Calling the real Glynn Wilson
For quite some time now the Alabama online community has been regaled by a self proclaimed journalist named Glynn Wilson who runs the Locust Fork propaganda site. Glynn claims to be the most credentialed journalist in Alabama. Control your laughter.
I actually find him amusing because he is a total huckster who is unbelievably full of himself. I toy around with him every now and then, but the truth is that I enjoy having Glynn around. As a proponent of left wing causes I think Glynn does more to help out my side than I ever could.
Typically Glynn is content to berate anyone who comments on his site that dares to disagree with his bizarre conspiracy theories. That’s fine, it’s his site after all. Occasionally he ventures out to other blogs, typically so that he can boast about his own phony credentials, whine about anonymous commenters (even though he never uses his own name – ironic isn’t it), and try to direct traffic to his tinfoil hat site.
Lately things have escalated a bit, with someone – presumably Glynn – becoming considerably more hostile. Now I don’t have a problem with Glynn coming here and leaving a comment under his own name. He can say what he wants and I will respond in kind with all due respect. However, in the absence of conclusive proof that it is in fact Glynn leaving the comments I would be remiss to respond with comparable tenacity. The problem I see is that Glynn’s bullying style is rote. So much so that anyone could emulate it without much effort. What I don’t want to have happen is for an outside agitator (I’ve gotten a number of emails over the months from people who think Glynn is a hack) to stoke a flame war. That isn’t to say that I’m not 95% certain this is the real Glynn wrapped up in his own expansive ego, but you never know.
I’ve only had to ban one person from my site in over two years – and that was for a mixture of anti-semitic statements and personal attacks. I don’t want to ban Glynn, but I can’t allow this probable Glynn to continue in good conscience. I thought it was a bit of a joke when Daily Dixie added this policy just before Dan pulled down the site, but I think it may be a good idea. So, my new unofficial policy is that only the real Glynn Wilson can leave comments and only with verifiable contact info. Any and all comments from the real Glynn are welcome here. I would first like to see a concise list of his “credentials” that qualify as the most in the state.
Glynn sent me the following email:
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From:Glynn Wilson [fast2write@charter.net]
Subject:You are next
You are next, you reactionary redneck fuckup..
Found your site while researching the 1980s movie “Flashpoint” and decided to give you a view.
When I saw the post on Glynn Wilson I was given the best laugh of the day. Not so much by your writing style but through your use of keywords like “propaganda,” “huckster,” and my favorite, “credentials.”
I suppose that when you started blogging it never occurred to you that some bloggers are, in fact, former newspaper journalists. Many of us were on the cutting edge of the internet, like Glynn was. He began blogging before the word was coined. Where were you during this birth of one of the most powerful aspects of the Web?
I’ve seen his front page byline in the NYT. In your career, did you ever have a front page byline in any major newspapers?
There is a Glynn Wilson and I have known him for over a decade. When we first met him he was a practicing journalist and he has lasted far longer than I in the print media. His credentials are indeed real and for someone who doesn’t know Glynn to disbelieve in his reality you must believe Santa and the Easter Bunny exists.
Although I may not always agree with his politics I understand his methods; his use of metaphors, black humor and straightforward reportage. His opinions make one think about the bigger picture and his sense of humor is an acquired taste like a fine Cognac.
You need to lighten up, unbutton your tight shirt, drink a brew and take a closer look at the Internet. There are so many bloggers out there who portend to know the truth when they never bother to get other points of view or cover news events like Glynn does often.
The reply is authentic GW; he says what he feels about anyone wasting valuable bandwidth.
He is and he will continue exposing the corruption inherent in our system of government. You could be doing the same. As for expansive egos, man we all have them while we sit in the anonymous comfort of our homes or offices and post our opinions for dozens to millions to read, truthfully or not.
And now, back to my reading of the movie that led me here…
Nice try. The web statistics suggest you didn’t arrive at this site via a search engine or by any other means that might be associated with researching a movie from the 80s.
I’m not arguing that Glynn doesn’t havesome journalistic credentials. (I’m furthermore not arguing that I do.) However, he once boasted about being the most credentialed journalist in the state, which must have hurt his back to stretch that hard. As for being a huckster, I have two words: Jill Simpson.
I will say that it is striking how you and Glynn have such comparable word and phrase usage habits, although you were quite a bit less hostile. Probably just a one in a million coincidence…
Before you criticize check google under Flashpoint; I’m sure your legion of readers will be interested that your site is listed 6th and the 1984 movie is number 15.
Next time you call someone a liar on statistics be prepared to back them up.
I tried to make an intelligent reply to your original blog but I see that Glynn may have been right after all.
I’m aware of the Google order for that keyword search. All I’m saying is that when people use Google or another search engine to reach my site it shows up as the referrer. Your entry to the site did not include that. Is it infallible? No, which is why I used the word “suggests.”
BTW, what have you to say about Wilson’s claim to be the most credentialed journalist in Alabama? Do you agree? If so, please provide some supporting material so that the 99.9% of people who read this that do not believe his claim can become convinced.
Ninety-nine percent of 9 is what again?
First of all, Brian the redneck Auburn engineer who is obviously just trying to get some traffic by defaming my name, I don’t have to answer to you. You are in no position to act as a peer reviewer to ANY journalist in Alabama. You have NO credentials for that.
But you are entitled to put out your biased opinions and people can judge your site vs. mine or any other to see if there is any value in it.
