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Thread ID: 5513 | Posts: 23 | Started: 2003-03-13
2003-03-13 04:27 | User Profile
Summary of Todd Brendan Fahey's departure from EtherZone.com
Dear OD Folk:
Having been fired from EtherZone.com as its Strategic Director and as a columnist; having been banned from EtherZone's discussion Forum and Blogger site, and without the opportunity to respond in any manner to Robert Momenteller's decision to give me the punt, it is with my apologies to SARTRE (James Hall, EtherZone's Content Liaison and my long-time friend) that I must issue SARTRE's "Summary" of the events leading to my departure from EtherZone. Anything in [brackets] represent my clarifications.
Best, TBF
[click [url=http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=751]here for complete summary[/url]]
2003-03-13 05:19 | User Profile
A generally fine site, going down the friggin' toilet, courtesy of one unflushable floater
FYI: Here's what Jimmy Cantrell of The Texas Mercury has to say about "SentryOverAmerica," the Gubm't employee who got me fired from EtherZone:
To: BATR@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:49:12 -0600 From: "Jimmy Cantrell" Reply-To: BATR@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BATR] Summary of the TBF departure [from EtherZone.com]
Sentry Over America is about the Neocon infiltration of Etherzone to change to Neocon. Either Bob M is for such a change, or he is too stupid to see the excrement into which he has stepped and/or too fearful or lazy to clean his shoes. When your shoe is coated in excrement, you wipe the shoe with toilet paper that you immediately flush. That is what should be done with Sentry Over America. And I said so months ago. He will ruin any site of which he is a part.
Anyone willing to 'work with' Sentry Over America by giving him publication space is at best a naive fool doing the work of the Podhoretz family and Ariel Sharon. All sites for articles and/or discussion not already in Neocon hands should be so warned.
2003-03-13 06:03 | User Profile
[url=http://www.etherzone.com/forum/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=1616;start=72]EtherZone Thread[/url]
I think reading the whole thread Todd makes the whole thing a little clearer. Particularly starting with page 5.
I do think it is sad that your fine contribution at EtherZone has come to an end. I don't think it had to come to this.
2003-03-13 06:26 | User Profile
Thanks for the support, Okie.
I sweated blood for EtherZone for 4 years.
Brought in Alan Stang, Max Shpak, yourself, and 5 other writers. Counting mine own 44 articles for EtherZone, and as Strategic Director since March 2002 (wherein EtherZone's Alexa rankings went from 150,000 to 7,701), I don't think there's a person involved with that site who did more than I did to bring it to its current level.
The CHANGE (like unto menopause) has occurred: Neocon Moderators in-tow (one from the former NewsMax, and another from the former OpinioNet.com). Paul Fallavollita ain't been writing for it lately, nor has Shpak. SARTRE no longer posts at its Forum, nor does Alan Stang or Albert Burns (79-year old trove of conspiracy literature, whom I also brought into EtherZone's stable, and who has gone on to be one of EtherZone's brightest lights).
Robert Momenteller, EtherZone ed./pub, also lopped off OriginalDissent's "NeoConWatch" banner, over my objections. I tried to remedy this several times, to no avail.
& now EtherZone is being written ABOUT (at LibertyForum.org, and others) as a Government-shill site.
It surely didn't have to happen this way. But Robert Momenteller made his bed. He lies down now in dirty sheets.
TBF
2003-03-13 07:23 | User Profile
Originally posted by Okiereddust@Mar 13 2003, 00:03 **[url=http://www.etherzone.com/forum/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=1616;start=72]EtherZone Thread[/url]
I think reading the whole thread Todd makes the whole thing a little clearer. Particularly starting with page 5.
I do think it is sad that your fine contribution at EtherZone has come to an end. I don't think it had to come to this. **
That's right, it didn't have to end that way! It was his choice.
If anyone want's the truth just go to the post at EZ and read it for yourself. [url=http://www.etherzone.com/forum/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=1616;start=72]EtherZone Thread[/url]
Like you said, page five sorta sum's it up.
BTW, he wasn't banned from posting, he's still on the member board as of about two minute's ago. I know the truth is upheld here and I couldn't let another good site like Ether Zone and a great man like Mr. Momenteller be dragged through the dirt.
2003-03-13 07:26 | User Profile
Suplanter:
I log into EtherZone's Forum and I get: "You are banned from this Forum."
What else can be said? I'm banned. & you've been here (at OriginalDissent) for all of nine (9) posts.
Now, go cozy off back to EtherZone.
