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Found this site, and apparently the whole point is that you’re randomly connected with someone and you can chat with them anonymously. So I clicked the link and this is the conversation that ensued…

For once I got to make someone’s day instead of ruining it. Nice change of pace

Dylan Rattigan Demolishes Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Vinny — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:02:42 +0000

The question was a very simple one. If the President’s and Congress’ plan for the health care system is going to make it tougher for insurance companies, and if it’s as consumer-focused as they say it is, why are insurance company stock prices climbing so fast?

The answer, which Schultz would never give, is that the insurance companies see this as a huge opportunity to get new customers while the government subsidizes them. You don’t have to be a stock analyst (as she says) to understand that, you just have to be honest and state what’s in front of your face. I think that part, the honesty part, is the one politicians always have and always will have trouble with.

Coburn May Do Something No One Does: Read The Bill

Vinny — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:37:12 +0000

Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who developed a close friendship with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate floor.

Senior Senate Democratic aides had heard Coburn was considering having potentially thousands of pages read aloud in effort to stall passage. “If he did this it would be even outrageous for a guy who’s become known as Dr. No around here,” one of them told POLITICO.

Coburn’s office confirmed that he is indeed thinking about having the bill read.

“That’s a possibility,” Coburn spokesman John Hart said. “He wants to make sure everyone has a chance to read the bill.”

It’s a shame that the only way people will actually read this bill before it’s passed is to force it to be read, aloud, like children, on the floor.

For many people who were voting yes (or no) I’m sure this will be the first time they’ve “read” it.

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Al Sharpton Pissed Someone Noticed He’s a Race Baiter

Vinny — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:14:18 +0000

From CNN:

Reverend Al Sharpton and his lawyers say they are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for an op-ed published Saturday, which Sharpton alleges “erroneously” characterizes his (Sharpton’s) role in a string of violent incidents in New York in the early 90’s.

In the op-ed published in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal Limbaugh writes Sharpton “played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews ‘diamond merchants’) and 1995 Freddie’s Fashion Mart riot.”

Let’s call this as it is (I would say call a spade a spade, but someone would undoubtedly accuse me of being a racist). Al Sharpton is just pissed off because someone pointed out what everyone but his most dedicated sycophants already knows: where Al goes, trouble follows.

Let’s start with the Freddie’s Fashion Mart incident. Wikipedia has a perfect summary of it.

In 1995, a black Pentecostal Church, the United House of Prayer, which owned a retail property on 125th Street, asked Fred Harari, a Jewish tenant who operated Freddie’s Fashion Mart, to evict his longtime subtenant, a black-owned record store called The Record Shack. Sharpton led a protest in Harlem against the planned eviction of The Record Shack. Sharpton told the protesters, “We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”

On December 8, 1995, Roland J. Smith Jr., one of the protesters, entered Harari’s store with a gun and flammable liquid, shot several customers and set the store on fire. The gunman fatally shot himself, and seven store employees died of smoke inhalation. Fire Department officials discovered that the store’s sprinkler had been shut down, in violation of the local fire code. Sharpton claimed that the perpetrator was an open critic of himself and his nonviolent tactics. Sharpton later expressed regret for making the racial remark, “white interloper,” and denied responsibility for inflaming or provoking the violence.

To summarize: Al Sharpton protested for days and inflamed the community and use racist terms like “white interloper” because, as we all know, if you’re white and open a business in a black neighborhood, you’re an interloper looking to extort the neighborhood, but if you’re black and open up in a white neighborhood, then you’re a pioneer and deserve a 24 hour police watch just to make sure them white folks don’t mess up your shit.

Sharpton has a real pair of balls absolving himself of anything in this case. He started the insane and out of control racist protest that ended with Roland Smith’s actions. Sorry, Al, but that one is a medal you can wear clearly on your chest because you earned it.

Then, of course, is the Crown Heights riots, which of course ole Reverend Al had nothing to do with. How he keeps ending up at the center of all these stories he has nothing to do with is beyond logical comprehension, but let’s just humor the bloated racist for a minute.

