When I first saw the billboard, I read it as sarcastic for a moment, due to the goofy photograph.

Is it in Duluth?  I miss the connection.

It was a good concept. It was assured to get people talking, but what about and who is a different story.

For whatever that cost I sure hope the publicity made it worth it. Read the New York Times and you'll see people buying whole pages to say all sorts of really cool or stupid shit. I'd love to see that more. Can you imagine the DNT as 1/3 bought pages. A thin line around the material and a small 'This page is paid advertising'.

What with all the other insane billboards down that stretch, I can see how nobody local cared too much about it, while others find it an interesting political statement.

That is also a bumper sticker for sale at Cafe Press, along with all sorts of Tea Bagger crap.

http://www.cafepress.com/+bush_miss_me_yet_sticker_oval,417710819

Danny G, it isn't being reported locally because there are no local reporters who are interested in getting their fat butts out of their desk chairs. If it doesn't come across the AP directly onto their computer screen, it is just too hard.

This, of course, is just my opinion of the Duluth News Tribune state of affairs.

Yawn.  I can't believe they would put up that silly of a picture of him.  

I am glad that billboard is there to remind me just how bad it was and I can remember the fact that while things aren't great now, at least they are not like they use to be.

This sign has been up for months.  The only reason this is "news" is because Bob Collins snapped a pic and tweeted it.

And no, I don't miss that malevolent assclown.

This was written about by Bob Collins on his Newscut blog To this moment it has 57 comments and will likely get many more

Clearly it is an interesting story for HIS statewide beat (quirky, undercovered stories, and news analysis).  It is not local TV news fare and probably nothing more than a "wire story" in the DNT.  I know a number of local journalists and none of them are lazy.  Overworked and fallible? Sure, sometimes.  Lazy, no.

I wish there was a billboard with a picture of Danny G and the same quote.

Danny is right. Our newspaper and television reporters here should drop everything, drive the 122 miles to Wyoming, and do that investigative reporting that he wants to see done. This is big news damn it! It's a billboard! I can't believe how our liberal Darwinist mainstream media has been ignoring billboards. Not anymore!

This reminds me of the "Homer the Clown episode" of the Simpsons.

In the middle of driving down the highway, Homer skids to a halt in
front of a billboard.

 Homer: [gasps] It must be the first of the month: new billboard day!
         [a car-carrying truck stops behind him]
         [a bunch of cars drive onto it accidentally]
Driver: Heh heh heh...finders keepers.  [drives off]
 Homer: [reading] "This year, give her English muffins."  Whatever you
        say, Mr. Billboard!  [skids off]
         [stops suddenly at another billboard for barbeque sauce]
         [cars collide behind him and explode]
 Homer: [reading] "Best in the West."  Heh heh heh, that rhymes!
         [looking at the next one] "Clown college"?  You can't eat that.
-- Homer's billboard-judging criteria, "Homer the Clown"

I'm still waiting for the answer to this question: If the local media are supposed to be covering this "story," what's the angle? Do we really need to know the identity of these clever conservative folks who pooled their money together and put a political billboard, and what exactly drove them to take this shocking action? I agree that local, state and national media cover silly topics on a daily basis, but I, for one, think it's silly to criticize the media for covering a laundry list of the prosaic, then suggest that they are not doing their job for covering yet another non-story.  Let the billboard speak for itself.

Even though I voted for Obama...I think that the billboard is awesome and quite funny. The irony is that nobody misses GWB, but in hind sight we would be better off with him now that we have seen what "New Guy" has accomplished in his first year.

I was listening to MPR this morning and the commentator and someone else were talking about how clever the billboard is -- you don't know if it's pro-Bush or not. The question could be, now that Bush is gone and we see who have replacing him, do you miss Bush? OR, even with the problems of the Obama presidency, do you remember the last guy, who was a total disaster?

 I have to admit, having seen the billboard, the photo of Bush on there makes him look like a doofus. I laughed when I saw the photo and thought, yep, I miss that doofus, hope the door didn't hit him on the way out.

If anyone is angry and not very good at hiding it, it's Danny and his trolling friends. Scary dudes, all three of them.

Danny G,

Weiner.

Calk...that is your 3rd comment here about something you don't give a shit about.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "It was put up by a group of small business owners -- who want to stay anonymous --because they felt Washington wasn't listening,"

Sounds like the work of goofballs like U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann.

A.K.A. "idiot".

You can't miss it, if your driving south bound into Minneapolis / St. Paul.

That billboard is 5 minutes from my house, and we've been driving by it for months down here.  Apparently people in other states find it more interesting.  Funny.

I listen to Danny's podcasts frequently. Pretty funny stuff. 

What's also funny is someone calling someone else an idiot, and then uses 'your' when they mean to say "you're" 

And using the term "Teabaggers" for the Tea Party people isn't funny, it's just plain stupid.

Actually "teabaggers" is about the funniest political spin-job I can remember.  

From the opposite side of the political aisle "Sore Loserman" from the 2000 election was also pretty funny.  Even though it ignored the issues.  More:  http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/04/stickers.election/index.html

"So who wants to take a spraypaint field trip?"

I do! Can we please also deface all of those Life Begins at Conception billboards?

Right On! Typical Left Wing anger solved with violence. At least the billboard is not as stupid as all the sore LOSERS that still display Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers...or better yet Wellstone stickers.

Stanley Fish uses the billboard as a centerpiece for his  post at the New York Times: Do You Miss Him Yet?

I didn't see the billboard when I was driving down last, 10 days ago or so.

I can confirm it is still up, saw it going down to the Twinkies on Weds 3/10