Monday, February 15, 2016

Mike Miller's past violent statements forgotten by Maryland press

The local media reporting on "hate mail" received by newly-minted powder puff, Maryland Senate President Mike Miller (D), appears to have amnesia regarding violent language Miller has deployed against his own foes in the past.

After Change Maryland, an organization supporting Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, posted on social media the names of those in Annapolis who voted last week to allow convicted felons to vote prior to completing their probation or parole, Miller says those legislators received "some of the most vicious hate mail you can even imagine."

The Baltimore Sun reported that Miller "met with the governor Tuesday to privately raise concerns about the tone of messages put out by the governor’s social media accounts." Miller asserted that, "this is not bean-bag, but it's people supposed to be acting like gentlemen and ladies toward one another to move the state forward in a proper fashion."

The mullet-sporting elder statesman appears to have forgotten his own words from a decade ago.

Allow me to introduce you to the real Mike Miller, as quoted years back in...The Baltimore Sun:

"We're going to shoot [Republicans] down. We're going to put them in the ground. We're going to bury them upside-down, and it'll be 10 years before they crawl out again."

"We’re going to shoot 'em down and we’re going to bury them face down, deep and far."

And here's our own Montgomery County Executive, Ike Leggett, on Republicans in 2007:

"We literally have to put a stake through their heart."

39 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:14 AM

    I read this post twice and still have no idea what point it's trying to make or how it has anything to do with Bethesda.

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  2. Anonymous8:34 AM

    Why is the image for this article a picture of Governor Hogan?

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    1. 8:34: Because Hogan is the one was criticized by Miller, and second, I don't have a current photo of Miller to use where he has the mullet.

      8:14: Bethesda is in the state of Maryland, George Leventhal's attempt to secede notwithstanding.

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  3. Anonymous3:03 PM

    "Leventhal's attempt to secede"

    This may have been worth half a chuckle the first time you said it, but saying it 20 times is a clear sign of insanity.

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    1. 3:03: Leventhal's erstwhile effort to secede certainly gave high-information voters more than half a chuckle.

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  4. Anonymous3:06 PM

    3:03 PM One can never bring up the madness of Leventhal too often!

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  5. Anonymous4:12 PM

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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    1. 4:12: Quite a comment from an unmanly troll stalker. You're off-message from your hero Miller's call for "civility".

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  6. Anonymous4:19 PM

    Mike Miller, the 80s are calling and want that hair style back!
    (Anyone know if it's Miller's real hair?)

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    1. 4:19: That's a topic discussed many a night in the bars of Annapolis.

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  7. Anonymous6:53 PM

    Miller's "mullet" is fair game, but don't you dare talk about Dyer's ponytail. LOL

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  8. Anonymous7:26 PM

    Dyer, do you really think that your readers are stupid enough to believe your claim that the proposed "Large County Caucus" in the Maryland legislature is "George Leventhal to secede from Maryland"?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/marylands-larger-counties-lock-arms-to-stanch-loss-of-funding-to-rural-areas/2015/01/16/f6f3c4ec-9b46-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html

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    1. 7:26: In fact, it's because my readers are so highly educated that they immediately recognize the "large county caucus" was indeed an unhinged attempt to secede from the state. Leventhal claimed that this new, illegitimate body was going to drive policy and somehow overrule the authority of the Governor. Fortunately, he apparently realized how crazy this sounded, and abandoned his secession attempt.

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  9. Anonymous7:31 PM

    This is the most immature and idiotic post from Dyer since...last week. Did you seriously just pick on a guy because of his hairstyle? You and my 7 year old nephew would really get along, Dyer.

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    1. 7:31: No, the article was about hypocrisy. Having said that, the inability of the media to criticize Miller's highly unusual hairstyle is simply hilarious. We all know if he was a Republican they would be trashing him relentlessly about it.

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  10. Anonymous8:47 PM

    So we can make fun of your ponytail and your Columbine trench coat. Got it.

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  11. 8:47: I don't even own a trench coat. Nobody made fun of Marc Elrich and Wayne Goldstein's ponytails. But ponytails are much more common than mullets on 73-year-old elder statesmen.

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  12. Anonymous7:14 AM

    I'm not sure which is more hilarious:

    1) Dyer's insane interpretation of the "Large County Caucus". Even his shill has abandoned him here.

    2) His childish insults against our elected officials.

    Or most of all...

    3) His pretense of being a fashion critic.

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  13. Anonymous7:18 AM

    "We all know if he was a Republican they would be trashing him relentlessly about it."

    huh? Are you serious? No, you are literally the only person immature enough to make fun of some guy's hairstyle. You have some serious unresolved issues, Dyer. Did kids used to make fun of your ponytail in school or something? Or have you always been a bully?

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  14. Anonymous8:21 AM

    For Dyer's latest rant to make any sense, a reader must first assume that Miller intended to literally kill and bury all of his Republican opponents.

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  15. Anonymous9:36 AM

    For some reason over the last month Dyer has decided to become a practitioner of the Donald Trump school of political rhetoric. His critics are an "unmanly troll stalker", or "girly man." Their physical appearance is fair game for cheap shots. In his view our elected officials and executive branch officials are corrupt clowns, elected by a "low-information" electorate steered by a compliant local press corps. I cannot imagine a less attractive platform to adopt in this area by someone with political ambitions.

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  16. Anonymous10:24 AM

    Dyer @ 8:34 AM, what are you Goggle challenged? There are plenty to choose from.

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  17. 7:14: In fact, Leventhal's secession rhetoric was indeed so "insane" that he, smartly, abandoned it within weeks.

    7:18: I am serious. Example: Donald Trump's hair is relentlessly made fun of. Yet local reporters are scared to criticize Miller's.

    8:21: Read the article again - Miller talked about civility and "nasty" rhetoric. Turns out, Miller is the original gangster.

    9:36: You just found out our elected officials are corrupt? Did you just move here?

    10:24: Have no idea what you're talking about. I didn't even comment at 8:34 AM.

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  18. Anonymous6:14 PM

    "Donald Trump's hair is relentlessly made fun of."

    Of course it is on SNL and late night, but not by news media. Please don't pretend it's at all appropriate for you to make fun of somebody's hair unless you're ready to admit this blog is nothing more than a joke.

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    1. 6:14: I never "made fun" of it. Where in the article above did I "make fun" of it? I would waste a lot of valuable time cutting and pasting all of the quotes referring to Donald Trump's hair from the Washington Post alone.

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  19. Anonymous7:00 PM

    Miller and Leggett need to turn down the volume.
    We don't need that kind of heated dangerous rhetoric.

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  20. Anonymous7:25 PM

    Dyer, you know damned well that no one "tried to secede" and it's pathetic that you keep insulting the intelligence of your readers by pretending that anyone even hinted at doing this.

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    1. 7:25: So declaring you are establishing a new body that will overrule the authority of the governor and state legislature, and their agendas, is not secession? Do tell!

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  21. Anonymous9:55 PM

    8:33 PM - "establishing a new body that will overrule the authority of the governor and state legislature"

    Except that no one ever did, or said such a thing. Making statements such as these, which have no basis in reality, totally destroy any credibility that you might have had.

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  22. 9:55: You're the one without credibility - you just cited the "large county caucus" and then hours later denied it happened! Also, you are Anonymous, and I am putting my name to my public statements. A lot more credibility than someone hiding behind a keyboard. Just man up and admit that the secession rhetoric happened, it was embarrassing, and fortunately, it's still preserved on the record.

    "The people live in the big counties!!!!" - George Leventhal

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  23. Anonymous5:03 AM

    Dyer, do you even understand what a legislative caucus is?

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    1. 5:03: MaCo is not a body elected by the people. It is not the state legislature. Moreover, a caucus within it cannot do what Leventhal claimed it would do without seceding from the state of Maryland.

      Mike Miller also made some unhinged comments right after the Hogan victory. The difference is, George Leventhal had the good sense to control those outbursts. Miller did not. He sounds like a raving lunatic. And again, nobody in the press has the guts to point this out, or to ask Miller if he may need professional help.

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  24. Anonymous5:44 AM

    What did Leventhal "claim that the Large County Caucus could have done...that would have required secession"?

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    1. 5:44: He said it would direct the agenda, and prevent the governor from diverting "large county" resources to the small counties. Unfortunately, without some type of armed rebellion or secession, such a non-elected body would have no such authority or power.

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  25. Anonymous6:59 AM

    You still don't understand what a legislative caucus is.

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    1. 6:59: I do understand, but you don't seem to understand that the MD Association of Counties IS NOT the state legislature.

      And even if it was, it could not wield the power Leventhal suggested it would without an uprising or

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    2. ...secession from the state.

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  26. Anonymous9:43 AM

    So your claim is that "the Large Counties Coalition couldn't do what Dyer said Leventhal said it would do, therefore Leventhal tried to secede from Maryland". Got it now, it makes perfect sense.

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    1. 9:43: What it means is that if the only means to your stated end is to secede from the state, you are therefore advocating secession. A group unelected by the public overriding the governor and state legislature, and governing "the big counties" on an agenda different from Annapolis? Sounds like the Confederacy. Probably why you haven't heard him talk about it since..

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