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From: muller@bunter.dg.com (Woody Muller)
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Subject: Brad Re-opens the JEDR Wars to Scrutiny
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In his article "Matt Crawford speaks out on RHF Editorial Policy,"
Brad dredges up pieces of the JEDR debates from his CYA file.  Since
he has elected to re-open the incident to public scrutiny, let us
follow his lead.

In many peoples' minds, the *real* JEDR issue was not the
ventriloquist joke itself, but instead was the utterly insensitive
contribution to the debate of the "Kill six million of them and the
rest lose their sense of humor" joke.  This was the TRUE reason for
the great JEDR wars being escalated to such great heights.

The fact is that while some amount of controversy goes with the
territory Brad has staked out, he himself tends to exascerbate
situations.  The huge amount of heartache and discontent which follow
him around, and to which he adds fuel, are why some of us want him to
go away.  He *creates* controversy.  He seems to thrive on it.

Perhaps he has saved the "6 million" posting in his CYA file
alongside Matt's contributions, and would share with us a re-posting
of that as well.  Had he never fueled the fire, there would have been
a lot less burnout on the net.

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      Woody Muller     919-248-5919(work)     919-544-6783(home)