Not Your Sweetie

? Controversy -Von Rex's last word

"Is that your contention, or not?"
Author Von Rex    
Author Info Member since Apr 24th 2002
683 posts
Date Sun May-25-03 04:20 AM
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In response to Reply #17


Don't ask the Pat Robertson style "Is it possible?" questions. State what you believe. Did these two "question mark campaigns" arise independently or not?

I say it's pretty clear that it was American Stranger's idea.
Point 1: You guys even acknowlege that on your site, now. I quote:
"How did QuestionW get started?
Originally from ideas by American Stranger, Bartcop, and Take Back the Media. Jeff Matson suggested using the ? as a meme, in a post at Democratic Underground Within 48 hours, forum participants had voted on a name, created graphics, contributed artwork, and nabbed domain names. ProTalion, the new Progressive Communications division of Talion.com created web pages and is publicizing Question W. Global Free Press is hosting the permanent site, which will soon be up at QuestionW.com The concept has been picked up by many weblogs, and has been covered by BuzzFlash and What Really Happened. "
Point 2: This isn't the first time your associates have tried to rip American Stranger off. A certain sleazebag named Sterling, of GlobalFreePress, who hosts your site, once bluntly asserted to Stranger that he was compiling all of Stranger's "?" videos on CD and selling it as a commercial venture. That idea got squashed, and it inspired the same childish reaction we saw this week. I'm not sure we need allies like this.
So you might want to consider these points before maintaining that your friends came up with their idea entirely independently. That is, unless you just want to ask me how serious I think the struggle against W is. That's a dodge whose arrogance and dishonesty rivals the GOP's famous "why do you hate America?" as the one-fit answer to all inconvenient questions.