Halburn Plagiarizes Carmichael Response

Fat bag of dicks literally steals from the Gazette. Again.

Once again, Mark Vance Halburn has blatantly plagiarized another newspaper article from the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
This time it is a response from Senate President Mitch Carmichael to an AFL-CIO authored op-ed that ran in the paper on  March 21st.

And in plagiarizing it from the Gazette, Halburn eliminated the context in the first paragraph because he had to conceal what Carmichael was writing in response to. He removed the hyperlink as well as the title of that story.

It's not like it was a general letter to the editor that Halburn could steal and then pass off that it was sent to his blog. It was a direct response to an op-ed that ran only in the Gazette.

There is no way in the world that the President of the West Virginia Senate would  send that article to him as a letter to the editor responding to an op-ed in the Gazette. What would be the point of that?

Halburn is a guy who has never missed an opportunity to bully, threaten, harass, and jam a camera in the face of a person who has the misfortune of representing the district where Halburn's fake blog is based. When it comes time to clear the air, that's certainly not going to be the first place Carmichael runs to get the message out.

Halburn ends the stolen article with a "Publisher's note" which reads in part, "The columnist’s expressed opinions and information provided are his own..."
They weren't provided, you dipshit. You stole them.

Halburn continues to demonstrate his lack of ethics and integrity by plagiarizing text and publishing it, and by lying to his “readers” by acting like it was sent to him as a letter. 

A practice like this is business at its absolute worst, practiced by an immoral charlatan masquerading as a journalist. Halburn will stoop to the lowest, most vulgar, vile, and disgusting ploys to deceive the honest, hard-working citizen. He is the lowest form of scum on the face of the earth.

Serial Plagiarist Back On The Loose

Halburn Plagiarizes Sunday Gazette Article

Once again PutnamLIES.com has uncovered another blatant theft of material by Mark Vance Halburn. This time it comes from the Sunday Gazette-Mail
Halburn's M.O. is to take text from an opinion article or news story and claim it's a letter sent by a reader.
In another demonstration of his desperation, he has resorted to his old practice of journalism: plagiarism and theft of intellectual property.



He has lifted word for word an article that ran on the Sunday Gazette-Mail's opinion page.



Halburn continues to demonstrate his lack of ethics and integrity by plagiarizing text and publishing it, and by lying to his "readers" by acting like it was sent to him as a letter. And then he tops it off with a little Facebook stalking, by swiping one of her profile pictures.

Strange that the article doesn't appear in any other media outlet anywhere.
There is no way in the world that a WVU student from Summersville would even know his third rate, fake news hate blog even existed, much less send that article to him as a letter to the editor.

It takes a thief.
Same old Halburn.
Fucking scumbag.

What's The News On The Street, Johnny?

Word on the street is that Halburn is getting donated can goods from a local food bank, and then taking them to the Nitro WalMart and throwing a fit until they give him a refund.

Guess that fake news blog isn't doing so well.

Stealing Material Once Again

Which Dunbar Blogger is stealing material again?

Halburn sometimes runs editorial cartoons on his little blog. (He used to have a subscription to a cartoon service but wasn't making enough money to renew it.)
He recently ran one drawn by Jim Morin of the Miami Herald and syndicated by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.

The problem?
He erased the artist's signature and the newspaper's name.
That's theft.
It's also nothing new for him.

The version he stole and altered is on the left. The original is on the right.

Looks like another job by the Crazed Cartooner.

Sleazy Funeral Home

Over the past few weeks, numerous stories have appeared in the media about Gatens-Harding Funeral Home filing almost $1 million in false insurance claims.

The one outlet where absolutely no mention has been made of the story? Halburn's fake news blog.

Why would a blog that claims to be a "news leader" ignore a story like this?
Two reasons.
1. Harding is an "advertiser" there.
2. Mark Halburn is an unethical piece of shit.

For someone who constantly demands ethical behavior from others, he is unwilling to hold himself to those same standards.

Grifter Shops With A Cop

Unethical Publisher Steals Gifts From Poor Kids

Winfield PD sponsors a Shop With A Cop program for needy kids. They take the kids to Walmart and let them shop for Christmas gifts for their family. Which is great.

