Go Perry Yourself

For those of you who were afraid the retirement of Mark “The Wege” Gisleson would make the local Sorosphere a kinder and gentler place – well, don’t worry. Steve “Mister Furious” Perry is more than happy to take up the slack – and watch his credibility crash harder than Lieutenant Commander McCain’s A4 Skyhawk:

While we await the release of John McCain’s medical file–which his campaign has pledged to disgorge by next month–I took a look through press accounts of McCain’s last release of medical information, during his 2000 run for the White House.One eye-opener: McCain’s startling claim that he believes the five years he spent as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam were actually a boon to his mental health and temperamental stability.

It’s clear that Perry has given up being a “journalist” (he used to be a good one), and is auditioning for a job as a writer snarksmith on the “Daily Show”.

Since modifying and controlling ones’ behavior was a prime survival skill among American POWs in North Vietnam, it’s clear that Perry knows no more about this subject than Dan Haugen knows about the law or Molly Priesmeyer knows about business.

And I’d have to wonder – would Perry bring the same tact, intellect and sensitivity to the table if a woman ran for office and testified to having been raped? (“That’s a stupid question, Mitch. Of course he would! If she were Republican!”)

One wonders how Steve Perry’s “behavior” would fare (he’s, um, notoriously “prickly”) if he spent a weekend in jail on a traffic warrant, much less five and a half years of torture, solitary confinement and the sort of systematic degradation most Americans couldn’t comprehend even if the Daily Mold were still in operation?

Given McCain’s enduring and well-known fondness for calling his Senate colleagues names and telling them to fuck themselves, what are we to make of this?

That it’d be cool to stick Perry in a room with McCain for five minutes? (And since when does Perry, the guy who hired Mark Gisleson at the City Pages in ’04, get the vapors about a little rudeness and cussing?)
I never thought it would be possible, but…:

  • The Minnesota Monitor is getting crappier by the day
  • Jeff Fecke may be the most credible, conscientious reporter on the staff these days.

Perhaps it’s time to start a “MNMon Dead Pool”. Even Soros has gotta realize he’s wasting his propaganda dollar.

Although we can hope not.

(And could someone have a word with them about their spaghetti display code, their torquemadian comment engine, and their “Junior’s First Website, 1996” design?).

11 thoughts on “Go Perry Yourself

  1. 2000 words to point out that blogging allows for rampant bias, unsubstantiated claims of fact, and hateful speech.

    Verbosity, thy name is Berg.

    Oh, and Mitch, considering they’re not doing anything you don’t both do and fully recommend and embrace, what exactly is your complaint again?

  2. Verbosity, thy name is Berg.

    “What is “the most self-refuting statement in history, Alex?”

    Oh, and Mitch, considering they’re not doing anything you don’t both do and fully recommend and embrace, what exactly is your complaint again?

    “I know you are but what am I?” is an oldie but a goodie. But not only does it lose effect after about the thousandth time (given that you’re, like, wrong!), but after about fifth grade it feels a little…I dunno, anachronistic?

    Just saying.

  3. Jebus Christ on a pogo stick, Peev. If you can’t see the distinction between Mitch’s personal blog, and a paid outfit of “journalists” attempting to appear as some sort of legitimate news outlet (and failing miserably, to anyone paying even passing attention), then you’re just as delusional as you appeared when you wrote that retired people have to make $80k to $100k a year “just to live” awhile back. Granted, I’ve written off your literary diarrhea as the nattering delusions of an obsessive/compulsive with a severe Narcissistic complex eons ago, but it’s fun to call you out for the creepy little SitD troll that you are from time to time, if for no other reason but to stave off winter boredom.

  4. “What is “the most self-refuting statement in history, Alex?”

    Oh, hardly Mitch, but nice cop-out. You often spend 2000 words on lengthy diatribes that are normally well crafted words, but barely make a worthwhile point. This is just one such response on your part. You proved nothing – other than that you had nothing worthwhile to say (again).

    And the fact that you duck and cover on being shown to be bitching about something you are ‘like totally into dude’ is just more fodder for proving the point. You can’t with a straight face say that you object to partisanship, because you epitomize partisanship, bias, and oft times, crudity.

    So the response to your entire post here is, as I said, why the hell should I care about MNMON when YOU so casually replicate the entire approach – if it’s alright for you, clearly it must be ok for them too, right?

    Oh, but that’s right, asking you to live to the standard you demand of others is somehow.. anachronistic? No, actually, Mitch, the word your are looking for is F A I R. You learned it in 5th grade, but clearly forgot what it actually means.

  5. Am I right that this is the same guy who used to do pretty good stuff for City Pages? If I’m thinking about the same guy, no, there was nothing terribly great, from my point of view, about his political slant, but good reporting is good reporting.

    Or, if it’s the same guy, was . . .

    Sheesh.

  6. For the life of me, I can’t fathom how Mitch has the pool of patience that he obviously displays whenever a certain party posts here. I would have made the previously imposed ban stick long ago, regardless of the handle change.

  7. peevish said:

    “Oh, but that’s right, asking you to live to the standard you demand of others is somehow.. anachronistic?”

    The standard we are talking about here, peevish, is MINNESOTA MONITORS OWN CODE OF ETHICS:

    http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=21

    I apologize for the use of caps there, but I wanted you to possibly notice how vacant the argument is when you write about how Mitch (or anyone else, really) is holding MNMon to some impossible standard, when the standard is not Mitchs, but a standard that MNMon wrote, published, and still publish to this day.

  8. And could someone have a word with them about their spaghetti display code, their torquemadian comment engine, and their “Junior’s First Website, 1996″ design

    You’re really not in any position to be dissin’ someone on their website design there homeboy.

  9. Actually, yes I am. I’m exactly in position.

    My site is exactly what it’s supposed to be; visually low-impact, not especially cluttered, readable color combinations. While I’m no CSS geek, I AM a usability guy – and I’m generally happy with what I have here.

    And – here’s the important part – it’s a do it yourself job; my design and production aren’t subsidized by anyone’s sugardaddy.

    Oh, yeah – and their comment engine is inexcusable.

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