For some reason, during the brouhaha in 2005 regarding Doug Wead’s taping of conversations with George W. Bush, a related story in a New Zealand newspaper caught my eye four years ago, and I blogged about it. And somehow, through the magic of Google, that blog post became highly ranked when you search on Doug Wead.
This post ranking is highly upsetting to Mr. Wead, who would like to control his image of himself very scrupulously. Somehow, I’m more important to him than that newspaper article or his Wikipedia entry, and it’s got him stuck. In fact, he’s just done another post about it, attributing to me quotes from the original article, such as the apparent error about him being a Baptist minister, and comparing his situation to the John Seigenthaler situation on Wikipedia.
If he wants to go edit the hell out of Wikipedia– and apparently he does— let him. As for me, well, y’know, I’ve got this anti-censorship thing, so I’m not going to take the article down outright, but I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and striking out the entire thing.
Onward.
Wow, he’s still coming after you, 4 years on. Talk about an idiot with a grudge.
I visited Wead’s post, and i’m afraid i was moved to make a lengthy comment – which is currently “awaiting moderation”
I’m making bets with myself as to whether it passes moderation the only negative comments i saw were from a single-issue poster who may be allowed in just so that (a) Wead can look fair and (b) his ditto-heads have something to pile on.
I loved the lengthy comment from a self-identified professor of psychology (and practicing therapist) that seems to project his own childhood experiences with bullying, resulting in a claim that Bad Old Glenn is bullying Poor Defenseless Wead…
lol. glenn. hopefully one day u will realize that you can never build urself up by tearing someone else down. god is mercyful. 🙂
I remember this speach titled “I give you this opportunity” which included references to how young (compared to other forms of government) democracy is, and that there was a realization that it may not last. Recent U S government actions give me concern that he may in fact be right. It seems that power over the masses is an is an inevitable struggle that the people must persist in resisting. I’m not religious, but I hope we are’nt relegated to a socialist society, I work hard for my meager existence and would like to keep as much of it as I earn.
There’s a new article by Doug Wead in Russia Today (http://www.rt.com) … I think it’s very derogatory (although it could pass as a parody I think it’s a political media strategy used by pundits like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to invent or politicize unlikely scenarios and rumors that are designed to undermine the presidency of Barack Obama.