Mission Accomplished!
When we started PutnamLIES.com 14 years ago to the day in 2009 it was to do one thing: Expose the lies that Mark Halburn was printing every day on his attack blog. The LIES in our title were his. The lies he wrote about Putnam County government officials. Good people like Scott Edwards, Joe Haynes, Steve Andes, Gary Walton and their families. The lies about West Virginia judges, elected officials, and representatives. The lies about the good people that work behind the counters of local businesses. The lies about anyone who dared to disagree with him.
There's an old saying, "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth".
And that's what Mark Halburn was doing on his fake news blog. Every single day.
The only side of the story getting told was his.
There was no one to answer his scurrilous charges or expose his abusive behavior.
Until we came along.
He didn't seem to like it very much.
He tried to shut us up too. He complained to anyplace where there was negative talk about him, Facebook, Twitter, Photobucket, Topix. He threatened to sue everyone, multiple times.
He tried to silence us, but he failed. Just as he failed at life.
But now he's gone. Dead as his fake news blog.
Once we started exposing his shenanigans, he started his long slide into utter irrelevance and and it finally did him in.
That's how you handle a bully. Come right back at him and give it to him twice as hard.
Shithead fucked with the bull, and he got the horns.
As a direct result of our reporting and his behavior, Halburn's wife divorced him and he lost his meal ticket, his place to live, and his son.
We forced him to change the name of PutnumLive.com because that blog and its name were so damaged, so poisoned, so associated with his harassing, bullying tactics, and irresponsible reporting that his readership tanked.
After more arrests, convictions and a court order forbidding him from seeing his son, he finally surrendered and fled the state in 2018 to leech off of his
PutnamLIES.com and the readers he imagined as a conspiracy aligned against him, who he called The Trash Bloggers Alliance, succeeded in running the fat fuck out of town and out of West Virginia.
The Trash Bloggers Alliance, Girl of Words, Tyler Hollywood, Lee Mays, Leonard Bernstein, Shawn, Tybois, Harry Stamper, Peachy, Jim Dolomite, the Crazed Cartooner, all our correspondents who contributed pictures, videos, emails and reports of his public assholery and our hundreds of thousands of readers can all take a well deserved bow. And a well deserved rest.
The real winners here though, are the people of Putnam County and West Virginia.
Our pledge has always been, "One Day Longer." We have fulfilled that promise.
We won, Halburn lost.
Good riddance, you fat piece of shit.
