So two weeks back in Fort Worth, Texas, a random tool awaited the results of Letter Scavenger Hunt #8 on Downtownfortworth.com. However, the winner of this hunt wasn’t posted in a timely fashion, and said tool tipped off Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Barry Shlachter (a.k.a. bike shorts, above). Smelling a Pulitzer, the biz reporter got to the bottom of this important issue.
Shlachmiester tracked down the helmer of this site, Heeb 100 alum Robert McKee (sheeny curse wand, above), who at the time was in Scotland, scattering his father’s ashes (hence the delay in announcing the stupid results).
Shlachter nevertheless mocked McKee in his column, and here’s where the story really begins. As revenge for Shlachter’s insensitivity, McKee, in classic tushy-shtup fashion, launched a "fan" page on the newspaper man, which gets updated every three days.
The site ranks higher on Google than anything Shlachter has written his entire journalistic career, which probably isn’t saying much.
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10 comments
theyfree
Jul 14, 2009
Shlachter is a premier league salad-puncher.
joshua_neuman
Jul 14, 2009
How in the world did this journalist not think to buy the url of his own name? And people wonder why old media is dying.
MANAQUISHE
Jul 14, 2009
BS is of the old-school, getting lazy about finding a real local business story, throwing caution to the wind and offending people to spice up a very mundane column, and snub the powers of “all that new-fangled Internets the kids are using these days!”
safin
Jul 15, 2009
Barry Shlachter is notorious for trying to dredge up nonexistent controversies to make his boring stories more interesting, and this story is one more example of his faux sensationalism, finally getting the best of him. The Barry site is brilliant and I’
KatyRidglea
Jul 15, 2009
during the colonial golf tournement, i got barry to show me his dick in front of me and my husband. so gross with hair!
dishsoap
Jul 15, 2009
i love the shorts, hate the dude. He is such a dick.
jen
Jul 15, 2009
He didn’t buy the domain name because he’s an old and probably thought crusty old newspapers trumped the power of anything electronic. I like how this site can be up for a decade with very little overhead; that, to me, is way more contentious than some s
AnnaD
Jul 16, 2009
After reading the entire saga, there is no question this reporter should be tossed. To publicly desecrate a burial service in such a needless manner in an effort to be funny is inexcusable.
MANAQUISHE
Jul 23, 2009
Like Hitler’s legacy, Barrygate shall never die.
And on a coincidental note, they both knew each other fondly.
MANAQUISHE
Jul 23, 2009
Like Hitler’s legacy, Barrygate will never die.
In fact, they were frenemies ’til the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKA0AeSSFZM