Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. A reader of my blog mnblue.com sent this to me. It's ****ing High-larious. Jerry Grubler is my hero. So are the people who shot the video. The funniest thing is Ed Matthews is the endorsed Republican opponent of Rep. Betty McCollumn (DFL-MN04). He must've been really drunk on the free Anheuser-Bush beer inside the convention or something, because he probably didn't want this on tape. I mean ... what serious candidate would mug a guy for his McCain mask then get the cops to arrest him when the guy tries to get his mask back.
Ed Matthews, the Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 4th Congressional district, mugged me for my McCain mask while I was performing stree theater at the Republican National Convention. At about 5:30pm on Thursday, September 5th, my friend and I were at Rice Park in St. Paul performing skits and songs entitled “Insane in the McCain-Brain” and “Bomb Iran” while wearing Bush and McCain masks. Ed Matthews, along with a tall man with a potbelly (also a delegate), came at me from behind and started pushing and grabbing for my mask. Matthews was yelling, “That’s my sign,” and I yelled back, “This is my mask,” and “Don’t touch me.” Ed Matthews was finally able to wrench the mask out of my hands and I responded by pulling his RNC credentials off his neck. Ed Matthews then screamed, “Give me my credentials,” and I yelled, “Give me my mask.” At that point the big guy with the potbelly and another man (who did not identify himself as Capital Police) grabbed me and began yelling, “He stole a delegate’s credentials.” I struggled with the two men until I was thrown to the ground by a uniformed officer who cuffed me while keeping his knee on the back of my neck. A crowd made up mostly of Republican delegates began yelling at the police (on my behalf), “He did nothing wrong,” and “It was the other guy who started it.” Yet I was taken into custody and Ed Matthews was whisked into the Xcel Center with my mask.
(indybay.org)
-- cross-posted from mnblue.com, home of the Norm Coleman Weasel Meter ---