| Subject: Re: Barrett Clip |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 2/9/10, 13:15 |
| To: Rachel Trusheim <rachel@sterlingandross.com> |
Hey BB,We were fact-checking the ms and came across an uncited paragraph on page 8 that we found to be originally sourced material attributed to a blog written a guy named Gavin. Can you tell me what's up with this passage?Thanks,RLink:Rachel TrusheimExecutive Editor212.244.2084 ext. 111
Begin forwarded message:Date: February 9, 2010 12:16:41 PM ESTTo: "Rachel Trusheim" <rachel@sterlingandross.com>Subject: Barrett ClipHere's the clip, p.8:
The first great prophet of the 20th century was Herbert W. Armstrong, a former advertising copywriter who dispensed his dispensationalism by way of a radio program called World of Tomorrow, a monthly newsletter [D1] entitled Plain Truth, and the occasional booklet, and whose second career as a harbinger of doom spanned more than fifty years. Like most advertising copywriters of his time, Armstrong had nothing but contempt for the written form of the English language. In his popular 1956 pamphlet entitled 1975 in Prophecy!, Armstrong's jihad against subdued English communication begins on the title page and continues without pause; let the reader be warned that this is only the first of many inappropriate exclamation points used therein. More to the point, Armstrong here pioneers the art of modern eschatology and serves as a shining example for those who would come later, largely by being wrong.