I readily admit that I’m enjoying watching the decline of Leo Laporte’s sanity over the past few years. It started on the Twit Forums when he started getting snippy with people who were paying to be there for daring to say not everything he did was perfect. Then he shut down those same forums in a snit over the “negative tone” of the forums, completely ignoring that much of the negativity was due to the fact that he was more interested in playing TV studio than putting a quality podcast out every week.
This week, during the taping of the Gillmor Gang, Leo lost his shit with Mike Arrington. Take a look at this meltdown; it’s an utter classic….
Funny thing is, he jumped to defend himself from something that wasn’t even said… Arrington never accused him of reviewing the Pre favorably just because he got a freebie. His point, that he started to make when Laporte went nuclear, was that Palm was picking and choosing who got review units initially.
Leo took it as an attack on his integrity, even though Arrington did no such thing, but you have to wonder if he took it so personally because he’s had such things pointed out to him on other occasions. I can think of at least two occasions where his holding on to a sponsor trumped his reporting, namely in the incompetents that are Nerds on Site and more recently the failure that is Astaro. Neither one of these stories ever warranted a mention on Leo’s podcasts. Coincidentally, of course. I dare not accuse anyone of anything.
Maybe he should consider exhibiting some of that ole integrity before accusing others of questioning it.
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