INDIAN CHARLIE AUTHOR MUSSELMAN AVID READER OF PAULICK REPORT
Since the June 16 launch of the Paulick Report, Musselman has shown a potential “man crush,” writing six fictional stories about the Paulick Report and its editor and publisher, Ray Paulick. References to the Paulick Report since June 16 can be found here, here, here, here, here and here.
That number puts the Paulick Report in good company with such regular Indian Charlie cast members as Jerry Bailey, Bob Baffert, Cot Campbell, Robert Clay, Christophe Clemente, Terrence Collier, Bob Evans, Terry Finley, Arthur Hancock, Barry Irwin, Ken McPeek, Niall O’Callaghan, and Dallas Stewart.
“We would like to sincerely thank Mr. Musselman and his billionaire Jockey Club member ghostwriters for the free publicity,” Ray Paulick told the Paulick Report in an exclusive interview, “and we encourage all of them to keep up the good work. Of course, we hope his ghostwriters are able to continue doing such a terrific job running the Thoroughbred industry.”
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September 9th, 2008 at 10:01 am
While, for perhaps a moment in time, Indian Charlie was a refreshing read, it has morphed into a hackneyed, insufferably sophomoric, increasingly mean-spirited and borderline racist publication that will no doubt be thrown to the wolves by his readers and advertisers when he ultimately makes a fatal faux pas in the latter category.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Geez - can freedom of the press actually cover this kind of open smear on someone’s name? Regardless of what problems anyone has had in their personal lives, to attack them so blatently sure seems like libel to me!
Indian Charlie peaked with the horse named in his honor. It’s pretty much just one guy’s chance to make up stories and grind his own personal axe. And if - as the above article states - it’s funded by an “old boy member” of the Jockey Club’s moneyed elite - than Musselman is nothing more than a tool - in every sense of the word.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Big Mistake Boys!!!!!!!!!!
“don’t poke sticks at the tiger”
September 9th, 2008 at 10:34 am
On the other hand, it seems to me that Ray reads Indian Charlie.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:40 am
to Indian Charlie: Me thinks thee protests too much!!!!!!
Keep it up Ray, you’re really getting to him!!!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Mr. Greathouse:
Who is the tiger in this case? Ray Paulick or Indian Charlie?
September 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
As the saying goes….Just Get The Name Right. A journalist isn’t doing a good job unless he has the scum whining, angry and whimpering.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I don’t know which is more childish: Indian Chuck’s attacks on PR or this item detailing such. Grow up!
September 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
the indian is the tiger
richard
everyone that disagrees with “any writer” is whinning, angry and whimpering scum?
hmm
which network do you work for?
September 9th, 2008 at 11:57 am
John, you miss the point. Indian Charlie is a moron no one listens too but for some reason everyone is scared of. Ray now has a platform as free wheeling as Musselman but with actual credibility, you know with the news stories he writes. Eddie boy only wishes people took him a tenth as seriously as they do Mr. Paulick.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Yeah, I don’t think Ray is scared of the Indian in the least. Looks like Paulick is the tiger and Charlie is a splinter from the stick.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
John G
You’re a heck of a shill for Ed. And just think about all that protection money (advertising dollars) you’re saving through this exercise!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
hehehehehehe
you guys are flat nuts LOL
I don’t know which is more unbelievable, you guys responses or indian charlie
September 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
#10…I didn’t bring up the Indians name…i just made a response
# 12…call me anything you like but in 65 years I’ve never once been a shill for ANYONE…I’ll pretty much tell you what I think
September 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Mr. Greathouse, your comments are one of the things that make this website important.
COMMUNICATION! To bad more people can’t use their real name like you.
Fayette Fox, you said it best!
I hope the next PR merits this kind of banter, I hate seeing it wasted on IC.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I’ve never seen/read his newsletter before but after opening a few archived pages I could see that he not only hates you, but also Jack Van Berg - AND Jess Jackson - AND Ed Whitfield, etc., etc.. Is there a theme there? Does he attack everyone who wants to remove drugs from racing and put someone sane in charge?
September 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
John G
Regarding “Shill”. One word “Chill”. No malice intended.
