] Herein is the sordid tale (posted last night to Dave
] Farber's "IP" list) of what recently happened to me --
] and my narrow escape -- when Viacom/MTV Networks came
] calling, asking for my help to educate the world's youth
] about important topics (in this case, the scourge of
] spam). Be warned. It could happen to you!"

This is entertaining. So, this morning I read Weinstein's post about getting duped by this comedy central show. Then I do some digging and find some comments from a few people who actually went on the show and got made fun of. (One ignorant right winger in particular felt the show was a left wing conspiracy. Sorry, dear, the asshatness seems to be multi-partisan. Weinstein is nearly as liberal as sane people get.) In any event, now this has made Slashdot. Not everyone reads Slashdot. Ali-G has proven that you can be a well known asshat and people still won't know who you are. Of course, the difference here is that Ali-G is actually funny and I think his victims see the humor in it in the end. This show seems to be pissing its victims off. And so the internet has outed the show. I wonder how long it will last before they can't get experts to mock anymore.

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