Eric, You are being overly broad in conflating 'the left' with 'winter bicyclists'. This isn't a left vs. right issue.
His comments were neither funny nor harmless. Even in allegedly bike-friendly Madison, there is a great deal of hostility directed against bicyclists, and his inflammatory rhetoric only fuels that hostility. I have it on good authority that Soglin was advised against it, but he went and did it anyway. It was not a 'casual' remark. Soglin has been around the block a few times, so I have to believe he knew what he was doing - being provocative just get attention. And even after getting a lot of angry comments, he is unrepentant. "Some people have no sense of humor, " he is quoted as saying. Promoting vigilante actions, even facetiously, is not funny. -- ===== darin ---- Eric Westhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Group, > > Since I am not of the Madison "community", I have only followed Paul > Soglin from a distance. But after his casual remark last week, for > there to be such a vitriolic response from the "bikies" group, there > must be more deep seated goings on. Why has such a leftist icon > "fallen from grace" with the Madison liberal community? Has Soglin had > an epiphany to the leftist's dislike? Is he actually Wisconsin's "John > Dos Passos" and I do not know it? > > The rant in "bikies" against him has raged for over a week. There must > be more to this "fall from grace" than his humorous and harmless remark > about bikes on ice? > > Eric Westhagen > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
