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SHOCKINGLY STUPID: ST. OLAF PROFESSOR PROUDLY BOASTS ONLINE THAT HE STOLE MCCAIN-PALIN LAWSIGNS
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 1, 2008
Phil Busse, a visiting professor at St. Olaf College, proudly posted in a story for The Huffington Post that he was stealing McCain-Palin lawn sign.
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“Highway 19 is a busy six-mile stretch of meandering road that links to main interstate artery in southeast Minnesota. More interestingly, the road connects rural, and often conservative, Minnesota to the liberal college town of Northfield. Rolling through pumpkin patches and apple orchids, the highway is postcard beautiful. This summer and autumn it was speckled with McCain signs, their cobalt blue squarely set against the gold and red of fall foliage.
By early October, however, there were no McCain-Palin campaign signs on the eastbound stretch of Highway 19. It wasn’t because loyalties had switched, but because I pulled them out.
And that goes for the oversized 4 x 8 foot mini-billboard in front of the ranch-style farm house. It barely fit in the back of my Subaru. But I carted it away with seven other lawn signs that, like a ninja under the cover of cloudy Minnesota night, I ‘removed.’
I am a visiting professor at St. Olaf College, whose student body is ideologically balanced. I have been involved with political campaigns in the past — phone-banking, politicking and working as a campaign manager. I even ran for mayor of Portland, Oregon once myself. But, when teaching, I try not to share my political beliefs. Earlier this term, I marked down a student’s grade for wearing an Obama T-shirt when he gave a presentation about talk radio’s impact on the current election. I told him that the T-shirt made his presentation look biased and detracted from his otherwise sincere analysis of Rush Limbaugh.
Sure, I understand that stealing a sign will not change anyone’s mind, and, most likely, will only embolden McCain supporters’ disdain for liberals. Even so, yanking out the signs and running like a scared rabbit back to my idling car was one of the single-most exhilarating and empowering political acts that I have ever done.” Source: The Huffington Post, October 30, 2008
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November 1st, 2008 at 9:17 am
unbelievable!
This guy’s attitude typifies the liberal elite/limousine liberals.
Let’s see how the girls at mnpooblius try to explain this away.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
I love how Minnesota Democrats Exposed has turned into the clearinghouse for lawn sign news.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
This is todays brown shirt liberal. That is, they’re for “tolerance” and “free speech” as long as it’s speech they agree with. Anything else isn’t really worth “tolerating” – according to them – and they’re willing to enforce it with any means necessary. If Obama wins, get ready for a Chavez-like atmosphere with tolerance for stuff like this.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
I love how Aaron’s sole responsibility from the DFL party bosses is to troll around on MDE’s blog. From time to time, one of the DFL hacks writes something for Aaron to post on pooblius.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
He should be arrested and charged.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:28 am
Yes, let’s keep throwing more edu-welfare at colleges so they can hire more pricks like this and keep inflating tuition. This whole post by this guy smells funny though, he’s looking for a reaction. I doubt he really stole signs.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
Flash is right, he should be arrested and charged. Theft is theft, and those 4 x 8 signs cost quite a bit of money to make. I don’t know how the far left can continue to claim to be tolerant after this election. Watch out, because the (un)Fairness Doctrine is next.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am
He *definitely* stole the signs — there’s an article in the Northfield News with some new quotes from this jerkoff professor.
He should be canned, this is unacceptable.
Imagine if a professor admitted to stealing Obama signs. MSNBC would be all over that story.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am
Loktar! His (professional) head is needed for the horde.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
not to mention this is a crime, but then when have libs ever followed the law when it meant it was against their “conscience”?
November 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
This (cheney)in’ MORON needs to see a booking room first hand, and experience a cot and hots courtesy of the County’s finest.
I have no time for stupid jerks like this guy.
November 1st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Ya know what, ansel? This putz is a phony. Real people practicing real civil disobedience means they’re willing to do the time for the crime. They EXPECT to be arrested. I’d like to see this phony get the full treatment for his civil disobedience.
November 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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November 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
He should be arrested and fired.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Screw that. He should have kept his mouth shut. I say arrest Palin and send him back to Oregon.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I’ve worked hard on putting signs out for McCain, Paulson, Coleman this year. He’s lucky someone like me didn’t see him do it..
Eden Prairie Bubba
November 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I’d like to see this guy go on TV to explain himself. What a loser.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
How about a “Fairness Doctrine” that applies to college professors? Every time one of these lefties, whose salaries are paid by us taxpayers, espouses their liberal crap in class, an opposing view has to be provided by a conservative professor.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Arrest Palin for what?
November 1st, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Abuse of office, corruption, inciting a riot.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:08 pm
At any respectable school, this guy would be fired immediately. At Saint O-Laugh, he’ll probably get tenure tomorrow.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Say, Dickweed?
You do know that King Banaian is chair of his department, don’t you?
Dumb(cheney).
November 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Liberal-progressive-democrat klepto-campaigner Phylis Kahn as taught at a University!
Obviously a “professor” would be, intellectually at the top among liberal-progressive-democrats.
Wow! Those liberal-progressive-democrats sure lead exciting lives as evidenced by this quote from the story.
“Even so, yanking out the signs and running like a scared rabbit back to my idling car was one of the single-most exhilarating and empowering political acts that I have ever done.â€
November 1st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Busse was a dick. So was whoever stole all the Obama signs on my block. Sorry guys, but idiocy is a bipartisan malady.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
“Even so, yanking out the signs and running like a scared rabbit back to my idling car was one of the single-most exhilarating and empowering political acts that I have ever done.â€
What an obnoxious douche nozzle. Fine him and fire him.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 am
The guy admits to stealing signs. Prosecute him.
And Aaron, your an idiot. Barack Blog Squad, we are onto you.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 am
Lucky for this visiting professor didn’t try this here in Minneapolis. Why! they would have cited him for idling his car more than three minutes!