Secomd, my credentials are on my site, linked above, and so people, including you, could go there and read all about them. I don’t hide like most of your GOP Red Bull drinking buddies who like to stir it up over on that favorite anonymous blog where you like to lie and cheat for reasons only you can know. Is it kicks? Or are you trying to get hired by be a paid member of Karl Rove’s right-wing attack machine?
But just this once, in the interest of attempting to educate you, here’s my answer to your question, which implies a real love for conservative, corporate local reporting – as opposed to national reporting.
Do you know of any reporter, editor or publisher in this state who holds three college and university degrees in journalism and mass communications? Not to mention all but the final dissertation defense on a fourth? That would have been a terminal degree, as we call it in the academic trade, but after 9/11, I decided I did not want to spend the rest of my life as a neutered research academic, spending my time grading papers from pupils like you.
Do you know any reporter or editor working for any newspaper in Alabama who has real national reporting experience? You know, the national desk of the New York Times, front page byline news features in the Christian Science Monitor out of Boston with national circulation, not just in one town in Alabama. I also have DC experience, where I covered the Abu Ghraib story for Time magazine and published articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (another Newhouse rag, but with more circulation than any of the one’s here in Alabama).
Do you know of any editor or reporter working for an Alabama newspaper who has experience reporting and writing for a much larger paper in a much larger state? While I will also criticism the Dallas Morning News from time to time as a credentialed media critic, according to Editor and Publisher it is one of the top 10 circulation newspapers in the U.S. No Alabama newspaper makes that list. Sorry.
In addition, I have been a member of the professional networking site LinkedIn for a number of years, and anyone can click on my name and read all about it on my site.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/glynnwilson
In addition to that, I have an academic style resume available on my site, which doesn’t include the research section I would post on a curriculum vitae if I were applying for academic jobs, which I am not. I like Web publishing. And I am the only Web publisher in Alabama actually making money at it.
http://www.locustfork.net/resume.html
There is also a bio page with many clips of my work that you could read until your heart’s desire was satisfied, if you were the type of person who was interested in reading something of note and finding out the truth.
http://www.locustfork.net/bio.html
One final note: I taught for nine years, but free-lanced as a writer the whole time, and for the past 12 years or so, I have been involved in Web publishing, including THE first magazine online, The Southerner.
Now if you can point to one other journalist in Alabama who has that much academic experience, national reporting experience and Web publishing experience, I would like to meet this person. Heck I might even hire them…
I’m afraid your friend GOP Girl Susan “Flip” Fillipi doesn’t qualify…
One final note on the reason I go so aggressively after George W. Bush on my site. It is not because he is a Republican. It is because he is a fuck up, maybe sort of like you, which is maybe why you like him so much, who never read the books in his college days. He has trashed this country and I am working to try to restore it. Now, you can continue to be a “reactionary,” which is what you openly call yourself, or you can join the revolution to help bring back Democracy to American shores.
By trying to tear me down, you are not doing your state your your country any favors. Which is why I do not read your site. You offer absolutely nothing in the way of good information to try and help the good people of Alabama understand what is going on. You just trash the people who are trying to get good information out.
Now, does that answer your question and satisfy you? I doubt it.
You are like Rove, who is a big fan of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, leader of the NSDAP’s propaganda unit, later the minister in charge of Nazi Propaganda and Hitler’s successor as the Chancellor.
Is that what you want? Are you the chief blogger to bring back the Third Riech? White Power? That’s what you look like to me, which Is why you are banned from commenting on my site. Good day.
Go to his site where he has an extensive profile on his career. There is nothing more to say on the subject; do your own research.
i love that email Brian, wonder if they learned glynn to speak like that when he got them there fancy degrees? Glynn, you are not important. You sole purpose is to feel important. It woudn’t surprise me if half of the commenters on your site were you pretending to post under assumed names, just to show some activity. It is pathetic that you venture out of your tinfoil encrusted house to even try and belittle others. Sure, people call you and shuler crazy, they wouldn’t if your weren’t. The only point i will give you is that i know your story about your mother, and anyone who comments on that is out of line. otherwise, you are fair game as you make others fair game when you slither out of locust fork into other areas. your ideas are assinine and anyone who wants to point that out can do so freely, not on your site mind you becuase you “block them” ooooh. You are sad, and so is roger.
Not to really defend any real pure blogger….but how exactly would a Bama blogger really gain any credentials? Ifing this involves paying some deputy from Gadsden or attending some class at Athens State College….I’m doomed. I’m thinking alot of you guys are taking this blogging way too serious…which the Locust Fork might be…but then he’s apparently not alone. I’m personally waiting the Bama AG decision to either tax the heck out of blogging or put bloggers in the same category as sexual toys.
Thanks for stopping by Glynn.
For such a big time credentialed journalist you sure are loose with the facts.
For starters, I am not “Reactionary.” He is a whole different person who also writes posts here from time to time. That is plainly obvious from reading the “Authors” section of the site.
Also, like I said before, I don’t even know this GOP Girl you obsess over. I searched and she did leave a comment here once. So have hundreds of other people – do I know all of them? I’m sure in your conspiracy theory mind everyone who doesn’t agree with you is aligned against you in a massive, coordinated scheme, but the real world is a bit less exciting.
Thanks for showing another sterling example of Godwin’s Law being fulfilled.
I couldn’t find a copy of your Aub Ghraib article (I don’t subscribe to any fancy, premium archive services, though). Would you mind sharing it with us?
“…favorite anonymous blog…” – Which blog are you referring to?