What's not so great is that Halburn took his kid with him Saturday when he went there to write a story about it and then scammed them into including the boy in the gift buying, thereby knocking a truly needy boy or girl out of the fun.

And, the 400 lb blogger who constantly wants to lecture everyone about ethics, showed his lack of same by failing to report that his son was the beneficiary of Winfield PD's largesse.
Daddy gets MORE free stuff to make himself look good and gets junior used to the idea of getting something for nothing.

Halburn Outs Undercover Officer

Flabby Blabbermouth Publishes Name, Picture

Recently Halburn wrote a story on his attack blog about a Putnam County Deputy who was returning to the drug unit.

That story included the name and several photographs of the officer.

This is even after him bragging right here on PutnamLIES.com
on November 7, 2009,

"We don't report security plans-at the request of law enforcement. It's called not revealing the playbook to the bad guys. It's called responsible journalism.... We also don't report the names of undercover police or how many cops work certain shifts. And when some knucklehead sent me photos of the homes of Hurricane PD officers, we didn't publish them either."

If a guy is going back into an undercover drug unit, doesn't a news story kind of defeat the purpose?
Halburn might as well write, "Hey, dope dealers, here's a photo and story about this guy who's a cop."

Undercover officers don't want their picture in newspapers or online, even if they're not ID'd.
But no, here's this big feature story with a photo about this cop who's going to be sending guys from Detroit to jail. Good luck.

Way to endanger a police officer's life, Halburn.

This is just more of the irresponsible, unethical conduct that we have come to expect from PutnumLive.com and Mark Halburn.

PutnamLIES.com does not publish the names or photos of law enforcement officers that are working undercover in order to not jeopardize their lives.

We do practice responsible journalism.

Election Hijinks 2012

Halburn Runs More Fraudulent Ads
WV SOS Investigating

In Mark Halburn's world, the old saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is his philosophy.

And during the election season is where he really shows his underhanded colors.

Halburn began the election season by running ads on his cluttered hate blog, PutnumLive, from the same political hacks that he usually does. Joshua and Helen Martin, both Democrats, a mother-son tag team whose only apparent qualification to hold office is being related to a dead office holder, had their ads run on PutnumLive during the primaries, apparently at no cost. Their expenditure reports show that they only paid for an after election "thank you" ad. 

This time though, it looks like Mom and Junior both ponied up for their ads.

Jeff "Barbie" Eldridge only paid for a post election "thank you" ad. Josh Stowers actually did pay for his primary ads, so he's got that going for him. Neither of those two candidates' first general election expenditure forms show that they've paid for the ads Halburn is running now.

Now to this race's shenanigans.

Halburn is at the end of a very messy divorce, where he  has harangued the courts and every other branch of government for the past year. Any politician that disagrees with him is going to be "punished" by him running an ad for his opponent.

Halburn followed Governor Earl Ray Tomblin to the UMW Labor Day Picnic, where Tomblin blew him off and laughed at him, which enraged Halburn.

So he began by running a Bill Maloney for Governor ad, with a "Paid For By Supporters Of Bill Maloney" disclaimer. According to the WV Secretary of State, there is no such group.

A Maloney spokesperson tells PutnamLIES.com that they did not pay for the ad and it is not authorized to run on Halburn's blog.

Halburn attended the grand opening of the Putnam County Republican Headquarters and harassed one of the judicial candidates so much that the candidate finally left. 

He did the same thing when he attended a candidate forum in South Charleston with his buddies the child molester and the sleazy preacher. 

Halburn went and listened to everything they said and then tried to make the candidates promise to kick Putnam County Family Court Judge William Watkins off the bench if they were elected to the Supreme Court.

He has harassed the Supreme Court and its employees endlessly since his divorce proceedings began. Halburn was previously banned from the Supreme Court after a prior harassment incident.

Supreme Court candidate Allen Loughry's ad also appears on Halburn's blog. His is allegedly paid for by a group called "People for Accountability In The Courts."  Loughry's campaign confirms that they did not authorize or place the ad.

Supreme Court candidate Letitia Chafin's ad says it is paid for by "Supporters Of Court Transparency." Again, this ad is not authorized by her campaign.
We wonder though if that transparency includes mentioning her trophy husband Truman's federal indictments?

