[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Fearless Leader

I admit it, I used to really like his site, www.paulickreport.com, but I just shake my head and laugh at what is has morphed into, a mouthpiece for the radical right faction that has appeared in recent months. It has become a forum for those folks living in an ivory tower who want the American Thoroughbred Racing Industry transformed back into an early twentieth century version of "The Sport Of Kings" , or wish to mimic racing in Europe.

Paulick has given free rein to the likes of Barry Irwin who bizzarely and hypocritically has been espousing and endorsing his version of a utopian racing society where only graded stakes caliber, medication free horses at major tracks would be allowed to race. The guy insists that Lasix is the cause of all evil in the game, the reason horses break down, and the reason certain stables win with a seemingly impossible frequency.

Anyone that dares to question the veracity of any of Irwin and his sychophants, refutes any of their ridiculous arguments with facts, or points out their hypocrisy, has their comments removed or is banned outright by Paulick. I myself have had comments removed and have a friend who was banned from the site for speaking the truth.

Paulick's site was seemingly about gravitas. Lately it has been exposed as nothing more than a mouthpiece for the radical right agenda, set only on destroying thoroughbred racing as a viable business. It almost makes one wonder if his site is fully funded by The Jockey Club and Team Valor, considering the way he panders to their nonsensical agenda.

Racing in North America is not like racing in other parts of the world, it is much better, and as such, shouldn't try to emmulate something beneath itself just to please a select few with a gilded view of utopia.

Instead of allowing people that have actual first hand knowledge to address a topic, much like some of those clown racing commisioners in Kentucky that tried to silence Dr. Northrup and Dale Romans yesterday, Paulick would rather genuflect before the Lords of the Jockey Club than honor the tenets of his profession; objectivity and free speech.

Kudos should be given to Steve Byk, who unlike Ray Paulick believes an objective, fair and balanced discussion without censorship is the proper approach.

I don't know anything about Paulick or his site so I can't comment on that. But here is what I don't understand. With regard to this issue, I see the same thing that I see in politics. People have a need to vilify people with opposing views. There is no need to vilify people and assume they have some type of negative motives or intentions

I have listened to arguments on both sides of this issue. I think both sides make good arguments. This is not a case where you have only stupid and uneducated people on one side and smart people on the other side. There are plenty of smart and respected people on both sides. Both sides have good intentions.

I think if you had an unbiased jury listen to the testimony from experts on both sides of this issue, I think you would end up with a hung jury. I think there are credible, expert witnesses on both sides that make extremely compelling arguments in favor of and against the use of lasix.

Some of you guys act like this is some type of slam-dunk case where people would have to be out of their minds to disagree with you.