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Brian Nieves, chocolate chip dinosaur pancakes, missouri, st. louis post-dispatch, Tony Messenger
Yesterday, via Twitter and Facebook, from Senator Brian Nieves (r):
briannieves @briannieves
Why does Tony Messenger live in Wildwood instead of the Near North Side? Why is he enjoying a $10 Breakfast and not working a Soup Kitchen? 9:34 AM – 18 Jan 2014
Brian Nieves
OK – Serious question… Is it monumentally hypocritical for someone like Tony Messenger, who always writes about the plight of the poor, the plundering of the rich, and the glory of STL City, to live in a fairly affluent area – far disconnected from the Urban Core – and be at a mild to moderately high priced breakfast place on a Saturday morning instead of serving the poor at a Soup kitchen?Now look – I’m a million miles away from perfect and I’m sure there is much to be said about stupid things I’ve done but how about asking the Extremist Leftist Liberals in the press to at least pretend to LIVE what they Preach! Your thoughts?
Yesterday at 7:56am
One of the responses:
Tony Messenger @tonymess
For the record, my daughter enjoyed her “mild to moderately high priced” chocolate chip dinosaur pancakes this morning. Cc: @briannieves 1:28 PM – 18 Jan 2014
Snark:
Sean Nicholson @ssnich
@tonymess What’s for breakfast? 6:42 AM – 19 Jan 2014
Update:
Tony Messenger @tonymess
Someone stole my paper this morning. Neighborhood has really gone down since they let the fully indoctrinated Marxist liberals in. #subtweet 8:22 AM – 19 Jan 2014
…on Senator Brian Nieves’ (r) Facebook page:
people who believe in making life better for the poor and support the role of government in making that happen also have to live in poverty? Obviously the point is that liberals believe that nobody should have to live in desperate and terrible circumstances.
This way of thinking, of course, embodies, a bit of what Ryle called “category confusion” if I recollect correctly. I remember people I knew in this country registering surprise that the Swedish father of one of my friends, an avowed socialist, also owned a factory. If one thinks closely about it, there is, of course, no real contradiction. We all want to make things better, but we do the best we can for ourselves and our families under the conditions that prevail – without stopping our efforts to bring about change in the broader environment.