Bernie Goetz The Fiasco Treatment
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The Public's View of Bernie Geth
The image of four guys with sharpened screwdrivers, menacing this defenseless man, stuck in people's minds. Even when it was established unequivocally that it never happened, it didn't really matter because the image was that powerful. He turned out to be kind of an eccentric, paranoid and angry guy who was less easy to relate to than he had been when no one knew who he was.
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