TBF
2003-03-13 07:28 | User Profile
**An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry, you are banned from using this forum!**
Any other questions, Suplanter? (thot not)
2003-03-13 09:05 | User Profile
& EtherZone has vanquished its twin Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo photo (which was on their main site, their Blogger site, and rendered capable at my FriendsOfLiberty site). It's now gone.
A picture being worth 1000wds, etc.
2003-03-13 09:06 | User Profile
& EtherZone has vanquished its twin Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo photo (which was on their main site, their Blogger site, and rendered capable at my FriendsOfLiberty site). It's now gone.
A picture being worth 1000wds, etc.
2003-03-13 16:13 | User Profile
c'mon, Tex,
Prove you're better than the rest of these hired thugs.
My EtherZone thread (one of them) was shifted to the "CyberPolitics" thread (OK on that); the other is gone, completely.
This is becoming tedious ritual. Please advise (Directly, personally; preferably to the Forum).
TBF
2003-03-13 16:18 | User Profile
I'm was sorry to hear about this, Todd. But to look on the bright side, maybe now I'll get more of the Todd Fahey I enjoy - the op-ed columnist. Hopefully now you'll have more time to devote to your writing.
We'll be keeping an eye on EZ. I hope they stay strong in the Cause and don't sell out.
For what it is worth, Todd Fahey was, I believe, the first webmaster ever to contact Original Dissent about linking to us at his DumpMcCain.com site. Since then he has always been faithful to maintain links to OD wherever he is at. We've had our disagreements here and there, sure, but I wanted to publicly acknowledge and thank him for that.
No go start writing, Todd!
2003-03-13 16:26 | User Profile
Please give me a chance to, Todd! I've only been logged-in for a few minutes now.
2003-03-13 16:27 | User Profile
um...dunno how to take that, "Tex" (Jason):
I HAVE been writing. Have you taken any of my articles in over 8 months on the front-page of OD? (answer: NO).
OK: here's two (paste either of 'em up, bruddah):
1) [url=http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=746&mode=&order=0&thold=0]http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Ne...order=0&thold=0[/url]
2) [url=http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=726&mode=&order=0&thold=0]http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Ne...order=0&thold=0[/url]
2003-03-13 16:48 | User Profile
Originally posted by toddbrendanfahey@Mar 13 2003, 10:13 **c'mon, Tex,
Prove you're better than the rest of these hired thugs.
My EtherZone thread (one of them) was shifted to the "CyberPolitics" thread (OK on that); the other is gone, completely.
This is becoming tedious ritual. Please advise (Directly, personally; preferably to the Forum).
TBF**
Nothing was deleted, Todd. We have a function here that allows us to "Merge" separate topics into one, and that's what I did on your two EZ/Fahey dismissal threads. I think it gives it more cohesiveness and impact, having everything consolidated into one punch, so to speak.
Again, nothing was deleted. It's for threads like this that I created the Cyber Politics forum. To have a place to talk about these on-line skirmishes, as well as keep it grouped away from the rest of the board.
So have at it!
2003-03-13 17:13 | User Profile
Originally posted by weisbrot@Mar 13 2003, 11:03 ** My thoughts exactly, Tex. Spill the beans on your OD
salary, perks, and bennies. All those babes and fast cars must've come from somewhere. **
:lol: Just like ol' Faron sang:
I wanna live fast Love hard Die Young And leave a beautiful memory
2003-03-13 20:26 | User Profile
Hi, TBF.
I just wanted to express my condolences regarding your situation at Ether Zone. Perhaps there will be a reconciliation between yourself and the management in the future, after things have cooled down.
Some seem to have taken issue with your "take-no-prisoners" writing style, but that doesn't invalidate the truth of the main point you were making about the composition of the Ether Zone forum. The Ether Zone website--the main page--is excellent and carries some of the best paleoconservative and Authentic Right daily commentary on the web. But the forum, the discussion board, is heavily populated with the usual mindless Bush-lovers and "big government (neo)conservatives." There also seems to be some sort of rabid Zionist/Israel-First type regularly posting there, I think his/her/its screen name is abu-afak, and that person is probably on the ADL payroll, given the way this person likes to browbeat and intimidate those who disagree with his/her/its agenda. You're right about the strange stuff going on at that forum, TBF; it makes little sense to shoot the messenger.
