On 5/31/07, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
The problem I have with litanies like the one that I quoted above from Mark Gallagher is that they dredge up old history mostly for the sake of rehearsing bitterness, and they usually do so in a tendentious way that selectively presents the facts in order to make WR look even worse than it is (such as saying that AMorrow was "welcomed with open arms" without mentioning that they banned him).
They did the right thing in the end, but they let him post quite a lot before banning him, when the posts were clearly and seriously problematic, especially when combined with what was known about him on Wikipedia. And he was posting links to his own website, which contained appalling material, so it wasn't as though they couldn't see what he was about.