Congressman Earl Pomeroy, left, visits with military and veteran representatives in Minot Monday. From left are National Guardsmen Tony Mutzenberger and Steven Johnson of the 164th Engineering Battalion and Jim Clifford of the American Legion.
Nick Chase, of the US attorney's office (not the ones that Alberto Gonzales was firing people, I believe his office must be Bushie enough), sent me this link with a pic of Tony Mutzenberger, of the Army National Guard's Mutzenberger's. He made the news today. In probably one of the biggest dailies in the US of A. The Minot Daily News, that's right. Forget the NY Times, the only source for news that Nick Chase trusts is the MDN. I am a bit dissapointed that the reporter, Jill Schramm, missed the real story. Which is that Tony, a war hero/Actor, is headed off to the suck one more time for another tour of duty. If there is anyone who can clean up the mess over there it is Tony. Tony will be deploying as the Operations Officer for a battalion-sized SECFOR unit (HQs company is from ND, subordinate units from MN and IA) and will be back zagain "sometime in mid 2008". All of us here at TundraTalk, and all members of TT Nation wish him all the best and will be looking forward to his return to the US on time and on target.
That reporter really missed the boat on this one. She could have documented his AWARD WINNING work in the past for WhiteHot Productions on such productions as Dakota Vice, Geraldo, and the blockbuster Star Trek Wars. His work as Runny Rocket still to this day has yet to be topped. Anyone who has seen that picture believed that he was a homeless snitch who lived on a park bench on Main Street in Hazen North Dakota. That role won him a Ruhtardie Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005. He also was the Pick the Pros guy for Christsake. Can you get any bigger than that? If you are Tony Mutzenberger, yes. He also was the subject of the script for
a major motion picture called A Nice Little Disaster. Written of course by yours truly. It is a story of a National Guardsman who in incredible times of disaster, the flood in Grand Forks, he overcomes tremendous odds to save a reporter, a city, AND all along the while acting cool and cracking funny jokes. Amazing film. I would put some dialouge here but I am having a hard time getting the script off an old zip disc. Oh well, I think you are getting the point. Tony Mutzenberger is a stud and this MDN reporter missed the story.Just think of how many papers they could move telling the story of a small town boy, turned award winning actor, turned all American war hero. Gold my friend, gold. I have half the notion to send that reporter an email letting her know that she has betrayed Edward R Murrow's journalistic ideal. She went to a story looking for journalism and she walked away with bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. Had she gotten the real story, she would have had kapow, blam, zowie. Yup what she got was a story about a blowhard politician/hypnotist, Earl Pomeroy, sitting in for a photo op, a bad one I might add. Come on Minot Daily News, hire some photogs. Reporters taking pictures is a bad idea. Exhibit A is the picture above.
CLICK HERE to read the story in it's entirety. No quotes from Tony. Tragedy. Oh well, Have a nice day and GET BACK TO WORK...