Neither of these two groups are registered with the West Virginia Secretary of  State's office as required by law.

Neither are authorized by either campaign.

Could it be that they are nothing more than something that Mark Halburn has made up? PutnamLIES.com says that is exactly the case.
A source tells PutnamLIES.com that the Secretary of State is now investigating this violation of election laws.

Some speculate that Halburn runs the ads as "contributions" without the candidates' knowledge. Or that he runs the ads and sends the campaign a bill which he then hopes they pay unwittingly.

Last year during the Gubernatorial primaries, PutnamLIES.com exposed the fact that Halburn illegally ran unpaid ads for both Natalie Tennant and Betty Ireland on his opinion blog. Those ads appeared without the consent and without payment by their respective campaigns.

And that it appears to be a long standing practice of his, running over several election cycles.

This is just the kind of sleazy, underhanded, biased reporting that Hallburn has become notorious for. People have come to expect this type of unethical coverage from Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com.

Any candidate that would run ads with Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com is not fit to hold office.

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The Facts Don't Lie

Hallburn Continues To Prevaricate In Election Ad Controversy

Where's The Proof?

The second set of primary
election financial statements are in, and as expected, neither PutnumLive nor Halburn's names appear on Natalie Tennant's or Betty Ireland's reports.

PutnamLIES.com exposed the fact that their political ads run by Halburn on his opinion blog appeared without the consent and without payment by their respective campaigns.
And that it appears to be a long standing practice of his, running over several election cycles.

And as always Halburn has a convoluted excuse why.

He claims to have PLENTY of documentation to cover himself. PLENTY! Signed agreements, income statements, EVERY penny is listed. EVERY penny!
He says.
He claims that if a candidate and/or supporter fails to declare a contribution to the SOS, that is on them.

He claims that some local candidates failed to report their purchase of ads.
His explanation is that supporters bought the ads and did not report the buy to a candidate. That's why the buy wasn't reported.

This, however, does not explain the fact that the Tennant ad specifically stated: "Paid For by the Elect Natalie Tennant Committee".
Now, in order for an ad to carry that disclaimer, it had to be placed by that committee, not a random supporter.

It also does not explain the fact that MULTIPLE campaigns did not report any expenditures at PutnumLive over the course of SEVERAL election cycles.

We can see if one candidate forgets to list such an insignificant ad buy like PutnumLive, but 2 in just 1 primary this year? And at least 3 other candidates in past elections? We were born at night, but not last night.
He then tried blaming unnamed out-of-state organizations for running the ads, saying because of that, the candidates can't possibly be aware of all of the advertisements run.

Hallburn says the Secretary of State knows that he WILL PROVE EVERYTHING that he says!
We say prove it to the reading public.
Show us the proof, fatboy. Either on your blog or send it to us and we'll print it, without alteration.

Provide the names of those who paid for the ads.

Then he claims that he has provided a document to the WVSOS office proving that they were paid for by supporters.

That's not good enough.
The public that you claim to serve has the right to know. The public that you claim to serve has the right to see whatever documents that you claim to have supplied to the secretary of state's office.
Show us the documents.

But we all know why you don't provide any proof. It doesn't exist. There's nothing to show.

You claim you did nothing wrong. Now prove it.

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The Facts Don't Lie

Hallburn Now Falsifying Poll Results

Changes Latest Poll's Yes Results To No



Whether it's because he's angry at his second wife for forcing him to move to West Virginia, his anger for not being able to sell her property at an exorbitant price, or the financial stress he places on his family due to his unwillingness to find a full time job, Hallburn will do anything to make it seem that people are not happy in Putnam County.

In another stinging rebuke of Halburn's inability to report anything honestly, PutnamLIES.com can reveal that he is lying about the poll results in his latest survey.

This snapshot of the poll results was taken at 9 AM on April 1st.

The picture doesn't lie, even when Halburn does. Here it is, for all to see, the posted image of the screen capture.

As you can see from the actual results, respondents think Putnam County's economy is doing just fine by a count of 75% to 25%.