“…where you like to lie and cheat…” – Please, do provide specifics.
Also, I found this quote that was attributed to you:
“Watched the C-SPAN version this weekend. Interesting. Raise hell. But I’m afraid the mainstream just can’t handle a conspiracy theory of this magnitude. They are right that the New York Times is in on it, though, but not exactly like they think. The Times is now irrelevant, even though the TV talking heads still quote it from time to time. Anything to gain more traction in public opinion against Bush and co. is good, though. They have to be taken down. But there are plenty of high crimes and misdemeanors to go around, without having to prove that rogue intel wings were in on training the 9/11 hijackers. I’ve already reported part of this story, the part about the CIA and FBI being connected to the hijackers through the drug trade in Central America and Florida. But it’s just not a story frame that can be sustained. If true, America is over an done for. It may be anyway, but those with real money and power will find a way to prop it up…”
-Professor Glynn Wilson, University of Tennessee
Is that true? Do you really think 9/11 was some kind of an inside job? Did they misrepresent your credentials or did you mislead them, since you were never more than a GTA at UT according to your resume?
Let’s talk about shades of truth. You state on your own site and elsewhere that you were the “New Orleans bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News.” We both know that to be false. When confronted directly about this claim you backtracked and said that you were merely the free lance reporter for the DMN out of New Orleans. You even admitted that they didn’t even have a bureau in NO, but claimed that you ran your free-lance operation like a bureau. So let’s see the shades of truth. You claimed to be the bureau chief. False. Implicit in that claim is that you worked in the NO bureau. False, there wasn’t even a bureau! You were just a free-lance reporter there, but it sure sounds more impressive to call it a bureau. And since it was a pretend bureau typically composed of one person then that made you the de facto pretend bureau chief.
You said in a comment here that you were a “former New York Times reporter.” Were you ever actually a NY Times employee, as a reasonable person would infer from your claim, or did you just contribute as a free lancer like so many other aspiring journalists?
You have worked a lot of jobs. Have trouble holding on to any for an extended period of time? Could it have anything to do with your warm demeanor and objective reporting. I’m guessing they were looking for real jerks to push a right wing agenda and you are too principled for doing that.
And going way back to the whole most credentialed journalist claim you once made. I don’t doubt that you’ve taken quite a few journalism classes. Congratulations. But in the real world your achievements are not measured solely by your academic record. Warren Buffett doesn’t have the academic bona fides that many other financiers can claim, but you stack him up against almost anyone and I would bet that he is regarded as the most credentialed. I don’t pretend to know the academic record, award history, etc. for journalists at Alabama based publications or national journalists who happen to call Alabama home. I do know that when you made the claim there was a beaming example of one person who easily has more credentials than you: Pulitzer Prize winner Brett Blackledge. As you know Blackledge has since moved on from the B’ham News to the AP in Washington – and not as some back bench free-lancer. While here Blackledge reported on actual corruption, not just wild conspiracy theories.
At least we have one thing in common, Glynn. We both prefer Yuengling.
glynn, read your comment again and “linkedin” isn’t prestigious, our receptionist is a member. i mean, she’s great at what she does but just graduated from college. i’m sure you’re real proud of that but probably wouldn’t put it up there on my credentials page.
Even for that it simply cannot be good as there are no controls whatever on what one writes about oneself on Linked-In. The lies one sees people posting about themselves – from work experience to job titles – is astounding.
I’m on a mission to discredit Glynn Wilson and so far I’ve struck gold.. First off he has no records at Loyola and I sent this from Glynn’s resume to an insider at UPI:
“1995-1996
Regional correspondent for the Washington Bureau of United Press International (UPI), Science and Technology desk. Also published an investigative story on the homeless problem in the Union-Recorder, the smallest circulation Knight-Ridder newspaper in Milledgville, Ga., and a Sunday book review in the Macon Telegraph on David Burnham’s latest book”
They have no record of him at all.
As well as this from his resume was found to be completely fabricated with no record of him at any of these publications:
“2000-2004
New Orleans correspondent, The Dallas Morning News; Southern regional correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor; contributing free-lance reporter for The New York Times, national desk; contributing writer for Gambit, the alternative weekly in New Orleans; stringer for UPI and The Doctor’s Guide to the Internet.”
And I’ve just started my dig into this guys career..
Now, do you think that if this guy has this kind of resume, he would be what seems to be a complete website hack. I have sources all over the state from the BBJ, B’ham News, Biz Al., as well as close friends at Ebsco and they tell me this guy is a complete fraud. If he had half of the resume he claims they would all be all over him. But, they know him and all said the same thing..he’s a fabrication of his own mind. It’s one thing to beef up your resume, but what he did was completely lie and hope nobody has the connections to catch him at it.. Well, no such luck, Glynn my boy.
By the way…Simon Singleton…is Glynn Wilson. Wilson is one of the most narcissistic, borderline sociopaths many of us have ever seen. He has a superiority complex and thinks everyone who dares question him in an idiot and beneath him.
The man has a huge problem and probably needs some kind of psychiatric help. But, he is a fascinating figure to watch, much like an animal in a cage.
I thought I would be the bigger person (it’s not hard with Glynn) and I commented on a picture he took and posted on his blog. I told him I thought it was a beautiful picture (which I do). He deleted my comment.
I left another comment: “You really are petty if you delete compliments from people you disagree with politically.”
He then sent me three consecutive emails:
1) It’s not THAT we disagree, it’s that you are not even mildly an interesting asshole.
