JOE MOORE PAL MOCKS THEATER FIRE

This morning, after a fire was extinguished in the Morse Theatre in Rogers Park, one of Alderman Moore's buddies wasted no time mocking the entire situation - and once again take advantage of a sad situation to libel theater owner Andy McGhee. Thomas J. Westgard, a tragic, bitter and insane waste of protoplasm, wrote this: Venue owner Andy McGhee, who occasionally claims to be interested in improving the neighborhood, immediately cooperated with two local hatebloggers to promote the idea that this event is arson. This leaves me with so many unanswered questions. Above all, I'm amazed that it's possible to determine so quickly that it's an arson, and with the degree of certainty necessary to announce the fact to self-styled "journalists." Fact-checking, anyone? It was preceded by a tasteless post yesterday: "Photoshop Funnies," which, apparently, the tasteless Westgard thinks is funny. Note to Westgard: McGhee did not "cooperate" with the two citizen journalists that you so hatefully call "hatebloggers." He merely spoke to us about the situation. (Funny, we didn't see YOU on the scene, Mr. Know-It-All.) Before McGhee even arrived, Craig Gernhardt and I were on the scene and, although we are not experts, even a non-expert could see a pile of rubbish that had been set afire, the holes punched in the walls, the vandalized glass upstairs, and several large graffiti scrawlings. You're "amazed that it's possible to determine so quickly that it's an arson?" You stupid ass, Westgard, even a dumb, ignorant layman like me can read the writing on the wall - literally. You have not even looked inside of the theater. Where are your photos? Who did you interview? Fuck you and your dogs, Westgard.