In many ways, many of the posters there are indistinguishable from the Freepers, both in ideological outlook and personality style. I've seen some vicious neocons on the EZ Forum who love to make ad hominem attacks, accusations of "anti-Semitism," and the like. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that in many cases, the leaders of the neocon attack-packs happen to be some of the moderators, like NC3. I've seen the moderators implicitly encourage attacks on "Far-Right" posters like Ed Toner, who also posts here at OD. I've seen these neocon moderators openly (and dismissively) brand some of the EZ writers as "lunatics," "fringers," and all the usual smear terms, sometimes in general and sometimes naming specific writers. They love to criticize Justin Raimondo by name, and he's done some excellent investigative journalism and commentary.
When the moderators get involved in enforcing RNC-orthodoxy, I think it creates a chilling effect that lessens the desirability of the forum to paleocon posters. I'm sure many of the paleo writers who write for EZ don't feel welcome or at home on that forum. On the other hand, some of the moderators and many of the forum regulars admit to never reading the articles on the Front Page!
Given these examples I've cited above, it seems there is some sort of weird disconnect between the thought-spheres of the forum and the main page. I'm not sure why this is the case, or what ultimate direction in which this might lead the site. I, for one, would enjoy seeing Mr. Momenteller delete the EZ forum, cut loose its reigning neocons and NewsMax refugees, and redirect the forum link on his page to OD. Alternatively, I read on Liberty Forum that there was talk of some deal of a "handshake" between EZ's main page and LF, where LF takes EZ as its front page and EZ takes LF as its forum. Someone said such a merger would blow FR out of the water in terms of web traffic and influence, et al. I take it nothing ever came of that? Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but such an endeavor might be fun. Of course, it's not for me to decide these things, since I am not part of the management of any of those sites, I'm 0/0th of the board of directors, if you will. ;)
I, myself, haven't written any new articles these past couple months because, frankly, there's little to say that already hasn't been said. I don't want to beat any dead horses. I'm very sympathetic to the reasons Carol Ward went on "hiatus" on her site. In the event that something does come up that calls for analysis, I'll contribute an article to EZ in the hope that my small contribution will help EZ maintain its paleo-orientation, providing the "other side of the story" that counteracts the effects of the "Peanut Gallery" at the forum. I assume SARTRE will still continue to write for EZ and attempt to "hold the line" as well. Only time will tell the final outcome. For now, I'm still optimistic.
Of course, if I start seeing articles posted there by OpinioNet's Yehuda, then I'll worry.... :lol:
2003-03-13 21:09 | User Profile
sorry, Paul,
But I've been f*cked by too many w/in EtherZone. You're either on-record or you're not.
& pls. know that anything I write, anywhere, in any venue, is -for publication-.
Best, TBF
2003-03-13 22:31 | User Profile
Didn't EZ used to carry Carol's column?
2003-03-14 03:18 | User Profile
Todd
I know I've only posted here 9 times, but I've been here reading since July 2002. Reading and learning. alot of the 9 were used replying to your slanderous post against Ether Zone and Mr. Momenteller.
Maybe you to would learn something if would you read more and post less.
If you tried a power play here like you did at EZ, I suggest you wouldn't last as long as you did there. One shouldn't burn bridge's behind them, but at EZ you didn't just burn the bridge, you blew it up while taking no prisoner's.
I know you tried logging back on at EZ like you said, but were your intention's to be constructive or distructive?
You were 1/4 of the Board of Directors and a writer, as you never failed to point out, BUT You failed us, the Moderator's, readers and posters at EZ by trying to force your opinion on us.
The first time we disagreed, sometimes in 2001, we agreed then to disagree, you've changed for the worst.
I hope you can regroup your thought's and become a positive force once again.
Good Luck!
2003-03-15 15:37 | User Profile
...that's all pretty magnanimous, coming from someone who's never been involved in any official capacity at EtherZone...
You speak, "Suplanter," as if you've ever had some say in the direction of EtherZone, but you haven't.
EtherZone has only ever had one Board of Directors, which included owner/publisher Robert Momenteller; his nephew and ersatz (though his uncle Bob told me directly he does no "editing") Assistant Editor Doug Sefried (who posts as "Stormchaser" on the EZ Forum), myself as Strategic Director, and SARTRE (James Hall) as Content Liaison.
As Paul Fallavollita, EtherZone columnist, and SARTRE duly note, there is a huge "disconnect" between EtherZone's Front Page and EtherZone's Forum. Tony Anderson ("Tony," EtherZone's Head Moderator) wrote only last week, that "EtherZone's Front Page IS EtherZone."
