Saturday, December 13, 2008
mft keeping the shitheads in line
Researchers asked state house reporters to assess their subjects and ranked responses on a scale of 1 (clean) to 7 (crooked) in a 2003 study. Nebraska? Good, not great. For North Dakota, sweet vindication: it tied with South Dakota and Colorado for least corrupt.
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Well, OK -- but then again, is there anyone in the Dakotas, besides MFT, and a few random sheep?
I wouldn't underestimate the power of those conniving caprinae. JJ's the expert: we really need to pull him into this discussion.
Mike Jacobs, the editor and publisher of the Grand Forks Herald, called it "a stunning and incomprehensible result" and could recall few cases of public misdeeds over his four decades in North Dakota journalism.
I worked for Mike some years ago. We scooped other newspapers in the western Dakota Legislative Sheep-fucking scandal, but it turned out eastern Montanans were just trying to pose as N.D. legislators.
MFT has it almost right, except that it was N.D. legislators coveting the sheep of eastern Montanans. Apparently one of 'em had read a book on "Droit de Seigneur" and had had a Great Notion.
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