It’s LaHammer Time!

Can\’t Touch This!

The lead story on last night’s local TV news was how Republican Senator Norm Coleman’s house got vandalized by a spraypaint-wielding nutter.  TPT’s Mary LaHammer breathlessly insisted that this would result in a "backlash" against Democrats.   Except that Keith Ellison’s and Amy Klobuchar’s places got tagged, too — and they weren’t Republicans, last I checked.   Contrary to LaHammer’s bizarro assumptions, the tagger (or taggers) was an equal-opportunity pest: “The vandals did not discriminate. Victims are Muslim, Christian and Jewish; conservative and liberal; white and black; Democrat and Republican.”   The only member of Minnesota’s Senate and Twin Cities Metro Congressional delegation whose domicile was spared was Betty McCollum –and that’s probably because she lives in a high-rise.

It’s no wonder that a prominent local Republican blogger, the Wright County Republican, loves Mary LaHammer to bits:  "Mary’s energy and overall spunkiness lead me to believe that she has possibly more objectivity than any other local newsie."

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