Politics The Real Jim McDermott
A friend and attentive Stranger reader called me today to ask about the Jim McDermott insert that ran in our paper this week. “How does that work?” he wanted to know.
The implication, I think, being that he found it strange to see a McDermott promo in our pages given that I recently wrote a column urging an insurgent Democrat to challenge McDermott. (Our news squad has never been too keen on McDermott, and, in fact, we endorsed Green Joe Szwaja in 2000 —mostly over free/fair trade issues.)
This friend also knows that rather than voting for McDermott in 2004, I wrote in…well, this friend.
How it works is this: Editorial and ads are separate, and I didn’t even know the McDermott flier was in our paper until today. The reason I found out about it today was because McDermott came by our offices this afternoon to meet with me and news reporter Eli Sanders. He wanted to talk to us about election 2006. Well, Eli whipped out the flier to ask McDermott how he liked hanging out with super lips Angelina Jolie. (There’s a picture of McDermott w/ the foxy Jolie on the back of the flier.)
McDermott told us that Jolie was one of the two most “real” people he’d ever met. The other was Bono.
The two "most real" people he's ever met in his whole damn life just happen to be big mega-celebrities?
Words cannot express how difficult I find that to believe.
Isn't he married? Doesn't he have friends, coworkers, associates? Has he ever met anyone with a clue? Apparently not. Two ultrafamous shitheads are alone at the top of his list.
God damn, I can't stand Jim McDermott.