I Don’t Hate America!

Maybe I’m just being a nit here, but it really bugs me when bloggers on either side of the ideological spectrum purport to be experts/pundits on political issues and can’t even get simple facts straight when presenting an analysis.

Case in point: Shot in the Dark’s Mitch Berg on the Senate District 25 special election, won by DFLer Kevin Dahle. On Tuesday, not only did Mitch give the incorrect date for the election (claimed it was Wednesday when it was really Thursday), but claimed the district was “in the heart of Tim Walz’s district.”

Berg, who also plays radio talk show host every Saturday on 1280 AM “the Patriot,” explained the error with the date by stating he had meant to upload the post the following day (plausible, we’re all human, mistakes happen). He explained his error in identifying which Congressional District the SD was in by saying “SD25 is in CD2? Who knew?”

The latter is simply lazy “reporting.”

Who knew? Well, I would like to say everyone blogging about the subject, but I guess I was wrong.

As if publicly being wrong once on this very easy geographic fact was enough, today on Berg’s radio show he claimed SD 25 was in “the greater…uh…somethin’…the West Metro!”

West? Maybe south-southwest at an angle of 10 degrees…maybe. Metro? That’s funny.

I am by no means an expert on this political stuff, but the ability to do the most basic research such as going to a map, is within my realm. It is evidently lacking from Mr. Berg’s.

Again, we all make mistakes, but when someone who tries to sound credible has a soap box such as a radio show these errors resulting from laziness, as opposed to a “true” mistake (such as putting a post up early), shouldn’t be excused.

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at 7:50 pm and is filed under Kevin Dahle, SD 25, Tim Walz, DJ D.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.