But after I bucked the Moderator squad on the Forum, calling into question the selection (and even identities) of the 3 new Mods, I found myself ass-canned. So, it can't be both. The ideological "disconnect" between EtherZone's Forum and Front Page is glaring, as evidenced by the comments of other EtherZone columnists (and the fact that most EtherZone columnists stay far, far away from the Forum, while embracing and championing the Front Page).
As well, Mr. Momenteller undercut his site's credibility in a major way by allowing SentryOverAmerica to post, on the EtherZone Blogger site, slanderous junk against Ron Paul ON THE VERY DAY that EtherZone came out w/ a unanimous, Board-level endorsement as to a Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo alternative to another 4 years of George W. Bush--the entire drive being my idea, as SARTRE rightly pointed out (& of which I have an 8-month paper-trail in my e-box).
TexasDissident is correct: The Paul/Tancredo drive caused a major brouhaha at EtherZone, and Robert Momenteller ain't talking about it, nor has he replied to any of my e-mail post-boot, nor has he given me any opportunity to discuss the matter, following his very public ousting of me (the initial transmission coming on the Forum, and not to me privately, which would have been the gentlemanly way to do business).
What's left to say? Robert Momenteller caved on the Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo drive. Several writers wasted 2 weeks' worth of time on such; and EtherZone is now in a situation of confusion, regarding its ideological core and just Who Is In Charge of that site.
Best, TBF
2003-03-15 16:46 | User Profile
The nature of Suplanter. Judge for yourselves!
His quote to me from the EtherZone Forum:
You need to Start showing some support for America or you risk being VIEWED as simply BLOWING CHUNCKS!
Now read the entire thread from the EtherZone Forum, under Articles, WHEN SHARON SAYS JUMP BUSH SAYS HOW HIGH? (Read 103 times
[url=http://www.etherzone.com/forum/index.php?board=11;action=display;threadid=1335]EtherZone Forum[/url]
I gladly but my credentials on the table as a loyal defender of the real America. Those that are unable or unwilling to make the distinction between the Nation and her People, from the Treason that its government commits and claims as official policy, are hardly the voice of reason or Patriotism.
Let the OD Forum be the judge who speaks the TRUTH.
If one had any questions before, maybe Suplanter is the proof.
SARTRE :ph34r:
2003-03-15 20:40 | User Profile
[OD Folk: SARTRE elicited a response from Robert Momenteller; I have written two short follow-ups to his response. Let these stand w/o further editorial comment on my part]:
Robert Momenteller wrote:
Jim...[SARTRE; James Hall]
One of the reasons I have not to date responded to the TBF summary is the fact that it was sent to my ISP mail box which I check on occasion. Just happened to check it this morning and found your inquiry and the original e- mail. That particular box is used as a back up if the EZ mail boot goes crazy and I don't often get mail there of any revelance.
1). Ether Zone's direction:
In my opinion, EZ's growth can be attributed to a variety of reasons. Obviously, content is the key reason people visit a particular site and EZ's content in my opinion is second to none thanks to the hard efforts of our contributors.
It has always been my intent and still is, to provide our readership with a variety of content with a conservative slant. As publisher, I have allowed all kinds of essays to be published by a variety of writers covering the entire specturm of political opinion right of center. A quick look thru the almost 6,000 archived files will attest to this. I have NEVER allowed my personal political opinion to dictate who shall or shall not be published on EZ based on a narrow scope of reference. For the record, I don't agree with half of what I allow to be published. Once I do, I become no different than 99% of all the other publications out there. How many websites do you know of where you can read an anti-war column, pro-war column, pro-Bush column, anti-Bush column without scrolling???
While I am personally a strict constitutionalist from the old right guard..... neocons, libertarians, vegetarians, consevative left wingers (I am getting awfully tired of labels!) still permanate our pages. And for good reason.... neocons like LeBoutillier (thank-you Todd) have huge followings that come to EZ to read his stuff who wouldn't be caught dead surfing the pages of NewsMax. Same holds true for guys like a Metcalf or a Raimondo, the list goes on and on. Why in the world would I want to cut off huge amounts of our readership narrowing EZ's "Alternative Opinion Source" to include only paleoconservative thought to message my EGO? I don't think so......