Call it what you want. You are banned from commenting on my site.
2) And I’ve published many comments from people who disagree with me politically. Saying otherwise is demonstrably false.
3) And you have now been reported as a spammer to the investigators putting spammers everywhere in jail…
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That last one is funny as hell.
Where was Glynn Wilson on Langford? ..By the way I heard Wilson was [unsubstantiated allegation edited by administrator]..
As far as I know there is no reason to believe that Wilson has engaged in any criminal activity. He’s just a blustery, self aggrandizing, unemployable journalist.
It looks like Wilson is a tax cheat and refuses to pay taxes or file tax returns
He just announced on his blog that the IRS confiscated his blog ad revenues.
Of course, Wilson does what he always does, he aggrandizes himself and wraps a conspiracy theory around himself that he is being singled out by the “Bush IRS” and that his actions are some form of protest.
Balderdash!!!
What a pathethic pathological loser!
In defense of Wilson, I think the seemingly spurious rumor should be removed unless it has some evidence behind it. That’s uncalled for and diminishes your site. The sentence (not the reply) should be blanked out until proven true.
You don’t need to make stuff up to show how pathetic Wilson is. He puts his “journalism” (nothing but innuendo, smear, and his own delusions) on display for the whole world at:
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/02/pirate-news-finds-5-million-email.html
Most entertaining is the “long” version: that shows Wilson and his secret “brokeback journalism” wacko sidekick from Tenn trying to go straight and hit on two girls and impress them with their “journalism.” Watch the girl’s body language, it says it all!!!
Very funny. Very sad.
Good point hulaguy. I will edit the original comment and references to it. rather than just dismiss the suggestion.
Glynn is a joke – and not a funny one. I actually feel sad for people like him in a way.
Watched parts of the video. That guy is pitiful. Just pitiful. I’m sure those two poor young ladies thought he was deranged.
Also, I read his post about cheating on his taxes. First he says, quite boastfully, “I decided to take the same position and refuse to file tax returns until the United States got out of Iraq and came clean on all the corruptions of the Bush years.” Sounds like quite a principled, albeit silly, stand.
Then he laments, “But we are still there, and we are stuck in a never-ending debate on whether Bush administration officials should be held accountable for this illegal war and their actions waging it, including torture of detainees without due process and illegally spying on ‘U.S. persons.’” In other words his criteria for resuming compliance with the IRS have not been met.
Then comes the black helicopter stuff…
That is what happens when you don’t tell the IRS anything about your income, but they know you have money coming in.
That is the most believable thing I’ve ever read on his website.
And finally the cowardice of Wilson emerges…
Even though we remain in Iraq and there are no investigations of alleged Bush crimes he has surrendered. He was principled, standing up to a repressive government – until that government smacked him for breaking the law. So much for civil disobedience! Thoreau would be ashamed.
I’ll give him credit. He’s smarter than his cohort who refused to pay court ordered fines and ultimately lost his house and then his job for obsessively blogging about his plight at work.
What entertainment…
But I think you are, perhaps, missing the bigger picture of Wilson’s deceit in this matter and how it defines his operating style (if you could be so loose as describe anything Wilson does as “style”).
What Wilson does is take a perfectly normal situation (i.e., you don’t pay your taxes or file your tax returns and the IRS comes after you) and then calls that an act that is part of a conspiracy by the “Bush IRS” to extract “political vengeance” and “political retribution.”
Related to a spurious and dismissed claim filed by Wilson, a publishing group’s lawyers put together a damning collection of records on Mr. Wilson several years ago, I was able to see parts of it that expose that related to Wilson’s activities in the Birmingham /Atlanta area. Wilson has a long history of changing his blog AFTER events occur to make himself look “smart” and of plagiarism, intellectual property theft, etc. Wilson has also removed remarks claiming 9/11 was deserved, and/or that plans did not hit the twin towers, etc). Add to that a history of bad checks (call the DA in any county in Alabama where Wilson has ever lived or worked and you will find records on Wilson), a long list of teacher/student, employer-employee, and personal disputes, and a long demonstrated tendency by Wilson to self-aggrandize (i.e., lie and twist the truth) and act delusional (every mundane action, dispute, problem must somehow be related upward to a larger conspiracy ) and it isn’t a pretty picture. It certainly isn’t he picture of someone one trusts to do objective journalism or provide real insight on the world.
What Wilson’s own actions show is a hubris and arrogance about his experience and abilities that is unfounded and unshared by serious people. In the end, Wilson is just a poster child of a pathetic loser blogger, an unmarried 50+ guy living in his mother’s basement, posting pictures of himself, aggrandizing his past “experience,” and getting the world upon which he comments through the very media he despises (he despises it because legitimate media now considers Wilson unemployable).
Let’s examine some of Wilson claims (There are so many false Wilson claims, but I have chosen just five that relate to the current situation)
(1) Wilson claims to “cover the world.” He constantly likens himself to Hunter S. Thompson. he considers himself to be , in his own words, a “savior to the world.” But other than a brief trip to Cuba, he has zero foreign experience and has not traveled outside the U.S. (not extensively within the U.S.) nor speaks any foreign languages. He is a lot like Bush in that regard. He wants to pontificate and assume a smugness about world affairs of which he knows little. Wilson really has very little original insight to offer any discussion.
