Congrats, A L Brown AND Tutu the Second Time

It was nice to see an op-ed piece from A. L. Brown in today’s DPP. He also addressed the St. Thomas–Archbishop Tutu matter in a little different way than I had here. The paper identified him as a KSTP talk show host, but did not say when his show is on. Wonder why?

Maybe because the Hubbards just seem to use him as fill-in [and never for Soucheray]. They used to give him Sunday afternoons which has to be the worst spot available [which had once been made available to somebody else they would consider to be strangely radiclib, Nick Coleman – not the real Nick Coleman, but his son who shuttles his very ordinary predictable pablum between newspapers like Elizabeth Taylor was shuttling between husbands forty years ago] , but they made other programming choices and forced him out of that.

KSTP used to have more diverse minds on its air. Remember Barbara Carlson [who by herself sometimes coujld be a year’s quota of diversity in just a few hours of the morning]? Dick Pomerantz? Michael Jackson [no, not that one – the white guy from South Africa who actually challenged apartheid amid all his show-biz sycophancy but was dumped for the Missouri Mouth]? The Mayor of Brooklyn Park, James Janos? Or Turi Rider? Are your ears still ringing from that last one?

Back to Mr. Brown’s comments. I did not go into things like why Ann Coulter was allowed to speak there. It is indeed strange when somebody who seems so void of fact or world perspective is allowed and a Nobel Prize winning bishop is not, but that’s their business. I was focusing forward. If Tutu is not allowed, disinvited even, who will be tolerated? I suggested that the students and constituency of the Merriam Park-based semi-Catholic university [named after a man noted for his intellect] can accept banning the good bishop that they ought to be ready to mobilize to see to it that nobody else similarly opinionated [whether of similar opinions or contrary] be permitted an audience there either. It would leave a lesser university, but it would be consistent.

And I do wonder if Archbishop Tutu were a Catholic bishop if the action would have been the same.