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David Brody Bases Villain on Me, Calls Him Smelly Loser

10/18/2014

56 Comments

 
Earlier this week I talked about fringe historians’ seeming lack of emotional maturity when it comes to dealing with those who disagree with them. Thanks to an alert blog reader, to this sorry spectacle I must now add novelist David Brody, who I learned has chosen to act out a petty revenge fantasy on me in the form of a character in his new novel, The Oath of Nimrod, published a few weeks ago. It is so bad that I can hardly stop laughing at Brody’s puerile attempt to call me names under the guise of fiction. 
In the novel, Brody has quite clearly based the character of Vito on me, cleverly disguising my name, Colavito, by chopping it in half. Technically, the warning at the front of the book says that all similarities are fictitious except for those explicitly cited in the Author’s Note on sources, where of all the many real life people and situations woven into the book, I am omitted from the list of real life inspirations. This is just a legal fig leaf, of course, as Brody—a trained lawyer—well knows. The similarities are unmistakable.

Like me, Vito is a blogger who writes skeptically about fringe history, knows Latin, searches out primary sources in obscure languages, and was educated in Ithaca, New York. He also lives around 500 miles north of Washington, D.C., in New Hampshire—a comparatively short drive from Albany, N.Y., where I reside, and coincidentally where my aunt and cousins live near Mystery Hill in Salem. Vito, like me, covers “various alternative history shows and documentaries,” and exposes the underlying racism of particular claims that reassign Native Americans achievements to white Europeans. Similarly, he launched his web debunking during his educational adventure in Ithaca. Like me, he also has readers who thank him for “debunking” television programs, as well as a group of fringe researchers who are upset with him for challenging their livelihood and bringing up racism.

So far, so normal. But Brody is a novelist for whom subtlety is an undiscovered country, so in creating his fantasy version of me, he piles on one stereotype and insult after the next, not content to let one stand for all. In fact, in his grievous literary fault of telling rather than showing, he spells out each insult explicitly; rather than letting his villain act contemptibly, he tells us every reason why we should dislike Vito:

  • He’s a shut-in: Vito is at his computer “at least one hundred hours every week.”
  • He lives at home with his parents, “in his childhood bedroom.” (Not the basement!?)
  • He’s the subject of bullying from his step-father and unnamed “people” who “laughed at him,” which caused him to seek out online ego boosting.
  • He’s socially awkward and unable to interact confidently in person, even to make eye contact.
  • He smells: “Maybe if you took a shower once in a while you’d find a girlfriend. […] You smell like old bologna.” His hair is also “greasy,” and he is a “loser.”
  • He looks down at his readers for not being as smart as he is, and he is obsessed with who has the right advanced degree to comment on history.
  • He doesn’t care “about things like science and logic” when it comes to defending mainstream orthodoxy.
  • He’s nasty: “His audience wanted name-calling, passion, maybe some blood. As long as he didn’t libel anyone, he could say pretty much anything he wanted.”

Then, to top it off, Brody has his anti-fringe blogger controlled by a cabal of conservatives operating out the Heritage Foundation (depicted here as a front for the CIA), who pay him $1,000 per week to debunk specific cable television documentaries for a readership of “one thousand” as part of a conspiracy to suppress the truth about North American prehistory.

In his attempt to render Vito an unlikeable caricature, Brody actually ends up describing a undiagnosed high functioning autist, apparently without realizing it, and certainly without sympathy for what he seems to be describing. Whatever his opinion of me, Brody has created an insensitive portrayal of someone with what used to be called Asperger’s and asks his readers to view this figure as a creature of contempt as well as a villain.

So, what becomes of Vito? Well, on orders from the CIA Vito launches a vicious attack against Brody’s Scott Wolter stand-in, crusading hero Cameron Thorne, by exposing his suspended law license, implying that Cameron is a racist, and hinting at sexual misconduct with a child. The words Brody attributes to Vito are so outlandish and vile that I hesitate to quote them. Brody, however, pretends that the angry screed he writes for Vito would be taken seriously as a debunking despite the text’s lack of facts, research, or evidence. Brody can’t bring himself to make even a fictitious case against his own pet theories, and so he pretends that all the world would be blinkered by angry adjectives (e.g., “a laughable compilation of random and unrelated occurrences”) rather than a reasoned analysis of a supposedly factual claim.

