Brawling With Reading Comprehension

The Brew City Brawler decided to go after me, but completely got it wrong. 

(As a side note, I’ve provided the link.  I’ve noticed a trend on the Left side of the Wisconsin blogosphere to NOT actually provide links to conservative sites when they attack them.  Personally, I think it’s a breach of blogging etiquette, but to each his own.  The Brawler did provide a link - good for him or her.)

Anyway, he takes on this paragraph what I wrote into my latest column. 

For decades, the crooks of Tammany Hall in New York City routinely stuffed ballot boxes, twisted arms, and invented vote tallies to make sure that their fellow crooks were elected into office. During the LaGuardia administration and for several years afterwards, Tammany was so corrupt that it was none other than the “Prime Minister” of the mob, Frank Costello, who pulled the strings of New York politics.

And says:

Owen likes to say he’s a history buff, but linking LaGuardia and Tammany is just stone-ignorant, as revealed by a simple glance at wikipedia:

The problem is that I didn’t make any such claim.  The reference to LaGuardia was to provide the context of the time period.  I could have also said “during the 30’s” or “during the Roosevelt Administration” or “during Hitler’s Administration” or something, but I settled on “during the LaGuardia administration.”   

Actually, LaGuardia took away much of the power from Tammany Hall by cutting them out of their previous role in patronage and cracking down on corruption.  What this did is make Tammany Hall Dems more reliant on the Costello in order to get money for their campaigns.  Since the Mob was paying more of the bill for Tammany’s activities, they also took more control - including inserting more of their own folks into leadership positions. 
Sorry, Brawler, but you need to work on your reading comprehension before going on the attack.  I’ll wait for you to update your post.