Scott Walker: We don't need to know who's ass you are kissing. You basically told the world. Like any story of playground bullies and kissing, there's the real question: When you were kissing David Koch's ass, how much tongue did you use?
How's it taste, Scott?
I will be the first to admit that what's really being reported here really fits much more of an entirely believable rumor. I wrote a "some say" Fox News title that really should have been "Scott Walker Bounced from Local Restaurant?" So I'm guilty as charged, I know.
The gist of it is: The Beast That Happens To Be a Governor comes scottwalking into a local business, all present recoil in horror, the unnamed beast is asked to leave (presumably to prevent mass vomiting), and does.
It also says the names have all been removed, protected, and so forth. Like I said: that makes this story not really a story but more of a rumor, and perhaps this diary not even a diary, but more like a butterfly dreaming it's a missive.
But like a parable of the Lord, the veracity of the tale is not the essence, but rather the plausibility and the lesson of the whole thing.
One thing I share with my fellow Wisconsinites is that I really like living here. I've really been thinking a lot about why I do, as it makes very little sense. If I could give one reason why this so, it's the spirit of the people, and the communal will to take care of one another that often runs like a union controlled water utility. Far too often, there's been drought. But the wins are worth the fight.
I would ask those committing the scottwalking all over us offenses: Where are you going to live when this is all over? I fear becoming a stranger in my lifelong home.
UPDATE: Rec list! I'm flattered and honored! I'm also very sorry that I have pressing engagements and must leave.
PLEASE post your local rally in the comments below, or where it was I missed the earth ship.
UPDATE 2: Thank you all for you kind words, constructive criticism, and the research (like sfcouple's) that might shed a little more light on the true or false end of this. I maintain that true or not, I wouldn't want to be Scott Walker ordering a meal today.
Food is primal, and so is community. The ostracism will ensue. Crazy old uncles who are otherwise great but just love The Beast might have their invitations lost, and so on. Workaday life here is difficult enough, absent this foolishness. Those who behave in an odious manner are best avoided.
And to those who suggest a scrub up top: Help me out a bit by telling me what you said when a tyrant spat on the graves of your labor martyrs and began to rule by fiat in your home? What's an appropriate way to write a "truly great diary" about that?
Updated by kazoo of the north at Sat Feb 26, 2011, 02:59:23 PM
Sorry I think I just learned the proper way to update a diary.....
Here the United Wisconsin link for the recall petition commitment list. God help us if this drags out all the way to November.
http://www.unitedwisconsin.com/
Updated by kazoo of the north at Sat Feb 26, 2011, 11:18:20 PM
Now, I have heard from people who have actually been to the place in question, and they tell me that it absolutely DID happen. No amount of internet posts will convince me otherwise. The word from trustworthy people in meatspace trumps all, as far as I'm concerned.