Vote: Did Culver flip TIR the Bird?
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 7:00
- Craig Robinson, Iowa
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- 4 comments
TIR blogger and photographer Dave Davidson attended the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association meeting today. It seems as if Governor Culver sent Davidson a message when he was getting his picture taken. Or maybe the Governor’s “hidden message” was intended for someone else in the audience.
Recently, members of the media told Culver that he needs to be more assessable and friendly to the media. Kathie Obradovich, a columnist for the Register noted in her most recent column, “You can’t say Gov. Chet Culver isn’t learning from his experience as governor.”
Obviously, he either doesn’t know how to properly place his hands on a lectern, or he really dislikes TIR photographer Dave Davidson. Either way it looks like Culver has regressed back to his old ways of being confrontational with the media.
What say you? Did Culver flip TIR the bird?
Photos and Video by Dave Davidson
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Craig Robinson serves as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheIowaRepublican.com. Prior to founding Iowa's largest conservative news site, Robinson served as the Political Director of the Republican Party of Iowa during the 2008 Iowa Caucuses. In that capacity, Robinson planned and organized the largest political event in 2007, the Iowa Straw Poll, in Ames, Iowa. Robinson also organized the 2008 Republican caucuses in Iowa, and was later dispatched to Nevada to help with the caucuses there. Robinson cut his teeth in Iowa politics during the 2000 caucus campaign of businessman Steve Forbes and has been involved with most major campaigns in the state since then. His extensive political background and rolodex give him a unique perspective from which to monitor the political pulse of Iowa.
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Anybody old enough to remember when Nelson Rockefeller unabashedly _did_ give the finger to a news camera and interviewer on the floor of the national convention? I don’t remember if that was in the late sixties or in the seventies. Whenever, it certainly spiced up politics for that presidential nominating summer.
Hah! Just remembered another good one.
The repubs had their convention after the demo one that nominated Carter and Mondale, who had nicknames of Grits (Carter) and Fritz (Mondale). Anyway, I was idly watching the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the repub one during one of the mid-days when the camera was panning slowly around the seated delegates. Really yawner stuff mostly. Until that is, the camera got to a funny-hatted guy who must have been waiting foe just such a moment. The guy quickly held up a sign that read: FRITZ AND GRITZ GIVE ME THE SHITZ’
I remember having one of those really memorable belly laughs over seeing that.
This is the top story on your site?
Just a little afternoon fun DSM Dem. We will have a new top story tomorrow.