Smiert Tsentr-Nalyevskii Blogim

Sean, the alpha gigglyfratboy at MNDFLPressReleaselius MNPublius, really really thought he had something “light” this morning: some dirt on Derek Brigham, graphics designer to the center-right stars and a principal at FreedomDogs and True North:

The designer of MDE’s and David Strom’s website(s) is compared to a propagandist for Stalin on his website.

If Derek Brigham lived in the Soviet Union he would have designed propaganda posters for Stalin.

Some things in this world are funny. Millions of dead Russians– are not not funny.

I’ll cut Sean the benefit of a doubt and assume the double negative was not not not an endorsement of genocide.

The little feeling in your stomach when you just thought about the fact that the guy who designed the David Strom’s website was compared to Stalin’s propagandist?

That deserves a chuckle.

Not as big as the one that Sean deserves.

A little bird – in this case, a source with very close knowledge of both parties to the quote on Derek’s site – writes:

If they knew anything about Pavel [the author of the quote] they would know how much he hates the commies, he grew up under them as a Speznatz [special forces] trainer in Latvia. [Russian Constructivist-influenced design motif is a] tip to his Russian heritage and the great determation in sports with a healthy dose of disdain for the communist shackles it was under.

Wow.

That’d be really embarassing – to try to link a blogger (not to mention David Strom, the most liberty-conscious pundit in the Twin Cities) to Stalin, and then find out you’d not only extracted the wrong motivation, but done it in a way that the originator of the quote would probably find deeply insulting, to say nothing of incredibly presumptuous.

You’d think after last week’s “McCain’s Teeth” incident, the Twin Cities Sorosphere would learn to “be quiet and be thought a fool, rather than open their mouths and remove all doubt”.

And yes, I know my Russian stinks.  Give me a point for effort, or shaddapabout it.

12 thoughts on “Smiert Tsentr-Nalyevskii Blogim

  1. David Strom, the most liberty-conscious pundit in the Twin Cities) to Stalin

    Yep, just like you’re the biggest feminist.

    Claims based SOLELY on words, not actions, are not proven. Mitch, not even here.

  2. Fortunately, the claim is based on over a decade worth of actions.

    Standing up for free speech rights.

    Standing up for property rights and the right of Minnesotans to be secure in their property – among the foremost of rights.

    Strom comes in for a lot of really crude vilification – really, collective character assassination – from the left. But he’s always done the work of the angels.

  3. Or, put another way; counter-claims based solely on “no, he’s not! Strom’s a pooopyhead” are not proven. Especially here.

  4. kwatt don’t get too upset. When Grace Kelly underwent the ritual sacrifice of half her brain upon her acceptance to the Democrat party someone set the vacuum to “drain completely”.

    Sometimes I think her stupidity scares even her.

  5. peevish said:

    “Claims based SOLELY on words”

    If words are seemingly so worthless to you, peevish, I wonder why you read or write at all.

  6. Comparing Derek Brigham to Stalin is like comparing Gandhi to Ronald MacDonald. Or “Grace Kelly” to a sentient human being, for that matter.

  7. Why are Kermit and Swiftee hating on Grace Kelly? You guys should rent “Rear Window” or “To Catch a Thief” – she is hot.

  8. Why? Grace posts a picture of the 35W bridge and blames Republicans as an April Fools “joke”. She makes Nick Coleman look like someone with integrity.

  9. Strom comes in for a lot of really crude vilification – really, collective character assassination – from the left. But he’s always done the work of the angels.

    You could call him cherubic

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