TN Mayor Apologizes For Claiming Obama Timed Speech To Preempt Charlie Brown

[DearAbby]

People try to make some very, very silly things into issues in politics. Like the timing of President Obama's speech about Afghanistan on Tuesday night, which happened to coincide with -- and thus preempt -- showings of "A Charlie Brown Christmas Special."

In a saner world, this would have been a total non-story. (Among the numerous reasons that this is a total non-story: Assuming there is still someone living in the U.S. who hasn't seen the special, it will be replayed. Many, many times. Every year.) But people like Matt Drudge picked it up and ran with it anyway, and now we can see the results.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tenn., took to his Facebook page to weigh in, and to give his theory for why Obama timed the speech as he did. From Wiseman's post:

Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch "The Charlie Brown Christmas Special" and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation about it....w...hen the answer should simply be "yes"

Wiseman went on to add such gems as, "you obama people need to move to a muslim country...oh wait, that's America....pitiful" and, "you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different........"

Contacted by the Commercial Appeal, Wiseman told the paper, "You guys are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill."


link
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/12/04/wiseman/index.html

[fishnfla]

1. There is no apology there Dear Abby

and it was Pearl Harbour, not Hiroshima :P:

[DearAbby]

8. ROFLMAO

Stop that!!! Don't make me go over there...

[Cha]

2. Is there an apology in there..'cause

I'm not seeing it?

[Javaman]

3. First they came for Charlie Brown and I did nothing...nt

[bbernardini]

4. Story regarding the "apology" is here:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/07/arlington-statement-distances-town-mayor-russell-w/

Basically one of those "sorry, I was making a joke and you didn't get it" apologies.

[laughingliberal]

5. Hmmm, I gotta go with Non-apologies for 1000, Alex nt

[WI_DEM]

6. The thing is that ABC had scheduled Charlie Brown twice this month

and it's on tonight.

[Bitwit1234]

7. I hate to say this

but the people in that town elected him. And by his actions we see the type of people from the south that are against anything proposed by Obama just because of his race.

I think the KKK is still alive and it's name is Tea Bag, this time. I watched two hours of specials on History and it detailed the rise and fall and the rise again of this horrible organization. And like I said ...this time it is called Tea Bag...why, because the people that populate this so called party stand for the same things the KKK did.

[Rob H.]

9. Remember:

Unless we can sit on the couch sipping hot cocoa and watching "The Charlie Brown Christmas Special," the terrorists win.

:sarcasm: