You know you’re probably right. I mean, why would anyone ever lump a U.S. Senator with somebody that they helped get into office?

Instead of flaunting a straw-man argument, maybe we should look at the things that our representatives say and do, and hold them accountable? In this instance, Mark Begich voted to confirm Gina McCarthy into the position she is in now. Mark Begich supported Gina and voted to get her into office. Did he vote for her knowing that this would happen? Absolutely not.

But imagine with me if you will, a giant pile of shit in the middle of a room in which we’re all standing. Now, imagine that we’re unable to leave this room. Quite quickly, people start realizing that this pile of shit needs to go! A small portion of the people who are downwind from said pile of shit seem especially adamant about this decision. Lets just call them Alaskans. And these Alaskans are just getting the worst of it; and lately, it has been blowing pretty hard downwind.

Removing a giant pile of shit is no easy task, and for some reason there are a lot of rules regarding its removal. But that’s not what these people who are getting speckled by tiny bits of fecal matter want to hear! They start screaming out, “Who brought all this SHIT, into the room!?”.

About a hundred people step forward from the crowd, some with shit on their hands, some without. Lets imagine now that these are our U.S. Senators – and that all of the people who have shit on their hands, they’re the Senators who voted for McCarthy. Well these Senators with their shit-crusted hands they scream back “I didn’t bring ALL this SHIT into the room! You can’t blame me”. And while not a single one among them was guilty of bringing the whole pile of shit into the room. Those who added their shit into the pile, well they added just enough to create what we’re talking about today. And incase you didn’t know what we were talking about anymore; We’re talking about a giant metaphorical pile of shit, known as Gina McCarthy, who is continually splattering shit all over the hopes and dreams of Alaskans.

That’s why people are mad at Begich. Our representative isn’t supposed to help shit on our dreams. I don’t recall Uncle Ted dropping trow and blowing a Cleveland Steamer all over his fellow Alaskans.

But hey, Willie – If a press release from the Begich office and a half-hearted apology citing ‘unfortunate remarks’ are enough for you, good on ya buddy. That takes a whole-lotta-something that I don’t think most Alaskans have in them, a convincing shit-eating grin.

Words like “inner city” and “urban” have been used as code for “black people” for decades.

By contrast, all the Secretary said was that the jar of moose meat she was given by an Alaskan was pretty gross. There was no reference to the gift giver’s race. In fact, most Americans would find a jar of moose meat pretty unappetizing.

You’re really stretching to draw some sort of parallel between two wildly-different statements.