Conflict of Interest While I Was Gone
posted by on December 28 at 15:15 PM
Jonah and Josh (the male cabal that forms two-thirds of the Stranger’s news staff) took advantage of my absence to write this totally offensive look back at 2007 “with” (they wish!) Venus Velazquez, the foxy onetime City Council candidate last seen losing to Bruce Harrell thanks to a DUI. Those two really know how to kick a lady when she’s down! Anyway, here’s an excerpt.
Best Decision of the Year: No. And Hell No.The voters get credit for making the best decision of 2007. When it came to Seattle’s waterfront, voters wisely said no to Mayor Nickels’s expensive (and unfunded) tunnel option and no to Olympia’s retrograde elevated rebuild. Both options were bad news for the environment and downtown. Invaluable bonus: The “No” and “Hell No” votes put the “surface/transit” option in play, which is good for the environment and will be killer for the neighborhood. Double bonus: Surface/transit guru Cary Moon is foxy.
Venus Velázquez says: First of all, I’m way foxier than a hippie like Cary Moon. Second of all, the best decision of the year was mine, when I refused to take that fascist sobriety test. Did anyone check to see if Bruce Harrell was fucking drunk? You know, I know where that guy drinks and I know for a fact he’s wasted after two beers.
cary moon IS foxy.
So it's OK to drive drunk as long as you're foxy?
I adore the Stranger does. But impersonating people in articles frustrates your credibility enormously.
*most of what
Oh, you men! *places hands on hips, taps foot*
psshh. I am ... was a Velazquez supporter, and I found this article hilarious.
It would be nice, however, to have some sort of signifier for pieces published in the actual paper that are completely made up. Secret code anybody? Common sense obviously isn't cutting it most of the time for a lot of people.
Two white journalists calling Bruce Harrell an African American Asian man a gorilla was a wee offensive, and worst of all, the piece was not even funny, except for the part about Bruce drinking at Earl's, my old watering hole.
@5: At least Erica doesn't turn them upside down when they rescue her from a dungeon, or constantly fold her arms under her breasts and glare.
Offensive? Not really.
Funny? Not really.
How dare they kick a lady while she's down!
Since it's so offensive, lets post it again for maximum effect!
Heh.
And besides, V is a lightweight compared to this dame. She blew a .55
Holly crap them Oregonians be drinking. No wonder theyre able to vote for good progressive transit packages and shit.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1227072harper1.html
She can out drink all you fools.
That was a really lame article. I'm glad you're back!
people who take the time to write about what a lame article a lame article is, are lame.
What about people who take the time to write about a lame article about what a lame article a lame article is? Honh? What about those people?
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