(2) Wilson claims to be “brilliant and with academic credentials out the wadzoo” However, by his own admission made average grades in school, (had trouble with teachers, blaming them for his problems); failed to complete his Ph.D. program in journalism (not exactly rocket science as we can rightly say around here) and was never able to hold either a TA or instructor’s position. He NEVER held the title Professor. The lawyers had quite a list of credentials and other things Wilson claimed. Wilson will tweak someone’s nose one day and that evidence will get out on the web. I’m pretty sure about that.
(3) Wilson claims to have “the most established and trusted online site in Alabama.” This is a joke. He has the same six to eight wacko followers. By his own admission he makes so little from his site that he does not have to FILE taxes.
Wackos like Wilson used to be limited to standing on street corners and handing out handwritten manifestos but now he claims to be an “alternative press.” But Wilson adheres to no standards and so he gives everyone trying to be an online journalist and really develop a vibrant and trusted online press a very bad name. Wilson is just a typical demented delusional blogger gone wild. Now, there are many fine blogs and sites out there that are in development or that don’t get a lot of traffic OR make a lot of money. Wilson has no shame there. But what is shameful is his constant self-promotion that denigrates others and makes wild claims to legitimacy that tarnishes real and substantial dialogue
(4) Remember the days when Wilson claimed to have been the “New Orleans Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News.” Now he more properly states, “In late 2003, while I was free-lancing for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Dallas Morning News and other news outlets out of New Orleans…” Okay that IS better and more accurate, but it still shows some Wilson pathology. One freelances. Period. It would be proper for Wilson to say, “I was a freelancer who had work appear in paper x, y, z.” And while that would be plenty good enough for most people, (Wilson should be rightly proud to have made contributions to these excellent newspapers) Wilson has to draw the relationship closer. In truth he WAS a stringer. For a period of time, editors at those papers had Wilson’s name and numbers on file and asked him to help cover stories in and around New Orleans, Birmingham and other places. But Wilson then aggrandizes this to make himself a “Bureau Chief.” What an absurdity. The more powerful truth is that after giving Wilson a try over the years NONE of these papers would now touch him because they know how unprofessional he is with his journalism. But then, that is all part of the “conspiracy” in Wilson’s troubled mind.
(5) Wilson claims his failure to pay taxes and file tax returns is part of an act of civil disobedience. Once again, Wilson takes the mundane — a dispute over a few hundred dollars back in 2003 — and aggrandizes it to the level of Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience an “act of resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.” I called one of the lawyers who has a copy of all of Wilson’s work. And Wilson did publish a Thoreau/Civil Disobedience citing column in 2003 about his dispute with the IRS over $100. But then there is basically nothing for five and a half years until the IRS appropriates some BlogAd revenue. Nothing. Nada. Zip. No noble “I won’t pay my taxes or file forms because of Bush, Iraq, etc.” If Wilson were really in a “brave act if civil disobedience” this would have been a regular feature of his website, especially around April 15th each year. No the reality is that Wilson simply hoped that the IRS thought that he was too small potatoes to worry about. Now that they have him in their sites (something tangible to seize) they are collecting taxes. So, now all of a sudden with the IRS at the door, Wilson again aggrandizes his failures to a calculated act of civil disobedience and ask for PayPal mediated donations to help him resist the illegal IRS actions. What a self-serving coward. For Wilson to liken himself to Thoreau is sickening.
I urge everyone to write the Federal Attorney’s office and the State tax authorities in places Wilson has worked and demand that Wilson be treated the same way other tax protesters are treated. No better, no worse. If he has committed a crime he needs to be prosecuted just like anyone else. He should not be left off the hook because he will squeal like a pig online about that or that conspiracy.
I have clipped excerpts from Wilson’s site and send them to the IRA, AL Dept of Revenue, and federal attorney’s office for Birmingham. In follow-up interviews, I can assure you that they know that Wilson is a wacko with no journalistic credibility, but that isn’t what interests them now. In addition to income from blog ads, Wilson has a PayPal donation scheme going, and just last week he was running a “spring fundraiser.” He has also crowed about grants, and he fraudulently uses the title “professor” to try to sell seminars, etc. The point being is that most of this money is taxable. And how would the IRS know that some might be exempt unless Wilson complies with filing requirements?
So in the end it turn out that Wilson is, as he would describe it, just “a dumbass redneck” (can there be a spotted blueneck?) tax protester from Alabama.
YES. MY FAVORITE THREAD OF ALL TIME IS REBORN!…
This is hilarious, the questioning of the guy at the internet firm, the piecing together of the HIGH POWERED DISTRICT of Republican law firms and the chamber of commerce and the best piece of it all… the terrified females.
Where is Glynn Wilson’s crazy ass?
Forgot one part: The end conversation of the long video…” Every time will tell John Conyers to jump he does something.” Absolutely amazing sense of importance. USA USA USA
Just to clarify something now being discussed on another blog out of New York frequented by real NYT reporters, editors, and former staff (but the blog has no official affiliation): The cincher of the noose around Wilson’s semi-professional neck was when he claimed that “New York writers were ripping him off.” Wilson was also stupid and arrogant enough to take on a publishing house with a vested interest in a writer. Not the writer was a great literary talent or had redeeming social merit, but that isn’t the point. Publishers invest money in authors and books– and they also have large legal staffs already of salary and ready to pounce on trouble because there are many jobs and careers to protect. What Wilson did was finally meddle with an entity that would not tolerate his lies, abuse, self-aggrandizement, slander, and other antics and so they turned the laser beam of analysis on him. He could not withstand the heat and dropped the lawsuit (aggrandizing, of course, that he was doing it for the sake of ALL writers). Yeah, sure.