However, Halburn apparently has some kind of psychopathic need to inflate the numbers and report the results as just the opposite. He claims that 90.5 percent of respondents to his poll say they need more jobs, shops, and restaurants. He reports that 9.5 percent said the economy was fine.

That's a big difference in the actual results that PutnamLIES.com saw on April 1st. Where he came up with his numbers is anyone's guess. Only the voices inside his head know for sure.

We know one thing though. Hallburn is willing to do or say anything if he thinks it will make his political enemies look bad or make him look good. He is an immoral charlatan masquerading as a journalist. He will stoop to the lowest, most vulgar, vile and disgusting ploys to deceive the honest, hard-working citizen. He is the lowest form of scum on the face of the earth.

We must disclose that his polls are non-scientific and are placed online for Halburn to mislead his 29 readers about issues in which he has a vested interest or an axe to grind.

The Facts Don't Lie

But Hallburn Does -
Election Chicanery Exposed



Last month Hallburn got busted once again. This time for running campaign ads without the candidates' permission.

He illegally ran unpaid ads for both Natalie Tennant and Betty Ireland's campaigns for the gubernatorial nomination.



PutnamEYES.com said that the truth would come out when the first primary campaign financial reports were released.
And it has.
The truth is that Halburn lied.
Again.
Neither Ireland nor Tennant's reports lists PutnumLive as an expenditure or an in-kind contribution.

The Tennant ad even had the "Paid For by the Elect Natalie Tennant Committee" disclaimer. Which, if it was not a paid ad, is a violation of election law.

Campaign reports must contain all expenses.
An advertiser cannot donate ads to a candidate unless a value is declared and the donation is accepted by the candidate.PutnamEYES.com's prediction came true when Halburn claimed that unnamed supporters of the candidates only paid for the ads through February 28th. He says he doesn't run free advertisements.
Another lie which PutnamEYES.com has disproved.
Even Halburn admitted that he runs free ads. He just can't remember all the lies he's told.

Funny though, when the Secretary of State's Election Fraud Division got involved, the ads disappeared.
Halburn's explanation doesn't hold water. No politician buys an ad for one month, 3 months before an election. Especially to reach Halburn's 29 readers.

Next, he claimed ads were paid for by candidate supporters who plan to run them again when they get funds. He says no one ordered them removed.

Neither of these campaigns are hurting for money. The fact is, neither campaign sees the need for blog advertising.

He claims that political ads run $300 a month. Which is another lie.
Expenditure reports show that they cost anywhere between 25-200 dollars a month, when he decides to charge for them at all.
Some candidates pay nothing. Reports show that Brady Paxton for example, paid zero despite his ad running there for at least a month.
A Dale Martin ad that appeared before the general election in November apparently ran for free as well. It does not appear in any of his expenditures.
Both ads contained the "paid for" disclaimer.

Here are the numbers for the 2010 election cycle:

Brady Paxton
No expenditures since 11/5/08

Dale Martin
5/24/10 - ad - $100

Cathy Larck
4/25/10 - monthly ad - $125
5/11/10 - monthly ad - $125
11/14/10 - monthly ad - $175

Justin Black
5/7/10 - Advertisement - $100

Marge Carpenter
3/31/2010 - Advertising - $200
4/25/10 - Advertising - $25
5/3/10 - Advertising - $200

Debra Girimont
6/13/09 - ad test - $150

Additionally, in the 2008 Supreme Court race, Halburn ran an ad for now Justice Menis Ketchum that didn't appear on Ketchum's expenditures. Again containing the "paid for" disclaimer.

The candidates for county offices, Debbie Phillips, W.D. Arthur, William Legg & Kathie Crouse, are not required to file reports , so we can't tell if any of those candidates actually paid for their ads.

So, the bottom line here is that Halburn ran the Ireland and Tennant ads completely unsanctioned, without any permission or compensation from the campaigns.

Illegal?
Probably.
Unethical?
Certainly.
Neither is new for Mark Hallburn.

The sad thing about this whole episode is that both candidates knew these ads were running there but took no steps to have them removed. If neither of these two women weren't willing to stand up to a bully like Halburn, how are they going to stand up for the people of West Virginia on the really tough issues that face our state?

ANY politician that advertises with PutnumLive.com is not fit to hold office.