Cameron stoically weathers the attack and explains that he is used to the slings and arrows of critics:
But I think there’s more going on here than just some jerk with a blog deciding to take shots at me. As far as I know, I never even met the guy. So why come after me? There are plenty of guys who register higher on the crazy meter than I do—I’m not the one claiming reptile aliens populated the earth.
Cameron doubted that Vito would “have the balls” to challenge him to his face, however, because for Brody shut-in blogger Vito isn’t, you know, a real man like Cameron Thorne: Action Lawyer. Instead, there had to be a giant conspiracy behind the blog post, one designed to undermine Cameron. The blog post, as it turns out, is not meant to convince anyone. Instead it’s a psychological trigger designed by the CIA to unhinge Cameron, who of course is too brilliant to be duped.

Cameron, or as Brody calls him, Cam, pays a visit to Vito to confront him about his blog post, but Brody whiffs at his last at bat. He chooses not to stage a dramatic confrontation. The best he can imagine is Vito (i.e. me) telling Cam (i.e. Wolter) that he sincerely believes Cam is wrong, while Cam asserts that Vito is part of a conspiracy. Since Brody has cast Cam as the hero, Cam is of course right. He is abducted by the CIA during their confrontation even as Cam’s lover frantically calls the police, worried that due to the “bad blood” between Vito and Cam violence has erupted. Eventually, it’s revealed that Vito is part of a plot that involves the CIA and a Mormon parody video of the real-life Scott Wolter, because actual opposition to Wolter is also proof of the same conspiracy. The details beyond this aren’t really important—it’s your standard-issue convoluted sub-Da Vinci Code conspiracy.

I am genuinely surprised that a brief blog post I wrote in January 2013 about Scott Wolter’s claim of having received an honorary master’s degree served as inspiration for a full-length novel proposing a vast conspiracy behind the whole flap. Sean-David Morton’s friends didn’t write a novel about me, even after my piece on his misrepresented Ph.D.-equivalency certificate seemed to contribute to his being booted from Ancient Aliens. And Ancient Aliens also managed to demonize me the right way: with menacing music and full-on Satanic imagery. Up your game, Brody!

It’s a bit surreal to read a version of oneself created by another person. I’m more insulted, though, that my villainous turn should be so mishandled by an author of limited talent like Brody; surely, a character as rich with nefarious potential as I deserves the full Dan Brown treatment.
56 Comments
Scott Hamilton
10/18/2014 02:04:53 am

Wait, wait, wait. If my math is correct, "Vito" is being paid a $1 a hit to his website. Eh, let's assume Vito is as prolific as this website, so he posts seven times a week, and therefore his audience of a thousand translates into 7000 hits. Vito is still getting around 14 cents a hit. In todays Internet economy, that's not fiction, that's fantasy! Lord of the Rings is more plausible!

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Mark link
10/18/2014 03:58:06 am

That's government budgeting for you.

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Scott Hamilton
10/18/2014 02:33:59 am

Also, someone should post the "There are plenty of guys who register higher on the crazy meter than I do—I’m not the one claiming reptile aliens populated the earth" line over on the David Icke forums. We could use a good, old-fashioned kook fight.

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RLewis
10/18/2014 04:10:08 am

I can't wait to see all the kids trick-or-treating in their greased-hair, baloney-smelling Vito The Conspiracy Blogger costumes.

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Matt Mc
10/18/2014 04:19:01 am

I would take it as an honor and compliment. It means you are doing your job well. People do not parody others unless they get under the skin.

I wonder if some of the fringe people really think you are Govt sponsored and part of the conspiracy if so I think that is pretty awesome.

Congrats Jason...

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Graham
10/18/2014 04:33:34 am

David Brody's character was probably inspired by this claim by a group peddling the 'Quantum Effect Generator' about anyone who claimed that their machine would not work:

" WHAT IS A TROLL OR DEBUNKER?

A “Troll” is defined as: one who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.

Trolls are everywhere, they run rampant on social media, create entire websites just to highlight their trolling activities, spend countless man hours writing emails, and commenting on blogs and youtube videos.

