Micah "Blood 'n' Guts" Wright e-mailed me yesterday, wondering what the big deal is. After all, he said he was sorry, didn't he? He also had some choice words about my keen interest in this whole situation.
Plus... (Click the "Continue reading" link if you're still interested in this whole thing.)
Plus, he wanted me to know that he's put his original "apology" back up on his site here, with a slightly different filename. Unlike the versions here and here, he hasn't deleted any of the stuff about how the Washington Post should have caught him when they interviewed him in the first place, and it really shows how gullible the media are, and besides, George Bush is even worse, and so forth. That's all still there, at least at the time of this writing. He has pushed back the date from April 15 to April 25, though, which I guess is supposed to jibe with his claim that Pat Tillman's death on April 22 moved him to "apologize." [Insert Orwell reference here] Oh, and he wants me to take down the copy of the original that I've got archived here, which several people have linked to. Weird, huh?
Then there's the case of the disappearing "Right-Wing Hate Blog of the Day" thread on Wright's Delphi forum. That's the thread where he and some of his buddies lambasted Kevin Parrott for a few days in April 2003, which is when I first heard of the whole thing. The thread sat there for over a year, and Parrott has linked to it several times, but then I linked to it last Wednesday and now it's gone. Double-weird! Well, it was probably just an accident. Fortunately, the thread has been saved.
Also, a few days ago I mentioned a rather spirited post to the same forum, by someone claiming to be a former co-worker of Wright's. It's been cut from that thread ("Message 717 was Deleted"), but here's the text:
You know, it's funny, I've always believed in Karma, but this incident just totally solidified it for me. I, unfortunately, have had the experience of working with Micah back at Nickelodeon. Other artists and myself always marveled at the ego this guy had - ego that had no artistic talent to back it up. He was this stereotypical "my sh** don't stink" ass who walked around the studio like he was God's gift to animation. I wish I could say that it started when he got his writing gig, but I knew him when he was a simple executive assistant to Mary Harrington, and he was an egotistical ass back then too. I have a brother who is serving his second tour of duty in Iraq, so not only do Micah's lies offend me, but they personally attack every other person who has a loved one over there fighting for the rights of assholes like him who choose to lie and be deceitful. Kudos to Karma, the Washington Post and any other publication/person who shows this guy for the untalented fraud he really is!
Looks like they didn't sign it, so take it for whatever it's worth.
I think that's it for today. As I mentioned before, somebody has been very busy erasing as much of Wright's online unpleasantness as possible. When you quote or link to him, make sure to save the original page to your hard drive, either the file itself or a screenshot. Otherwise it'll be gone within days, and you'll get e-mail from your readers saying, "Hey, there's nothing at that link!" Well yeah, now there isn't.
Update: And another! Click here for Wright's apology for the previous apology, or whatever it is he's trying to say. You'd think a former paratrooper would know not to keep kicking his legs on the way down... oh, right. Forgot.
Posted by Jim Treacher at May 11, 2004 07:50 AM