One, Richard Burger, replied, telling me he'd referred to it on his blog, which he calls "The Peking Duck." There he'd provided a link to my CFAU story for his readers, with the comment:
Now this is an interesting story. It was sent to me by a reader, and I have no way of knowing whether it's true or false, exaggerated or understated. What I do know is that it's certainly shocking. And bizarre. And I can't really imagine someone going to so much trouble to make it all up (but who knows?). Be sure to click the link at the end to get to the second chapter. That's where things get interesting, and ugly.I'm still in the middle of reading it, and I'm up to my head in work at the moment so I can't even think about trying to summarize it — it's just too elaborate. So I wanted to put it out there and hopefully receive your comments. Could it really be this sinister, this duplicitous? If so, it's good material for a scary book, or even a movie.
I'll return to this tomorrow after I've read the whole thing.
Shortly after Burger posted this, Bosco visited Peking Duck. When he saw the reference to my CFAU story, the volcano erupted. It turned out he'd already seen my story a year earlier — or claimed he had. And he did not appreciate one bit the way "Inside China's Diplomacy School" portrayed the "elite" university that had named him "Visiting Professor of Media & Foreign Policy."
Bosco, a man I didn't know and had never had any contact with, promptly catapulted a lengthy blast to Peking Duck:
[T]his infamous and exceedingly unstable individual ... has been trying with all of his sick might to peddle this "story" all over Beijing and China.... Unfortunately ... you have given him what he craves obsessively, an audience that has no chance to fact-check his over-long, obtuse ravings.... He is a pariah at every school that mistakenly hired him.... I can assert with authority, and direct sources, that his story is flat-out lunacy and paranoid fabrications stemming from his inability to teach or communicate with "normal" human beings.... Please, all who read this, do not accept this slandering of a fine university and a fine group of dedicated Chinese educators--it simply is not true.... I know that by publicly debunking this sick fool I will now become a target of his bizarre abuse.
This defender of First Amendment freedoms then added an ominous warning:
Damn you, Uriel--go away. For your own sake. Before you go too far and get yourself into serious trouble, if you are still in China.
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!