There are two levels of trolls;

1) Those that get paid to be an internet troll as was fully exposed by documents leaked by Edward Snowden <snip>.

2) Entities in the form of energy that manipulate human behavior to fulfill a negative end-goal agenda. These same entities are the source of the mind control program for paid trolls.

Most people who are paid trolls feel that they have no other option and don’t actually enjoy doing what they do and wish they could find a way out. For those who are not paid but exhibit troll behavior, they usually have some form of human suffering such as addictions, mental instability, or physical illnesses that leave them open and susceptible for negative entities to control their behavior."

http://www.donotlink.com/c3zu

Though it could be worse I've even seen claims that Skeptics are "energy vampires"...

http://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/david-wilcock-skeptics-argue-because-they-get-high-off-it/

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Tara Jordan link
10/18/2014 05:49:48 am

The guy is obviously a kook and without a doubt,a third grade author specialized in airport newsstands literature.Mieux vaut en rire qu'en pleurer

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CHV
10/18/2014 06:57:45 am

I have never heard of David Brody before. That's probably a good thing.

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CHV
10/18/2014 07:03:30 am

As of right now, the link to Brody's text on Amazon features just one review (by an anonymous reviewer), and of course, it's a gushing rave. I can't imagine who might have written it.

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J.A Dickey
10/18/2014 07:12:27 am

he has a blog. i found it just now...

http://westfordknight.blogspot.com/2014/01/summary-of-artifactssites-in-brody.html

D. Brody talks of stone-holes in Book1 of his Templar romp.
Joan Hope in New Ross N.S also looked at stone-holes. This
is no fluke. David Brody quietly blogs happily away. Be nice!

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The Other J.
10/18/2014 07:08:05 am

So -- flattered?

I mean, you've clearly made an impact.

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David Brody
10/18/2014 07:28:08 am

I guess I should come on here and explain myself.

First of all, the Vito Augustine character in my “The Oath of Nimrod” novel is, like most characters in fiction, a composite based on many different people I have met and/or encountered in life. Vito Augustine is, as Jason asserts, an internet blogger who writes about fringe history. However, he is not “based on” Jason, as Jason asserts. I have no idea if Jason showers regularly, or lives with his parents, or has family living in New Hampshire, or is a shut-in, or is bullied by a stepfather, or is socially awkward, or is paid by a conservative think tank, or looks down on his readers. If any of the above do describe Jason, that is a coincidence.

Second (and this is really part of my first point), the reason that I have the Vito Augustine character attending Cornell University is that the CIA’s MK-Ultra program, which triggers the plot of this novel, was centered at Cornell. Had MK-Ultra been centered at another university, the character would have been a graduate of that school instead.

Third, I disagree with Jason’s assertion that the Vito Augustine character is “an undiagnosed high functioning autist.” The character does refuse to make eye contact with Cameron, but that is because he is trying to hide the fact that CIA agents are waiting in the next room; in other interactions he does not avert eye contact. I do not believe the character as written fits this diagnosis.

Fourth, Jason’s assertion that the Vito Augustine character writings lack “facts, research, or evidence” is incorrect. See, for example, the character’s analysis of the “Calendar 2” chamber in Vermont (page 41-42 of the paper copy).

Fifth, Jason implies that the Vito Augustine character is a major character in the book. In reality, the character is a minor, secondary player in this novel. In a bit of hyperbole, Jason writes, “I am genuinely surprised that a brief blog post I wrote … served as inspiration for a full-length novel.” I don’t think even Jason truly believes he was the inspiration for “The Oath of Nimrod.”

Finally, as for my “limited talent” as a writer, that is Jason’s opinion and he is clearly entitled to it. Some readers enjoy my novels, while others do not.

Based on what I see in the comments to Jason’s post, I do not expect much support from readers of this blog. But I did want to take a few minutes to at least respond to Jason. Thanks for your time.

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EP
10/18/2014 07:33:20 am

"I have no idea if Jason... is paid by a conservative think tank"

Bullshit, of course you know that he isn't.

