I have been attacked and lauded on every major TV network, broadcast and cable, in America--and now China. That's life in the big leagues. Larry King loves me--Jeffrey Toobin hates me. I've had great reviews in The New York Times Book Review, and I've been slammed by the Los Angeles Times Sunday book section. It is all good.
So he wanted me to "please continue writing about me."
Of course, there were grounds to be suspicious of such a plea. How much sense did it make, given his assumption that my wish was to cause him displeasure?
My reply (a mere 800 words) made Bosco realize that, actually, this was not a discussion he really wanted to have.
"We will not communicate beyond this reply," his response to my response announced. "The last thing I ever wanted to do in this life was to get into any kind of discourse with you--and here I have done so. I AM THE STUPID ONE. Please stay out of my mail-box in the future, and I will stay out of yours."
But first, he had numerous additional points to make.
The certitude of his insights into Communist Party thinking, for example, which my essay (above) had mocked, was actually well founded:
My god, man, almost all of the Chinese people I work with and spend free time with are Party members, including at least one-fourth of my students. It is not terribly difficult for me to report what they say about issues important to them. I also do a great deal of political commentary for CCTV 9 International, where I am on panels with highly placed government and academic officials from whom I learn a great deal.
Regarding the deletion of the diplomacy school discussion from Burger's Peking Duck blog, Bosco offered a remarkable claim:
I did not tell Richard to take your post down; in fact I advised against it since it was already "out there" and I could shoot it all down because I do have the "sources" to counter your silly story--Richard chose to take it down when your comments began to concern him personally.
This was quite curious, since Burger had claimed, in his email to me, that he'd deleted the discussion because "Joseph convinced me that debate on this point would not be productive and could cause unnecessary harm."
Despite Bosco's adjuration to stay clear of his mailbox, I permitted myself a brief reply. His claim, I wrote him, was "directly contradicted by Richard's email to me, which I quote in my essay about you."
But only fuming silence emanated from Bosco.
I also forwarded Bosco's message, contradicting Burger, to Burger himself.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
that was one hell of a tale Uriel, thanks. Your relationship with Bosco reminds me a bit of my dealings with Andrew Sullivan a few years ago.
2 - Angelina Fiorentino
I would personally like to thank Joe Bosco for writing the fascinating book A Problem Of Evidence. I am glad someone had the balls to straight out say the truth about the Brown Family. (The Family Brown Ch. 12) I feel so sorry for Nicole Brown Simpson having been sold out by her family for OJ's money. And then they have the nerve, ESPECIALLY Denise Brown, to start a charity, that has been underfire by the IRS, under their murdered sister's name. Now she's the big DV expert? Denise Brown is the biggest phoney!
I have followed this case since the day I heard about the murders, I saw Denise Brown mouthing off to every tv show and the family selling Nicole's Diary, Nude Pictures (sold by sister Dominique), everything of Nicole's for In My Opinion, blood money!