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Montana Man Colbert Report’s “Alpha Dog of the Week”
By Courtney Lowery, 5-18-09
The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert chose Montanan Erik Slye as the “Alpha Dog of the Week” last week for getting out of jury duty in Gallatin County by, as Len Iwanski of the Associated Press put it, cooking up “an expletive-filled affidavit.”
The affidavit, which has made the rounds—including on The Smoking Gun, where you can see the document itself—reads:
“Apparently you morons didn’t understand me the first time. I CANNOT take time off from work. I’m not putting my family’s well-being at stake to participate in this crap.”
Iwanski reports that Slye’s wife is the actual author of the affidavit, but as you can see below, Erik is the one who gets Colbert’s attention:
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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I received this drivel of Mr. Slye's by way of a mass email from friends down south, who all thought it was cool, and indicative of "free Montana." I wrote them back that there was no place I've ever been that would be less likely to put up with this kind of nonsense. Small town Montana is the jury-servingest, ambulance and fire department volunteeringest, most civic minded place I know of. If you are going to actually live free and have few rules or minimal law enforcement, everybody has to pitch in, and has to accept some real responsibility.
I don't know why this made me so mad- maybe because there are all these people out there in crowded states who think that the key to freedom is not to serve. And if they only had the guts to act like this guy, they'd be "free" too. It's sick.
This is no 'alpha-dog'. This is a whiner, and a me-me-me person, foaming and spitting, loud-talking boor. Lets hope they learn the meaning of commuinty and justice someday.... and I will revel reluctantly in schadenfreude.