The banter you’ve engendered is appreciated although it appears you’re vastly outgunned (and I agree with #15 that it’s too bad that this dialog is focused on something as trivial as Indian Charlie)
You DO get points for not using a nom de plume but, when your name is Greathouse, who needs one.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Mr. Greathouse what and who are you trying to protect? Indian Charlie??? Why? What on earth does really contribute….a chuckle every now and then? Actually, most of his stories aren’t even really funny or witty….they’re just mean spirited and “simple”. It really is strange that IC takes such offense to Ray….. For someone that supposedly likes pushing peoples “buttons” why is Keeneland and the Tbrd ‘establishment” off limits? He’s exposed himself as a COWARD.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I find it funny how a story like this and the Thoroughbred Times Ripoff story get the most comments, rather than the actual racing and the more business related stories. Seems like people just don’t have much to say until it becomes more gossipy…but seriously Indian Charlie should be much wiser about who he wants to pick fights with.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Does this sort of self-aggrandizing indulgence really count as journalism? How can one take the Paulick Report seriously when it is so willing…eager…to make itself the subject of its stories?
September 9th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
By my count, pr has been responsible for two stories that involved itself in the story. Compare that to what must be 100 stories at this point and it is tough to see your point.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
#20
Let’s agree to disagree on what constitutes serious journalism (by your standard you’re both rolling the clock back two decades and immediately discounting folks like Lou Dobbs).
But, on this we all can agree, the subject at hand –Indian Charlie not the Stallion — is utter rubbish by any standard journalistically or. ethically. He/it will soon be relegated to the trash heap of horse history no doubt by self-inflicted wound — and good riddance given the shabby image Indian Charlie not the Stallion portrays for the modern horse industry and those who chose to support it with advertising.
September 9th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Rubbish Fayette Fox? As we say here in the South (with respect to Indian Charlie), if it looks like trash, talks like trash and walks like trash, it must be trash. Nuff said
September 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Ed unabashedly admits to feeling threatened and exposes his jealousy of the Paulick Report, but he is so simple minded that he believes the two are similar publications and that the PR is muscling in on his “street corner” as if they could possibly be considered competitors. The Paulick Report is not even in the same neighborhood as Ed’s piece of trash. I was handed one of these filthy flyers at Saratoga and before I could dispose of it, I was caught in an embarrassing moment with it in my hand by some who expressed disappointment in me for reading it. I explained that I was just worried that the ladies room might be out of TP, and please forgive me for being seen carrying it.
September 9th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I think the first post in this commentary is spot on ….whomever Fayette Fox may be. I think Indian Charlie is having an identity crisis. He started out as clever and funny, poking fun in well crafted ways, and turning over rocks and shining light light on things that others were afraid to addressed. Somehow, he has lost his way. He is better than he has become, but then, maybe we are who we are now. In any event, he currently mistakes cruelty for humor, and he thinks racism is funny. This is very sad.
September 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Thank you, Bravo 1. I never looked at it quite that way. Referring to “identity”, it occurs to me that there’s something strange about adopting the identity of an Indian in the first place. I always have a problem with the Atlanta Braves or Cleveland Indians, etc. etc. because we took their lands and now try to steal their identities and final bits of dignity. I guess that somehow ties into Charlie’s trend toward racism.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I remember somone telling me that this guy named his sheet after some dead clocker who’s nickname was Indian Charlie. The poor man would be spinning in his grave if he knew the kind of eighth grade locker room humor that has been put out in his name.
I don’t know if Musslemam is a racist, but when I used to read his b.s. at Saratoga it just wasn’t very funny so i stopped
September 10th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I think #2 (Priscilla Peabody?) nailed it. The only way I would be seen with a copy of Indian Charlie is headed into the bathroom. It’s toilet humor at best and race-baited, good old boy stuff that isn’t fit for polite company. We would no sooner advertise in it than stick a round of dynamite in one of our barns.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I think some of you are missing the humor in Indian Charlie!
I read what he wrote about Mr. Paulick on Tuesday and the funniest thing was that this guy actually thinks he can keep someone from linking to his site on the Web. That gave me a good laugh.
Sorry, Charlie, why do you think they call it the World Wide Web? If you don’t want someone to link to your site, then make it password protected.
I do have to question Mr. Paulick’s judgement about why he would link to the dopey web site in the first place.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Want a different yet the same kind of Indian Charlie/Ray Paulick website…go to holybull.ca
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