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Coleman Assures Constituents He Dresses Himself
No one dresses Norm Coleman, except Norm Coleman . . . and maybe, sometimes, Mrs. Coleman.
At least that's what the senator, who finally faced the media at a press conference today, says amid reports that he received pricey suits as gifts from political contributor and local businessman, Nasser Kazeminy.
"While I have answered honestly the question about suits and jobs - I will say as clearly as I can. Nobody except my wife or me bought my suits," Coleman said this morning according to text of the statement released by his campaign.
"If my friends have shared gifts with me and my family - or I have shared gifts with them - if they rose to the level of having to be reported - they were reported."
Well thanks, for the non-specific denial Norm, but we weren't asking if they were reported, we were asking if Kazeminy did in fact buy you suits from Nieman Marcus.
Coleman and his staff's bizarre refusal to directly answer questions about whether Kazeminy bought him suits has been documented on tape and turned what seemed like a relatively small impropriety into what local bloggers have affectionately dubbed, "Suit Gate."
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"I guess I was a little naive last week. I thought news organizations would not publish a story based on a political blog without substantiation, so I didn't think I personally needed to respond to baseless and sensationalized claims. Our thought was that responding would make a story out of a non-story. Today there is obviously a different standard. Refusing to respond to a baseless unsubstantiated claim that appears on a blog becomes a story. I guess I learned a lesson."
no. you haven't learned anything.
the news organizations published stories about it because you refused to answer their questions. idiot. not responding to journalists' questions (regardless of the basis for their asking) is the way a non-story becomes a story. everyone knows that.
if you had just answered, "No, I buy my own suits, don't be silly," THEN the news orgs wouldn't have had to write about it.
and trying to paint the questions about who buys your suits as having anything to do with improper questions about your family is nothing short of insulting. and questions about your finances, by the way, are NOT out of bounds.
October 10, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
If another man were buying clothes for Norm, then wouldn't that be just a little bit gay?
Maybe that's the reason for the stonewall. Maybe there's a personal relationship here, and old Norm is trying desparately to stay in the closet.
I don't know. I'm just sayin'. The whole thing sounds gay to me.
-- ARG
P.S. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
October 10, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gay Indeed!!!
October 10, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink