Saint Paul's rousing defense of fellow Northern Alliance comrade and Fraters drinking mate, James Lileks has brought forth an interesting response from the City Page's Twin Cities Babelogue (which is currently undergoing a redesign and facelift, believed to be the eleventh such "new look" for the group blog in the last two years-another batch of poor Q-ratings I imagine).
When I say interesting I mean vulgar, childish, and wildly inaccurate, which is precisely what one has come to expect from the local "alternative" weekly in recent years.
To be fair their characterization of us as the "gaseous right" is not entirely inaccurate. At times, particularly on Fridays after the weekly staff luncheon at El Burrito Mercado, the Fraters office does tend to resemble the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles .
But Mark Gisleson's rantings do seem a bit over the top even for the City Pages:
I almost think Karl Rove is trying to lose so as to avoid the inevitable lamp post that awaits him if we have to resort to the other kind of regime change.
Sorry, don't mean to be Coulterish, but the vibes around here are pretty weird ever since Dennis Perrin's recent Lileks-bashing piece subjected the whole site to rightwing fisking, with Glenn "Instahack" Reynolds at the head of the BMD* mob. I can't tell you how weary I am of seeing one particularly tiresome local group blog repeatedly trotting out my "nads/heart" comment from earlier this year. They get to write Bret Ellis intensity stuff about corpse-fucking Bill Clinton, but throw hissy fits anytime someone suggests that we might have to resort to a roots style Declaration of Independence mandated action agenda to rid ourselves of this pustulently corrupt administration. Hey blogwipes--try reading what real conservatives have to say about our pretzel-choking, vacation-taking loser-in-chief!
*Blogs of mass deception
Long time readers of Fraters will instantly recognize that Gisleson's remarks were made in regard to our long running series, Practicing Political Necrophilia: 101 Ways We'd Like to Corpse-F*** Bill Clinton. As to the "Bret Ellis intensity stuff" I can only surmise that he speaks of JB's recent heated posts on straws, bathroom faucets, and finally his controversial take on muffins.
I jest of course. A quick perusal of the Fraters archives going back to March 2002 reveals that there were a grand total of eleven posts that involved Bill Clinton in any way, shape, or form. Most of them weren't focused on Clinton per se, rather they indirectly referenced him. Among the subjects of the posts that involved Clinton were; media coverage, an Arianna Huffington quote about his flabby thighs, his propensity to cheat on the golf course, the fact that Eleanor Clift had a crush on him, a visit he made to the Twin Cities, the possibility of amending the Constitution to allow him to seek a third term, talk radio, Al Gore's book Joined At The Heart , and the 2002 German elections. The closet I could come to linking Clinton and corpses was this observation by Saint Paul:
Assuming JFK and FDR are still dead at that time, Bill Clinton may be all they have left. (This also assumes Jose Serrano doesn't get an amendment passed allowing a corpse to run for office. Such an amendment would also greatly revive the electoral chances for Al Gore).
There was absolutely nothing about corpses and/or f***ing. Just to be sure I cross-checked corpses, f***ing, and necrophilia on their own and again came up with nada. There also weren't any matches on "hissy fits", but in fairness to Gisleson I suppose that phrase is open to interpretation. I'll give that one to him as he is obviously well versed on the subject.
One of the great things about blogging is that everything that is written is out there in the open for anyone to read. All it takes is a little browsing through the archives to find exactly what you're looking for, which then can be easily referenced. Or you can choose to make outrageous claims based on nothing more than your own delusional fantasies as Gisleson has done yet again.
Finally, it's worth noting that Gisleson is now trying to portray himself as a modern day Tom Paine, while in the past his rhetoric has more closely resembled that of Che Guevara. Let's trot that money quote out one more time (see how easy this is Mark):
In my heart, I still believe in revolution. In my heart, I still think I have the 'nads to put my life on the line for a cause. In my gut I think this is the only way we'll ever achieve our goals of economic and social justice. But in my head, I want to win the next election so we don't have to have a revolution.
Taken together with his more recent quote (referenced above) about hanging Karl Rove from a lamp post, I'd say that it sounds like Mark (and his 'nads) would be more at home in 1968 than 1776.
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