Clearly it's a good way to get headlines. Perhaps we could get the UT and ourselves in the news if somebody would volunteer to be vilified as our local Hitler- in which case perhaps somebody else could volunteer to be his faithful companion Blondi? ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1