Nazi?

COMMENTARY

“An attack from Wilson rings about as true as the infamous assaults Vice President Spiro Agnew leveled on the media. Agnew and his boss, Richard Nixon, tried to divert attention from themselves by seeking to discredit the press. As they say, if you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger.”

MARK SCHUMANN

Brian Heady, author of “Liars, Cheats and Thieves,” is sometime hard pressed to get his facts straight. He seems even more challenged, when determining the truth requires some level of discernment. Bristling at having been exposed as the shameless grandstander he has become, Heady was before the City Council and the cameras again tonight accusing me personally of suggesting he and his fellow grandstanders employ Nazi tactics.

If Heady will search the word “Nazi” on the InsideVero.com website, as I did this evening, he will be hard pressed to find a story under my byline in which the word “Nazi” is used. Having said that, in no way do I disavow the instances when my colleagues have felt the heavy-handedness of Heady and others like him was deserving of such frank commentary.

The way Charlie Wilson attempted this evening to use his few minutes under the lights to mount a personal attack on George Christopher is a case in point. Christopher was later before the Council ably defending himself. Near the end of the meeting, which Wilson, Heady and company turned into a virtual circus, Wilson, the founder of the new Vero Beach “Chamber of Commerce,” was again before the Council later in the meeting acknowledging that his assertion Christopher has called the FMPA some 100 times might have been, as Christopher claimed, inaccurate – and grossly so.

Clearly tired of having his frequent misstatements called to the attention of an otherwise unsuspecting public, Wilson could not pass up the opportunity to take a jab at Inside Vero. An attack from Wilson rings about as true as the infamous assaults Vice President Spiro Agnew leveled on the media. Agnew and his boss, Richard Nixon, tried to divert attention from themselves by seeking to discredit the press. As they say, if you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger.

One comment

I abhor people who throw the word “nazi” around when it has absolutely no relevance. Use of the term “nazi” is just plain intellectual laziness.

The fact that you take the time to even attend the clown show that is a COVB meeting demonstrates that you do indeed want to get the facts right. Nothing beats having a seat at the scene of the crime,