There have been various happenings taking place over the last couple of weeks so I will deal with each separately but not in chronological order.
The antis were ecstatic over a new book on the case of the missing child, written by a Dutchman who, they were claiming, is a respected journalist who has written books on crime. This went on for a few days, people said they had ordered copies (I think €20, with additional postage, rather a steep price for a paperback) while those of a more skeptical turn of mind searched for this mysterious person. Lo and behold, no match could be found. Then, as excitement reached fever pitch, there appeared on a forum which had been over the moon re this 'book' a post by a Dutch person who also sounded less than enthusiastic. Then came the bombshell, a supposed telephone call from the writer to the Admin of this forum, Having read an unfavorable review - the list of factual errors was very long - this Invisible Dutchman announced the book was being withdrawn with immediate effect, thus confirming this was either 1) a hoax, 2) a sick joke, 3) you fill in the rest. Update: someone has posted that the book is back on sale.
Elsewhere, on a blog often referred to as a 'bog' - a typing error? - a bottle-blonde bimbo continues to post up boring monologues full of hyperbole, insinuations, bad grammar and syntax regurgitating her hatred for the parents of a missing child, a non-admin of a forum she was unceremoniously kicked off and anyone else she disagrees with/hates. In between this she is still sallivating like an adolescent groupie over a bearded nonentity who has just reached the top - I hope he remembers how hard the ground can feel when you fall off the flagpole!
Another aging blonde prances up to a house in the English countryside and demands the lady of the house answers her questions. This is the teaser for a 'documentary' which, if this is an example of what is to come, would be better made by a deaf and blind chimp. The sound is dire, the picture blurred and out of sync, and that's just the trailer so God knows what the main offering will be like. Having waited over a year for this magnum opus, I have the feeling that a lot of people are going to be less than happy with the final result; in fact, going by the comments so far from those who were waiting this with great anticipation, I think this is going to be the disaster of the decade. She also got lambasted after her stint on TV talking about child abuse when she let slip that she visited porn and paedo internet sites - as a research tool, we are given to understand. Going by some of the comments and also her association with some very dubious characters, one of whom is known for posting up salacious kiddie pics, I think her cred rating just hit zero or even lower.
There has been a flurry of excitement that involves a hater forum being contacted by a tabloid newspaper sports journalist offering to do an article on the missing child, stating he is a skeptic - looks like it is some kind of hacking scam; the journo in question denying the whole matter. However, since I wrote the earlier sentence, it has emerged that the jouno in question is on close talking terms with one anti who describes herself as 'McFabulous, a European living in the USA', and would be vouched for by another whose avatar is a Pink Bucket, and the whole thing came to light after the owner of the forum smelt a rat and she and her not-admin pal posted up in public the request they had received. Now Pink Bucket has battened down the hatches and become totally incommunicado as far as this subject is concerned. People are having a field day ridiculing yet another misfired anti stunt. I await further developments with keen anticipation - or maybe it will all fizzle out like a very damp squib as has happened so many times before.**
And finally, the result of the libel case of the century - SILENCE IS THE STERN REPLY! Reason, some idiot read the date wrong, so no verdict re the appeal.
ETA **Since I posted this up, the journalist's twitter account has ceased to exist - nothing like removing all of the evidence, is there?
ETA2 **Now McFabulous is hiding, calls it "protection".
The antis were ecstatic over a new book on the case of the missing child, written by a Dutchman who, they were claiming, is a respected journalist who has written books on crime. This went on for a few days, people said they had ordered copies (I think €20, with additional postage, rather a steep price for a paperback) while those of a more skeptical turn of mind searched for this mysterious person. Lo and behold, no match could be found. Then, as excitement reached fever pitch, there appeared on a forum which had been over the moon re this 'book' a post by a Dutch person who also sounded less than enthusiastic. Then came the bombshell, a supposed telephone call from the writer to the Admin of this forum, Having read an unfavorable review - the list of factual errors was very long - this Invisible Dutchman announced the book was being withdrawn with immediate effect, thus confirming this was either 1) a hoax, 2) a sick joke, 3) you fill in the rest. Update: someone has posted that the book is back on sale.
Elsewhere, on a blog often referred to as a 'bog' - a typing error? - a bottle-blonde bimbo continues to post up boring monologues full of hyperbole, insinuations, bad grammar and syntax regurgitating her hatred for the parents of a missing child, a non-admin of a forum she was unceremoniously kicked off and anyone else she disagrees with/hates. In between this she is still sallivating like an adolescent groupie over a bearded nonentity who has just reached the top - I hope he remembers how hard the ground can feel when you fall off the flagpole!
Another aging blonde prances up to a house in the English countryside and demands the lady of the house answers her questions. This is the teaser for a 'documentary' which, if this is an example of what is to come, would be better made by a deaf and blind chimp. The sound is dire, the picture blurred and out of sync, and that's just the trailer so God knows what the main offering will be like. Having waited over a year for this magnum opus, I have the feeling that a lot of people are going to be less than happy with the final result; in fact, going by the comments so far from those who were waiting this with great anticipation, I think this is going to be the disaster of the decade. She also got lambasted after her stint on TV talking about child abuse when she let slip that she visited porn and paedo internet sites - as a research tool, we are given to understand. Going by some of the comments and also her association with some very dubious characters, one of whom is known for posting up salacious kiddie pics, I think her cred rating just hit zero or even lower.
There has been a flurry of excitement that involves a hater forum being contacted by a tabloid newspaper sports journalist offering to do an article on the missing child, stating he is a skeptic - looks like it is some kind of hacking scam; the journo in question denying the whole matter. However, since I wrote the earlier sentence, it has emerged that the jouno in question is on close talking terms with one anti who describes herself as 'McFabulous, a European living in the USA', and would be vouched for by another whose avatar is a Pink Bucket, and the whole thing came to light after the owner of the forum smelt a rat and she and her not-admin pal posted up in public the request they had received. Now Pink Bucket has battened down the hatches and become totally incommunicado as far as this subject is concerned. People are having a field day ridiculing yet another misfired anti stunt. I await further developments with keen anticipation - or maybe it will all fizzle out like a very damp squib as has happened so many times before.**
And finally, the result of the libel case of the century - SILENCE IS THE STERN REPLY! Reason, some idiot read the date wrong, so no verdict re the appeal.
ETA **Since I posted this up, the journalist's twitter account has ceased to exist - nothing like removing all of the evidence, is there?
ETA2 **Now McFabulous is hiding, calls it "protection".
