Both of ‘em have one thing in common: Mitch Berg, whom I wrote about (well, more than once) back in Sept. o’ ’09 in a post entitled “Mitch Berg – The Poster Boy Of Why Reasonable People Cannot Reasonably Believe republiCons”.

In that post, I awarded a “Slimed by the MOB” (see right) to MnPP Contibutor BearBud, for – and I quote:

Since there are laws concerning public nudity, it’s safe to assume MNBearBud doesn’t run around “bare butt” – that Bootlicker Berg, once again, is simply making (stuff) up. What is fact is there is plenty more that clearly demonstrates Mitch Berg is completely unreasonable; has a history making stuff up; has and will continue to keep taking the cheap shots. IOW, that Berg is a complete (@rse)hole; he can’t help it – it’s simply who and what he is. And for his latest rant directed at MNBearBud, MNBearBud is hereby awared a badge of honor: “Slimed By The M.O.B.

I digress. In the latter tweet, Bootlicker Berg talks about a screenshot; we’ll talk about them.. In the first thing I saw, Spot’s Excellent Video shows TeaBaggers wearing, well, “tea bags.” And Bootlicker Berg has found referring to people that wear Tea Bags as “Tea Baggers” offensive. Like, say, Mitch does in the following tweet:

Say, Mitch? If ya didn’t wear Tea Bags, you wouldn’t be called “Tea Baggers.” Mitch, bein’ a bootlickin’ republiCon, doesn’t think his type should be held personally responsible for the things they personally did.

Which brings us back to the latter. Up there in Mitch’s Tweet, he talks about holding some guy responsible, via a “screenshot.” Well, Mitch can be held “responsible” via a “screenshot” too – let’s look!

Got that? “…balance checkbook…”?

Here’s another one, from Berg:

Got that? “…and I’ve raised income every year since 1993.”

See, Mitch is one o’ those ” gov’t can’t spend more money than it’s got!” kinda republiCons…. you know, like a “family does” (or, doesn’t)….

…and the proof is down at the ol’ Court House.

You see, on March 15th, 2004, Mitch was supposed to appear at the Court House, to answer a Summons And Complaint that he bounced a few checks (5, this time, to be exact) to a local small business around the corner from where he lives. Here’s the exact Plaintiff’s Statement Of Claim:

“The Defendant (Mitch Berg) owes me $216.48, plus filing fees and costs because he wrote out 5 checks to our small business. We allowed Mr. Berg to write checks to our establishment, even though he had bounced checks previously becuase he had made good on his debts. But to no avail has he responded to these last 5 checks. We called him and hand delivered letters of request for payment.”

Berg, of course, never showed up. The Small Business that Berg stiffed, in early 2004, received a Decision Of Judgement for Berg’s bounced checks.

So, when did Berg finally pay off his just debts (i.e., bounced checks, circa 2004), even though (in his words) Berg has had “raised income every year since 1993″?

The document states: “Satisfaction Filed – 25 Feb 2008.”

About FOUR YEARS later.

Not “bad” for a guy that, in his words, has had “raised income every year since 1993″?

So if and when Mitch Berg gets up on a TeaBagger stage this weekend and starts pontificating about how “Gov’t has to live within its means, like a family does!” – you’ll know what a complete fraud Mitch Berg is – as well as those “Get Your Gov’t Hands Off My Medicare!” Tea Baggers are, that allowed Bounced Checks Berg to get in front of their microphone.

(cross posted at MnProgressiveProject.com; comments welcome there)

Why would today be one of those occasions? Because as big of an (@rse)hole Bootlicker Berg is (and, he is) lately he’s been going too far. It’s bad enough that he simply makes (stuff) up, as has been documented here and here. There’s more; such as the time Bootlicker Berg claimed on his radio show that Erik “I’m A Moderate In The Mold Of Frenzel and Ramstad” Paulsen “ran as a conservative”; when I called Bootlicker Berg on this delusion of his, Bootlicker Berg simply moved the goal posts by claiming Paulsen ran farther to the right than conventional wisdom dictated.

