-----Original Message----- From: William Pietri [mailto:william@scissor.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 01:51 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

Ray Saintonge wrote:

Agger's article as favorable to Brandt. I tend to read the phrase "interesting take" as meaning "this is fun ti read, but hard to believe." The fact that the one "exposed" feature that he references about Slim is the more extreme one that she is an MI-5 agent leaves me with the impression that he considers Brandt to be a conspiracy theorist.

I'd second that. He clearly suggests that Brandt is a nut. E.g., he introduces him with, "the conversation was a lot like discussing the grassy knoll circa 1966." And he refers to the SlimVirgin bit with, "enter further into Brandt's matrix," which I read as "I think this is wacko-land".

Of course, to me, this underlines John's point. He can't even bring up an article that calls Brandt a conspiracy theorist and mentions the SV-as-MI5 bit as obvious nuttery without getting accused of acting in bad faith.

William