June 12
...serving up your daily dish.
How mean can Montclair liberals be? Well, if you want to know, tune into 93.9 FM Sunday at 6 pm and listen to Ken Kurson's segment on "This American Life," the radio-verite show hosted by Ira Glass.
Kurson, who ran an unsuccessful campaign last fall for state assembly, says you get no respect in this town if you're a Republican. In an occasionally self-deprecating radio essay, Kurson lambasts so-called liberals for not being tolerant ... of conservatives. Although he didn't expect to win, "What I hadn't realized was how darn uncivil my town could get." He talks about people who yelled at him and accused him of being evil, people who called his home and yelled at his wife and someone who came up to him at the Bluestone Cafe and sputtered, "I can't believe there are Republicans in my town."
Moreover, he says, he didn't get this kind of treatment in Clifton or East Orange. Only in Montclair.
But the best line was:
If you ever want to feel like a douche-bag, I recommend concluding eight years of anonymously riding the train by suddenly interrupting your neighbors to talk New Jersey politics.
Well, Ken, we don't really want to feel like a douche-bag, but thanks for sharing.
Kurson, a long-time wordmeister for Rudy Giuliani, was so fed up by his experience in local politics that he actually moved from Montclair to Cedar Grove after the election. Take that, you liberal scumbags!
