blaming Clinton-(Terrance)

[John Lundy]

Dan's on to something and he doesn't even know it.  I think Doug is David 
Morris.  Let me explain.  I used to edit a newspaper once which had a 
really lame, softcock letters page.  To foment vigorous debate we came up 
with the idea of inventing two hostile correspondents, a left-leaning Irish 
Catholic called Hugh O'Byrne and a patrician old Tory called Geoffrey 
Smythe-King.  They tore into each other for months and it worked 
beautifully.  Within a fortnight hundreds of letters of support and 
denunciation of the pair of them came roaring in.  Circulation soared.  The 
only problem was this:  I'd deputed one of my reporters to craft both sets 
of letters.  He came to me one day, exhausted and in tears saying "I can't 
go on anymore.  The problem is, I like them both.  I see both their points 
of view.  And the horrible thing is that there's no avoiding that both of 
them are me!"  In true Australian journalistic tradition I took him out for 
a few beers and promised to fix it.  The next day I put an item on the 
letters page saying that because Messrs O'Byrne and Smythe-King were 
clearly rude, insensitive men unwilling to listen to anyone else they were 
banned from having any further correspondence published.  Their supporters 
wanted to hang me!  I was fielding abusive calls telling me that I was a 
fascist and a danger to the very freedom of the nation for months.  The 
real author never got over it.  His wife told me long after that he went 
from a man of entrenched, dogmatic black and white opinions to a simpering 
fence-sitter because it was impossible for him not to see two sides of 
every story.  Ultimately, I think as a direct result of all this, he 
embraced Buddhism.  I believe it helped.  My personal role in his turmoil 
is a burden of shame I will carry with me always.

Anyway, own up Doug/Dave.  The game is up.

John

On Thursday, 11 October 2001 09:09, Dan Jizzenberry 
[SMTP:pantychrist at hotmail.com] wrote:
> A question: am I now considered to be one of Doug's alter-egos? I haven't 
> been paying much attention to the P-list for a few days now, so I'm not 
sure
> if I heard right. Oh hell, who am I kidding--I might as well come clean. 
Yes
> folks, this Terrance fellow is absolutely correct: Dan Jizzenberry = Doug 
> Millison. Never mind the fact that I've, on occasion, refuted Doug's 
claims
> (see, for instance, a post or two from a few weeks back where I refuted 
his
> 'war = good for the economy' argument), and never mind the fact that on 
at
> least one occasion I have explained to this group that I, unlike Doug, am 
> NOT a pacifist but rather a pessimist who fears that this new war will
> destabilize much of the Islamic world, leading to more violence rather 
than
> less (I think Mr. Morris can back me up on this). Forget all this. It's
> spin. Nothing more. I, Doug Millison, was shrewd enough to make sure that 
at
> least one of my alter egos disagreed with me, thus ensuring that my
> beautifully executed ruse continue unnoticed amongst my colleagues. I, 
Doug
> Millison, think that at least one member of the p-list has gone insane. 
You
> know who you are. Seek help.
>
>
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