41 PM
I don't mind you calling me a "left -wing, snot-nosed, disrespetfucl punk." Just don't shoot, okay?
Posted by: Mike Basford | December 19, 2007 at 03:45 PM
Okay. If you'll just only stand still for a moment I'll genuflect in your general direction.
Just remember, you're getting all of that high praise from a woman who needed to have the "noun, verb, 9-11" joke explained to her.
Posted by: grumps | December 19, 2007 at 03:54 PM
In my opinion, it was your stories about Chicago hot dogs that put you over the top.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 19, 2007 at 06:59 PM
I still think Paul should be licensed as a sewage treatment plant although every so often he is right...er, correct.
Posted by: rag | December 19, 2007 at 09:20 PM
"Jessica McBride, the real one not Whallah!"
I take umbrage, sir. This makes Whallah! seem like a McBride wannabe. That is libel, and downright mean. Whallah! is the defender of truth, the protector of reality, the fortress upon which the local right wing media futiley throw themselves.
In other words, please correct your post to "Whallah!, the anti-McBride".
Posted by: capper | December 20, 2007 at 08:02 PM
since when is disagreement and challenge considered disrespectful and why do you have to name drop all of the time
Posted by: | December 21, 2007 at 09:06 AM