How I Was Smeared

City Journal ^ | October 30, 2002 | Harry Stein

[B-Chan]

Now I remember why I left Denton.

There ouught to be some kind of Denton veterans' organization or survivors' club...

[Rate_Determining_Step]

A wonderful smear!

Smears take a lot to go right before they can work. I've always fantasized about coming up with a magazine or publication that clearly dissects the smears in as close to real-time as possible.

To have a smear like this work, think how you would do it.

Stein mentions that "he had delivered this speach before". OK. Clearly, he appeared on someone's radar.

Who's?

A key figure to answering this question is the dude who stood up and asked the questions. This would be Mr. William Jones from San Diego CityLink Investment Corporation.

The whole thing hinges on Jones. If this guy cracks or breaks ranks, this whole thing unravles. If he gets a concious, it unravles.

Much like a conspiracy, everyone needs to be "on board".

Was this Jones' first and only conference? Is he a local (San Diego) activist.

Someone needs to connect the dots.

[machman]

Great, great, article.

But it makes you think, how well orchestrated is the smear? Was this planned even before the event took place? Does the DNC have people looking for dirt for people on their "hit list" like McTeer.

This sounds like something right out of early Nazi Germany.

I can hear them now...

Jeden!! Jeden!!! Landesverräter!!!!

[Coeur de Lion]

I believe this to be a case of selective listening on the part of the individual who started this whole mess in the first place. He never heard what the man said only what was filtered to fit into his own preconcieved notions. When the author says he thinks the man must not have heard a thing he said he's absolutely right. The man didn't.

As for the rest. Indeed, you have the case of a bunch of true believers whose ideology is such that anything which they may presuppose or believe is contrary to that ideology provides justified grounds to meet their ends thru any means, regardless of the morality of their means or the unjustified consequences to the individual which occur therefrom.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Insightful, D-Day. Perhaps Stein was set up.

I can't imagine whining like that in public if someone offended me. What ever happened to manhood?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[VOA]

bump

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This article reappears today in the City-Journal. Is the media biased? If a journalist answers "NO" to that question can they be trusted with such a powerful weapon? Good post.

[ThePythonicCow]

Years ago, B-Chan wrote:

Now I remember why I left Denton.

Oh dear -- I just signed a lease on an apartment in Denton, and am fixing to pack up and move there, from California.

What would you warn me of in Denton?