We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the good wishes received from folks in the area for having being appointed to the LePage Transition Advisory Team. Even those who don’t see eye-to-eye with us on political matters have been gracious, including Jim McCarthy of the Times Record.
Now it’s time for your no-surprise surprise, boys and girls!
Leave it to the most divisive and shrill opinion columnist in our area to spew gallons of bile on the Advisory Team on the editorial pages of The Forecaster, an otherwise fine weekly newspaper. That would be Edgar Allen Moonbeem, as we usually refer to him in our posts.
Why this man is paid for his efforts is beyond our comprehension. Only Paul ‘pass the Koolaid’ Krugman can evoke similar visceral reactions, such wonder at how in the hell the writer got to the position he holds, and what imaginary universe he resides in.
Moonbeem has this to say about your faithful correspondent:
My favorite appointee, however, is Pembroke Schaeffer, Brunswick’s inveterate letter writer, testifier and all-around ultraconservative gadfly. Schaeffer, too, was a TABOR II promoter, which makes you wonder why, if he wanted a cranky tax-capper on his team, LePage didn’t just appoint Jack Wibby.
On the face of things, he has characterized us with some accuracy. It goes without saying, however, that his use of the words ‘favorite appointee’ is not a compliment, but is instead a juvenile and vain attempt at the exceptionally refined sarcasm so often seen on these very pages.
You’d have to read his entire screed to grasp (or should we say ‘appreciate?’) the venom contained therein, but you’ll have to find it on your own. We’re not in the business of aiding and abetting incivility in modern day public discourse. As much as we might like to grab Edgar by his little beady-eyed and bearded head and twist it three times to the left, four times to the right, and then dunk it in a cauldron of bubbling toil and trouble. Because that just wouldn’t be right.
At least we don’t think so, would it?
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