| Subject: Re: From Barrett Brown |
| From: r.s.mccain@att.net |
| Date: 12/16/09, 13:54 |
| To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Thank you for the courtesy, sir. My first response was, "Jonathan Farley? Who is Jonathan Farley?" Then I looked it up and recognized him as the Vanderbilt University professor with the Che Guevara poster who waged a campaign to rename Confederate Memorial Hall, a controversy I reported about:
Shall I surmise the "otherwise engaged" as indicative of your belief that my reporting was not entirely objective? If I succeed in my fundraising drive to go to Pasadena to cover the BCS championship, do you suppose that I'll get the score wrong or misspell the players' names?
You are yourself an ax-grinder with a cause, Mr. Barrett. If your publisher wishes to provide you with the opportunity to advance that cause at my expense, that would be an interesting transaction, although I doubt it will prove very lucrative for either of you.
-------------- Original message from Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>: --------------
Sir-
In the open letter you wrote to me a while back, you mentioned that people rarely go to the trouble of contacting you before attacking you. As I just mentioned in a comment I left at your blog, I am including a chapter on you in
my upcoming book, which is set for an April release. If you would like to address any of the things that I or Johnson have written about you so far, you are free to do so, and any such explanations will be printed verbatim in that chapter, no matter what they may be (assuming it totals less than 2,000 words). You are even free to attack me if you wish. Let me know if this interests you.
In addition to the various items that have already been discussed by myself and others, the chapter will revolve largely around an incident that I have yet to mention publicly and which involves the article you composed in 2002 regarding Jonathan Farley, as well as the activities in which you were otherwise engaged at the time in which you wrote that particular piece.
Regards,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY