Call him Ed Rendell. Call him Governor Edward G. Rendell. Call him Fast Eddie. Say what you will about the Commonwealth’s 45th Governor, he’s good on Eagles Post Game Live. Except when he stares blankly into the camera. Then he’s a little creepy. But if he’d gone from “hard-nosed prosecutor” to “Eagles commentator,” I’d probably have little bad to say about the man.
Unfortunately, he’s served in higher public office. That’s where the problem lies. And lies. And lies some more.
It’s not so much that Fast Eddie is a typical tax raising liberty stealing liberal. Those are a dime a dozen. What really gets my goat about Rendell is that he’s such an opportunist. He will get right in the middle of any situation, and you know that the situation is going to turn out in whatever way makes Edward G. Rendell look best for the moment.
Take, for example, the then-Philadelphia Mayor’s April 1997 decision to fight racism by calling in one of the most divisive public figures of our time: Louis Farrakhan. In the video below, (unearthed by Debbie Schlussel) not only does Rendell slop praise on Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam like he was slathering sour cream into every crevice of a baked potato (you didn’t think I was going to make a cheese steak reference, did you?), but he actually manages to make the people who decided not to take the stage with Farrakhan in front of a mostly Nation of Islam audience into the bad guys in the scenario. Classic Ed.
To be fair to Fast Eddie, this was before Farrakhan made his most vicious anti-Semitic and racist statements. Oh, that’s right. It’s not before that at all. Farrakhan and his agenda were well known quantities in 1997.
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