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CHV
10/18/2014 07:39:32 am

>>>>Vito Augustine is, as Jason asserts, an internet blogger who writes about fringe history. However, he is not “based on” Jason, as Jason asserts. I have no idea if Jason showers regularly, or lives with his parents, or has family living in New Hampshire, or is a shut-in, or is bullied by a stepfather, or is socially awkward, or is paid by a conservative think tank, or looks down on his readers. If any of the above do describe Jason, that is a coincidence.

Gee, passive-aggressive much?

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Jason Colavito link
10/18/2014 08:27:54 am

I notice that you don't deny, David, that you used me as an inspiration for the Vito character and for his actions in blogging against your Wolter stand-in. I think it should be fairly obvious that no character in a novel is a carbon copy of a real human being, but you borrowed many specific (and otherwise irrelevant) details from me, such as knowledge of Latin, a rather pointless detail for a character you made into a US history scholar, never again mentioned or used in the novel.

The similarities are pronounced enough that readers of your book have pointed out how easily they recognized me in Vito.

You're welcome to disagree all you want about your intentions regarding the character; I said myself that you appeared unaware that you had brought together a constellation of traits associated with Asperger's. However, the author's intent is only part of the final evaluation of a literary work, and there can be readings that the author never meant that are nonetheless legitimate. On this I pull rank: I am a published literary critic cited in many scholarly books and doctoral dissertations, so I know whereof I speak.

The character, as you say, is a secondary villain, but nonetheless his actions are what drive your plot. Hannibal Lecter was on screen in "Silence of the Lambs" for only 16 minutes and yet was important enough to the film that Hopkins won an Oscar for Best Actor.

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J.A Dickey
10/18/2014 09:36:42 am

I know her amateur archaeology comes across like as if she is
Charles Fort's most sincere disciple, and i really looked deep in
the site here, after stumbling across her insights into stone-holes
when doing a net-search, and when trying to read her books upon
finding an almost decade old link, they are no longer online, despite
your blog on Joan Hope, her location near an inlet into the center
of the southern section of Nova Scotia suggests an almost ideal
spot for a colony, given that the inlet faces Canada proper and
not the stormy Atlantic. She was very near a nice harbor, that
and looking at a reconstructed "Cog" boat or ship had me thinking.
She talks of stone-holes, i think the word triangular is part of this...

Cog shoes are wooden shoes, i do not confuse Cog ships with
wooden shoes. The design of the vessel hints at inland voyages
up a river until there be rapids etc. and yes, hints at much trade...

DrBB
10/19/2014 07:38:05 am

Whether the character is based on you or not, the oddest thing to me is the idea that he's being funded by a conservative think tank. Skepticism toward the supernatural & paranormal is hardly something that seems associated with the conservative movement these days. Aren't they the ones defending our culture from the War Against Christmas and building theme parks around the idea that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time?

.
10/18/2014 10:29:21 am

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

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EP
10/18/2014 07:31:44 am

"In his attempt to render Vito an unlikeable caricature, Brody actually ends up describing a undiagnosed high functioning autist, apparently without realizing it, and certainly without sympathy for what he seems to be describing."

In all fairness, no everyone who superficially fits the description of an undiagnosed high functioning autist is in fact suffering from a psychological problem. Some of such people are just unpleasant human beings.

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/18/2014 07:41:46 am

And it is also possible to be a high-functioning autistic and a decent human being. I know I'm the former and hope I'm the latter.

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Residents Fan
10/19/2014 02:10:36 am

"And it is also possible to be a high-functioning autistic and a decent human being. I know I'm the former and hope I'm the latter."

Yes. I know several people with Asperger's syndrome, and they
are as kind and decent people as you could hope to meet.

This reminds me of that time Michael Crichton was alleged
to have written a novel which featured a hostile fictionalization
of a negative reviewer:


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/books/14cric.html?_r=0

EP
10/19/2014 03:11:46 am

I hate to keep pointing it out, but Asperger's syndrome has gone the way of the ninth planet.

Polypragmon
10/18/2014 07:59:40 am

It could be worse. He could have portrayed you cooking meth in your sadly defunct furnace. Or being the Zodiac killer. You certainly look too young for the part, but an evil, all-powerful, freemasonry-like conspiracy could have used genetic engineering to give its minions near-inmortality, without any apparent aging.
By the way, should´nt you consider changing your blog profile pic to fit your new arch-villain persona? I suggest sunglasses, long fingernails and posing with a Persian cat in your lap.
Oh, and insist on being called Don Vito.

