[Mpls] Announcment: A Forum on Civility in Politics in Minneapolis

[Chris Johnson]

The Minnesota Compact presents

>A Forum on Civility in Politics
>Thursday, May 13th, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
>The Humphrey Forum, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
>Minneapolis, MN
>
>with
>Vicki Gowler, editor of the Pioneer Press
>Anders Gyllenhaal, editor of the Star Tribune
>Mitch Pearlstein, President, Center of the American Experiment
>Tim Penny, Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
>  
>

Sounds like a good idea.  I hope it's very successful.  But I have to laugh.

The idea of Mitch Pearlstein hosting a forum on civility in politics is 
like having John Gotti host a forum on obeying the law, or having Randy 
Moss host a forum on humility and personal responsibility.  As president 
of the Center of the American Experiment, Pearlstein practices 
inflammatory demagoguery on a full-time basis.  Is it civil to belittle 
those who disagree with you?  To call their statements "ugly?"  To 
unethically cause taxpayers to pay for your partisan attacks and propaganda?

Sounds pretty rude to me.

Chris Johnson / Fulton