MARK STEYN A memorial disservice to Paul Wellstone

National Post ^ | Thursday, October 31, 2002 | Mark Steyn

[facedown]

Mahatma Luther Wellstone

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[EverOnward]

...that while I'm not glad that he's dead, I really don't care that he is...

Geez, it seemd the dems were glad. Never thought the death of one of their own could bring these disgusting excuses for human beings such frenzied glee.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Bump for a great read.

[Pokey78]

Thank you!

[LisaFab]

Thanks Poke, another winner.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[Lady Jag]

Thank YOU!

[Gritty]

I think Steyn has brilliantly managed to digest and pass on the essence of the Wellstone GhoulFest.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The actions of Wellstone's colleagues after his death proved just how empty was the goal he sought. Did Wellstone believe what he preached? If so, his memorial was an insult. If not, he was just one of them and got the embarassment he deserved.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[ladyinred]

ruthlessly partisan in their pious denunciations of partisanship.

What a great line! I have been trying to put that into words for days but couldn't quite express it. This guy nailed it.

[andy58-in-nh]

In a cheerfully totalitarian moment...

Steyn has so many inspired lines in this piece, one hardly knows where to begin or end praise.

This line for me perfectly captured the essence of the Wellstone Funeral/Nuremberg Rally (which is in itself a bitter irony). When the Personal is the Political, all manner of evil is possible.

When my father died, I (as a not very observant Jew), sat shiva and huddled quietly with my family and friends. The Wellstone crowd instead, chose to re-enact Triumph of the Will.

I know my Dad was no Senator, but he had, truly, thousands of friends and acquaintances, and they honored his memory the way most people do: reverently and respectfully. At the Wellstone Rally, you could almost hear the Horst Wessel song playing on the PA system.

[Undertow]

The voice. The music. The style. The class.

There is none higher.

[Darlin']

* "Democrats have perfected the art of being simultaneously maudlin and vicious, ruthlessly partisan in their pious denunciations of partisanship..."
* "Thou shalt not speak ill of the dead, or the old guy we found to substitute for the dead."
* "Even now, Jesse is working on rhymes for Hmong, and Ted Kennedy is practising denouncing Republican hate-Hmongers without sounding like he's hiccuping."

FOFLOL. Those 3 lines have to be some of the funniest I've read by any political columnist in years.

[rstevens]

At his "memorial" Wellstone he was deemed a non-person and so were the seven other people who died with him It's schadenfreud all over again since Wellstone treated innocent human life as non-persons. He ignored the humanity of the unborn and hastened their status as non-entities with his nuumerous pro-abortion votes. Sorry, but I can't drum up the necessary sympathy over his demise..........and apparently neither could those who attended his "memorial."

This sums it up very nicely. Well spoken my friend, it is exactly as I feel about Mr. Wellstone.

[baseballmom]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey. Another great piece by Steyn. He just nails it. Words like shameful, unseemly, and decency, don't even exist anymore for these "new democrats". How depressing.

[NYpeanut]

The dems are really beneath contempt. I'll have to think of another word.

[Hildy]

hold on there Virginia...Class? ehhhhhh

[dread78645]

> For the record, they were Richard Conry, 55, and Michael Guess, 30.

Who cares about their ages or names?

Lovely spirit.

These are Democrats.

And you know this how?

What was their race and sexual orientation?

Well, there's a consevative thought !

[Liz]

Nobody does it better than the Chairman of the Board.