It was on December 8 that Washington Times Metro columnist Tom Knott used his perch to describe an ongoing feud between Town Hall, a new and upscale watering hole in Glover Park, and the bar’s neighbors. It was also in this infamous column that Knott described the stretch of Wisconsin Avenue where Town Hall has set up shop as a “red-light district” and, even more poetically, as such:

…a fading commercial strip that features two topless nightclubs, two “massage” parlors and an assortment of cart-pushing vagrants lured by a nearby homeless shelter. It is a cold, impersonal strip of petty thieves, the occasional stabbing and a high number of consumers with bladder-control trauma.

Our readers were just as confused as we were: was Knott describing the same Wisconsin Avenue we knew?

Well, yesterday Knott dedicated a whole second column to the feud and, more importantly, to painting the stretch of Wisconsin Avenue above Georgetown but below Cathedral Heights as a den of iniquity. Knott has focused his wrath on two topless joints and two massage parlors that he claims — with forceful authority, we might add — offer a little more than massages. Read for yourself:

The “massage” therapists of Venus World, in the 2300 block of Wisconsin Avenue, are best known for what is said to be their customer-friendly motto — “We love you long time.”

We riddle you this, faithful readers of DCist — Is there something we don’t know? Is the section of Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park Knott describes really a red light district in disguise, or is he prudishly assuming the absolute worst of legitimate businesses? And why has Knott dedicated two full columns — just shy of 1,400 words — to defending Town Hall?