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HALLBURN ORDERED TO REMOVE ADS!

Opinion Blog Caught In Another Lie

The Secretary Of State's office has ordered Hallburn to remove the Tennant & Ireland ads from his opinion blog immediately due to violation of election law.

Sources tell PutnamLIES.com that both campaigns were furious that Halburn used their ads without authorization.

PutnamLIES.com reported two weeks ago that he was running an unauthorized campaign ad for Republican gubernatorial candidate Betty Ireland about a week after he started running one for a Democrat candidate, Natalie Tennant.
Turns out BOTH of them were both unauthorized.

Halburn commented last week that the ads were endorsed by the candidates' campaigns. Again, not true.
He said they were paid for by the candidates' supporters who also supplied the logos for the ads.

Will he have an explanation?
Probably something like "They only paid for February", or some such shit. No candidate buys a two week ad. If you have proof, Hallburn, produce it. We'll run it here along with your explanation.

Won't happen.

Why not?

Because he's a pussy that doesn't have the guts to show his face here. He reads us all the time, but he's not man enough to try and defend himself here.
He knows he's been caught, but his mental illness does not allow him to admit that he's wrong.

The candidates and their supporters want NOTHING to do with Hallburn and his opinion blog. They are making a stand for ethical reporting and the large, growing audience of readers that LOVE PutnamLIES.com, which broke yet another daily readership record today!

Here at PutnamLIES.com we promise to continue to report the truth even if a pinhead from Putnam County whines and throws a fit every time we lift up the rug and expose what he has been up to. Trouble is, he was used to being able to do whatever he wanted without question. Now that PutnamLIES.com is here, we call him on his unethical behavior and immoral practices, even when he harasses our publisher, commenters and readers.

Readership and advertising support for Putnumlive.com continues to decline. Hallburn continues to embarrass himself.

We will have more as it develops.

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Ad Is Unauthorized

In his zeal to promote anyone else than one of his "enemies", an ad for Republican Gubernatorial candidate Betty Ireland appeared on Halburn's opinion blog Sunday.



The strange thing is that nobody from Ireland's campaign authorized its placement.


"This was an unauthorized ad placement"

Apparently the Ireland campaign doesn't have the guts to order him to remove it.
When will it go? We will see.

Halburn's hated nemesis Mark Sorsaia is also running for the Republican nomination. Which explains Hallburn's motivation to run the ad.


"PutnumLIVE is not a legitimate media source."

Subscribing to the old axiom, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," he took it upon himself to run the ad without anyone's permission.
At no charge.
Like all his other ads.
At no time did he contact anyone associated with her campaign.

Which begs the question, If he ran Ireland's ad without her permission, is there any question he is doing the same thing with Natalie Tennant's?

This is just the kind of sleazy, underhanded, biased reporting that Hallburn has become notorious for. People have come to expect this type of unethical coverage from PutnumLIVE.com.
Any candidate that would stoop so low as to run ads there is not fit to hold office.

Here He Blows Again!

Halburn's Stats A Sham

Halburn likes to brag about how many hits his cluttered advertising shopper gets. Over 40,000 in November. He says.
We say bullshit. He's a liar.

It's called click fraud.


We have a counter too!

Let us clarify exactly what that counter does.
It counts page hits not actual individuals. So if one person reads 20 pages, it counts them as 20 visitors. Or if a certain fatbody sits around and reloads a page 150 times, guess what? 150 visitors.
And his newest scam is to write a little intro to the article he links to so the reader is forced to go to another page to get the actual link. That way he increases his hit count for anything anyone wants to read.
Here's what the guy that "redesigned" Halburn's blog has to say about hit counters:

"Please, don’t fall for claims from website hosting companies that promise to bring hundreds or even thousands of potential customers to your website… if only you let them build and host it for you. These are false claims! Even if you see high traffic numbers on your hit-counter, it is very likely being done by fraudulent means.

The Facts about Hit Counters
Hit counters on websites can be set high and raised at anytime with very little effort. A brand new website can be shown as having 1 million hits with a 2 second code change. Website hit counters do not reflect unique visitors – they don’t even necessarily reflect ANY visitors at all.

