# What happened to Bricker?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249 "2018-08-25T09:51:59Z")
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### Author: ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bricker/820249/64 "2018-08-27T22:42:57Z")

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> [@Richard\_Parker](#):
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> …I wish this board had more like him. He’s not perfect. None of us are. But he has a number of sterling qualities–including a willingness to admit errors–which is more than most posters can claim.

He’s more prone to sidling away _without_ admitting to an error than he is to owning up to one, though.

For example, in an Elections folder thread on Trump’s revenge on John Brennan, he claimed this:

> [@Trump revokes security clearance of John Brennan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-revokes-security-clearance-of-john-brennan/819680/64):
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> … The bulk of people condemning Trump would be explaining how the Republicans simply want to see Obama fail, and that a security clearance cannot be used as a sword against the administration that grants it. And the same people now defending Trump would be apoplectic at the politicalization of clearances by Obama. …

[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21154492#post21154492](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21154492#post21154492)

I replied with a challenge to him:

> [@Trump revokes security clearance of John Brennan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-revokes-security-clearance-of-john-brennan/819680/87):
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> You appear, here, to be asserting that John Brennan has used his security clearance “as a sword against the administration that grants it.”
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> If that is what you are asserting, can you provide some examples of Brennan’s public utterances that could not have been made, if he had not had a security clearance? …

That was on 18 August (of this year); the thread’s last post at the moment is dated 22 August. Bricker did not return to the thread after the challenge, though he posted a couple of dozen times elsewhere on the board between the 18th and the 22nd.

It’s certainly not impossible that his sudden loss of interest in the topic had nothing to do with having been challenged.

> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> He sure is obsessed with liberal hypocrisy though, real or imagined.

Yep. He’s prone to going to indefensible lengths to ‘prove’ it exists, too.

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