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UNBELIEVABLE: COLEMAN ENDORSED BY THE STAR TRIBUNE!!!
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 25, 2008
I visited numerous gas stations this morning trying to locate an early edition of the Sunday Star Tribune newspaper. On my third try, I found the newspaper and read the unbelievable news: U.S. Senator Norm Coleman was endorsed by the Star Tribune. From the endorsement:
“Independent judgment, excercised on behalf of the special interest of the country and state, is what we hope to see from our U.S. Senators. With that hope in mind, this newspaper recommend the reelection of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.” Source: Star Tribune, October 26, 2008
I am stunned, as I fully expected Al Franken to be endorsed. Will Franken be endorsed by any Minnesota newspaper? Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for information on this developing story.
UPDATE: Here’s a key line about Franken from the Star Tribune’s endorsement of Coleman:
“It isn’t easy to envision him as a constructive force for bipartisan legislation.” Source: Star Tribune, October 26, 2008
It’s a tough news day for Team Franken.
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October 25th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Stunned? MNpublius has been predicting this for a long time.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I am stunned. Will Franken get endorsed by any Minnesota newspaper? My bet is the Pioneer Press. I don’t believe Coleman will be endorsed by both the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:13 am
No, it shouldn’t surprise you. Norm may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but he’s a serious man. Franken is not. In a normal year, if you had the same three candidates running, Franken would finish third.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
The red stars leftard editors did this so they can justify putting Frankenfraud on the front page in as many favorable pieces as they can crank out.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Wow, you know it is bad when even the strib won’t support this over the top outsider. This has to hurt Al and might just be a the straw that broke the camel’s back. I never thought I would say this, “Thanks Strib!” You finally got something right….In fact, I might even purchase your paper today.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:04 am
[...] Michael Brodkorb, with the practiced hyperbole of all well-trained partisan mouthpieces, is SHOCKED! He can’t believe it! Maybe he should be reading [...]
October 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I wonder if the terrible drop in the Strib’s readership might be finally waking up the biased editors / writers and forcing them to report on the truth for a change?
Nah, I doubt it. They must have had some bad mushrooms last week.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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I went to sleep on planet Earth Friday, October 24.
I do not recognize the planet on which I awoke.
Unbelievable.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:15 am
[...] Strib to endorse Al Franken in an orgy of recrimination against the outgoing Bush administration. Michael Brodkorb discovered a surprise instead: I visited numerous gas stations this morning trying to locate an [...]
October 25th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Yeah, this is bad for Franken. Makes one wonder who else they’re going to endorse. Obviously the new ownership has changed the editorial direction of the paper.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:18 am
With that said, I can’t wait to read Nick Coleman’s next column.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Can somebody do a quick check on the temperature in Hell? I have a feeling you could go skating there!
October 25th, 2008 at 10:49 am
They already opined against the natural resources/arts amendment. What more proof do you need that the once proud newspaper is no longer interested in playing its intended role, and now it simply is interested in selling papers?
October 25th, 2008 at 10:50 am
The new conservative ownership bla bla bla…..
This “conservative” paper endorsed all DFL candidates in today’s paper.
The endorsement of Norm Coleman for US Senate proves 1 of 2 things.
A broken clock is right twice every day
Al Franken is so far off the mark that even the Strib can’t bring itself to endorse him.
I will believe that this is a conservative paper when Barack Hussein Obama is not endorsed by the strib.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I’ll have to rethink my support of Coleman.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I’m going to say it again.
The Dems have repeatedly been sorry for endorsing Franken. Imagine if Ciresi was endorsed. He would have been supported by all the papers and after the economic crisis up by 20 points. The Dems really blew it on this one.
Has the Star Tribune endorsed Obama yet? When they do it will be so awkward for TeamFranken.
I hope these endorsements of Coleman register with voters. I will be ashamed to be a Minnesotan if we elect another celebrity goof.
October 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
this is for the gop what kathryn harris was for the dems in flordia in 2006. the gop should have easily won florida senate seat in 2006, but nominated a highly controversial figure. payback for dems nominating franken.
let’s hope norm wins and the gop can end up with 42-43 seats.
as i count it, gop will lose va, nm, co and nh. possibly alaska, but that will go stevens if he is acquitted or no verdict by day of election. gop will not pickup any dem seats. i am feeling more comfortable now about mn, nc and ky. oregon still a big tossup.
the best the gop can hope for in this election is obama victory by less than 5 points, and holding senate losses to 5 seats. that then gives dems white house and congress, but not filibuster proof so dems get all the blame (and credit if there is any in next couple of years) while gop can stir up the pot without any blame.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Why would the dems be sorry for endorsing the candidate who is leading in the vast majority of all polls?
October 25th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
A little bell should go off in your heads. You have now reached political extremism. You’re left of the Star Tribune!
October 25th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
What will your racist friends over at anti-strib have to say about this Brodkorb?
October 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Leroy,
The only reason Franken is leading or tied in the polls is because of the economic crisis. He was dead before then.
Any Democrat should be way ahead in this race, but Franken is struggling to keep it competitive.
