Who says stately old Pasadena is staid?

Emboldened by the racially cartoonish behavior this week of the commissioner of professional basketball, Mikey Beck, the widely unknown, self-inflating City Manager of Pasadena, may have double deliberately OD’d on Viagra before his latest attempt to direct an infusion of attention to his needy self.

Drawing up to his nearly full height, Mikey cleared his throat, sneezed, borrowed a white man’s disposed hanky, scratched his left ankle, his bum right knee, tush, left ear, right calf, belched and only then announced – harrumph – he was suspending a fundamentalist pastor from his nearly $200,000 a year job.

Away from his city job, Mr. Beck said, the reverend made liberal-offending remarks to his Seventh-day Adventist congregation, about gays, about evolution, about same-sex marriage and the Dodgers.

Bidding for his Monty Python moment, Mr. Beck said he was indefinitely suspending the pastor, Dr. Eric J. Walsh, who doubles as the city’s Public Health Director, for making those cracks about vulnerable types that he finds offensive – the cracks, not the vulnerable types.

As a busy city manager who often needs to scratch himself, Mr. Beck indicated that he has not had a keen chance to truly monitor Dr. Walsh’s work as the honcho of public health during the 44 months that the good pastor has held the position.

Therefore, Mr. Beck was booting Dr. Walsh to the curb with the sharp toe of his borrowed cowboy boots – publicly humiliating the reverend – while he, Mr. Beck, did what he was supposed to have been doing the last 44 months, paying attention to a key employee, instead of scratching himself. 

In Mr. Beck’s version of the Gettysburg address:

“Dr. Walsh has been placed on temporary paid administrative leave to provide the city of Pasadena the opportunity to complete an inquiry into statements made by him in his private capacity and to assess the impact those statements might have on his ability to effectively lead the city’s Public Health Dept.”

[img]2577|right|Dr. Eric Walsh||no_popup[/img]Lauren Gold, reported in the Pasadena Star-News that the “recordings, posted on YouTube and other websites, chronicle Dr. Walsh’s sermons given to Seventh-day Adventist congregations, including one on North Lake Avenue in Altadena, where he is an associate pastor.”

Bidding for a bust in the Whackadoodle Hall of Fame, Mr. Beck clinched his entry by publicly punishing one of his employees for remarks made away from the job.

Dr. Walsh’s views have no more connection to Pasadena than Mr. Beck’s action does to rationality.

This is the kind of nuttiness that becomes routine when liberals run the world and we normal peasants only rent space.

Wait until the black and white liberal racists who faked outrage over Donny Sterling find out that Dr. Walsh is black.