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Kevin is playing the part of the Rodeo ClownKevin is playing the part of the Rodeo ClownPosted Dec 11, 2003 19:05 UTC (Thu) by hamjudo (guest, #363)Parent article: SCO Weekly News Instead, SCO was represented by Kevin McBride, Darl's brother. This was Kevin McBride's first public appearance in this case, and he appears to have impressed few people - certainly not the judge presiding over the hearing. He started by sitting at the defendants' table, and had to be told to move to the other side of the court. His arguments were generally described as incoherent and unconvincing; he talked a lot about what a complex case it was. And, of course, he lost. I'm getting more impressed as time goes on. The Rodeo Clown's job is to distract the big animal so it won't trample the fallen cowboy and to entertain the crowd until the show can go on. Kevin McBribe was trying to get and keep our attention, instead of stories like this: Bankrupt Before the Trial Starts. It wasn't enough so is brother reported a DDoS and now the big topic on the Yahoo Finance Message Board is the state of the SCO website. At the December 5th hearing, SCO was getting trampled by IBM, but those of us out in the audience were watching Kevin clown around. Kevin McBride had nothing to say, and he managed to say nothing for the better part of an hour. He didn't say anything damning about SCO's case that would make a good media quote, since he didn't say anything about the case at all. He was the master of the non-sequitor. He did a great job of playing the fool and annoying the judge. So the fact that IBM won everything it asked for, gets lost in the noise about Kevin the Clown. The clown technique works, too. LWN won't be taken seriously if you lead every SCO story with "To distract us from SCO's legal and financial situation, today Mr. McBribe ...".
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