Whatever the sequence of events was notwithstanding, somehow a car ran through an intersection and ended up in the front yard of the Cato family, pinning young Gavin Cato under the car. Hatzoloh, the Jewish volunteer ambulance service was first on the scene and was directed by police to take the driver, who was beaten until the police arrived, to the hospital while Cato was freed from underneath the car. As Cato was removed from under the car, the waiting NYC ambulance took him to Kings County hospital where he was pronounced dead. The key there is that the second ambulance was already there when Cato was taken out from under the car.

So far, no Al, right?

A few days later, at the funeral, Al Sharpton launched into a racist tirade calling Jews “diamond merchants” and while there are very few photos from the riots (understandably so, it was effing chaos) it’s not hard to imagine the kind of anti-semitism on display. In fact, before Cato’s funeral, a gang of black kids grabbed Yankel Rosenbaum and beat him to death. Did he do anything wrong? Nope. He was just one of those pesky “diamond merchants”.

While Sharpton didn’t come into the picture until Gavin Cato’s funeral, his racist and anti-semitic tirade almost certainly crystallized the feelings of a neighborhood mourning a tragic loss and set them into action robbing, looting, and setting fire to their own neighborhood in anger. It’s important to note, also, that Jews were not rioting in Crown Heights. Caribbean natives and other black people from around the city were doing all the rioting, looting, and destroying, undoubtedly influenced by Sharpton’s spark in a gasoline filled neighborhood.

Once the riots were over, Sharpton tried unsuccessfully to kick up tensions again by marching 400 protesters in front of the Lubavitch of Crown Heights shouting “No Justice, No Peace,” in a sure attempt at fostering community understanding and interracial harmony.

Sharpton has touted for years that a committee empaneled by then “Mayor” David Dinkins, who pretty much let Crown Heights burn for 4 days before really attempting to stop the rioting, found that he did not cause the rioting. Judging by his actions, and his attempt to reignite that spark after things had settled down, however, anyone who was around knows that’s complete and utter crap.

New Yorkers have seen the kind of person Reverend Al is more than any other folks in this country. We’ve seen his anti-white anti-Jew rhetoric for so long that we’ve just come to expect it. We’ve come to expect that where there’s race trouble, you’ll find Al at the center of it either stoking the flames or trying to get famous from it. I hope he does get froggy and decide to sue Rush. I’d love to have a court record of his racist history in this city and him defending his often-abominable behavior.

Don’t back down, Rush. We don’t always see eye-to-eye, but in this instance, I’m 100% behind you.

How To Get Fired For Twittering: Waiter Edition – Jane adams – Gawker

Vinny — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:40:29 +0000

Jon-Barrett Ingels was fired as a waiter thanks in large part to Jane Smith. The co-star of HBO’s Hung couldn’t pay her check, then failed to tip when she did. The waiter complained on Twitter; Smith complained to his boss.

Ingles, reports the Los Angeles Times, was then fired

Apparently, she said she was going out to the car to get her checkbook, then skipped out. The waiter tweeted that she didn’t tip. The next day, a rep showed up to pay her bill and leave a big $3 tip.

Can you imagine what would happen had you skipped out on a bill?

Yeah. Exactly.

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“It’s Wrong” vs. “It’s Never Happened Before”

Vinny — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:11:05 +0000

I watched with great amusement as SC Rep. Joe Wilson called the President a liar during his televised address to Congress. The reactions were so good that I couldn’t have done a more accurate acting job if you shot me in the leg.

The Democrats and their willing propaganda arm (ie: our illustrious media) immediately pounced on Wilson. Hard. With both feet. And good for them. They should’ve. As much as I’m a free speech absolutist, there are times when you have to shut your mouth, and a Presidential address to Congress is one of them. In fact, I don’t even like the stupid applause breaks, the standing cheers, the boos, and all that other stuff. Let’s get rid of it all. Just sit there, quietly, like adults, and listen to the nice man in the suit speak.

The short-attention-span idiots at the anchor desks seized on Wilson to be the topic of conversation when they realized how full of crap the speech was. In fact, much of the “analysis” afterward was all about Joe Wilson’s outburst and little on the numerous stretching falsehoods let loose by Obama himself.

Then the narrative started. For this situation, the narrative was “This is an unprecdented outburst in the history of the Congress.”

Oh really?

The 2005 State of the Union begs to differ.

