# Bricker fooled me for too long **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835 "2012-11-12T22:46:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/1 "2012-11-12T22:46:04Z")
Now, I know that Bricker pittings are pretty much a “oh is it that time of the year again?” sort of thing, but this isn’t so much a pitting of Bricker, as it is of myself, and everyone like me. That is, I suppose I’m saying that, I was a fool to ever think that Bricker was a rational, reasonable conservative. I don’t know why I looked up to him. I don’t know why I ever thought he was interesting. The straw that basically broke the camel’s back was his “look for the union label” thread. Now, he eventually apologized, admitted his mistake, and that was that. Ok, well… I had pretty much lost all respect for him but he gained some of it back with his admission. Then he has to come in and basically threadshit in the “Buchanan: “White America died” election night” thread, with the following gem: > [@Buchanan: "White America died" election night \[satire\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buchanan-white-america-died-election-night-satire/640746/34): > > Compare and contrast reaction to this thread and reaction to my thread about union crews being turned away in Sandy territory. And thus, the camel’s back has been broken. I know that Bricker is smarter than this. I know that in his heart he must realize that there is literally no comparison between the threads, but he urges us to make them anyway (knowing full well that no one is going to side with him). So, I just want to apologize for ever standing up for Bricker, and I want to congratulate every single one of you who have recognized Bricker for the partisan hack that he has always been. Sorry it took me so long to see it. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/2 "2012-11-12T23:04:56Z")
I guess it was important we know your feelings on this matter, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/3 "2012-11-12T23:08:10Z")
You just started a thread about whether or not he’s a special version of an asshole. He’s still fooling you. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/4 "2012-11-12T23:11:59Z")
Time heals all wounds. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/5 "2012-11-12T23:51:07Z")
I like **Briker** ’s threads. But then, I also like **Diamonds02** and **ZPG** ’s threads. Sometimes the crazy is just too fun to not like. I don’t agree with anything they post, so I usually don’t post to them…its just that the entertainment value is pretty high and I do love popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/6 "2012-11-12T23:52:58Z")
Did the thread title say “satire” from the beginning? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/7 "2012-11-13T00:00:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Did the thread title say “satire” from the beginning? No. I linked to a legitimate news station, which had a story that turned out to be false. I later realized it was false and apologized. BrainGlutton links to a parody site which has a story that’s also false. I was harshly criticized for not double-checking and finding other sources to confirm the story I posted. No one, as of the time I posted here, has criticized BG for failing to double-check and confirming his story. That seems unbalanced to me. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/8 "2012-11-13T00:08:51Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > No. > > I linked to a legitimate news station, which had a story that turned out to be false. > > I later realized it was false and apologized. > > BrainGlutton links to a parody site which has a story that’s also false. > > I was harshly criticized for not double-checking and finding other sources to confirm the story I posted. > > No one, as of the time I posted here, has criticized BG for failing to double-check and confirming his story. > > That seems unbalanced to me. A glib interpretation might be that **BG** is perceived to be something of a link mill, while you are held to a higher standard. Be proud. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/9 "2012-11-13T00:09:19Z")
Maybe people react to you with vitriol has something to do with the fact that you’re cartoon evil? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/10 "2012-11-13T00:23:05Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > No. > > I linked to a legitimate news station, which had a story that turned out to be false. > > I later realized it was false and apologized. > > BrainGlutton links to a parody site which has a story that’s also false. > > I was harshly criticized for not double-checking and finding other sources to confirm the story I posted. > > No one, as of the time I posted here, has criticized BG for failing to double-check and confirming his story. > > That seems unbalanced to me. I agree. For some reason, people seem to hold you to a higher standard. Me, I know you’re now about on par with **Brain Glutton**. To the OP, I felt as you did. Of course that was waaaaayyy back in 2004, I noticed that **Bricker’s** posting had taken a turn for the worse and [I started a thread about it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288231&highlight=bricker). Back then, he seemed to notice there might have been a problem too. That was almost 8 years ago and needless to say my warnings didn’t help and he continued down that partisan hack road that I had warned him about. Now has lost almost all the respect I had for him as a poster. I can understand how someone with a join date of 2011, however, will still give him the benefit of the doubt, but those of us who have been around longer know him for what he is. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/11 "2012-11-13T00:25:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Time heals all wounds. You never met Mary Lou Pratchett. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/12 "2012-11-13T00:36:52Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > A glib interpretation might be that **BG** is perceived to be something of a link mill, while you are held to a higher standard. Be proud. Well he does have the fancy SDSAB title under his name. Does that mean nothing in this day and age? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/13 "2012-11-13T01:04:03Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Well he does have the fancy SDSAB title under his name. Does that mean nothing in this day and age? It does indeed not mean nothing! I can’t remember exactly what it does mean, but nothing isn’t one of the options! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/14 "2012-11-13T01:07:34Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > A glib interpretation might be that **BG** is perceived to be something of a link mill, while you are held to a higher standard. Be proud. OK. Then let me ask you for your best guess. Imagine a link mill poster that leaned conservative – we’ve had them before, surely. How were they treated? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/15 "2012-11-13T01:09:23Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Time heals all wounds. And wounds all heels.😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/16 "2012-11-13T01:11:20Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > That seems unbalanced to me. There is a Fox News joke in here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/17 "2012-11-13T01:27:00Z")
Drew, what is your beef exactly? You don’t really spell it out in the OP. Also, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=671141) is a much better example of the phenomenon Bricker posted about in that thread. The OP of that thread did the exact same thing Bricker did, but that OP was anti-Romney, so the fair and balanced denizens of the SDMB said exactly nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/18 "2012-11-13T01:31:30Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Also, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=671141) is a much better example of the phenomenon Bricker posted about in that thread. The OP of that thread did the exact same thing Bricker did, but that OP was anti-Romney, so the fair and balanced denizens of the SDMB said exactly nothing. I have three daughters, and they often play the “but she did something bad too and you didn’t punish her” game. I find it as unconvincing from them as I do from you and **Bricker**. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/19 "2012-11-13T01:33:23Z")
Three daughters and a wife? What, you pee outside on a tree? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/20 "2012-11-13T01:33:41Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I have three daughters, and they often play the “but she did something bad too and you didn’t punish her” game. I find it as unconvincing from them as I do from you and **Bricker**. You are missing the point. One poster posts something anti-Obama, and it turns out to be bullshit. Other posters jump all over his ass. Another poster posts something anti-Romney, and it turns out to be bullshit. Other posters don’t say a damn thing. And yet, said posters maintain that they live in the fact-based world (unlike their opponents), and that they are all about the truth (unlike their opponents). You don’t think their behavior casts doubt on their claims? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835.md?page=2)