When All Is Said And Done, More Is Said Than Done
On the one hand, Monica of the sex-worker activist $pread Blog points to breathless media reports...
Eight million articles on how the sex industry will "spike" during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions….as based on the evidence from craigslist ads. News media, I tip my cap to you. You actually made a graph of craigslist ads.
Read the quote in context here.
Meanwhile Mark Schmitt of The American Prospect blog TAPPED says of his experience at the Democrat's convention
Across the street from the hotel where TAP staff stayed this week was a strip club called Shotgun Willie's. All week the sign out front said,"WELCOME, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION."
As I left this afternoon, it had been changed to,
"THANKS FOR NOTHING, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION."
Schmitt's titled his post "Better Luck to Your Minneapolis Branch." And while I'm sure Democrats were approximately just as likely to frequent sex workers in Colorado as Republicans will be in Minnesota, and while it could just be the one strip club owner that went disappointed, the optics certainly follow a classic Blue-state/Red-state pattern of advocating for liberties one doesn't exercise vs. opposing those liberties while covertly indulging in them.
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