Note the yelling of “no no no” and the “boos” from the audience (hint: they aren’t coming from Joe Wilson). Now, I don’t know about you, but if someone says something and you start yelling “no no no” you aren’t saying, “I respect your opinion and I believe you’re telling the truth.”

Yeah.

Both sides are scumbags to the President when it fits their agenda to be such. That’s just the way it is.

That being said, Joe Wilson should’ve exhibited a lot more decorum, kept his mouth shut, and stayed in his seat because he ended up derailing a night that could’ve been brilliant for the opposition to Obamacare.

Textbook example of opportunity lost.

Stole 2004, Handed Over 2008? Are We Supposed to Believe That?

Vinny — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:04:22 +0000

I read something this morning I won’t even bother linking back to because it was such bull it wasn’t worth the 3 minutes of my time it actually took to read.

If you haven’t already watched IT.tv Episode 52, go back and do it. I’ll post it below for your easy reference.

Keeping that video in mind, I saw a little ditty on the interwebs this morning that pointed out, yet again, that John Kerry had the election in 2004 stolen out from under him; as if there was some mass collusion that could accomplish such an off-the-wall result.

What doesn’t make sense, and makes even less sense in the year 2008, is that the Republicans didn’t steal another election. Wait, what?

Think about. In 2004, there wasn’t a single poll that didn’t have George W. Bush ahead of the absolutely inept John Kerry, many of those polls well outside the margin of error. The only shock in 2004 would’ve been if Kerry had actually pulled off an election win; honestly, that probably would’ve triggered some questioning of whether or not the machines were rigged.

It didn’t happen. In spite of all the claims of fraud out of Ohio, no fraud was ever found.

In 2008, using the same voting machines that were going to fail and ruin democracy and destroy our government, the Democrats went into November with a healthy lead. John McCain wasn’t just an underdog, he was the pre-determined loser, in some polls by double-digits. If there was ever a time when the Republicans would need to steal an election, it was 2008, and yet here we are in 2009 with the first Democrat President in 8 years, the first black President ever, and the first Democrat majority in all branches of the government and governorships since the early 80’s.

And none of this is surprising!

So ask yourself… If you knew… Going into an election… That you were the odds on favorite to get your ass kicked… And that you had the ability to steal elections because you had successfully done it in the past, wouldn’t you do it if you could?

Just seems to me like stealing an election you’re probably going to win anyway isn’t a great plan, while not stealing one you’re going to lose is downright silly.

But that involves the employment of logic, I guess.

Four Half-Truths on Health Care

Vinny — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:24:51 +0000

So Barack Obama wrote and Op-Ed in The NY Times pushing his health care plan (I thought they didn’t like when politicians published advocacy pieces that don’t expound “new information” in the Op-Ed section?), and with his usual rhetorical flair manages to publish complete crap, wrap it in niceties and feel-goodness, and make everyone cheer for it.

While there’s an enormous amount of crap in the entire piece (about how great he thinks the protests are and how everyone will be covered in Shangri-La), I’m going to stick to the four points he highlights because they’re typical half-truths about the plan that I’m getting a bit tired of hearing.

Half Truth #1:

First, if you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of high-quality, affordable coverage for yourself and your family — coverage that will stay with you whether you move, change your job or lose your job.

Wow, what a great idea! Who would’ve thought such a thing could happen! Health care that follows you everywhere. Why, it’s almost as if you bought it yourself! Ummmm… Wait… If I did buy it myself, it would follow me everywhere…

The reason people have become panicky about losing their jobs and, by extension their health care, is because we’ve arrived at a place in the existence of this country where health care is considered an inalienable right, and that it should be provided for us, usually by our employers. When the time comes where we have to provide our own insurance, we’re stymied by the idea that anyone would dare suggest we pay for our own.

Will you be able to take your plan with you? Obviously because you’re covered by the government, not your employer, but private insurance offers the same benefit. This isn’t revolutionary or reformatory.

Is private insurance expensive? Sure it is. Sometimes overly so. But do you think it’s free when you don’t pay for it? Of course, talking about costs leads us to…

Half Truth #2:

Second, reform will finally bring skyrocketing health care costs under control, which will mean real savings for families, businesses and our government. We’ll cut hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies that do nothing to improve care and everything to improve their profits.

