Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks) is a lying blogger who likes to accuse others of "gnawing on old bones" or "beating dead horses". Those two phrases are employed by the delusional Dennis whilst bobbing a weaving in a futile attempt to avoid criticism when he is caught continuing to lie about topics which he argued about in the past (and which he was proven to be wrong on long ago).
No surprise, but Dennis (who saw this truth-teller's previous post on Al Gore and Dennis lying about him saying he invented the internet) is lying and mischaracterizing his previous (and on-going) lies about Mr. Gore, as the following comment gives testament to...
Dennis Marks: I did drop by WD's blog. My occasional and accurate offhand summaries of Gore's Internet gaffe inspired him to spend who knows what huge amount of time trying to refute it (usual dictionary re-writing, ignoring what Gore said). A lot of gnawing of old bones by both participants, and not by me. I reserve the right to make occasional accurate summaries of Gore's gaffe. But I don't feel it necessary spend hours making a blog post to refute fiction. (3/4/2014 AT 3:41am). |
The blog post in question relates to a lengthy debate the author and Dennis got into back in March of 2012. Dennis goes on to lamely attempt to slime this truth-teller by saying he wasted a huge amount of time "trying" to refute the lies of Dennis - but Dennis also spent a huge amount of time in that debate telling his laughable lies.
The blog author knows this because he spent a lot of time refuting those lies. So, if time was wasted, it was wasted by both of us. (Conclusion? Insult fail).
As for the "dictionary rewriting", this is another lame-o slur, as the post in question only contained dictionary QUOTING, with links to back up the fact that the dictionary definitions provided were EXACT quotes. There was no "rewriting". And the blog author also refutes Dennis' claims of "ignoring what Gore said", which is actually what Dennis does.
The Al Gore quote in question...
AG: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. (from an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 3/9/1999, via Snopes). |
What Dennis ignores (completely) is every sentence after the first one. Mr. Gore CLEARLY references the legislation he sponsored which created the environment that lead to the internet as we know it today. He was talking about legislation he was responsible for and not the literal creation of the internet, you moron!
That being cleared up, it should be noted that Dennis did get ONE thing right with his comment (quoted above), which is that my post, while I am not sure how much time I spent on it (less than "hours", I'd guess), does refute Dennis' fiction. Kudos to Dennis for admitting that, at least. Although, oddly, with everything the delusional nutter says up to the point of the admission are in defense of his lies about Mr. Gore (and suggest he believes they aren't fiction).
I guess we can chalk that up to Dennis being a delusional nutter and nothing more. Stand by for Dennis to delete his comment if he finds out about this commentary.
In case Dennis does delete any of what he said, I have reproduced the full comment thread below (6 comments as of 3/16/2014). What follows is from the blog "Contra O'Reilly" and in response to a post titled "On People Like Noam Chomsky, Francis Boyle, Bill Ayers, And that Crazy Lady from Code Pink".
Begin Comment Thread 7 COMMENTS
01. DELETED dmarks [MARCH 4, 2014 AT 3:41 AM] Tenacity is one thing. Someone consistently hating Jews (like Boyle) or always lining up to defend genocide as long as it is committed by some sort of socialist (like Chomsky) is another. No, I don't respect them. I'd respect them if they went after either side from a point of view of rationality, pragmatism, and sanity.
Speaking of the lack of such... I did drop by WD's blog. My occasional and accurate offhand summaries of Gore's Internet gaffe inspired him to spend who knows what huge amount of time trying to refute it (usual dictionary re-writing, ignoring what Gore said). A lot of gnawing of old bones by both participants, and not by me. I reserve the right to make occasional accurate summaries of Gore's gaffe. But I don't feel it necessary spend hours making a blog post to refute fiction.
02. DELETED dmarks [MARCH 4, 2014 AT 3:41 AM] By the way, Chomsky's defense of genocide even went as far as him to defend Serbia as it invaded and waged war against Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo during the 1990s.... killing a hundred thousand for the crime of not being Serbian.
According to him, Serbia "was the last corner of Europe which had not subordinated itself to the US-run neoliberal programs".
A truly nutty conspiracy theory. He used the same sort of language when he lavished praise on the Khmer Rouge for their reforms in Cambodia... trying to find reasons that didn't exist instead of looking at why things happened and taking any sort of principled stand.
A typical telltale sign of unhinged musings is the use of the term "neoliberal", which isn't related to liberalism, but is often a term used by those of the statist/fascist/control-freak bent to condemn the idea of reforms in which the people make more economic decisions instead of the government.
03. Will "take no prisoners" Hart [MARCH 4, 2014 AT 3:51 AM] I didn't mean to imply any sort of admiration for these folks (the first 3, especially), just that they weren't driven by partisanship the way that certain other individuals obviously are.
04. DELETED dmarks [MARCH 4, 2014 AT 3:43 PM] I know...it's obvious you don't endorse them. Quite unlike WD's endorsement of a deplorable quote by the worst mass murderer in human history (and his half-baked later attempt to distance himself a little from Stalin... while still embracing the deplorable quote).
But still, Will, I'd much rather have cheap but relatively moderate and harmless partisanship than "principled" nutty zeal.
05. Will "take no prisoners" Hart [MARCH 4, 2014 AT 4:31 PM] Thankfully neither sector (and when I say, partisan, here, I'm talking about the lunatic fringe version and not guys like Chuckie Schumer) has a lot of sway politically.
06. DELETED dmarks [MARCH 14, 2014 AT 4:59 AM] I've deleted these quotations, not because I withdraw anything I've said, but to "yank WD's chain" when he links to material here in order to beat dead horses back to life. I am considering his propensity to fabricate blog quotations, however.
07. dmarks [MARCH 17, 2014 AT 5:53 AM] It takes but seconds to delete my comments, but who knows how long it takes for WD to write one of those massive long jeremiads where he whines and cries over me having done so.
It's worth the seconds, just for the amusement factor.
End Comment Thread
Update, 7/1/2014: As predicted, Dennis deleted his comments. But I have retrieved the Google cached page and updated this post with all the comments (7 as of this update).
In regards to Dennis saying I have a "propensity to fabricate blog quotations", that is a flat-out lie. I have never fabricated a quotation. Not once. The comments above are presented EXACTLY has they originally appeared (before Dennis deleted them), and that can be verified by looking at the Google cached page... at least for as long as it lasts.
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