The IRS and AL Dept of Revenue are going to be the same. Staffed with professionals who know how to deal with people like Wilson.
What Mr. Wilson has never learned is that publishers, serious news editors, prosecutors, and governmental agencies are often staffed with real professionals who take unkindly to being called names or having to endure dealing with people like Wilson. He can squeal all he wants, but serious people are more than to deal with him and give him the exposure as a wacko that he deserves. And the Feds and State Revenue agencies can back that up with a criminal investigation if the facts warrant.
..btw… the blogs this morning also recount how among his credentials Wilson submitted to various publishers he once listed “Ph.D.,” but when that was questioned he changed to ABD-Ph.D. — a common grad school expression for “All But Dissertation.” Not withstanding that the dissertation (an original contribution to research) is the focus, key component, and purpose of a Ph.D. program, the unwashed might think Wilson has some sort of real or extra special degree designation. There is plenty of proof that Wilson uses this degree designation to perpetuate his various schemes and when a friend checked a few weeks ago, Wilson was listing the following “credential” on his Facebook page: “The University of Tennessee: ABD-Ph.D. Science Communication, Environmental Sociology.”
“Environmental Sociology??????” Like I said, not exactly rocket science.
And yes, this is a great thread. In the end it isn’t so much about Wilson because he is dirty bathwater that can be drained without loss to society.
What this thread starts to get at are important questions about the evolving standards for the alternative web press? Who will lead? Who might govern/regulate? Who deals with wild wackos like Wilson — who have nothing to lose?
If a real NYT reporter calls you a “Dumbbass” you have recourse and someone to sue or other editors to complain to and seek remediation. But Wilson has no wife, children, property, or professional reputation to protect. He has no editors to control his diseased id. He is personally a very cowardly doughball, but online is a passive aggressive tiger that you can’t shame into reason. He has no editorial regulation and you can’t sue him because even if you win there would be nothing to collect!
Will blogs and websites eventually carry a professional affiliation seal showing that they maintain high standards and journalistic ethics, etc? This might help at least let people know not to waste their time and money on waste like Wilson –except, as with the YouTube video , for a good laugh.
Hula,
What’s with the secretiveness, let’s see some hot link action to these New York blogs and what not.
Hi Dale,
Wilson is a wacko. Some secrecy is always prudent!
I checked back to find the link you desired but the New York comments are actually internal to a group of people there and are on a vbulletin forum (not a blog) to which I still have professional access. I provided a note and a link to this site should they want to post here. Again, they were just chatting — not documenting evidence per se. My commentary does not rely on their thinking or documentation. The link I saw there that they were laughing about Wilson’s complaints about New York writers “ripping him off” is listed below.
But links, you want links? Here are some links. I wish I could take credit for all of these, but many appear in other places and are the work of others interested in Glynn.
Here are some Wilson “lowest hit links.” Act fast, he’ll be sure to change what he can. These are from a much longer list… but they provide amusement and make the needed points.
First off: Wilson’s “I’m trying to make a living down here as a freelance writer and these New York writers rip you off,” Multiple sites: Pick ‘em –here is one from Australia! http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/17/1100574541020.html?from=storylhs
Wilson says he “teamed up” with John Lee of PirateNews.org for his “found email exclusive.” http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/02/pirate-news-finds-5-million-email.html. John Lee is an anti-Semitic Holocaust Denier http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/02/jew-madoff-stole-more-than-all.html
Glynn Wilson made the ludicrously silly and delusional assertion: “I have more journalism credentials than anyone working in this state [Alabama].” It’s comment #17 at http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/06/21/the-karl-rove-bob-riley-conspiracy/
GW claims to be a “Professor Glynn Wilson” and has run ads using the false claim that he is a professor, He has both solicited and accepted money while representing himself as a professor. This fraudulent claim can be viewed at his own site (see bottom of page) http://www.locustfork.net/index2.html
Wilson uses Ph.D. in correspondence and sometime masks it as ABD-Ph.D. That is misleading because most people would not know this means “All but Doctorate” and think rather it is some type of PH.D., which is why Wilson uses it.) See about a third of the way down the page at http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2002/jschool/ Wilson writes, “As someone who has faced this issue as a journalism student, as a journalist, and as a college professor and scholar…” Wilson was never a prof or scholar.
Wilson was never more than a stringer for the New York Times. He did share some bylines but he was never a NYT reporter. But this Wilson often describes himself as a former NYT reporter. See
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003519.php — I think Brian may also have listed this link above in this thread.
fast2write [Glynn Wilson] wrote on June 25, 2007 2:57 PM: “The full story is at the Locust Fork News and Journal, written by former New York Times reporter Glynn Wilson. Note: fast2write is Glynn Wilson’s own username/ email address prefis- it is posted on his website in several places. This is just one example of Wilson’s frequent claims to have been a “former NYT reporter.” He also duped the Montgomery Advertiser when they did a article about blogging a few years back.
Wilson also says that he “covered the Abu Ghraib story for Time magazine.” A search of the Time archives shows no hits for Glynn Wilson. Taking Wilson at face value, one would think he traveled to Iraq and reported on “the Abu Ghraib story.” But no, what Wilson did was to simply provide background information on the West Virginia area that was home to several of the participants and unit that involved in the Abu Ghraib incident. The audacity of this exaggeration tells you all you need to know about Wilson’s self aggrandizements and over-inflation of his credentials
One last note of clarification and I’ll let others take the field (I have a real job!!!) I’m now told about, but I have not personally read or seen Wilson’s original 2003 “tax protest” column. I’m told that it may have been published under his pseudonym Wilson Ray (Wilson may also have published the column under his own name and then went back went back and changed the name “Wilson Ray”). So much for “brave” civil disobedience.
