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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Friday morning fights.  This morning we have a battle for the ages.  Brains versus brawn.  Age versus youth.  Decades of experience versus precocious curiosity.  A contrast in styles for the ages.  A sitting Detroit City Councilwoman and wife of a United States Congressman versus a girl barely in her teens.  

So for, well, me, in attendance and the millioooooooooohhhh, ok, thousands, reading around the world... ladies and gentlemen.... LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEEEE!

Alright, so it wasn't actually much of a fight.  

If you're not from the metro Detroit area or haven't otherwise seen the coverage of Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers' battle with thirteen year old Kierra Bell, well, you're missing out.  

It all started innocently enough when Conyers lost her mind during a City Council meeting and started behaving like one of the regulars on that liberal Michigan blog, making things personal and calling names.  After all, that's the easy thing to do when you can't win an argument on the merits.

In this particular instance, upset apparently with Roberts Rules of Order (ironically, since only moments before she'd been citing them to prove a point) she launched into a name calling diatribe against the council president Ken Cockrel, Jr., ultimately insulting the man's appearance by calling him "Shrek."  You know, the big green troll guy from those animated movies.

Tough act to follow, right?  Not for John Conyers' wife.  No longer satisfied with treating adults badly she started picking on school children... one young lady in particular who confronted Conyers about her behavior in front of a Detroit News camera.

Ms. Bell suggested to Mrs. Conyers that name-calling is something "a second grader would do."  Conyers contorted her face, cut off the youngster and tried to turn the question back around.  When Bell answered her she was immediately cut off, mid sentence, complete with a hand in the air and a finger being pointed.

It's awesome.

Now Conyers is back, insisting that she wasn't battling kids at all.  

And on that we agree.  From where I'm sitting Kierra Bell pretty well mopped the floor with the Congressman's wife in the span of about thirty seconds.  The only person who doesn't seem to realize it is Monica Conyers.

Of course there's a lesson to be learned here, too... when it comes to debate and political discourse it's always better to keep it above the board.  Once you descend into personal attacks and vitriol, you've already lost.  If you're not careful there might be a thirteen year old just waiting to put you in your place while the whole world's watching.

And big ups to Kierra Bell.  Kind of kid that makes you feel a little bit better about the future of Detroit.  Let's hope the "adults" like Monica Conyers grow up to be just like her.

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