It’s the Season of the Witch, all right, where once-traditional values and a basic sense of decency are turned upside down, where convicted mass murderers can plead with a straight face, "But Judge, that cop who caught me is a nut!"
Pay attention, Communications Majors, this is how you do rehabilitative PR, how you try to leave the impression, despite a mountain of incriminating evidence, that your client is Honor Incarnate, how you work to bury his wrongdoing with PR tricks, herding unsuspecting readers away from the crime scene and corralling them over to _your_ agenda. Clever and cynical.
Because McF’s got nothin’. no excuse, but lame. no slinking away, like any self-respecting thief caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Faced with the incontrovertible facts of his despicable behavior, how does he defend himself? with smears and name-calling, of course.
>>I owe a message board an apology for dragging along a rather raging antismoking anti-sycophant.
He apologizes for me(!), creepy boy. (For being against obsequious flattery??) oh, he owes this board an apology, all right; in fact, he should get down on his knees and beg forgiveness not only from this board but from all the webmasters whose sites he has hijacked, all the local residents he has abused in his flood-the-internet campaign to promote himself and his book (specifics below).
Then he wonders why no one answers him. He’s of interest, all right, but not as the acclaimed scientist he affects, but as the unconscionable warlord waging a modern day PR Blitzkrieg, his spamming tanks crushing the horses of websites’ outdated defenses.
But still, still–after 14,000 links, all that spamming, all that branding, all that _hard work_– STILL no one pays him a bit of mind?
That’s because McF is today’s Charles K. Johnson, who seldom got an answer to his challenges either, not even when he said,
"Wherever you find people with a fantastic reservoir of common sense, they don’t believe idiotic things such as the earth spinning around the sun. Reasonable, intelligent people have always recognized that the earth is flat!"
Johnson too never lost an argument in his own mind, and he too never got an inch of serious attention.
But at least he didn’t hijack message boards to gain it.