Some Companies Pay People To Browse The Web
Why in the world would a company PAY someone to surf the web… unless they got something out of it? Recently, a large web hosting company was paying people directly to repeatedly visit websites they promised high hit rates! Meaning these were never potential customers to begin with, just paid visits who loaded your page, then moved on to another site they were paid to visit.

Server Software Can Fake Hits
However, hosting companies don’t have to pay anyone to surf web pages these days. There are many software programs that web hosting companies can run on their server to run up artificial hit rates when they promise a hit count they can’t really deliver.

One such program is “I-Faker”. It promises to send as many unique hits a day as their server can handle. Using PHP, it routes HTTP get requests through a massive list of anonymous proxy servers which can be defined by the company. The advertisement for this software says that even banner ads on the site get hits. It is not only a fake hit generator, but it can in conjunction with the Alexa tracker improve your Alexa rankings.

All the traffic sent by the fake traffic PHP script is unique and shows up as unique in your website and server stats."

Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

This is exactly what we're saying he's doing. Artificially inflating his stats to make his site more attractive to his so called advertisers.

So here's a little warning to those who may be thinking of advertising with this reprobate.
These numbers are completely unverified and he has no way to do so. He can make up a number and say that's how many people have visited.

BTW, we've had 9161576 visitors since we've started.

Related story: Hallburn's Readership Stats Disproven!

Putnam Tailgate Cancelled-Halburn Removes Date From Site Only After We Point It Out

Earlier this month, Putnam Country Commissioner Joe Haynes announced that due to Saturday's special primary election for the U.S. Senate and decreased participation in the event, this year's Putnam County family tailgate party on Courthouse Hill has been cancelled.
Even though Halburn knows about the fact, he refuse to take it off his site and inform his readers of the change.
Why would he do this?
The reason is obvious.
It's yet another childish effort by Halburn to make Commissioner Haynes look bad.
Halburn figures if a lot of people show up and there's no event, they'll be angry.

Well, they should be angry.
Not at Commissioner Haynes, but at Halburn for knowingly printing information that he knows to be false.
And maybe they should look in the mirror and be angry with themselves as well, for relying on a so-called "news" site that has a reputation for biased coverage, unethical behavior and a cavalier disregard for its readers and their valuable time.
Now, since PutnamLIES.com has published this article, look for Halburn to stop ignoring the cancellation and start criticizing Haynes for cancelling the event.

Setting The Record Straight

Way back in August PutnamEYES.com printed a story entitled My Bias is Showing...Again. In it we revealed that Halburn DELIBERATELY misrepresented that Debra Girimont, a candidate for the House of Delegates, was a sponsor of the Putnam County Tailgate Party when she was merely a participant.PutnamLIES.com knew at the time that Mrs Girimont was not at fault, she was yet another victim of the unscrupulous publisher of PutnumLive.com, Mark Halburn. He was merely using her appearance there as a means to further his own political agenda and satisfy a personal vendetta.

Now the time has come to set the record straight. PutnamLIES.com has obtained a letter which was sent to Halburn by Girimont.

"January 12, 2010

Dear Mark,
After reading your article on candidate filings I felt the necessity to contact you about the article.
Since I declined an interview with you on Monday evening 1/11/2010 the only statement that you should have put in quotes from me is that "I want a better West Virginia".
Your story was written as if you had conducted an interview with me. If you had noted that the quotes you printed were taken directly from my web site, I would not have a problem with what you printed.
I might also add that this is the second time that I have been misrepresented on your web site. The first time being when you printed that I was a sponsor of the Putnam Tailgate Party. When I asked for a printed retraction, you only deleted the statement from the article but did not make it clear to your readers that I never represented myself to you or anyone else as a sponsor of the Tailgate Party.
Therefore, I am asking that you clarify to your readers that what you printed was taken from my web site and not from an interview.
If you wish to ask and print legitimate questions about my campaign, I will accept your questions in writing only and my responses will be in written form.
Sincerely,
Debra Girimont
Candidate for the House of Delegates, 14^th District"

In August we called on Ms. Girimont to demand a correction. It has now become clear that she did just that. Unfortunately, Halburn did not cooperate with that request.
Over a week went by before Halburn quietly changed the wording, but he refused to acknowledge that Ms. Girimont never told him or anyone else that she was a sponsor and no retraction or clarification was ever printed.Then, last week Halburn asked for an interview with her and was turned down. He once again misrepresented the facts and printed quotes that made it appear that he had interviewed Ms. Girimont when he did not. He was forced to change those misleading words in the story.Now, due to these continued gross misrepresentations of the facts, Ms. Girimont will no longer respond to anything but written questions from Halburn and will only respond in kind.

