On 3/2/07, Rob Smith <nobs03(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brandt was the victim of a drive by smear aimed at
editors who inserted
properly sourced criticism to Brandt in another article. I kept silent for
1 year, but the situation never resolved itself. It only got worse.
Numerous innocents now have been caught in the crossfire in this dispute
between Brandt & Berlet that goes back to 1991.
Nobs, everything you say about this is not only insulting, but
completely factually inaccurate. Here is the article after Brandt and
I had finished working on it, and just before I deleted it because he
said he didn't want it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&oldid=25628592
It's clearly not a "drive-by smear," and if you knew anything about
my editing, you'd know that's an absurd thing to say. And it has
nothing whatsoever to do with Chip Berlet.
What happened then is that Brandt started talking about the deleted
article on blogs, and as a result a blogger turned up and re-created
it. Had Brandt kept quiet, the chances are it would have stayed
deleted.
'Nuff said, hopefully.
Sarah