Sorry, Wheels, but you can't set back a movement you deny has any forward.

Waldo welcomes Adam Fogle, proprietor of The Palmetto Scoop, to The Journal's readership. Coming here is one of three things he says he swore he'd never do, not even in a million years.


Which explains how, when he put a fatwah on Waldo last fall, he got virtually everything wrong about how we operate. He'd apparently not bothered to read us then, since he now says he only just got around to it this past weekend. Among other things, that would account for why he never acknowledged the apology we posted for a post that, on reflection, seemed a bit over the top.


TPS is annoyed, he writes, that we referred, obliquely, to his daily method of transportation. 


It's something he has brought up himself:

So I can only assume that the guy who used the “c word” in the Wonkette story’s headline is physically disabled. Because anyone who uses that word and isn’t disabled can expect to wake up in a ditch with tread marks on their forehead. And I’m not talking a measly Hoveround, I mean something more like the tank wheelchair.

Our view is that when you lionize anti-minority-rights politicians and label your perceived opposition as loons, socialists, idiots and a variety of other terms we're not inclined to go back and find to links to (having complained about one of our posts being a discourtesy to him, he called Waldo a moron) , TPS deserves to be called out for praising a Democrat for introducing legislation the party TPS make a living flacking for won't: to give him a better parking space-

The irony, though, is that he seeks “tolerance” by making fun of other groups — most notably, “my people,” a la calling me “Hoveround.” For his sake, I hope the rest of the “gay community” realizes that morons like this set their cause back a few hundred years.

Oddly, TPS hasn't called out Micah Snead, who for sheer vitriol set the gold standard recently in fisking TPS' commentaries on the stimulus bill. Snead, by all accounts, is not gay. Neither, God knows, is Anaconda, who romps on TPS with abandon: it's only when the gays-all two of us in the blogdom- get uppity that he dons the shrouds of the martyr to compassionate conservatism: the guy constantly- and inexplicably- being ganged up on by intolerant "others." Funnily enough, Snead's blogpost was called "Diary of a Mad White Republican."


TPS, winding up his fastball to slag Waldo, called The Journal "The Diary of a Mad Gay Dude."


As TPS has said, "Man, I’m hilarious."


Basically, TPS is following the post-Prop 8 right wing playbook: up the ante on the radical gay intolerance routine when anybody calls you out. And we've called out TPS more times than we can count. 


The gay rights movement isn't Oliver Twist: we're not simpering up to the likes of you pleading, "Please sir, I want more," with a self-abasing tug of the forelock. There's little enough in the SC blogdom that speaks up for gay rights for you to be upon your desk drying, "eek! eek!"


You push, TPS, expect to get pushed back. You push hard, expect to get pushed back hard. 


It's as simple as that. You want respect for your positions, state them in an intellectually respectable manner, and extend the same courtesy to those with whom you disagree.


But in the meantime, feel free to comment on any of our posts. Waldo never slams or snarks his guests like you do. We actually welcome divergent points of view. You just pretend it.


On the other hand, it could just be that he's peeved Waldo' breathing down his neck in the influence ratings.