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Into The Vortex

The management at the Strib has apparently decided that even Lori Sturdevant’s grueling one-column-a-week schedule at the paper just isn’t enough.  Now, she’s got a blog.

And there’s another surprise; even Lori Sturdevant has found a left-on-right attack that’s ruffled her feathers; Rolling Stone’s hit piece on Michele Bachmann (you expected any other kind) linking her to the gay teen suicides in Anoka County apparently even pushed her too far:

Rolling Stone magazine’s Feb. 16 issue stretches farther than this Minnesota journalist would in an otherwise compelling article about the suicides of nine LGBT teens in the Anoka-Hennepin School District and the school “neutrality” policy that served them poorly.

(Am I being overly picky in asking “how far would “this Minnesota journalist stretch to attack Michele Bachmann?  Or does Sturdevant need those “layers and layers of fact-checking and gate-keeping” more than we thought?  No matter; it’s a tangent, I know)

The stretch is the story’s attempt to link the suicides with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the area’s three-term congresswoman and, until last month, a GOP presidential candidate.

Of course, Rolling Stone has become the City Pages of national magazines; both publications, once occasionally the home of some adequate and sometimes brilliant journalism, have turned into the Daily Kos with band tour dates (or in the case of City Pages, the Strib comment section with restaurant and music  reviews).

Anyway – welcome to blogging, Lori!  And don’t let the avalanche of suck that is the Strib’s comment section get you down.  It sure would do it for me.

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7 responses to “Into The Vortex”

  1. Seflores Avatar
    Seflores

    I join MBerg in welcoming Lori to the world of blogging. Blogging is a realm where unicorn droppings and rainbow dust are in fact valuable currency – just like they are at the DFL. Ask Mitch – ten years of blogging and he has more than enough to buy that new 911 Porsche is bringing out this year. What’s that you say Mitch? The Porsche dealer wouldn’t accept your certified check from the 1st National Bank of Blogging? Did the check have the unicorn jumping over the rainbow symbol? Hmmm. Did you tell him you are a first name, er, rather first initial basis with the Mayor of the M.O.B. Mr D?
    Anyway, for your entertainment, read the comments to Lori’s article. The Rolling Stone article sub-head is: “In Michele Bachmann’s home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.”
    A majority of the commenters claim Lori misread the article and that the article has no connection with Bachmann at all. And these are teh smart people.

  2. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    It would do Lori some good to read the comments and perhaps get a glimpse into the mindset of the typical lefty troll. These are the people who normally read her stuff. Think of a brain and then subtract reason and accountability.

  3. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Think of a brain and then subtract reason and accountability.

    And involuntary sphincter control.

  4. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    The one difference between Rolling Stone and shitty pages, at least I don’t have to pay to read shitty pages hence why I read it (usually at Sensers when I’m watching a game or during my lunch break at work). Rolling Stone has gone so far off the deep end I bet Hunter S. Thompson would be ashamed.

  5. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    “In Michele Bachmann’s home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.”

    Fuck you rolling stone, there are A LOT of people that get bullied that aren’t/weren’t gay *raises hand*. The whole climate of school needs to change to stop the bullying of EVERYONE, GAYS INCLUDED BUT ALSO INCLUDE, FAT, TALL, ODD-LOOKING, AWKWARD KIDS GET IT YOU IDIOTS. Besides the whole safe schools bullshit put forward by GLSEN is just a front to get the gay agenda into public schools.
    /rant

  6. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    I got a free 1 year subscription to Rolling Stone when I bought a cell phone a few years ago. Have to say….the ads are slick and the photos kind of cool. But the articles……well, very amateurish. Just hatefilled rants about whatever boogyman needs to be destroyed. The writing reminds me of MSM’s “conservatives in a zoo” mentality. Where they don’t know any conservatives, so they observe them through their own biasness, and write an article based on this.

    I am going to guess that their target market is upper-middle class white guys (and a few ladies) who are trying to rebel against their allowance.

  7. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    The writing reminds me of MSM’s “conservatives in a zoo” mentality
    very similar to our watching far lefties protest Chuck. We go and watch them out of curiousity and every now and then ask them some questions to see if they say something really dumb (not just normal dumb, dumb like communism is superior to capitalism dumb). The difference is the protests are literally like a zoo, except sometimes a zoo smells a LOT better.

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