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Elmer Fudd alert! It seems that Tim Walz is on a ‘I’m America’s Everyman!’ tour and it’s going about as well as can be expected. Which is to say, a comical train wreck.
As a high school marching band played a rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walked down the 50-yard line at Friday’s crosstown rivalry football game between Mankato East High School and Mankato West High School. Walz, accompanying the latter team’s captains, received an introduction that would work equally well at a campaign rally.
“Joining them for the coin toss,” said the announcer at Minnesota State University-Mankato’s Blakeslee Stadium, “former Mankato West defensive coordinator, decadelong geography teacher, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.”
The crowd reacted with mild applause, mostly from Mankato West supporters. After the coin toss, Walz took a seat on the bleachers, where he took selfies and signed autographs alongside his mother, Darlene Walz. The governor cheered throughout the game as Mankato West took an early lead, and although he departed at halftime, Mankato West held on to win 28-7.
“Mild applause?” Gee, it seems that the crowd wasn’t exactly thrilled to have him barge in for a major campaign photo op. Not only that, his mother was there? The same mother who, after major HEART surgery at 87, was left to fend for herself in her home by…HER SON. I don’t give a rat’s ass that it was during Covid, I would’ve tossed all protocols to the wayside and moved in to ensure her recovery. Tim Walz….did not. What a good son. So “everyman” of him!
Well, the next stage in his, ‘I’m just one of you’ schtick was a pheasant hunt on Minnesota’s opening day. So yesterday we are treated to Tim grandstanding for the cameras.
Uh, if he’s pheasant hunting, where are the shotguns?
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) October 12, 2024
Total photo op staged by Harris-Walz and @pheasants4ever not fooling anybody. pic.twitter.com/6K7LCT1Glm
I’ll get to that Community Note in just a minute. What we have here is Tim Walz with a group from Pheasant’s Forever getting ready to stage one helluva photo op. Now, I haven’t actually GONE on pheasant hunts, but I know a great number of people who do every year. And when they do, many of them typically hunt with a group of friends. Not with complete strangers.
Tim Walz has a serious credibility problem. And yesterday’s Elmer Fudd incident makes it worse. Especially given his serious issues with safe gun handling!
Is he going to shoot the people in front of him? The trigger finger and complete lack of weapon discipline makes me very nervous.
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 13, 2024
He ener once points that shotgun into the field. https://t.co/pNmt8MRGOH
Believe me, I was equally nervous after seeing that! WOW
The Associated Press essentially tossed him under the bus with this headline.
Walz tramps through tall grass on Minnesota’s pheasant hunting season opener but bags no birds
Their reporting is even more comical.
Neither Walz nor Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan managed to bag any pheasants as they hunted near Sleepy Eye, a town about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Minneapolis. But others in their parties shot six birds on a beautiful fall day, the governor’s office said.
“They can hide, they can get under the grass,” Walz could be heard saying as they searched for one downed bird.
~Snip
While it’s true that a 36-second video clip from MSNBC tweeted by the Trump campaign didn’t show any guns, it was recorded before Walz and his party had donned their blaze orange safety vests and hats and and headed into the field after a safety briefing from a conservation officer. They held their shotguns raised to avoid endangering the energetic pointers and Labradors that tried to sniff out birds for the hunters.
A phrase used around here is “shooting holes in the sky.” So good ole Tim ‘Elmer Fudd’ Walz shot a few holes in the sky and ended up with a goose egg. Gee, I wonder why? Remember my comment above regarding the community note? Check this out.
Tim Walz brought his own gun, a beretta, to hunt for pheasants, he tells me. “
— Shawna Mizelle (@shawnamizelle) October 12, 2024
I bought it when I was we shooting a lot of trap,” the Minnesota governor said. pic.twitter.com/K1zGkWYEPY
The capper with all this is A. he complains that the kick hurts his shoulder. Ummm…who wants to tell him? And B. As blogfather Glenn Reynolds points out, if Tim Walz was such an avid hunter, how come his hunting clothes are brand spanking new? I mean, if he’s a hunter, why not send a staffer back the Governor’s Mansion to get his hunting gear? Is it because…he doesn’t have any? Inquiring minds and all that…
Question for all the active pheasant hunters out there, do you bring in a conservation officer in every season to run a safety brief with you? Oh sure, he’s bagged pheasants before. Right? Or were those just posed photos? I ask because of watching him fumble loading a shotgun that he should be able to do by rote was supremely painful, and I feared for everyone else’s safety.
Oh wait, that’s just because he’s a passionate knucklehead sometimes!
The Harris-Walz campaign is trying to portray Tim as America’s Everyman. I don’t think the Walz version of Elmer Fudd was what they had in mind.
Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click
Wfjag says: This is the Harris-Walz version of “Lunch Bucket Joe.” Biden, however, never actually appeared in his supposed Lunch Bucket persona, because when you do that the people who actually live that life style point out the inconsistencies.
The amateurs in the Harris-Walz media team have lived their lives in a blue bubble echo chamber and have no idea what working class people look or act like. Instead, they call up central casting for some Real Men Vote For Kamala types. Instead, they get a guy who sits with his legs crossed above the knees to talk about how he really likes the ladies (Sure he does. Maybe to trade makeup tips), and the archetype over weight Bubba who declares in an unidentifiable acting class accent “I eat carburetors for breakfast!” Yea! Sure! The last time new cars with carburetors were sold in America was about 1995. Any cars with carburetors now have antique car plates, and no one who can afford to restore one will let some slovenly lout touch their dream-mobile. So, the people who come up with such ads don’t know anything about trigger discipline or that a group of men and women who hunt regularly won’t dress like they all just bought it new, off the rack. And, anyone who has hunted regularly knows how to safely and efficiently load his or her shotgun.
Fine Arts majors who then got marketing jobs have never walked through a forrest. Walking in The Park is not the same. Their carefully scripted ads are funny – in a very cringing sort of way.
RAH says: Why did Waltz had so much loading his shotgun? I shot skeet a lot when I was a teenager. Two shells are easy. A first timer does not have any issues with loading I never hunted myself, but loading a shotgun is easy .
Cameron says: Walz often says he supports the 2nd Amendment but advocates for “common sense” legislation.
If you say “I support this but-” you don’t support it.
The only “common sense” legislation liberals support is revocation of the 2nd Amendment and all laws that cover private ownership. Any liberal who says otherwise is a liar.
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