Insurance is a profit-driven industry. I don’t think anyone would argue otherwise. When I see “we’ll cut hundreds of billions of dollars and inefficiency from Medicare and Medicaid” I laugh. Why?

Because since the beginning, the President has been touting how the plan wouldn’t be single payer, and more akin to “Medicare for everyone.” That sounds great on paper, but that’s where it ends.

You see, Medicare’s operating overhead is approximately…

Ready?

2%.

Medicaid? Roughly the same.

Of the $454 billion budget in 2008, that would leave approximately $9.08bn of “inefficiency” that can be cut from Medicare and $4.2bn that could be cut from the $224bn Medicaid budget. Nowhere near hundreds of billions of dollars. Now you may, of course, argue there are other areas of the Medicare and Medicaid systems that could be cut. Fine, but if they’re so inefficient that you can cut billions of dollars from them to finance billions of dollars in new spending, why not make those cuts now instead of deficit spending?

Simply put, the President has no intention of making those cuts; if they could be made they would’ve been made already. There isn’t hundreds of billions of dollars in the $682bn total Medicare / Medicaid budget to cut. Sorry, Mr. President. You’re either lying, or uninformed.

Half Truth #3:

Third, by making Medicare more efficient, we’ll be able to ensure that more tax dollars go directly to caring for seniors instead of enriching insurance companies. This will not only help provide today’s seniors with the benefits they’ve been promised; it will also ensure the long-term health of Medicare for tomorrow’s seniors. And our reforms will also reduce the amount our seniors pay for their prescription drugs.

If Medicare could be made more efficient, it should be done right now. The truth is there’s nowhere near the amount of money in that kitty that he thinks there is, so when the time comes to keep this promise, out comes the old tax hike. Or a panel that advises a bunch of old folks to pull their own plugs (Remember those? The panels that didn’t exist that were removed from the Senate version of the bill even though they didn’t exist?). Whichever is cheaper.

As for enriching insurance companies, why shouldn’t they be enriched somehow? Are we forgetting that 85% of people are happy with their current plan, coverage, and company? Does that sound like people clamoring for a change? Not to me.

Secondly, we already have a system to take care of the elderly. The entire health care system in the United States need not be scrapped to fix what’s broken about part of it. That’s just illogical in every respect. Of course, tossing out a whole system in the name of reforming it is right at the core of…

Half Truth #4:

Lastly, reform will provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable. A 2007 national survey actually shows that insurance companies discriminated against more than 12 million Americans in the previous three years because they had a pre-existing illness or condition. The companies either refused to cover the person, refused to cover a specific illness or condition or charged a higher premium.

We will put an end to these practices. Our reform will prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of your medical history. Nor will they be allowed to drop your coverage if you get sick. They will not be able to water down your coverage when you need it most. They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or in a lifetime. And we will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses. No one in America should go broke because they get sick.

Most important, we will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups, preventive care and screening tests like mammograms and colonoscopies. There’s no reason that we shouldn’t be catching diseases like breast cancer and prostate cancer on the front end. It makes sense, it saves lives and it can also save money.

I don’t know if you know this or not, but the insurance industries are regulated both on the state and the federal level. While the President would have you believe that this “reform” plan will usher in a new era of insurance company oversight. My question with this is the same as my question about Medicare: why not do it now?

Get on the regulating agencies and state regulators to do their damn jobs! If insurance companies are as out of control as we’re being led to believe, then it’s because the people responsible for oversight are failing. Miserably. Maybe it’s time to reform that!

Insurance companies don’t operate in an unregulated bubble, despite what our President would have you believe. If they’re harming consumers, punish them! If they’re profiteering on people’s pain, punish them! Regulate them with the same boldness and swiftness that the FCC went after Apple for not approving an App for the iPhone! Pretend it’s Microsoft, and that they must be stopped!

Number four does not require the entire scrapping of our entire system to occur, but the President would have you believe it does. It’s us vs. them. In this case, “us” is the private citizen, and “them” is the evil insurance companies. Of course, despite it being us versus them, he also points out if you like being taken advantage of by your evil insurance company, you can keep your plan, a myth I handily debunked a few days ago with the bill he obviously hasn’t read yet.

I’m gonna close this with the biggest outright lie in the op-ed piece.

