I saw the City Pages cover “Story” about the GOP non-victory party – basically a printed liveblog.

On the one hand, it was a potpourri of fiskable blather.

On the other hand, fisking dumb newspaper articles in a town like Minneapolis is like throwing spitballs at Mormons in Provo; it’s not very challenging, and eventually the mind yearns for other things.

But it did need to get thrashed. So thank goodness for Learned Foot, who did the job.

“Highlight”:

1600: I continue to be looked down upon, condescended to, and ignored by every person in the building. It sucks to be so unhip, what with me having children and refusing to wear non-prescription eyeglasses and all.

Read the whole thing.

Of course, some parts of the CP “article” fisk themselves. Given the City Pages’ record of seeing what they want to see (or, according to some reports, what their editors want them to see) when in rooms full of Republicans, it’s perhaps no surprise that this fella turned up:

8:35 p.m.: In the Navigators bar on the hotel’s ground floor, a group of five revelers expounds on race relations. “There’s a difference,” explains one of them. “It depends on what kind of blacks you’re talking about. There’s the light-skinned blacks and the dark-skinned blacks. And they’re different. But you can’t just say that.”

I doubt that these five “revelers” said any such thing, any more than this happened:

And Sen. Michele Bachmann offered praise for blogger Mitch Berg: “You’re my hero!” she exclaimed, while hugging him from behind.

Paul Demko and G.R. Anderson; while I have no doubt that some Republican, somewhere, might have said such a thing, I have my doubts that any at the Sheraton last Tuesday said it to either of you (Got a tape?) – and in any case, so waht? The most toxic, noxious, xenophobic racist I have ever met face to face in my life was a DFL organizer. No, no tapes, although I could provide an eyewitness or two from among those who knew him. Do we write this person off as a dolt, or do we use him to titter about what a bunch of ignorant racists the DFL are?

Well, y’all have pretty well made that choice. But how about the rest of you?

UPDATE AND BUMP:  Gary Miller is less accomodating:

Bull.  Shit.

Norman Lear could not have concocted a more bogus “conservative” archetype.  Demko and Anderson spend a grand total of 5 minutes outside the Sheraton ballroom (for a quick cocktail, apparently) and just happen to stumble across five young jackboots plotting some sort of apartheid-like “homelands” based on skin pigmentation?

In my 20+ years of involvement with conservative politics I have never stumbled across even one such hateful conversation.  Indeed, it is my experience that conservatives are markedly less fixated on matters of race than are our opponents.  But we are invited to believe by Messrs. Anderson and Demko that such parlays are commonplace where conservatives congregate.

It has been twelve years since the GOP endured a drubbing like they did last Tuesday so Anderson and Demko can be forgiven the mirth and schadenfreude bleeding through their chronicles.

What they can not be forgiven is making stuff up.  There is little doubt in my mind that is exactly what was done in this shameful potboiler.

Given the CP’s record of making sh*t up about Republicans, I’m going to amend my earlier request for that tape.

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