Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Arlington Mayor Expresses Gratitude for Tiger Woods

Posted by Jackson Baker on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM

Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman
  • Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman
One of the attendees at the Shelby County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner last weekend was Arlington mayor Russell Wiseman, who achieved a good deal of unwelcome attention last year when he complained on his Facebook page about President Obama’s pre-empting a Charlie Brown Christmas special in order to make a national televised address on Afghanistan.

Wiseman raged — jokingly, he insisted — that Obama had so acted for the sole purpose of disrupting what had become an annual Christmas tradition. He thereby set in motion a national furor which some embarrassed Republicans joined in on, along with Democrats, and Wiseman ended up being called virtually everything it was possible to be called except a man of genius.

Thereafter he kept a low profile — for every imaginable obvious reason, including the fact that his brother Lang Wiseman has a high-profile position as chair of the Shelby County Republican Party.

On Saturday night, Russell Wiseman shook his head ruefully and voiced an understandable sentiment: “I just hope Tiger Woods has finally got me off the hook.”

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Maybe Tiger has saved him for now. However people that have 'foot in mouth' disease have the remarkable ability to repeat their mistakes. I'm sure by the end of 2010, we'll be hearing from 'good ole boy' Rusty, and it'll be better than ever!

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Posted by Midtown Mark on March 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM

I find it ironic that he looks like Henry Rollins.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/rollin…

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Posted by clydeparke on March 10, 2010 at 8:06 AM

Tiger Woods could have just as easily pre-empted the Charlie Brown Christmas Special too, you know.

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Posted by autoegocrat on March 10, 2010 at 8:23 AM

Yes, he does look like Henry Rollins, as the white supremecist on Sons of Anarchy!

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Posted by shemphoward on March 10, 2010 at 12:28 PM

Stop drinking the Hateraide! He's a good guy.

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Posted by gumbey on March 11, 2010 at 7:58 AM
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