Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Conservative therapeutics

I am not a big Twitter® user, unlike some people around here. I do read the Strib’s Hot Dish Politics blog, however, and it has a Twitter feed pane that anyone can participate in by using the hashtag #stribpol in their “tweet.”

I do go to that blog a few times day. Sometimes a story will arch over the day in the Twitter pane; it can be fun watch. Often, it’s simple therapeutics for the tweeters.

Example:

Yesterday, Mitch Berg complained on Twitter about the treatment of the political contribution by Target to MNFoward, claiming that the resulting boycott against Target was a thought crime.

Capture3 If the $150,000 contribution was a “thought crime,” you have to wonder how much Target would have given if it actually did something about it.

Perhaps realizing that the “thought crime” idea was a little flimsy, Mitch comes closer to identifying the real problem for conservatives a little later.

Capture2No fair! We want somebody to boycott,too!

And hearing Mitch’s plaintive wail, trusty Luke Hellier delivers the solution.

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The boycott against Mystic Lakes was announced, you guessed it, on Twitter.

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