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Polypragmon
10/18/2014 08:10:34 am

I remember reading somewhere (in a book by Stephen Jay Gould, I think) that Samuel Wilberforce, "Soapy Sam", the famous scourge of darwinists, wrote once a silly anti-evolutionist tract. Apparently, Darwin had a few hearth laughs reading the good bishop`s hopelessly ignorant version of his own ideas. To his credit, when told about Darwin´s reaction, Wilbeforce said: "He´s a great guy" Victorians could be stiff-upper-lipped, classist, racist, sexually repressed, obsessed with the civilizing mission of the white man and whatever you want, but they certainly knew what it meant to be a gentleman. To judge from Scott Wolter and S.T. Joshi´s recent histrionics, the author of this novel won´t take kindly your disdain for his literary efforts. O tempora, o mores.

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EP
10/18/2014 08:13:11 am

"He's a great guy" is not a phrase any Victorian would have used. I hope you were paraphrasing.

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Polypragmon
10/18/2014 08:56:04 am

Yes, sort of. It is a clumsy retranslation from the Spanish version of Gould´s book I have in my library. The title is Bully for Brontosaurus. Reflections in Natural History. The quote is in essay 26, "Knight Takes Bishop", a fascinating analysis of the different accounts of the famous debate when Wilberforce asked Huxley whether he came from an ape through his grandfather or his grandmother. In Spanish, the bishop´s remark runs: "Me encanta que se lo tome de ese modo. Es un tipo capital" I did a quick Google search, but I could´n find the original, so I reverse-translated.

I meant "hearty laughs", not "hearth laughs". My English is as awful as my unscholarly use of quotes. Sorry.

Polypragmon
10/18/2014 08:13:56 am

If there ever is a film adaptation of this novel, I would vote for Simon Pegg playing you. I loved his acting in Mission Impossible 4. This sounds like an unlikely possibility, but remember that one of L.R.Hubbard´s sci-fi turds was made into a film, so who knows.

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Kal
10/18/2014 10:20:09 am

Technically you could sue him for defamation of character. He's a lawyer though so this might not work too well. How convenient for anyone he makes fun of on the internet.

High functioning autistic people are not evil super villains. It's funny a lot of people think they are, and are confusing them with other learning differences, often confused with obsessive compulsive disorder, which is not the same. Just because they have context issues an are socially awkward, which describes half the internet blogger community anyway, doesn't mean their apathetic sociopaths who slink behind blogs pretending to be Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.

Over half the internet was clearly designed by high functional autistic, and some web sites are clearly run by them, but not this one. It looks like yours is detail oriented but has none of the other trappings of being run by 'basement dwelling socially awkward guys with no girlfriend'. When they make up people like they, they are insecure themselves and are hiding beind anonymity.

This author who has become obsessed with you is bizarre and sounds like he needs to go on some kind of psyche meds. That's some serious issues going on there, and grounds to have his blog shut down by his web provider for violation of rules, if nothing else.

I still don't know why these fringe guys are so threatened by you, when there are plenty of people seeing them as fakes.

This person is clearly one of them. His self published book about Nimrod is from a vanity press. Anyone can get one of those. I had two. You pay them and you get a book. Also his achievements appear to be exaggerations. I bet he doesn't actually have a law degree, as it only said in his bio he attended law school. Check to see if he has such, if you like. He claims also to have published 4 books.

The other three books are also vanity press under another company, not a legitimate big chain publisher.

It looks like he just wants a jealous cat fight. I wouldn't feed him.




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Jason Colavito link
10/18/2014 11:27:20 am

No, I couldn't sue him. He wrote a novel and created a fictional character who is different enough that it falls under the protection accorded to fiction.

I didn't say that the character was autistic, but rather than Brody unintentionally assigned him traits that could be interpreted as autistic. As with most literary claims, it is an interpretation since it is not explicitly stated in the text.

The only reason David Brody is worth noting here is because he is a friend and colleague of Scott Wolter and uses his books to promote wacky theories about the Knights Templar that he claims are true, sort of like the way the Shaver Mystery claimed to be utterly true but rewritten as science fiction to make it easier to read. If he didn't claim the background to his Templar series of books was based on fact they wouldn't be worth noting at all.

