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I’m not really sure why I even bother, except that it’s hilarious, but I have to address Greg Aymond’s epic fail of a response to this post, http://centrallapolitics.blogspot.com/2011/08/freddy-attack-sandra-bright-fred.html.

His headline is “Freddy Attack (sic) Sandra Bright, Fred Rosenfeld, and Me (sic) in the Same Post.” I am sure his decision to break grammar rules is merely a reflection of his profound genius. He is a brilliant attorney and a venerable wordsmith, a modern-day e.e. cummings. The man obviously plays by his own rules. When I was an undergraduate, my creative writing professors would say, “Know the rules, and then break them.”

I’ve been reading Greg Aymond’s website for a few years now. His voice often reminds me of Benjy from William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. It’s a tough narratological task, but Greg Aymond clearly knows what he is doing. He is highly-educated, after all.

Still, despite the genius of his unconventional and challenging prose, Greg Aymond often fails to convey a basic grasp of the facts.

In all seriousness, the man can barely cobble together a complete and correct sentence on his website. Frequently, he can’t even compose a correct headline.

With respect to the “substance” of his allegations against me:

1. If Sandra Bright, an African-American neighborhood leader, is friends with Greg Aymond, as he claims, then she obviously doesn’t have the best judgment. Greg Aymond is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. He’s called African-American leaders in Alexandria “N**** Street Thugs” on his website. He was the attorney for the White Nationalists during the Jena Six protests. If Sandra thinks I am “attacking” her for being friends with Greg Aymond, so be it. If she is actually friends with this man, then she needs to really reconsider her standards.

2. Greg Aymond writes in response:

Next, Freddy attacked me when he wrote that “Greg Aymond considers you to be a good friend, and a few paragraphs later, he refers to African-Americans as “darkies.” With friends like him, who needs enemies, right?”. I guess that Freddy needs help with his reading comprehension if he really wants to succeed in law school because what I wrote was that Freddy’s boss, Jacques, considers the people who will live in those apartments as “darkies”.

Although I appreciate the advice on how to succeed in law school, my reading comprehension is not the problem here. I hope that people like Sandra Bright, Von Jennings, Joe Fuller, Tony Brown, and the Larvadain brothers will take note: The one and only person who uses the word “darkies” to refer to African-Americans is Greg Aymond, your “friend,” the former Klan member and attorney for the White Nationalists.

Jacques Roy is not a racist, by any stretch of the imagination. Unlike Greg Aymond, I know Jacques Roy. He represents the very best and brightest of Louisiana. He’s not some embittered, lonely bigot who chain-smokes behind his computer every night while altering photographs of grown men. That’s weird, perverted, sick, and sad. Jacques Roy has a family and friends who love and care for him. He doesn’t have to pretend to be accomplished or smart. He doesn’t have to invent friendships with people in order to make himself look more normal or accepted. The word “darkies” isn’t in his lexicon. That’s a word employed by racist, ignorant assholes.

3. I would never, ever speak an ill word against Reverend Huey Lawson. Apparently, Greg Aymond thought I was referring to Reverend Lawson when I wrote about slumlords. Reverend Lawson is a good and decent man, a friend of my family, and a pillar of the community. I have no idea what Greg Aymond means when he states that the decision to build a police substation on City-owned property in Lower Third is merely an attempt to get at Reverend Lawson. That’s babbling non-sense– a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

4. With respect to Fred Rosenfeld: I always liked Fred. I’ve probably eaten at his restaurant more than Mr. Aymond ever has. He’s on the radio. He has a big audience. Frankly, I don’t think he’s been truthful. Actually, I KNOW he hasn’t been truthful. I wish he would be. It’s silly for him to continually criticize the Downtown Hotels Initiative. The man is more conflicted than anyone else in town. It’s also silly for him to bash government incentives for a hotel. Pot meet kettle. I know I have been critical of him, but dammit, if you get on the radio every morning and spout off a bunch of non-sense, then you shouldn’t be surprised when someone says, “HEY! You’re wrong!” You shouldn’t be surprised if someone conducts a Goggle search and discovers your past. And if you’re well into your seventies and on the radio every morning, you shouldn’t be surprised whenever you’re criticized. Fred Rosenfeld may think I am his enemy. I’m not. I just wish he’d tell the truth and disclose his conflicts, and I don’t think I am asking too much.

5. Finally:

Greg Aymond writes, “It is a shame that he will still have the ability to publish his lying blog even over in Texas.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!