Out-Of-State Publisher Prints Another Deceptive Story
The Mayor of Hurricane, Scott D. Edwards has been regularly harassed by Mark Halburn for years. However, PutnamLIES.com has confirmed that Halburn's latest story is completely deceptive and misleading.
Halburn, who likes to lecture others on ethics and "doing the right thing" does not ever "practice what he preaches."
Hallburn writes, "Our camera took these pictures of one of Mayor Edwards' Netranom Communications vans parked outside his Virginia Street office. As you can see by the closup (sic), the Chevrolet Astro Van was not purchased at Hurricane Chevrolet. Instead, it was purchased at Joe Holland Chevrolet, in South Charleston. That means the City of Hurricane did not benefit from the revenue generated by this sale."
So what? The last time we looked, this is still America where consumers have the freedom to shop wherever they want and buy whatever they want. Just because he is the Mayor doesn't obligate him to only buying from Hurricane merchants.
Joe Holland pays West Virginia taxes. Maybe the salesman lives in Hurricane. We don't know. And frankly, we don't care. He can spend his money how he wants.
Edwards replied to Halburn,
"What I do at Netranom is none of your business, but, since you have nothing better to do, I have purchased many vehicles from Joe Holland Chevrolet for both business and personal use and will continue to do so as we have established a wonderful business relationship over the years. You should consider establishing good relationships with people and businesses instead of being an absolute a$$ to everyone you meet."
Mayor Edwards obviously made a business decision to buy elsewhere from a dealer where he has had a long time sales relationship, rather than with a dealership in Hurricane. Maybe he got a better deal. We don't know.
That's just being a smart businessman, unlike Halburn who, despite being 50 years old, has never held a full-time job for more than a year and filed for bankruptcy in 2004.
Halburn didn't buy a car from a Hurricane dealership either. Fords, Chryslers and Chevrolets are apparently beneath him.
He didn't even buy an American car, choosing instead to buy a cheap Korean sub-compact from a dealership in Huntington..
You know what the worst thing is about his story?
It's not even news.
PutnamLIES.com called Mayor Edwards this afternoon and asked him one question: Was the van pictured purchased recently?
Mayor Edwards replied, "Oh no, definitely not purchased recently. I bought it at least 5 or 6 years ago – maybe longer. The Astro Van has been discontinued for a while now."
As a matter of fact the Astro Van hasn't been made since 2005.
Hallburn is once again deceiving his 29 readers by reporting something that happened over five years ago like it happened yesterday.
Which brings us to the picture.
Let's look at the metadata embedded into the picture.
See where it says Date/time original? That's when the picture was actually taken.
What's that say?
That's right.
March 14 2010.
He took this picture OVER TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO!
Halburn claims his readers were clamoring to know why Edwards bought the van in another county. We claim this is just more harassment by Halburn to satisfy his childish vendetta against Edwards.
Halburn, who is not a West Virginia resident and publishes his hate blog PutnumLive.com from South Carolina, has apparently run out of news releases to plagiarize. He is now reporting non-stories that happened years ago and doesn't bother to inform his readers of that fact. This is what passes for news on PutnumLive.com.
You may recall that Halburn's second ex-wife recently divorced him and threw him out of her house. He was forced to flee the state due to PutnamLIES.com's exposure of his actions.
UPDATE:
In a effort to deflect criticism for his deceptive reporting, Halburn is claiming PutnamLIES.com manipulated the metadata from his picture. We stand by our reporting. We have altered nothing. The information is embedded in the pictures on his site.
On April 26th, Halburn added a second van picture claiming it was taken "a few weeks ago". Yeah, if you consider December 4, 2011 a few weeks ago. Once again it's an old picture. This one's only a 4 month old picture of a 6 year old van. Nice try, Halburn.
Just another reason why Mark Hallburn and PutnumLive.com have ZERO credibility!