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Cathleen Anderson
10/19/2014 04:47:12 am

There are a fair number of writers, who have created a character based on a real person and had it come back to haunt/bite them later. And for that matter bite hard.

Josef Karpinovic
10/18/2014 01:38:05 pm

I remember when EVERYBODY had one of those "Vito the blogger" jackets. Those were the days.

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Screaming Eagle
10/18/2014 02:11:58 pm

I have to say, as big a fan as I am of JC (the blogger, not the savior) Mr. Brody's response was well-written and explained. All of the comments following are fair but we have to respect Mr. Brody's decision to come here and post. Most do not have the balls. I hope he continues to visit and defend, regardless of the differences we may have in opinion. Much more scholarly work is accomplished through such discourse than we have seen from certain religious figures defending their friends by providing answers on par with politicians who cannot even answer a simple ye/no question.

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Jose
10/19/2014 04:09:39 am

Screaming Eagle, if I were to guess who you are refering to, I would venture to say that you are refering to the guy that "signs" most of his posts with "Wolter fir 25+ years as both a personal friend and a professional colleague …" :-)

By the way, where is he?

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spookyparadigm
10/19/2014 12:09:45 pm

That's a charitable way of seeing it.

Personally, it looks a lot more to me like that thing children do to torment others by invading their personal space without actually hitting them (and thereby giving cause for retaliation).

"I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you, is this bugging you? Why is it bugging you, I'm not touching you?"

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EP
10/19/2014 12:35:34 pm

I agree with spookyparadigm, but for slightly different reasons. David Brody's satirical take on the "skeptical bloggers" in general and Jason in particular is poorly written and intellectually worthless. However, he has as much right to make fun of Jason as we do to make fun of Giorgio Tsoukalos or Alex Jones.

But his suggestion that Vito is not parody of Jason (along with whoever else) because he doesn't know whether Jason has some of the more ridiculous qualities of Vito, he is doubly disingenuous. First, because that's not how parodies work. Second, because, like I already said, OF COURSE we all know that Jason isn't (for instance) on The Conspiracy's payroll.

Since he is obviously not afraid of legal action (nor should he be) his coming here smacks of desire to score easy intellectual points at Jason's expense. Stupid, of course, but that shouldn't shock anyone.

spookyparadigm
10/19/2014 07:18:15 pm

Precisely. And as much as I'd be annoyed were I Jason, there is an entire genre of big-budget parodies of conspiracy theorists as something much like the parody here but inverted: tin-foil wearing losers with apophenia. South Park's hating on ghost hunters and the cast of Finding Bigfoot, The UFO "I didn't play dungeons and dragons all those years and not learn something about courage" from The X-Files, the video store owner living with his mother in Men in Black II (the only decent part of that film. For that matter, this brilliant parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo4tzrxyXsA

and the list goes on. I can't think of too many TV shows that haven't had a cheap laugh or two at UFO nuts, mediums, and the like or used them for freak of the week (CSI for example hit that well several times including an entire episode about Reptilian believers that was surprisingly decent). Pseudoarchaeologists are a little harder to pick out from general conspiracy theorists, but surely the depictions would still sting.

And some of them are clearly inspired by real people. I mentioned South Park, but even more innocuous examples (the obvious Rene Dahinden and John Greene clones in Harry and the Hendersons come to mind).

Compared to these, a self-published novel seems like small potatoes.

spookyparadigm
10/19/2014 07:21:37 pm

The real joke is that these parodies are "under-the-top" for the most part.

A guy wearing a tin-foil hat and wearing an X-Files shirt is comprehensible to the average audience member.

But what the hell would they do with, say, this?

http://mysteryoftheiniquity.com/

EP
10/20/2014 06:47:28 am

http://mysteryoftheiniquity.com/

Looks like Christopher Loring Knowles's dark alter ego :)

B. Harris
10/18/2014 02:12:30 pm

Cameron Thorne? Why not Jack Magnum, Max Strong or Ace Strongwill?

Pass.

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Screaming Eagle
10/18/2014 03:22:32 pm

Magnus Trojan-Enz?

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EP
10/18/2014 04:59:30 pm

Thor Mackall!

