May 05, 2004
All Wright now, baby, this blog's all Wright now
One of Micah Wright's (former?) friends made a couple of FOIA requests about his military background, to try to stop people from bugging him about it on his Delphi forum. She kept running into red tape, though, so she didn't get her request back before the Washington Post guy got his. Here's her story.
Questions are starting to arise about some other parts of Wright's resume, including his claim to have earned an Emmy nomination for his writing on the Angry Beavers cartoon. A cursory Google search shows that the show was nominated in 1998 for the Sound Editing Special Class award, but I can't find anything about an Emmy nomination for writing. If anybody has any other info on this, please let me know.
Still waiting for Kevin Parrott to stop having a normal social life for a minute and tell us what he thinks of this whole thing... In the meantime, if you haven't read about his encounter with Wright last year, start here, then go here (when a professional writer starts off his response to a critic with "Hey there Man-Cunt," it sort of sets the tone), here, and here. He talks about stuff that happened on Wright's Delphi forum, but I'm sure a lot of that stuff was deleted long ago. According to the other moderators over there, Wright was diligent about scrubbing away any discussions of his military background. After shrieking at his accusers and allowing his friends and fans to unknowingly help him perpetuate the lie, that is. (Update: Oops, no, a quick check shows that at least one of the Delphi threads Kevin linked to is still there ("Right-Wing Hate Blog of the Day"). Sorry for the confusion, Micah!) (Update II: In a stunning development, that thread has now been deleted. See here for details.)
Oh, and I'm seeing all sorts of stuff about how "This Wright dude just goes to show what all lefties are like!" and "He's a symbol of the moral vacuum in the antiwar movement!" and so on. I don't know about any of that. Seems to me Wright doesn't represent anybody but Wright. And besides, the way this guy lied and lied, who knows if even his political views are authentic? Or if they were just part of his shortcut to becoming the big shot he always wanted to be?
And finally:
(If you haven't seen the original, no big loss.)
Posted by Jim Treacher at May 5, 2004 08:55 AM