Mommy, Cheri called me a name!

Liberals are all “Mr. Poopy Pants”

Thanks to Cheri Pierson Yecke for truly raising the level of political discourse on not just the local, but even the national scene, in today’s Strib.

It seems Cheri, who undoubtedly is still smarting from being called “Yucky” when she was up for the State Education Commissioner job, takes all us liberals to task for remarking that Linda Tripp, Condi Rice and our own local fave Katherine Kersten, are, shall we say, no rivals for Nicole Kidman.

Now let’s examine where these observations may have come from. Let’s pretend we haven’t heard the numerous Republican references to the girth of Hillary Clinton’s ankles, and just admit that liberals (we are people after all, despite what Republicans think) have a bias against ugly.

But I would argue that the ugly bias against Tripp, Rice and Kersten is more than skin deep.

Tripp betrayed a friend’s confidence for her own financial gain, (which, incidentally, she used to pay for plastic surgery,) and made a private act between consenting adults tabloid fodder, and gave the Republican attack dogs a bone after they’d been unable to find Clinton actually doing anything impeachable despite six years of trying.

Now, Rice. Yes she did get a Ph.D. when very young, as Yecke points out, but wasn’t it she who both ignored the intelligence memo “Bin Laden determined to attack within the U.S.” and then particpated in the lies that got us into Iraq? I wonder if all the disfigured American soldiers and Iraqi children think that’s ugly?

Then, there’s Kersten. Not much to say there, except every one knows her unfounded attacks and unreported columns set a new low for journalistic standards everytime she bleats.

What Yecke should keep in mind is that, when you shovel the prodigious quantities of horse dung that these three do, it’s inevitable that some will splatter all the way up to the face. And that’s hard not to notice.