I lied.

I am so sorry, and there’s no excuse. It won’t happen again. I’ll shut up now.

asshole

Remove the “d” from the subject, and I suspect we’d have an accurate representation of both your posting history and your character.

I hope you get banned you pathetic piece of shit.

Link to Updike’s warning.

Honestly, what is wrong with you? I can’t begin to imagine what kind of person tries to use a tragedy like 9/11 to weasel out of their asshole statements on an internet message board. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be so completely without honor.

Others debated you when they could have put that effort to better use, like solving the mideast crisis or developing a cohesive exit strategy. So your lies helped aid and comfort the enemy, Updike. You’re a traitor. Your local FBI agency has been contacted.

Even then I gave him the benefit of the doubt, I should have been more dubious, great detective work from tomndebb.

Really, lying to defend a rotten point of view in an attempt to shut down others is even more rotten.

I apolgized, and I’ll apolgize again. I was wrong. Do you have to beat me up about it?

Why isn’t this banination? I can’t think of any more jerkish behavior than co-opting a tragedy for personal gain.

You’re getting off too easy, Updike. I’m not resentful that I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but I’ll do my best to avoid dealing with your stupid ass in the future. I feel like I shouldn’t be responding to this thread. But before I go, I do want to say that I consider you the lowest form of shit.

Shit. Beat up? LOL You didn’t even get suspended.

Go away also. You fucking dick.

There’s always tomorrow though. At least we can hope.

I’m sorry.

Wow. I honestly cannot think of anything that I have ever witnessed on these boards that comes close to being this vile and reprehensible. Updike, I almost wish your parents *had *died on 9/11. Couldn’t happen to a better person.

Not only are you monumentally stupid and a liar, you are a coward, chickenshit punk.

Yet.

Suspended, banned, the whole lot. Anyone so obviously lacking the basic skills to deal with other people on an adult level won’t be around long.

I just finished reading the other thread that precipitated this one. It seemed to me that Updike was cornered there, and used the myth of his parents’ death to enhance his credibility, which had already been totally shot to shit.

In other words, how does it feel to have to tell lies in order to survive?

What do you think this is, recess at preschool? You don’t get to avoid being seen as an honorless waste of carbon just because you admit you’re a liar. Hell, you only admitted you’re a liar after you got caught.

Let me tell you a little story. On 9/11 it was a beautiful day, the sky was pure blue without a single cloud in the sky. That’s part of why it was so easy to see, from the roof of my office building, the haze or smoke rising into the sky. And even though I was living on the north shore of Long Island, for days afterward, days, you couldn’t walk out your front door without that -smell-. I hope never to smell it, ever, again. Because, you see, it wasn’t simply the smell of things burning. It was the scent of a pyre, an abattoir. You knew that the dust in the city streets, the air you were breathing in when you walked around, part of it was made up of people who had burned to ash.

And you lied in order to turn that event into some fucking partisan points on an anonymous internet message board rather than simply admit you were being an asshole in your comments about some journalist who you hadn’t even heard of a year ago?

You’re lower than scum, and more worthless than even I’d thought. Here’s hoping you remove yourself from this board before the mods do it for you.

I’m really stupid, does that help?

I didn’t have a dog in the other fight. I kept out of that thread because 1) I’m not american, and have no interest in the american treason laws and 2) because I hadn’t even heard of this whole thing, and didn’t know shit from shinola.

But you’ve reached a new low, asshole.

I’ve seen you in threads before, espousing the ‘unpopular’ view. A lot of the time it seems like you’re just trying to rile people up. A shitty thing to do, but not worth bannination. But the outright lies you’ve now spewed when called on your asshole tactics? That’s beyond the pale.

The mods have seen fit to give you another chance. But perhaps you’d better take some time off on your own, and really consider your posting history and future on these boards. Take a holiday, don’t open the dope for a week or two. Consider if you’re really cut out to be here, if you feel the need to lie about something that a lot of people are still wounded by, just to score sympathy points after your argument went down the tube.

And just remember. You have now killed your own credibility for the rest of your posting life here. You will be forever remembered as the fuckhole who tried to use a national tragedy to win an argument that he was sorely losing. Think about that…