To borrow Clyde's words, "lets [sic] dissect this."
Clyde's new blog post starts by dismissing the relevancy, not to mention waste of his valuable time, of message board comments. Something about making money and making Scooby mad. However, he obviously perused through this thread to fish out Jamie's reply. Clyde also reinforces that he is no longer pro. So he probably read the "Clyde" thread as well.
Next, Clyde squarely blames the magazines, not himself, for Jamie's assertion that he "ran with" rumors. Although, one should not always believe what one reads, his point holds some ground. His editors seem to be paranoid of offending valuable advertisers by censoring Clyde's rants. So by this logic, the they should too be very reticent of printing libel regarding Mr. Thomas, who own a very successful conglomerate, for fear of losing important advertising revenue. It is important to note here that language, even simple words, is very abstract. Jamie, Sheckler, Danny, Clyde, and the magazine editors all have (take the verb "to be", originally a Sanskrit word meaning "breath" or something) unique ways of conveying and interpreting information.
So basically, I'm saying that a few of the parties involved have a limited comprehension of the English language. Shit just went over their heads. And, Gipper, there is a bicycle that pedals backwords--a fixed gear. As I believe Clyde would win that backpeddling Olympic event because he originally pointed out Jamie (long hair, drawn out 50-50s, who else could that be? well, maybe Dan Haney, but how many boards did he sell?) as the main culprit in "ruining" skateboarding, not the "era" as he now suggests.
Topic: The Slap Message Boards and the Trial of Jamie Thomas (Read 86935 times)