Seems like "Uptown Updater" got so excited about a critique of Alderman Helen Shiller, he/she linked to a Free Republic article written by a racist, anti-gay lunatic by the name of Rosanna Pulido who previously ran for Congress. She was denounced by Tom Mannis of Chicago News Bench which is teabagger/Freeper heaven, so you can use that as a measure of how extreme and marginal she is. After some of the local would-be burghers protested linking to a reactionary source and a couple of the usual suspects defended it, the post vanished. I took a screencap and posted it to a thread on the Chicago Reader in response to the individual (James Cappleman?) stalking me over there under the name "Mother of FGFM." Shortly thereafter, a mea culpa appeared on Uptown Update.
"UU would like to issue a sincere apology to anyone who may have been offended by a recent post which has since been removed from the blogroll. We knew nothing about the group that was mentioned and regret linking to their publication."
Bullshit. For starters, the post was titled "Chicago City Council Mexican Hootenanny: AFTER ACTION REPORT." Without even reading the objectionable article, shouldn't that "Mexican Hootenanny" line be a tip-off?
Read the whole thing.
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