Dear Mopo:
I wrote a big, long-winded reply to this, but decided not to post it
(needless to say, it didn't make Bruce look good). Despite what Bruce
seems to think, I don't wish him ill-will. Despite some iffy things,
I don't consider him one of the 'bad guys' (Lieberman either). So,
over the years, I've with-held some information that doesn't make him
look good. I have bigger fish to fry. But, if he keeps it up, I may
just post it anyways (he didn't listen to me the last time I gave him
this kind of warning, to his grave detriment)...
I shall simply point out my very last exchange with Bruce here on Mopo
(he must have forgotten how bad he looked). This is a quote from a
Mopo email (around 6pm on January 31st of this year, in case anyone
wants to check) of mine after Bruce had (falsely) accused me of
slander (what he actually meant was libel - which was a false
accusation as well, but I hesitated to point out his mistake, as I
didn't want to make him look too stupid):
"And, I've never, ever slandered anyone on the internet, not even Loce
(I took law in college, so I know how to frame criticisms). So,
before you accuse me (aren't false accusations slander?), why don't
you post my 'slanderous comments' here for everyone to see? That's
right, you won't..."
You will notice that Bruce disappeared after that and never posted
again in the thread. The so-called proof should have been easy to
find (it wasn't from over the course of years, almost a decade ago -
what he was referring to was recent and from one or two short threads
that would have been easy to track down). So, isn't it a bit
hypocritical of him to ask me for proof (that's not the least bit
feasible to track down and doesn't exist in the Mopo archives, on
archive.org or in google's cache) about my beliefs as to his opinion
about posters I don't care about from years and years ago, when he
refused to provide proof of his public accusations of criminal
activity against me?!?
If Dave has balls the size of small planetoids, Bruce must have balls
the size of whatever's causing dark-flow...
Cheers,
Bob
PS. I don't think Bruce ever sided with the minty whites per se, but
he sure did make fun of us for claiming that they were fakes. So, if
you make fun of someone for stating an opinion, that sure as hell
implies that you disagree with said opinion...
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Hershenson
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] E.T. BIKE POSTER - Can we clear up another
difference of opinion?
In thsi spirit of "clearing the air", I thought this would be a great
time for Bob Brooks to confirm or deny something he has posted
repeatedly, namely that I (Bruce Hershenson) at one time defended the
"minty white" inserts as genuine, and that it was only after Bob and
Dan exposed them as fakes that I changed my tune and denounced them.
I am not calling Mr. Brooks a liar, but I have no memory of the above
events happening, and I am wondering if it is possible that Mr. Brooks
is either mis-remembering the series of events, or perhaps confusing
me with some other person.
I ask him to produce the evidence of his repeated statements to the
above sequence of events (posts from forums, my e-mail club, private
e-mails, etc).
If he can, I will publically apologize to him for ever having doubted
him, and for ever saying these fake inserts were real. If he can't, I
don't care if he apologizes, but ask that never again post something
along these lines, since he would have no factual proof of what he said.
I know that I was first warned about these inserts long before Bob or
Dan ever posted about them, for I was privately contacted by two major
dealers who were offered them soon after they first appeared (were
printed), and who turned them down and who called me to warn me about
these fakes. According to Bob's memory of events, I would have had to
then go on and begin defending these after that time, which seems to
me to indicate a clear memory lapse on his part.
I am very much hoping to settle this, because I think there are
clear "bad guys" in this hobby (who repeatedly sell fakes as real) and
I think it hampers efforts to stop them or at least slow their
criminal behavior when some of the "good guys" fight amongst themselves.
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