Regardless the point is that in his blog Wilson/Ray apparently called for revolution, tax protest and effectively renounced his loyalty to the U.S. over an IRS claim against Wilson for $100 in taxes.
Wow! All that over a hundred bucks!!!!.
Getting to the 2003 post could be critical — some lawyers might have it but I can’t find it online. I am trying to search all archives. If Wilson has one column (Civil Disobedience), then he has them all — and so investigators so find them. If Wilson actually called for or encouraged tax protest, that may be something the IRS and the Feds take much more seriously with regard to potential action.
And so, Glynn if you are reading and lucid at this moment: No destroying evidence over there at the Fork! You keep that old computer handy and running.
I’ve long tried to ask Wilson questions at his own site. You can guess where that gets me or anyone who questions him. All such souls are “banned from commenting.”
I’m with Dale in that I find it a little hard to believe that NY Times reporters spend any time chatting about Glynn or that any law firms maintain active files on him. Play into his neurotic “I’m the center of the universe and everyone is out to get me” mentality.
Is Wilson banned from flashpoint? It’s not like that former New York Times, only man making money blogging in Alabama, professional victim nut job to stay silent for so long.
“professional victim nut job”
Perfect. Absolutely perfect — you nailed it in four words.
I’m gone until at least Tuesday. I hope GW gives you the benefit of his “edification” and that you can handle the heat. ;)
The real Glynn Wilson is welcome here. No ban is in effect.
Oh, heavens no, Brian. It’s not like it’s the whole staff or that its an institutional focus. You are reading too much into that. It’s more like an institutional joke that comes up once or twice a year by a few people unfortunate enough to have worked with Wilson as a stringer. And it certainly isn’t limited to NYT folks. You can call the newsrooms around Birmingham and Atlanta. He’s a known entity.
And I also doubt that law firms maintain active files on him, but they do when he sues someone or makes himself a person of interest! ;)
And that is the bigger point: Glynn operates just below the radar. Enough to be annoying, but not substantial enough to worry about. However, when he leaves his basement and ventures into the real world, there are people more than ready to deal with him, Publisher’s lawyers and the IRS are just good examples.
I suppose you will be on Glynn’s double secret probation list now!
I’ve been on Glynn’s double secret probation list for quite some time!
I see that Wilson has told Dale that he was a Professor at Loyola in New Orleans!
Did he not try to tell Brian something different — some college in GA?
Regardless, Wilson was never a professor in academic rank or title. The page Wilson likes to cite isn’t an official academic roster, just some listing of people who finished some program at Loyola –AND BASED ON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY WILSON!. Wilson was an instructor but never a prof. The fact that Wilson cites the page as his “proof” shows how pathetic his position really is. It is the same as if while being an “instructor” at Loyola they had a policy that asked all students to call instructors “professor.” Okay, fine… bu that does nto make you a real professor.
Call Loyola to verify this if this matters or raises interest. The more amazing story would be if Wilson WAS a real prof. How do you get to be a professor (an academic rank and title) without first being an assistant prof or associate prof? And then I’d ask Loyola how they have prof who did not finish their Ph.D. programs? ;) And are they proud one of their profs was a 9/11 “debunker?”
Regardless, being a prof is not the same as being a Federal Judge! Wilson was no professor (of any sort) when he was out doing talk shows and trying to sell seminars based on the fact that he was “Professor Glynn Wilson”
..and he seems to keep changing the dang school
When he posted to the wacko Pirate TV site (see below) claiming to have debunked 9/11 with his “investigative reporting skills” Wilson claimed he was a prof at the University of Tennessee!!!
Wilson wrote:
…there are plenty of high crimes and misdemeanors to go around, without having to prove that rogue intel wings were in on training the 9/11 hijackers. I’ve already reported part of this story, the part about the CIA and FBI being connected to the hijackers through the drug trade in Central America and Florida….”
-Professor Glynn Wilson, University of Tennessee Knoxville
See: http://www.piratenews.org/911con.html
Just a clarification,
Wilson hasn’t told me anything other than he was gonna sue me and get me fired. He won’t even attempt to back up his BS.
But this link – http://www.loyno.edu/lucec/iec_fellowslist.html – on Loyola’s website list him as a Loyola Professor.
Glynn Wilson, Professor of Journalism (Environmental), Loyola University
New Orleans
Dale ..
Just a further point of respectful inquiry and gentle clarification. On your site in the comments section you mention something about an email from a Loyola.edu e-mail address. Was it an official communication with a name and office number to call back? If so, can you share it?
Regardless please send that email to the Loyola President’s office and the PR rep for the school and get an official statement regarding Glynn’s status.
Does it not intrigue you that an email from “an .edu address” comes when school is out of session, over the weekend, on a holiday when the school was closed, and/or before it reopened on Tuesday?
The official word from university officials who can be contacted for verification is the definitive word on this issue.
Glynn has offered up this “list of conference participants” as proof he was a professor. That’s absurd. For all we know Wilson was the source of the information about himself (and he probably was in the chain somewhere). It’s like claiming proof that you have a Ph.D. because you attend a seminar and list yourself as a Ph.D. and then were so listed in the conference roster!
