City What the Hell is Joel Connelly Talking About?
posted by on November 5 at 11:45 AM
Joel Connelly and Joni Balter, talking to Steve Scherr about the Seattle School Board elections on KUOW this morning:
Connelly: “I think that it is a tribute to the system that for such a thankless job we can get challengers of such quality … to basically steer the school board away from a kind of Baskin and Robbins, race-centered approach where every little flavor gets its piece of the pie and—”Balter (laughing): “Ice cream pie, right?”
Connelly: “An ice cream pie and a school board that works on behalf of all God’s children.”
Scherr: “More metaphors than ever this morning. This was great.”
Baskin-Robbins? “Every little flavor”? Is Whidbey Island resident Joel Connelly suggesting that Seattle Schools concentrate its money and attention on one “flavor”—say, vanilla?
I listened to that. Joel Connelly is a wheezy boob.
Yes. He's constructing a racist slur with ice cream. It takes a certain kind of koo koo to pull that off.
he's talking about why seattle schools are fucking pitiful & the school board can't do anything right. but beyond that, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
he's an idiot.
Someone as boring and pedantic as you are, Erica, would definitely be vanilla.
Or maybe just "milk flavored".
ECB is rum flavored vanilla. It looks vanilla, but is much better.
Now Joel ... yeah, vanilla. And not even good French Vanilla.
Max is right. Connelly does a great job at putting his foot in his mouth, but his sentiment here is right-on. The Seattle Schools need to stop worrying about individual flavors and start worrying about how to get their damn refrigeration system working.
Does Joel Connelly dream of black corpses hanging from the trees in his front yard? Y/N?
Suprised you have not mentioned that in this morning's PI Connelly wrote of "Karl Rove wannabes at The Stranger"
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So, a local judge gets in trouble for asking "what flavor are you?" but if Joel uses the same imagery to refer to schoolchildren, people think it's funny? I don't get it.
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