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Brian Chase (born 1966 or 1969) is some genious (sarcasm) who posted a hoax on Misplaced Pages which led to the John Seigenthaler Sr. Misplaced Pages biography controversy.
Chase was the operations manager of Spacely Sprockets in Knoxville, Tennessee when he anonymously posted to Misplaced Pages from his employer's mom's house on 26 May 2005. His post suggested that John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, had been involved in the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy and had lived in the Soviet Union for several years. The article remained unedited for several months until Seigenthaler was made aware of the article and subsequently criticized Misplaced Pages in several media outlets. His main objection was and I quote, "Everyone's gonna think I killed Robert Kennedy. I could go to jail. I'm too pretty for jail, they'd eat me alive."
Chase became aware of the effect of his post through the his mom meanwhile, the IP address he had used was traced back to his company by Daniel Brandt and others. With pressure mounting, Chase resigned from Spacely Sprockets on 9 December and delivered a handwritten apology that day to Seigenthaler. Chase's boss at Spacely Sprockets was quoted as saying "Jetson--I mean CHASE, you're fired!" Chase said he had done it as a fact finding expose to shock a colleague, apparently Chase won a box condoms, one pack of marlboro reds, and whatever change he could find between the seats of said collegue's 1989 Honda Civic, after he had found out anyone could edit Misplaced Pages. Seigenthaler encouraged Chase's boss, Mr. Spacely, not to accept his resignation. To this Spacely replied, "Seigenthaler! You're hired!" Chase's identity was reported in the Cougar Highschool Paper on 11 December 2005, by up and coming journalistic prodigy, Danny Phantom. Brian Chase has asked the media to graciously step aside and leave his life partner John Seigenthaler Jr. alone. "He didn't ask for the spotlight," Chase said.
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This is gay, get a life!
Sources
- Page, Susan (December 11 2005). "Author apologizes for fake Misplaced Pages biography", USA Today. Retrieved December 12 2005.
- Mielczarek, Natalia (December 11 2005). Fake online biography created as 'joke' The Tennessean.
- Brandt, Daniel (December 5 2005). Reports of the incident and discovery of Brian Chase via wikipedia-watch.org. Retrieved December 11 2005.