And unless you think I am not serious about the level of humor Michiganders were able to drum up in reaction to the terrorist attack, please check out this post from Blogging For Michigan about our lovely representative, Pete Hoekstra. Pete is famous for having his ass handed to him by Rachel Maddow and being all all around extreme Christian Conservative.

And of course, as somebody who is not from this side of the state, much less Detroit, as somebody who has never once stood for Detroit (or this side of the state), as somebody who has supported racist “support ‘rural Michiganders’ instead of urban areas” (aka freeloading black folks are stealing from hardworking white people) agendas of various politicians in the state–Pete feels totally comfortable playing the attempted attack up to suit his own agenda.

…that didn’t stop Pete from spending part of Christmas and the entire day of the 26th like some warped modern version of Paul Revere, running to every available form of mass media that he could to remind you that it wasn’t a terrible day, but if you just use your imagination, you can and should turn it into one! Here he is in the Detroit News, “Hoekstra: Attack not aimed at Detroit”, the Detroit Free Press, “Hoekstra: Air terror try hints at a larger plot” (followed by the inevitable, Napolitano: No sign of larger terror plot), the Associated Foreign Press, “Pete Hoekstra: Detroit terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab may be connected to Fort Hood shooter”, WOOD TV in Grand Rapids, “Hoekstra: attack attempt cutting edge”, and there were probably other appearances that we didn’t see because we were too busy checking our basements to make damn sure there were no terrorists down there. Whew.

Ah…Pete. If you weren’t such a total asshole, Michigan might claim you just for the humor you make available to us.