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Brennan Files Update

2005-11-18T03:16:00.000-08:00

As there are only a finite number of these Charlie Brennan emails, we’re gonna slow down on posting them. Besides being the disdainful pox-ridden debauchee you know us as, we are a firm believer in the sucker-punch. We don’t want Brennan to know when one of these motherfuckers is gonna drop. We just want to ensure he’s checking in daily, a sick gutshot feeling washing over him as he wonders what new facet of his Jim Bakker side is about to be exposed.

There will be more, we promise. And as soon as we can pry ourselves away from the fourteen-year-olds and the wine, we will update our sidebar with links to those already posted so you may reread them at your leisure.

God bless you, Mr. Brennan, for all you’ve given us.

It’s Like Watching A Car Crash In Very Slow Motion

2005-11-16T03:15:00.000-08:00

Jim Paine has penned us another non-reply.

If your reader hasn't found an instance where Williams, Deloria or Laduke cited Churchill, he hasn't looked hard enough.

You can probably guess what our response email said, but just in case . . .

Hello Mr. Paine,

WHERE?

For someone who prides himself on being a straight-shooter, m’man, you’re gonna break your own neck trying to screw out from under the question.

You stated, and I quote, “[t]he work of Vine Deloria, of Bruce Johansen, of Winona LaDuke, of Robert A. Williams, Jr. - activists all, Churchill supporters all - the work of all of these is hopelessly intertwined and interdependent, each providing rationale for the others' theses . . . Churchill cites Deloria, who cites Johansen, who cites Williams.”

What books, what page numbers? You’ve smeared the reputations of several scholars and questioned the validity of an entire academic department based on the above argument. Now that the Associated Press is running your dog-and-pony show along with our own yokels, we’d like to know where your evidence is. It’s not a trick question, it’s not a tough question. If you can’t answer it, cowboy up, make your apologies, and take the essay down.

Otherwise, you’ve got about as much right attacking Churchill’s credibility as the Marquis De Sade has preaching abstinence. And we shall continue to call you on it.

John

* We just realized the Marquis de Sade thing doesn't really work as he was forcibly abstinent most of his life, being imprisoned. Shit

Our Edward R. Murrow To Jim Paine’s Joseph McCarthy

2005-11-16T03:14:00.000-08:00

We emailed our new hero, Professor Bruce Johansen, and asked him if he had anything he'd like to say straight to the horse's ass himself, now that he's been the subject of one of Jim Paine's slimings. He was kind enough break down Mr. Paine's tactics for us, and to give the three members left on the committee some advice.

It's actually quite heartening.

It's good to see that the Caplis/Silvertman/Paine axis is not doing everyone's thinking out there. I have, after all, done OK during almost 24 years in a very "red" state. I have made some good friends during these events our your way.

Since I'm now a private citizen again, and I have the right to express my opinions (hello there, Caplis/Silverman/Paine Axis!) here's my two bits, for what it's worth.

1. My reading of the chatter on pirateballerina.com is that they're now going after the other three "stooges," and that they may want the emails to link you three to Rob and myself. I see on the website that Paine is attacking you for such outrages as being interviewed on NPR, and for Radelet's public opposition to the death penalty. On Margorie, he can't find anything, but he pledges to keep looking. I can only imagine the file he could have built on me now that association with Churchill is not the only firing offense in his eyes. I am, after all, writing in "Z" Magazine this month and The Progressive next month as a confirmed global warmist. Think of the guilt by association Paine could have whipped up with stuff like that. Google me and this McCarthy clone could keep his mill running for years. I think they want to force the university to appoint a commitee to their liking.

2. At some point, Caplis/Silverman/Paine could get so extreme that their tactics will backfire. Last Friday evening my wife and I celebrated our 17th anniversary with a movie: "Good Night, Good Luck," Edward R. Murrow vs. McCarthy. We found this movie very germane to the last few weeks in Colorado. Of course, Senator McCarthy eventually became so extreme that he became a caricature of himself. Even the U.S. Army turned on him. Caplis/Silverman/Paine, having "gotten" Williams and myself, may now drown in their own excess going after the rest of you. Someday, Paine may ring his little bell and the media dogs may not show up. I was interviewed by several people at every major newspaper on the Front Range, and I sensed that his game is getting a little stale. The C/S/P axis may marginalize itself.

3. Ironically, the longer the right wing obstructs, the longer the investigation takes, and the more time Ward Churchill stays on the job. Maybe they will obstruct it to his retirement age.

Just the observations of a private citizen who didn't at all appreciate this exercise in McCarthyist rhetorical excess. Paine may think I am stooge, but I'm no dummy.