Subject: Re: McCain Chapter
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 12/31/09, 16:38
To: Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com>

Incidentally, I lived in Austin for about seven years on and off and interviewed Alex Jones back in 2004 or thereabouts for this wacky publication called After Dark which is the magazine accompaniment to that equally wacky radio show. I tried to get him to tell me whether or not he thought that David Icke, the 4th dimensional lizard fellow (on whom I'm doing another piece for an upcoming issue of Skeptic) was some sort of COINTELPRO-esque operative out to discredit the conspiracy movement. He seemed to think that this was so, but refused to answer outright for some reason I can't recall.

His cable access show was pretty popular among those of us who were perpetually stoned enough to be watching cable access programming. The interesting thing about Austin is that Jones was probably the least crazy of those with regular cable access programs; another fellow named Reverend Rick wore a toilet seat around his head, this being a visual aide to signify that John Lennon had caught intellectual syphilis at some point and thus fell into moral relativism. He also invariably referred to a local Planned Parenthood facility as "The Ooh-La-La Marilyn Monroe Abortion Clinic," was forever calling Dr. Laura a feminazi, and asserted on a number of occasions that more than 90 percent of Americans were Calvinist in 1776.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
Sure - send it over.

CJ




On Dec 31, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Barrett Brown wrote:

> Howdy-
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> I've got a hard deadline of January 2nd on the book, which will go straight to the printer thereafter, so will be finishing everything up over the next 36 hours. I'm going to send you the McCain chapter as soon as it's done; shouldn't be any more than four thousand words or so. Would you have time to read it perhaps tomorrow? I just wanted to make sure that it's totally accurate and up-to-date in terms of what we know and also that I don't leave out anything significant, and obviously you know the situation better than anyone else, plus of course you're to be discussed at some length and I want to make sure I get that right. Basically, I don't need any extensive notes or anything, just wanted you to read it real quickly and make sure I don't fuck anything up, because of course it'll be gone over with a fine-tooth comb when it comes out.
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> I've attached a couple of short academic articles on the subject of orality and media theory, which I'm writing about a bit in the book; thought you might find them interesting. The one on McLuhan was written by my uncle, incidentally.
> <McLuhanMarsh.pdf><Greek From Orality to Literacy.odt>