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Drudge: "Murdoch Scribe Fight's Back"(FR Mentioned. What do you make of this?)
Brucie Wilson VIA Drudge | 07-06-02 | Bruce Wilson

Posted on 07/07/2002 6:17:19 AM PDT by Jhoffa_

Drudge has a headline reading:

And a link that goes to this:

And that's it.. It ends right there just like that in mid-thought.

But THEN there is a link: to an FR post HERE By Mhking


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
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What is this about, why is Wilson such a whiner and and why is Drudge refrencing FR postings as news items on his site?

Any insight, anyone?

1 posted on 07/07/2002 6:17:19 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Jhoffa_
Could this be some kind of lameo fallout or retort over a FReep?

(?)

2 posted on 07/07/2002 6:18:54 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Jhoffa_
Well, the article directly insults Matt Drudge, so my guess is he linked to the FR thread so all his readers would see Bruce Wilson getting absolutely shredded and exposed for the pathetic little lying weasel that he is. Merely linking to Wilson's article would have given Wilson the last word.
3 posted on 07/07/2002 6:53:30 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: Timesink
Yes, that's possible..

But I had a feeling maybe there is a "part two" to this saga that's been inadvertantly truncated in Drudge's flash.

If you look at the top of the thread, Mhking posted lil' Brucies email and an open invitation for a FReep. I was wondering if he did get FReeped and maybe got pissed about it and jumped on Drudge or something.

OH! And PS: Speaking of "direct insults" I have one for Mr. Drudge also.

Matt, we love you.. You know we do. But PLEASE! Please, go find the HTML Sandbox thread and get some practice. It looks like you code it with your foot about half the time.

4 posted on 07/07/2002 7:06:20 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: mhking
Hey, check this out!
5 posted on 07/07/2002 7:22:50 AM PDT by xJones
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To: Jhoffa_; Matt Drudge
He's got the entire Wilson rebuttal piece up now - the link from the top of the post still goes to my link from last week though.

Matt -- Thanks for the link and the publicity!

6 posted on 07/07/2002 7:25:43 AM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
No, it's still truncated..

Maybe netscape is the problem.

7 posted on 07/07/2002 7:36:57 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: mhking
I can't see it.. It's cut off in IE also.

Can you post it please?

8 posted on 07/07/2002 7:38:09 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Jhoffa_
Can you post it please?
MURDOCH SCRIBE FIGHTS BACK
Bush-bashing leads inevitably to Dubya trouble
Bruce Wilson
July 6, 2002, Saturday
Courier Mail

ONE week ago I wrote a piece that said that much of the world was getting to terms with the fact that President George W. Bush is a fraudulently elected nitwit.

You always expect some kind of reaction from statements like that. On Monday morning, I opened my e-mail, something I always consider a minor triumph. There are usually a handful of them, politely derisory ones from editors, merchants offering me wine deals, troubled people from the travel pages wondering if I ever would get to write that piece about Damascus.

This time the inbox showed 674. By the end of the week there were more than 1000.

A handful were from Australia and the world. All the rest were from the US and for days they handed it to me as if I were the greatest threat to democracy since Joe Stalin.

The hatred and invective was quite staggering.

Then I found out what had happened. I had been picked up by the Drudge Report, the website started by a right-wing zealot called Matt Drudge.

The report ran the column and then Drudge read selected bits of it on his US national radio program, urging listeners not to let me get away with it.

Well, whee-hoo, as they say down on the ranch.

Drudge obviously aims at a lowest common denominator, since most of my electronic correspondents failed to catch on that I was an Australian. They saw the London dateline, and said: "OK, let's trash this limey."

Mainly I got it for being a limp-wristed nancy-boy (Bruce is thought to be a poofie name in the rednecked areas of America) whose nation (Britain) was twice saved by ever-brave American military might and GI know-how.

You simply don't have time to read 1000 e-mails and they clog up the memory. I took them randomly while wiping them out, reading about one in 20, and then replying if the sender was making some kind of a point or other, saying I was Australian, not British, and used to work in the US and some of my best friends were Republicans. Then I detected the pattern. It was clear that a network existed to organise the outraged responses.

They ran on two levels: "Come to Texas . . . and we'll show ya." And, "We saved your asses and if you keep this stuff up we won't do it again."

Some were so offensive I replied in kind. Some I tried to tell that the US came very late into World War II and Britain already had fought its two major battles without them.

Then, as the week went on, there came a slow and then increasing inbox of what might be described as the still, small voice of reason.

"Thanks. Nobody's saying this stuff often enough here," was the general theme. September 11 had created a president wearing false clothes, said one. But nobody would say so. Or if they did, not loud enough.

About 150 Americans e-mailed me -- from Seattle and Denver and Tacoma and New York and Smallsville, Ohio -- asking me not to pay attention to Matt Drudge, or the organised Right, and to keep at it.

I will.

bruce.wilson@newsint.co.uk

9 posted on 07/07/2002 7:42:38 AM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking

AHHHH!!! LOL! LOL!

I knew it..

And Drudge just happened to be picked up by the freepers Brucie! (and no, it's not the name.. it's You who's "poofie")

ROFL!! Oh, good job to whoever participated in this.

10 posted on 07/07/2002 7:47:54 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Madame Dufarge; VA Advogado; sam_paine; Psycho_Bunny; A. Morgan; NapaCA; Paulus Invictus; buffyt
Hey, come take a look at this..

Someone has their underwear in a wad over nasty emails.

11 posted on 07/07/2002 8:41:42 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: mhking
You simply don't have time to read 1000 e-mails and they clog up the memory.

Well, wouldn't it be a darn shame if Brucie got 1000 new emails every day. Wonder how much time it actually takes to delete 1000 emails, daily...every day...7 days a week...week after week...

Sorry, was just visualizing at the keyboard....
12 posted on 07/07/2002 9:13:40 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
[LOL] Wait'll some spamhaus gets ahold of his e-mail address...
13 posted on 07/07/2002 11:28:22 AM PDT by mhking
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