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November 28, 2007

Willy Week endorses Novick.

In what appears to be a naked attempt to generate buzz for Oregon Dem Senatorial candidate Steve Novick while downplaying his lack of endorsements from elected Democrats, Beth Slovic's editorial concludes with a four-part comparison between Novick and fellow Oregon Dem Senatorial candidate Jeff Merkley to allegedly see which of the two is most like Montana Senator Jon Tester (D).

One particularly noteworthy thing about that is the fact that earlier in the campaign Steve Novick had run ads comparing himself to Tester
only to have Senator Tester endorse Merkley in no uncertain terms. Which you would think kinda settles any questions about who Tester himself believes compares most favorably to himself.

Another thing that's noteworthy about Slovic's editorial is that Tester is coming to Portland on December 15th to stump for Merkley, as she notes in the endorsement... er... editorial. Nevertheless Slovic picks up where Novick left off and uses the aforementioned 4-part comparison as her vehicle.

The comparison itself, called the Tester-Meter, is almost comedic in what it uses to determine who is "more like the Montana maverick." I mean here we have a Democratic primary campaign focused on both removing the Bush rubberstamper also known as Senator Gordon Smith (R) and bringing new, constructive (for a change!) ideas to the United States Senate and what is one of the four criteria which Beth Slovic deems relevant in such an important campaign? How many fingers Senator Tester has on one hand!

Yes, you got that right... billions of dollars are being squandered in Iraq, our civil rights are in tatters, almost nobody else on the planet sees this administration as an honest broker on anything and Beth Slovic thinks that Steve Novick's "signature look" warrants being one of only four criteria in this important campaign??? And it's a forced comparison at that.

Novick was born without a right hand and Tester is missing three fingers on his right hand. Forget the fact that in most other respects Tester actually resembles Merkley much more than he resembles Novick, Ms. Slovic won't be denied stacking the deck in order to pump up an irrelevant comparison with a Senator who has already rejected Novick by explicitely endorsing Merkley. It'd be funny if it wasn't so completely out of touch with the truly important issues that the winner of this race will grapple with.

Is it any wonder that the for-profit media is viewed with such disdain these days?

I don't know about you but I am not even slightly interested in or entertained by the notion that I or any other Oregonian ought to give a flying rodent's backside how many fingers our elected representatives have.

Give me my gawd damned civil rights back and some friggin' sanity in our nation's capital and to hell with how many fingers are associated with whomever can achieve that end!

Posted by Kevin at November 28, 2007 01:44 PM