Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The Worst Person In The World




Today's winner loser, is Mark Halburn, so called publisher of a cluttered internet advertising shopper in Putnam County. A news blog that is so desperate for original content that the publisher pleads for his readers to send him articles and pictures about their businesses, which he will then run.
Strangely enough, there are no takers. Apparently businesses will not even accept free advertising on his site. Either that or there's no one actually reading the site to take him up on the offer.
And then, if he can't get contributions, he steals them.

Halburn likes to brag about his multitudes of readers.
We never claimed that we draw more readers than him.
And you know what? We don't give a shit.

Does it kill you how little I care about Web site stats?
I do this because I like it. Not because I’m trying to prove something. Not because I need traffic. Not because I have some need to prove relevance to anybody. I have plenty of it on my own.
Sadly, sometime a couple of decades ago, America stopped worrying about the quality of things, and started being concerned only about how many of them were sold.
But you know what? 800 billion flies can’t be wrong.
But it is curious, isn’t it, that Halburn branded us a “trash blog” and yet instead of trying to refute even one of the things we’ve quoted him as saying or doing, he instead turned to bragging about how many "readers" he has. That’s probably because the only things we’ve “smeared” Halburn with were his own words.
To borrow a phrase—when you’re as guilty as he is, change the subject.
There's another old saying, If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.
And that, ladies and gentlemen is exactly what Mark Halburn does. He pounds the table.
Excessive noise, incompetent politicians, develop the neighborhood, cut me a check, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He latches on to one thing and beats it like a dead horse to the exclusion of everything else.
For all of this, PutnamLIES.com names Mark Halburn every day's "Worst Person in the World"!

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