This is one "People's Voice" letter you won't see printed in his Letters to the Publisher.

Ms Girimont, we applaud you for standing up to this bully. A public denunciation from you would have gone a lot farther with your would-be constituents however and demonstrated some leadership against this civic menace.

Had you come to us in the first place this could have been dealt with immediately.

Halburn, we condemn your biased, underhanded, unscrupulous, unethical behavior. These examples show just how low you will go to to make yourself appear to be a legitimate journalist.
Once again you have proven yourself to be the hack we all know you are.

MADD

Mothers Against Dumbass Douchebags


Not his mug shot...this time.

On Friday evening at 7:16 PM PutnamLIES.com received the following comment from a Suddenlink customer (173.81.176.86) in the Ravenswood WV/Syracuse-Racine OH address pool (which includes the Pt. Pleasant area as well.):

"Halburn was busted for aggravated DUI in Point Pleasant between 3 and 4 o'clock Friday. He blew a .193 on the breather. He just bonded out at magistrate court so no mug shot again. $5 grand was the bond (because of his prior problems) But he might get his trespassing bond pulled and go to jail in Charleston. Not even Kim Aaron can save his sorry ass for this one. He was on his way home from teaching social studies at Point Pleasant High School where he has worked since school started in September. Explain this one."

We can explain it. It's not true.
Everyone's heard the old saying, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Well, it was.
Let us make this absolutely clear and say it again: THIS IS NOT TRUE.

PutnamLIES.com immediately contacted Mason County Magistrate Gail Roush who was the magistrate on duty and she stated that he did not come before her. The Western Regional Jail had no record either.
He also never taught at Point Pleasant High School.

This was nothing more than a blatant fabrication, maliciously left in order to mislead PutnamLIES.com into printing a false story. Probably so some douchebag could try and sue us.
Well it didn't work, asshole.
One phone call was all it took. Welcome to the 21st century.
We have standards here.
You can thank us later for protecting your sleazy reputation, gordo.

Halburn Admits Defeat - PutnumLive endorses PutnamLIES.com, Girlofwords and Cryptic Bullshit!

Desperate Publisher Uses Competitors' Names
In Keywords

In a stunning piece of Putnam County news, I admit that I
have had my ass kicked.

Last week PutnamLIES.com once again called attention to my unethical
practice of keyword stuffing.

Well, I'm at it again.
Only this time I'm using their own words against them.
HA! I'm a FUCKING GENIUS.An unnamed commenter has tipped PutnamLIES.com to my
latest display of assholery.

Look at these now:

"keywords" content="Putnam County News, women, eleanor,
buffalo, scott depot,culloden, midway, bancroft, poca,
winfield, cryptic, hurricane, santa claus, girls, Putnam,
news, girl of words, County, West Virginia, sports,
information,children, animals, Freedom, America, Liberty,
sun, travel, magic mart, pepsi, coke, masters, uno,
teays valley, hurricane, nitro, applebees, dodge, dakota,
layoff, workers, mary kay, nascar, SPORTS, CLOTHES,
KROGER, Cars, sheriff,crime, seniors, flu, shots,
pneumonia, hospital, ford, ginos, tudors, chevy, food,
pizza, rain, dog, cat, weather, snow, hot, cold, sheetz,
walmart, walgreens, dollar tree, stampers, camc, game stop,
rent a center, radio shack, putnam lies, lee, mark, mays,
blogspot"
Maybe if I included "I"", "and", "the", "Halburn" and "Hallburn",
I'd get more hits as well.
Leonard Bernstein claims that using words like these won't
help.
What does he know anyway? I don't tell him how to conduct
his orchestra, he shouldn't tell me how to run my site.
By using the above keywords, I acknowledge that the
people turning on the light in my cockroach-like existence
are right,that I AM an unethical scumbag and a sniveling piece of shit
and by piggybacking my site on their successes, maybe I can
get some traffic to my pathetic reprint site.
Maybe if I spent a fifth of the time I waste whining like
an old grandmother in actually writing my own articles, I
wouldn't have to be a leech and spam keywords to try and
get search hits.