It’s an easy matter to prove or disprove.
There is still no evidence that Wilson was ever a “professor” anywhere at any time. He certainly was not in academia when he tried to sell himself as a professor on local talk radio and in seminars.
I’m using hulaguy because Wilson is a tinfoil hat nutjob with deep problems… Nothing I write carries any authority or “credentials” and that’s why it is important to follow the links and come to your own conclusions about Wilson.
However, upon reflection I am still just utterly perplexed by Wilson’s response to the seemingly straightforward question: List the academic institutions where you held the rank of professor, and the years you held the position?
How much easier can this be? All Wilson needs to do is say is, “I was a professor at “university “x” from 19xx -to 20xx” and a professor at university “y” from 20xx to 20xx.” That’s all, no need to call names or decline to answer because someone does not have his “journalistic credentials” or is a “Alabama dumbass.” It’s a simple question that requires only a simple answer from an honest person. Verification is then a fairly straightforward manner of calling the amed University Dean’s office and asking for verification of employment.
Why does Wilson go to so much trouble to show “indirect” proofs –that this person or that said or called him this or that. He’s put out that he was a new York Times reporter on so many sites that one could easily find “confirmation” of that lie. He was a freelancer, never an employee for the NYT, DMN, or Christian Science monitor as his tricky use of “reporting for” would make one believe. He never reported “for” them. he was a freelancer, sometimes used as a stringer to provide local color and facts for the the staff reporters covering the story. A mistake these papers will not repeat.
Why????? Well that’s pretty easy. Wilson knows his lies and gross distortions can’t stand up to fact checking. He just throws a lot of crap and hopes the flies and smell drive everyone off.
Regardless, it puts no explanation to Wilson’s 9/11 “debunking,” “tax protest” or troubles with the IRS (forecast in Doc’s Parlor discussion in Aug 2008 cited above).
Well, Mr. Dale (Election Deception) Jackson needs to offer Glynn Wilson a big apology because Glynn just scored one of the biggest coups in Alabama Journalism. When Wilson speaks, Rep. John Conyers might not “jump” (I don’t know where Mr. Nobody, and not a journalist, Jackson got this anyway), but Conyers just published a guest column on Glynn’s Locust Fork blog that sets out Rove’s conspiracy to corrupt American justice AND specifically names and thanks the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Glynn’s Locust Fork Journal as three of the most respected and influential sites in America on the issue.
As a nobody, I find it odd that you chose to have this thread, which is a piece by piece dissection of Glynn Wilson, reborn.
All this proves is John Conyers is an idiot AND that if Glynn Wilson is the #3 source for anything, it means that whatever he is selling is questionable.
Where did I get the “Every time we tell John Conyers to jump he does something”?
From his video – http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/02/pirate-news-finds-5-million-email.html
How come Glynn hasn’t addressed this?
http://www.theattackmachine.com/diary/396/looks-like-i-struck-a-nerve-a-really-crazy-nerve
Again, if you are Glynn Wilson/his friend/his follower why would you try to resuscitate this embarrassing thread about him?
“if Glynn Wilson is the #3 source for anything…”
ummmm… great critical reading skills there, Dale.
Why?
Because it sets the record straight. Glynn might not have been a professor, but he is Alabama’s best and most experienced journalist. I suspect that is why Rep. Conyers lauded Glynn and selected his site for publication! He sure would not select your site!
P.S. Dale, This thread does not embarrass Glynn. He is tough and experienced journalist. When you take on the world’s problems (including harassment by the Bush DOJ and IRS) you are going to have to suffer nobody fools. This thread is most embarrassing to YOU. If it really bothered Glynn, he would have it removed.
What? He claimed he was going to get me fired, he demanded I take multiple pages of my site down, but he is weak. and of no consequence. He told Brian that he was “next”…
Please supporters of the delusional and insane (not medically of course, well.. maybe) Glynn Wilson, stop popping up in random places trying to defend him.
He is a nut and irrelevant. Thanks for playing.
He may be a journalist, but he sure as hell is not a relevant player in anything other than his own mind.
I suggest there is a simpler explanation to this bit of Wilson lunacy, seemingly self-serving document alteration and possible plagiarism. It appears Wilson may have simply inserted his own site in place of Conyer’s mention of the “Kansas City Star.”
On John Conyers site at the Huffington Post Conyer’s letter actually reads:
“…Anyone interested in the truth can read the documents for themselves (here) or the reporting on these matters from papers large — Washington Post (here) and New York Times (here) — and small — Kansas City Star (here).
See:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-conyers/karl-rove-rupert-murdoch_b_264339.html
So, it seems that in addition to claiming that Rep. Conyers was a “guest columnist (I doubt he knows) the delusional Glynn Wilson altered the Conyers’ letter to read, “… Anyone interested in the truth can read the documents for themselves (here) or the reporting on these matters from the top papers in the U.S. — The Washington Post (here) and The New York Times (here) — as well as alternative, independent news sites such as The Locust Fork News-Journal (here).
See: http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/20/karl-rove-rupert-murdoch-and-media-bias/#comments
A bit of self-serving editing to be sure. What’s really funny it that the shameless Mr. Wilson asks his friends (including the Ms. Dana Jill Simpson herself) to share his altered version via Facebook. That must be some wacky group of “friends.”
Sadly funny.
However, if anyone can prove a real link between Wilson and Conyers, the national newspapers will want to know. That would make some tough sledding for Conyers if he is relying on Wilson’s credibility or “journalism.”