{"id":2362,"date":"2008-04-02T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2008-04-02T17:42:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T22:42:26","slug":"smiert-blogim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2362","title":{"rendered":"Smiert Tsentr-Nalyevskii Blogim<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean, the alpha gigglyfratboy at MNDFLPressReleaselius<\/strike> 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:<\/p>\n

The designer of MDE\u2019s and David Strom\u2019s website(s<\/a>) is compared to a propagandist for Stalin on his website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Derek Brigham lived in the Soviet Union he would have designed propaganda posters for Stalin.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some things in this world are funny. Millions of dead Russians\u2013 are not<\/strong> not funny<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll cut Sean the benefit of a doubt and assume the double negative was not not not an endorsement of genocide.<\/p>\n

The little feeling in your stomach when you just thought about the fact that the guy who designed the David Strom\u2019s website was compared to Stalin\u2019s propagandist?<\/p>\n

That deserves a chuckle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not as big as the one that Sean deserves.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>motivation, but done it in a way that the originator of the quote would probably find deeply insulting, to say nothing of incredibly presumptuous.<\/p>\n

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

<\/p>\n

And yes, I know <\/em>my Russian stinks.\u00a0 Give me a point for effort, or shaddapabout it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s and David Strom\u2019s website(s) is compared to a propagandist for Stalin on his website. \u201cIf Derek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}