RLewis
10/20/2014 03:28:53 am

Cottsa Olterwa

orang
11/17/2018 01:49:59 pm

hugh jorgan

spookyparadigm
10/19/2014 04:44:34 am

I bow to the masters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvVbIhKh-M

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY

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Harry
10/19/2014 05:00:02 am

Too bad Wolf Blitzer is already taken.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
10/20/2014 02:31:26 am

Dirk Steele. Dick Shafter. Rock Hardcastle.

All of whom we just know are brooding, complex smolderfaces with deep psychic wounds just begging for the touch of the woman they ravished in their Scottish halls, but secretly married first.

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Pacal
10/18/2014 02:15:12 pm

Seems to me like Brody created a strawman and then threw in a whole series of ad hominem attacks.

One of the cheapest of rhetorical tricks is instead of dealing with someone's ideas or points is took attack the person. It appears that Brody can't deal with the points so he turns Jason / Vito into a awful person who is in the pay of the CIA and so of course we can ignore his ideas and points of view.

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Harris
10/18/2014 04:44:12 pm

In this obscure, awful, and rather goofy small press runestone conspriacy thriller novel (another one?), the Sisterhood of the Hennepin Chalice (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/205147934) I forced myself to read some time ago, the author, a well meaning Wolter acolyte, also makes mocking and insulting characters with poorly disguised “fake” names of historians Erik Wahlgren, Theodore Blegen, and Birgitta Wallace, who are intimidated by a sinister man in a purple cape (in Sisterhood, the conspiracy is an evil splinter group of the Knights of Columbus). In the case of Wallace, she is influenced to back the conspiracy with an appeal to her feminism, as the finders and defenders of the stone were “all male.” So you are not alone!

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Kal the not famous
10/19/2014 07:14:11 am

I doubt that the poster who claims to be David Brody is actually him. It is probably one of his friends, or a Scott Wolter fan, posting as him. It is incredibly easy for anyone to post on this blog, and others, and to find out their anonymous names and alleged real names aren't what they seem. I suspect one of the normal troll posters is DB and not actually him.

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Jason Colavito link
10/19/2014 07:34:38 am

The user posted with David Brody's private email address, and the IP address corresponds to Brody's hometown.

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PNO TECH
10/19/2014 09:44:58 am

Still, Brody >did< come here and politely and clearly address Jason's points(most of them) without engaging in obfuscation or attacks. That's quite a change from the behavior of many personalities who have responded here. Props to him, I say.

Harry
10/19/2014 02:45:58 pm

Of course, in his first point, Brody did imply that Jason was acknowledging having some of the traits intended to make Vito dislikeable, including not showering and living with his parents, when it is crystal clear that Jason acknowledged no such thing; in fact, Jason made a clear distinction between those facets of Vito that were based on him and those that were intended to make the fictional character dislikeable. That was pretty cheesy on Brody's part.

It is also interesting that Brody responded to Jason's blog post the same day Jason posted it. Is that because he regularly follows Jason's blog, and therefore knows that his Vito character has some similarities (of the neutral kind) to Vito, or is it because he knew that he was making fun of Jason and therefore was reading the blog in anticipation of Jason's reaction?

Jason Colavito link
10/19/2014 03:01:58 pm

He probably Googles himself regularly. That's how most fringe people find my comments about them.

Matt Mc
10/21/2014 09:36:50 am

At least h
e was not like this woman

http://review.gawker.com/author-stalks-blogger-joins-long-tradition-of-terrible-1648688802

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Tony Marino
11/2/2014 08:02:20 pm

Mr. Colavito,if I were to base a character on you for one of my stories,it certainly wouldn't be a villain. It would either be a comic character or a comic relief character. I'd only base villainous characters on either people I don't like or historical bad guys or else just make them up. To be honest,I'd never heard of David Brody before seeing this entry.
I had to look him up online. You'd probably think of this guy as a second-rate Scott Brown or something like like that. I haven't read any of his books so I can't say for sure. Some of this stuff would make great fiction,because that's all a lot of the "Ancient Astronaut" stuff is. There's little real evidence for it,and a lot of it would be better off AS fiction rather than being presented as fact.

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      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
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        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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