If a Right Wing convention fails in the woods, and nobody notices it, does anybody get teabagged?

Okay so as all of you know I skipped attending this Wasilla nutjob convention this weekend.

Instead I went to see the new X-Men movie, which I HIGHLY recommend, so I feel I made the better choice.

However I figured I would go ahead and do a follow up post on whatever was written up by whatever poor reporter was sent to cover this "event."

So I waited. And I waited. And I waited.

Nothing, nada, zilch.

I checked ADN. Not a word.

I checked Alaska Dispatch. Only the sound of crickets.

Well since its a small event I thought perhaps the Fairbanks Newsminer and Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman might cover it.

Nope, they did not even seem to notice.

Well surely Sarah Palin will post something on her Facebook page about it, after all it is down the street, and it features Teabaggers speaking in the sports center she had built to honor her ex-lover.

Not a peep.

So then I began to wonder, was the damn thing held at all?

So I went to their site. Where I see this:

So apparently they held a straw poll. But how many people were even there to vote in it?

Absolutely NO idea!

So I thought about it, and decided that this is probably very telling.

After all if an uber Right Wing convention, held in the backyard of the person who is arguably most responsible for the formation of the Tea Party, garners ABSOLUTELY no interest from the media, and in fact does not even attract Palin herself, then I think we can assume that for all intents and purposes the Tea Party is over.

Damn, am I glad I didn't waste my time driving all the way out to Wasilla yesterday.

Frontiersman editor feels regret for writing thinly veiled threat against Joe McGinniss.

This showed up at the bottom of that infamous editorial from the Frontiersman:

Editor's Note: While you don’t see my name at the bottom of our editorials, I routinely write them, and I wrote the one that ran Saturday – the one about Joe McGinnis and the Palins’ new fence.

In an effort to find a catchy ending, I was a bit too creative with the last paragraph. If I had it to do over again, I would have left off the last sentence of the editorial. It doesn’t add to my point, which was that there is nothing particularly newsworthy about someone moving in next door nor about a new fence going up to protect the privacy of neighbors.

I certainly did not mean to suggest that McGinnis would or should be the victim of violence. For that matter, I didn’t mean to suggest the Palins would do such a thing.

All of which points to the power of words. I misused them on Saturday. I’ll try to have more respect for that power next time around.

If this is supposed to be an apology it is too little and too late. 

And if it is supposed to serve as an explanation then it is woefully inadequate as well.

I would think that the editor of a newspaper, even one focused on such Pulitzer prize winning subjects as "Is an outdoor shooting range within city limits really a good idea?" and "Understanding how God makes a saint", would already have determined the "power of words".

Well anyhow I guess this "editor" decided after two days of being bombarded with letters and e-mails asking "Just how stupid are you?" and "Do you have a lawyer ready when you are named as an accomplice in the death of Mr. McGinniss?" this clown FINALLY decided to say something on the record to diffuse the situation. Oooh what quick journalistic reflexes you have!

You know buddy the next time you accidentally start a fire, perhaps you should start pissing on it BEFORE it spreads to the nearby woods and then blazes out of control across the country.  Just a thought.