The Paul and Tancredo endorsement has my full support.... a much better choice for the occupants at 1600 Pennsylavania Ave. If I had my druthers, Pat Buchanan would be back on my list, but we know he is done with any presidential aspirations. Again, I don't agree with everything Paul stands for.... drug policy for one....and Tancredo's hawkishness for war. But, it is a balanced ticket which can't be said for the present number one and two guys runnning the show now. Having said that.... where in the world does TBF, perhaps you, get the idea that our fourm moderators, columnists and other contributors must fall in goose step with this editorial endorsement or "don't let the cyber door" hit ya in the ass on the way out? I haven't quit reading the Washington Times, Wall Street Journal....on and on for their endorsements of Dubya in the last presidential election cycle. I consider EZ's editorial (board of directors) no different.
Ether Zone Forum:
I have had a forum for the last four years off and on. Most of the problems have been technical and I think I have resolved most of these matters with our recent move to our present server.
The forum I have had in the past and the present one have the same EZ policy as the rest of the site. Anyone is welcomed there for open debate as long as the stated written policy is followed.... a copy of which is agreed to by any user when registering for membership...... real simple.
Unfortunately, moderating the forum is a full time job. I am fortunate that Tony volunteered his services some time ago to keep an eye on things, but as is the case with so many things at EZ.... it has grown to the point of being unmanageable and hence.... additional moderators were needed. We didn't look at anyone's political right side niche before placing them in their duties. They were placed there based on their ability to enforce EZ's stated written policy period..... and all have every right to their opinion. Some don't even read EZ but merely enjoy the forum and do a good job moderating our stated written policy. I don't give a hoot if they don't like Paul or Tancredo or worship the ground Bush stands on. Their services are volunteered in nature and once again.... they do a damn good job of enforcing EZ's WRITTEN STATED FORUM POLICY....
TBF:
Quite frankly, I tire to write this section of my response. TBF has done more to destroy his own credibility and alliances over the last week than any outside vendetta group could have done.
Over the last several years, I have severed my ties with Todd more than once. Each and everytime I have accomodated him back to my website things are fine for a while. Todd has brought EZ many good ideas and because of his presistence, I had instituted a few of them. Each and EVERY time I have done so, for whatever reason, it has given Todd a license (in his own mind) to start dictating to me each and every endeavor thereafter.... from EZ's page layout to dictating the placement of HIS essays. Rather than knee jerk terse responses to these requests, I have usually accomodated him with an eye toward the fact he has helped EZ in other ways over the period of time in question.
However, Todd is not a uniter or the least bit reasonable when it comes to anything he doesn't necessarily agree with. And like a postal worker in black loafers, he will turn on you quicker than you can say "I can't believe it's not butter". This has happened time and time again. The latest follie with EZ's forum just didn't happen one morning. Todd has repeatedly gone on the forum in his usual disruptive infantile manner and caused many a headache not only for the moderators, but our forum users as well. Even more alarming was the fact that I was losing dozens of forum members every week do to Todd's ridiculous antics. My mail box was filled with tons of complaints and I have little time to address issues like this.
It was during this period interspersed with all this madness, that Todd's e- mails would show up telling me who to get rid of as moderators and who I should appoint.....etc. I am a most reasonable person, but not everyone could be wrong... I warned Todd several times to STAY OFF the forum as he was too thin skinned to be on it and was causing me major problems that didn't have to be. Soooo, along comes our Endorsement of the Paul/Tancredo ticket and what does Todd do? Back up to the forum and not only threatening the moderators that didn't agree with the endorsements, but now the forum users themselves. And of course bragging that he is a board director and by God... bla...bla...bla. So, I got rid of Todd Fahey......
I shall not address this issue about TBF again. In fact, I have written nothing about this issue since my one and only post on EZ forum advising everyone that I fired him.... but if anyone needs a taste of what Todd Fahey is really like, just visit a host of different two bit places around the net where they still allow his inane banter and let me know how many times he has called me a motherfucker....end of story!
Feel free to post this on your BATR group site and anywhere else you desire. I do hope this clears the air once and for all of where I stand on all of this. I haven't change my ideals of what EZ should be since its inception and all of this chit chat about Ether Zone around the net and for the most part my silence on such matters hasn't changed it.
Bob
Fahey responds:
So... SARTRE wrote at length, in his "Summary of TBF's dismissal from EtherZone" that an "institutional policy" should be just that: Institutional. As in, should not be bucked by non-Board Moderators.
Bob Momenteller doesn't address, in his response, the entrance of fully 4 new EtherZone Moderators, each of whom is a Neoconservative ("ACatInTheHat"; "Anastasia"; "Miztiki" and "Right-Wing"). Bob chose to gloss over this aspect of my criticism, which HAS BEEN MY MAIN CRITICISM of EtherZone to-date (indeed, about mine only criticism).
