Outrage

The most egregious offense committed by the incompetent mob who organized (to use the term loosely) this year's Rising Tide conference has yet to be touched upon by any of the critics I've read yet. Sure the education panel was hopelessly biased against privatization, the politics panel was a stooge platform for Jason Williams to make a campaign speech, and we all know that media discussing media can only amount to a pointless, "tragi-comic circle jerk"

These things are obvious... well... obvious to anyone who isn't a biased, narcissistic, political shilling RT organizer, that is. But worse than any of this is the fact that the fucktards in charge of doling out the "Ashley" awards at the end of the day could have been so blind to the true champion of the local blogoshere. While the RT Circle Jerk committee was wasting its time acknowledging this inspirational rhetorician, activist, and philosopher, or this one-man scourge of the ACOE, and this tireless civic watchdog/gadfly/media queen the one blogger truly deserving of the title "Best Blog of 2008" was utterly snubbed.

Fletcher Mackel, on behalf of all the rest of the hapless children who worked on the Rising Tide conference this year, I would like to extend my sincere apologies. Thankfully the enlightened readers of Gambit Weekly have corrected this injustice through their overwhelming support for your work at "Offsides with Fletcher Mackel" in this year's "Best of New Orleans" poll. We'll try to get it right next time.