Minnesota’s new open market health care tool, MNSure, went live Monday and of course everybody’s pissed about it. It’s not just republicans either who think that the socialist healthcare is going to Hitlerize us and turn us into communists (although there is plenty of that going on). There’s actually people in Bemidji that think MNSure’s ad campaign is making Paul Bunyan look bad.



Paul Bunyan, the fictional lumberjack whom I’ve already mentioned was a giant bumbling soiciopath, has about a dozen towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Canada that all say they’re his hometown. Bemidgi, however, is the only town that seems upset about the state’s new ad campaign. Why are they upset? Because they say the ads make him look bad.



You see, in the MNSure ads, Paul Bunyan gets into some mishaps like waterskiing and soccer injuries that require him to go to the doctor –







and the good people of Bemidji say this makes Paul Bunyan like a bumbling idiot.



You know, they guy who, according to myth, accidentally created the Grand Canyon by dragging his ax and created Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes by stumbling around in a blizzard? The waterskiing ad makes him look like a doof.



These ads don’t make him look dumb, Bemidji. Do you know what makes somebody look dumb? Fighting for the dignity of a fictional character that you can’t even claim ownership on. Also, claiming that your town is the hometown of a fictional character when a dozen other towns are doing the same thing.



Seriously, Bemidji. Lay off. This is the kind of shit that gets you on those dumb small town segments on the Daily Show.

DURR I’M PAUL BUNYAN I NEAD HELTH INSHURANCE DURR