Bob Momenteller also failed to address "SentryOverAmerica"'s prominent Blogger-site entry, on the very day of EtherZone's Endorsement of a Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo Presidential alternative to GWB, of a Government-issued chart, claiming: "RON PAUL LIED!!!" (which Sentry then cast over Right/libertarian Internet forae).
Mr. Momenteller, thereby, hasn't addressed my input, or SARTRE's (or Paul Fallavollita's or Jimmy Cantrell's) concerns at all.
His main beef is that Moderators were bitching about me (& they were...and for damned good reason, as they were/are running counter to EtherZone's core focus, per all that Bob M. & I have discussed over the last 4 years); and also that "he was losing Forum members because of me."
All of which leads me to believe that EtherZone is about hit-counts only. There is no real "core-focus" to the site. It stands for...not much.
Fire away.
TBF
Fahey's addendum:
i'm tiring of this, as well. Bob M's reasoning is so feeble that it pains me to have spent 4 years' travails at that site; but a few more things:
I not only handed to EtherZone former Congressman John LeBoutillier (who straddles the neocon/paleocon divide very evenly...and the only reason Mr. LeBoutillier came to my attention was that he was axed at NewsMax for the ultra-controversial: "Condit: Gays, Bisexuals and Murder" article, which was spiked at NewsMax after about 7 hours online, and which I regained via my /temp file and handed over to Bob Momenteller, who took it on very enthusiastically. That single piece has garnered--per Bob M.'s admission--more hits than any other single EtherZone piece. I gave it to him. I could have kept it for myself and sent news releases out, to gain traffic to mine own several sites. But I gave it to Bob Momenteller. W/o gratitude, as it appears now.
I have also scouted out and handed to Robert Momenteller 6 other writers to EtherZone--all paleoconservatives/paleolibertarians (Alan Stang, Albert Burns, David Wilkinson ; Max Shpak; Michael Rivero, and Jan Lamprecht).
Bob M. singles out John LeBoutillier as my only acknowledged contribution. Such demonstrates the lack of appreciation of Bob M. for my 4-year efforts at the 'zone.
He also fails to acknowledge that I put into service a massive e-base of contacts, which brought EtherZone from an Alexa 150,000 to its current 7,071, in exactly one years' time. He was happy enough to have me working on this front while I was in his service, but post-firing seems to have forgotten these efforts.
He's also not acknowledged my 1/3-contribution to his entire fundraising drive of last year.
Lastly: I have never called him a "mutherfucker" in print (only in private mail); that he decided to issue these private words also speaks volumes of him, as there are many private words that he issued to me which I'm sure he'd not be happy to see repeated.
Best, TBF
2003-03-17 18:01 | User Profile
SARTRE (James Hall; "Content Liaison" at EtherZone") writes, at the BATR (Breaking All the Rules Forum):
TBF,
In response to Todd's inquire and consistent with the standard of conduct that I set forth on the EZ Forum for EtherZone Board members and moderators as it applies to official policy, my "explicit and public" response upon receipt of Mr Momenteller's reply is the following:
"I remain SILENT on the subject".
Trust that speaks to the issue!
SARTRE
TBF responds:
SARTRE,
Your "I remain SILENT on the subject," unto the BATR Forum, speaks volumes.
Privately and publicly, you had castigated Robert Momenteller for his decision to side not with his Board of Directors on the Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo-drive (which you, yourself, acknowledge was my idea, wholly, 100%), but also called onto the carpet Mr. Momenteller's acquiescence to 3 new EtherZone Forum Moderators of patently-neocon tilt; you have also had nothing but scorn for "SentryOverAmerica" in public and private correspondence, and it was "Sentry" who sabotaged (or sought to) EtherZone's Paul/Tancredo Endorsement (which, again, was my idea, wholly, and for which you and Alan Stang were selected to provide the 2/3rds commentary on matter, two Fridays ago).
As well, you remain SILENT on Bob Momenteller's lopping off of my "Jefferson's Torch: Ron Paul for President" article-link to W. James Antle's recent EtherZone article on the Paul/Tancredo bid (Bob Momenteller is attempting to rewrite history, here, by vanquishing my contribution as well as the entire idea of this drive).
That you choose to "remain SILENT" now is indicative of your wishing to remain in EtherZone's "good graces," no matter what Robert Momenteller wishes for the future of EtherZone.com.
Very sad, all the way around. Can't believe what I'm seeing occurring. "Orwellian" is about the only apropos term for it.
TBF