Dissing the minions
by digby
This little dust up with Ed Shultz is getting ugly. (You can read the details at the link.) Apparently, he's a pretty thin-skinned guy. But word to the wise: when your image is all about being a friend to the working man, don't say this about your critics:
"I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy, exposure envy, platform envy...there are going to be minions out there that are going to twist and turn and spin and have expectations without going to the source.”
I know when people get angry they often say things they don't really mean. But this man is a professional and to let fly in public with comments like these is fairly damning. He is supposed to be the average Joe, salt of the earth, everyman. Saying your critics have "income envy" and using the word "minions" to describe them is revealing. And not in a good way.
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