What made him so polarized?
To all other monkeys, their view of the top monkey....
To all but the lead dog, the view is the same.
JOC was lead dog, top monkey. All the others could see was his posterior...
Seriously, he was pretty sure of himself, wrote with authority. So he became a big target. But all that controversy, real and contrived, sold copy, put money in his pocket.
For sure EK and Askins, Jr. did a bunch of the same, selling more and more copy.
I read that JOC became an expert marksman on moving targets, shooting jackrabbits as a youngster.
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