I hope that people don't start contacting my advertisers
and letting them know what a fuckstick I am.It's a good thing that nobody's put together a list.
I'd hate for a Glenn Beck type boycott to be started against
me and my sponsors.

I guess this proves that Girl of Words, PutnamEYES.com,
and Cryptic Bullshit were right all along.

PutnumLIVE.com is Putnam county's news loser.

UPDATE: Halburn is such a scumbag that after his 9:56 AM
visit to PutnamLIES.com, he changed his keywords and
added "Leonard Bernstein".
I guess he forgot about that one.
And he just keeps on adding to them. He really is
batshit crazy.

Down the Memory Hole

A few weeks ago, PutnamLIES.com called Halburn's hand on his unethical and disgusting practice of keyword stuffing to get traffic for his pathetic "news" site.
For those of you that may have missed them, let me reprint those keywords from articles on his site again:

keyword="sex, nude, porn, naked women, santa claus, girls, Putnam, news, County, West Virginia, sports, information, children, animals, Freedom, America, Liberty, sun, travel, pussy, cock, ass, tits, pepsi, coke, masters, uno, teays valley, hurricane, nitro, applebees, dodge, dakota, layoff, workers, mary kay, cigarettes, smokers, marlboro, winston, nascar, SPORTS, CLOTHES, KROGER, Cars, sheriff, crime, seniors, flu, shots, pneumonia, hospital, ford, ginos, tudors, chevy, food, pizza, rain, dog, cat, weather, snow, hot, cold"

(emphasis mine)

I kind of like the way that it goes from Santa Claus to girls to that string of
smut. Don't you?
Disturbing? You bet!
But Halburn doesn't care. Never has. Never will.

By the way, he'll be out and around Putnam County at school
events and festivals taking pictures of your underage
children.
Just sayin'.

He wasn't man enough to respond here even though he read the article numerous times. So now over at Cryptic Bullshit, Lee has called him out on it again. He posted some links to pages he said had those disgusting keywords.

Only this time Halburn thought he showed him.
Being the unethical scumbag that he is, he went to those pages and changed them at 8:13 AM on September 10.
And then he pointed out to him that there was nothing inappropriate there...NOW.

Josef Stalin would be proud.

On The Job

So I'm at work tonight on the 3-11 shift, screwing Comfort Suites out of a day's pay (it's NOT just for the benefits like I've been saying, my wife has benefits and a better job than I do, she's just tired of me not making any money when I play reporter so she made me get a real job), and I decide to jeopardize my employment AGAIN by getting on the internet and visiting the REAL Putnam County News Leader, PutnamLIES.com.
I've been warned by those pricks at The Summit Group about this previously. I just don't give a shit. Never have, never will. I've been fired from every other job I've ever had. You think this one is a big deal?
Fuck them. Do they think this is the only hotel in town?

I hadn't been at work for three hours when I started fucking off on the computer. Stopped by again around 9:30. I can't get enough of this site!!! Being a bellboy is hard work. Do they expect me to work without a break?
At least I'm only looking and not commenting. I'm too big of a pussy to do that here.

Wow, What a site PutnamLIES.com is. It's much better than PutnumLive.
Real news stories, not like that whining, self promoting shit on my site.

That "Health News" column really has me thinking. Maybe that's why I'm batshit crazy.
And the Crime News about the dog raper has got me all hot and bothered.
Great political insight and investigative reporting as well.
It's much more entertaining and informative than a page of other people's links.
I hope people don't send in more negative stuff about me though. God knows, there's enough of it out there.

Uh oh. Gotta go. The guy in 312 needs some ice and a pack of condoms.

UPDATE: After I put the condom on the guy in 312, I came back downstairs and got back on the computer until I left work.
Then after I got home, I left an incoherent anonymous comment on the 2 week old Overpriced Property post. They'll never guess who it was.