Not to mention the fact that Franken is embarrassing for Minnesota and the DFL. These endorsements show that even left-leaning groups are willing to support Coleman because Franken is so terrible.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvf43K7JlF4
October 25th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Ansel:
I find your commentary about the comparison a little funny:
* Harris was running against an incumbent Democrat Senator (one who won the state of Florida the night that Gore lost Florida). That by itself isn’t a cake walk in. That’s a guarantee struggle.
* Okay the premise of your argument is that if the Republicans had nominated somebody who was likeable they would’ve won easily. Well in the state of Pennsylvania the Republicans had an incumbent US Senator who said nice things, he argued his case very well, and he lost by over 700,000 votes. Hint what history shows was a down Republican year she got killed (Kennedy in terms of popular vote percentage got just one percent more)
* In terms of ranking the races like you did North Carolina if it turns that Dole wins according to your assessment than the losses will be fewer. Dole has more against her in her race than John S, Schafer, and Smith have. If Dole wins the loss is closer to two or less than the five you’re predicting.
In terms of those people who say that Franken has been leading the polls the question isn’t why is the margin bigger? There is something like a five point plus gap in all of these for party identification. Obama in these polls have a ten plus vote margin. In other words Coleman is doing better than the top of his ticket (always a problem when you have an unpopular adminstration) and Franken is running far worse than the top of his ticket. This shapes up to be a problem for Franken on election day.
Furthermore if you folks want to say that there is no credible poll that says Coleman is winning you’re making the case that there is no credible poll that shows Tinkelberg and Madia are ahead since the only people who have polled those races is survey USA which said that Coleman is winning.
So I guess there is no credible proof anybody can claim that Paulsen or Bachmann is losing then.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
October 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Well, PRAISE GOD and Hallelulah Al Franken has finally been told NO. He reminds me of a sullen, mean-spirited, talentless child who was never told NO by his parents, and never grew up.
My bet is that NOBAMA and his team lose big, and rightfully so. I am an EX Democrat who voted in a PROTEST vote Straight REPUBLICAN (except for two downticket dems I just couldn’t publish for the Demonazis beahvior) and I speak for MILLIONS of Americans who will be PROUDLY and RESOUNDINGLY voting REPUBLICAN THIS YEAR!!
You can call me Jennifer B. Anthony, because in honor of Susan and her historic 1928 ‘I can’t vote for the Democrats because they do not support women’ stance, this year I voted in her honor because THEY STILL CANNOT support Women. Howard Dean, Al Franken, and Brazilla got it wrong, we will NOT come home; instead, we will vote COUNTRY FIRST and then either purge the Democrats of the nutballs or forge ahead and form a new party. Either way, I’m taking my money AND my votes with me.
Jennifer X
American Citizen
October 26th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Hey, a 3 by 5 foot oil painting of Al Franken with a pancake on his head, $250 bucks, cash and carry-
http://www.faithmouse.com/al_franken_with_a_pancake_on_his_head.jpg
As an incentive I’ll be happy to give Al a new suit plus butter and syrup.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
You coulda knocked me over with a feather. I said a few days ago that the Strib only endorses Republicans when 1) either there isn’t a DFL opponent; or 2) When the DFL opponent was recently convicted of sexual abuse.
Since Franken is the DFL opponent, apparently the Strib finds his 15 year career peddling partisan hate and making a joke of sexual violence offensive.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
We’ll still invite them to the Election Night Party.
October 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Aairhead wheezed: “MNpublius has been predicting this for a long time.”
Pfft.
Yeah, and I’m sure all four of your approved readers were grateful for the tip, Aairhead. But now fans of quality political punditry can join in the celebration too.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
It’s bizarre. It’s as though the editorial writers are assuming that bipartisan negotiation is a better thing than sixty-plus Democrat senators making sure that there’s no check on a Pelosi Obama Reid troika.
(I think they’re right, and that the best check on a Democrat-controlled Congress would be John McCain, but that’s another issue . . . )
October 27th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Well of course Norm won’t accept this right? I mean how would it look for the campaign to be endorsed by a socialist freedom hating newspaper?
Does Norm hate freedom? Is Norm endorsing socialism?
October 27th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
This really isn’t surprising being the the Strib is a shell of its former self. This should push its shrinking subscription rate even lower.
This newspaper is going to be as profitable as a hot sauce store in hell.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:15 am
The Red StarTribune was in a box here and took the only way out it had…
1) They desperately wanted to endorse Obama.
2) They were going to use the “Palin” isn’t qualified excuse to do it - even tho she has more exec experience then Obama.
3) That would have left them looking incredibly stupid endorsing Franken because Franken has NEVER held any elected office, let alone US Senator. He’s never even had an adult job that didn’t have “entertainer” in the title.
4) Franken is a lunatic and was going to lose anyway. Liberal papers reserve a certain number of “throw away” endorsements to inevitable conservative winners. It lets them claim they are unbiased without actually helping the conservative.
So don’t worry folks the Red Star (and the People’s Pioneer) have not suddenly become GOP fans.