MARK SCHUMANN
Why is it that every Tuesday morning many local radio listeners experience an unpleasant aftertaste, as if they had been force fed baloney for breakfast?
Listening to one utility activist and local gadfly pontificate and propagandize over the radio airwaves this morning, it seems clear that for a strident partisan to try to identify and debunk political baloney would be something akin to eyeball attempting to see itself.
Yet, the Professor of Political Baloney, partisan to the bone, claims he is the one best suited to sift the wheat from the chaff, leaving us with the unadulterated truth.
“Oh, would some power, the gift to give us, to see ourselves as others see us. It would from many a blunder free us, and foolish notion.” – Robert Burns
Indian River Guardian 
We get it already. The Political Bologna feud is so old it is turning green. So tired of the back and forth. Would one of you please grow up?
Good suggestion Pat, and I’m sure you would like to pass it on to Charlie. If you don’t have his email address, I can send it to you.
Sure. I’d be happy to play “Switzerland”. I am interested in hearing both opinions but the personal stuff just belittles the issues. When I try to have an intelligent conversation with my neighbors, they just roll their eyes. People are tuning out and turning off. Local politics are too important. It is hard enough to keep the voters engaged as it is.
Pat, I agree that local politics is too important to let partisans pass off their agenda-laden commentary as anything other than what is is. The person in question spends 12 minutes each week on WTTB spinning one tale after another, passing those stories off as unadulterated truth, not as his partisan commentary. In the interest of helping people to become better informed, rather than misinformed, we are not going to let political baloney go unaddressed. And so I think the metaphor of any eyeball attempting to see itself is quite appropriate to illustrate what is happening when a strident partisan presents himself as an unbiased debunker of baloney.
Surely you give the good people enough credit to see through “bologna”. Why do the two of you even acknowledge each other? By doing so, you are creating a volatile situation where there should not be one. We should be able to state our opinions and disagree like adults. Even my 9 year old has learned that we all don’t think the same way, but we each live our lives true to our own beliefs while being kind to others. I tell you all this because I think that you may have the ability to be the bigger person. I don’t know about the “professor”. I haven’t found a way to have this dialogue with him. Either way, there is no way to win this battle, but you two do this community a disservice if you choose degrade our local politics by continuing to sensationalize your dislike for each other. It is decisive and just plain ugly.