And Berg twice has attributed things to me that I’ve never said; the first time prompting the following correction on his blog:

UPDATE: In a phone conversation on Monday, Mr. Tommy denied having ever said that Bush was “Selected, Not Elected”. While I was writing more broadly – many of Mr. Tommy’s fellow-travellers and blog-mades certainly did, and do – my sentence as written implies that he has personally made that claim. Since I have no objective evidence that he did, I regret the ambiguity.

Well, like I said, above: occasionally, Bootlicker Berg can buck his natural predisposition to be a complete (arse)hole and do the proper thing. His latest delusional attribution? Bootlicker Berg indicated he stands by it. Bootlicker Berg’s natural predisposition is simply to slime people, which is why I had a special badge prepared to honor those slimed by Berg and his ilk.

And I want to be clear; I am NOT calling Bootlicker Berg a “liar” – calling someone a liar connotates that they know they aren’t telling the truth. It’s a bizarre and pathetic path Berg travels to reach his conclusions, but it appears he actually believes the (stuff) he makes up is true. Therefore, he isn’t a “liar” – he’s a (cheney)in’ whackjob that in the end, simply makes (stuff) up.

Now, some may wonder why Bootlicker Berg hates government so much; I would suggest that it’s because (based on property records) the City in which he resides insists that Bootlicker Berg live like a civilized human being rather than the sloth in a sty Bootlicker Berg would prefer. That’s another difference between Bootlicker Berg and the ol’ TwoPutter; I take pride in my home while Berg treats his like a hovel – but, that’s a tangent.

Bootlicker Berg went on a rant earlier today; not content to trashing this blog, he called the author of a blogpost here on MnPP, MNBearBud, and I quote: “MNBareButt” and “Ms. BareButt” and “BareButt” and “MNBareButt”. I’d provide the link but that would only drive traffic to Berg’s drivel.

Since there are laws concerning public nudity, it’s safe to assume MNBearBud doesn’t run around “bare but” – that Bootlicker Berg, once again’ is simply making (stuff) up. What is fact is there is plenty more that clearly demonstrates Mitch Berg is completely unreasonable; has a history making stuff up; has and will continue to keep taking the cheap shots. IOW, that Berg is a complete (@rse)hole; he can’t help it – it’s simply who and what he is. And for his latest rant directed at MNBearBud, MNBearBud is hereby awared a badge of honor: “Slimed By The M.O.B.”
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Notch one up for MNBearBud; notch another one down for Bootlicker Berg.

(cross-posted from MnProgressiveProject)

Today, I’m awarding the very first of said badges to Nick Coleman for his opinion piece in last Sunday’s Star Tribune, entitled “Gov peddles as the state budget burns.” Nick was slimed by the notorious M.O.B.ster Mitch Berg; I’d provide the link but that would only drive traffic to Berg’s drivel.

As I wrote here, over a year ago:

Only in the rightwingnut world, is answering the question as asked (“which Supreme Court JUSTICE”) considered “inexperience or (messianic) temperament”, and worse.

Mitch Berg is simply demonstrating, to reasonable people, why reasonable people cannot trust republiCons to tell the truth — and is also demonstrating why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.

Reasonable people understand that when stuff has to be make up to make a point, the point isn’t worth making. Obama was asked a question; Obama answered the question as asked; but rightwingnuts make stuff up for some gratuitous cheap-shots that allegedly make a point.

There was plenty more in that year clearly demonstrating Mitch Berg is still unreasonable; still making stuff up; still taking the cheap shots. For his latest rant at Nick Coleman, Nick Coleman is hereby awared a badge of honor: “Slimed By The M.O.B.”

Congratulations, Nick – you know you’re doing good work, when your good work gets slimed.

Notch one up for Nick; notch one down for Berg.

(originally published at MnProgressiveProject.com)