Uh, Jim, You Actually Called Mayor Tom a "Lackey" on TV Last Night

By Robert Wilonsky Mon., Nov. 5 2007 at 3:00 PM

Categories: Schutze

Jim now says he was "ill" during Tracy Rowlett's visit two weeks ago. So that explains it...

So Tracy Rowlett did in fact use our interview on his weekly “Perspectives” mini-show last night. I liked the piece very much, mostly because it gave me an opportunity to call Mayor Tom Leppert a flunky on TV.

I do, indeed, look like crap in the piece, as earlier Unfair Park items had predicted I would. That is because I was very ill that day, and yet I rose from my sickbed -- possibly my deathbed, for all I knew at the time -- in order to come into the Observer’s offices and call Tom Leppert a flunky on TV. It’s something I would gladly come back from the grave to do. --Jim Schutze

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Look, Jim, I feel compelled to apologize for taking advantage of you in our interview. It was obvious that you were sick to the point of being deranged but I continued to fire away with the tough questions: "What park?" "What vote?" "Who does your hair?" "Leppert is what?" Your sometimes reasoned responses, I now know, were influenced by brain fever or some other malady best treated by the newest line of super antibiotics. I feel badly about it but, heck, it's in outer space by now (well, and on our website.) You are a trooper, no doubt, but were clearly out of your mind. You were therefore perfect for tv.
Check this out, from the Dallas Morning News blog. http://dallasmorningviews.beloblog.com/ Keep in mind, this is from a member of the editorial board. Shouldn't the people we depend on for dispensing news know better than this?: "I live in Desoto and was the third person to vote this morning. I have to admit that I was a little confused when I saw that Prop. 1 was not about the Trinity as I had previously heard. In fact, I couldn't clearly identify which Proposition was about the Trinity? Anybody else have this problem at the polls? "UPDATE: Oh man! I thought that all of Dallas County could vote on the Trinity Prop. and not just Dallas City. Thanks to a couple of readers who help set me straight. I'd bet I'm not the only one. "November 06, 2007 11:56 AM | Lois Edmonds (More) | Comments (0) | Permalink"
Schutze, you are a better man than I. I would not have stopped with liar or lackey, or loser for that matter.
Kudos to Jim for calling Leppert what he is. And as long as we're using L-words, here's another one that fits him to a T: LIAR.
I'm sure the Manchurian candidate didn't expect anything less from Jim. They did do a wonderful job of programming him. Dispute anything the Mayor says and he'll just repeat the falsehood, again and again. After he's defeated in his re-election bid, perhaps he can do the HeadOn 'Apply Directly to the Forehead' commercials.
I loved Leppert's initial reaction when Rowlett asked him if he was using scare tactics to get the road built. His facial expression was priceless.
When I first saw that picture two weeks ago, my initial thought was that Tracy Rowlett had just smoked you out. Who knows whats in your hidden left hand? Could be a lighter. Could be a bag of funyons....