True North

At the very end of a piece in the Minnesoros Monitor yesterday, Molly “Is It White Here, Or Is It Just Me” Priesmeyer asked:

Oh, what can it all mean!? What can it all mean!?

If I were her editor, I might have asked that myself.

Let’s start at the top; Priesmeyer seems to be covering the “What insignificant websites are saying about s**t that doesn’t matter” beat for the mSM.  She asks:

On Friday, an Etsy.com seller added this handcrafted button (pictured) to her collection of items for sale. It features Mr. Monopoly, or Rich Uncle Pennybags, the easily loathed super-rich fellow who giveth and taketh away in the board game of capitalism. The button made little sense on Friday.

Or, um, today…? 

This “Etsy.com” is, what - a political aggregator?  A center of thought for people in the know about the Tics’ deeply-undemocratic delegate system?

(Searches casually).  No, it’s sort of an “Ebay” for handmade tschotschkes. 

To quote the sage, “Oh, what can it all mean!? What can it all mean!?”, indeed.

 Why would a super delegate be associated with Rich Uncle Pennybags?

(Insert “George Soros” joke here)

Then yesterday came word from Huffington Post that Haim Saban, the super-billionaire entertainment mogul and one of Hillary Clinton’s top financial supporters, offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America if the org’s two uncommitted super delegates were to pledge support for Clinton…Suddenly, the image of Sir Pennybags in a free fall makes sense. Try, try, try as he might, he just can’t seem to pay everyone off.

Uh.  Huh.

I’m not sure if this is good news (the left is wasting money publishing this sort of thing) or bad (the left has enough money to waste publishing this sort of thing). 

Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.