This is not about putting the government in charge of your health insurance.

If it wasn’t about that, Mr. President, you could start working on it right now and we wouldn’t have to have 3 1,100 page bills to give you authorization to start.

Joe Biden, Yet Again, Remembers Something That Didn’t Happen

Vinny — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:57:31 +0000

Why isn’t the mainstream media devoting half hour specials and phone in analysis to Obama and Biden the way they did to Hillary Clinton when she told her tale of being under sniper fire?

So far, to recap, we have Joe Biden’s helicopter being forced down in Afghanistan by Al Qaeda (it wasn’t, it was forced down by a snowstorm) and Barack Obama remembering being in Hawaii to see Apollo return to Earth at a time when according to all accounts (including that of his own book) he was in Indonesia for at least 8 years when it happened. I’ve written about it here and at various other times.

Now we have Joe Biden stepping to the forefront again and remembering something that flat-out didn’t happen.

On July 31, he recounted to the Georgia Parliament how on his last visit, in 2008, he heard artillery fire and fighter jets. The problem is that the fighting was over already, and when he was there, he was over twenty miles away from where it was actually happening. As you can see from this photo taken by the US Embassy in Georgia, Biden doesn’t exactly look terrified and in danger.

In other words, yet another harrowing tale of courage by the great Joe Biden can be chalked up to yet another lie by a guy who can’t seem to remember things as they actually happened and has a history of embellishing his record.

Seeing as I’ve said this before, I’ll only repeat the important bits. I don’t care about little details like this. What bothers me is that Hillary Clinton was flogged continuously for weeks after she made her statements by a media that was doing anything in their power to paint her as out of touch and old school in order to get Barack Obama elected. Joe Biden has since done the same thing twice, and Barack Obama himself has done it once.

I’d love to know the reason they get a pass, considering that, at least in Biden’s case, the addition of “danger” to a situation that wasn’t really that dangerous is right in the mold of what got Clinton in trouble during the primaries.

Why have Obama and Biden gotten a pass for doing something that Hillary was crucified for?

The Stimulus Wasn’t Meant to Work Immediately?

Vinny — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:26:22 +0000

Yet another Obama lie dismantled with his own words.

Good thing our mainstream media is on the case, huh?

Oh right, the economy is fine now because The Great One^tm wants to talk about health care instead.

Obama Isn’t Trying to Eliminate Private Insurance?

Vinny — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:09:03 +0000

The best thing about having Barack Obama as President is that you never have to rebut his points. You can just use his words to do it.

Oh well. Let’s see what the next lie is…

A Stimulus Story

Vinny — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:59:54 +0000

From Beth’s uncle:

It is the month of June; a resort town sits next to the shores of a large lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich, fat-cat tourist comes to town.

He enters the only hotel, lays a $100 bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the $100 bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.

The pig raiser takes the $100 bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services” on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the $100 bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his $100 bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

Yep. Sounds about right.

Astonishing Admission From Henry Louis Gates

Vinny — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:44:56 +0000

Essentially… “As black people, we can’t achieve anything if white people don’t give it to us.” I’m open to other interpretations of what he said here, but to me that sounds pretty damn close.

And we’re meant to believe this race baiting piece of garbage was civil to a police officer?

Where’s Patches?

Vinny — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:43:38 +0000

Religulous Didn’t Make Shit

Vinny — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:44:22 +0000

Remember when Religulous was being touted as a great must-see documentary by the morons in the media? It was cunningly funny, biting, and evenly critical of all religions (even though it wasn’t)?

Joe Neumaier of the NY Daily News practically orgasmed over Maher’s perceived brilliance…

“I’m only asking questions,” says comic/professional provocateur Bill Maher in “Religulous.” The host of HBO’s “Real Time” says it to a group of truckers at a roadside trailer chapel in North Carolina, because what he’s putting under the microscope is unexamined beliefs. And, as might be expected, someone feels like their faith is being crucified.

It’s not. The truth is, what Maher attempts in his new comic documentary is an examination of how those topics once avoided in polite company – religion and politics – are now linked in a way that benefits neither, pollutes both and endangers us all. He also makes the point, often hilariously, that the very act of saying one has serious doubts about religion is, despite a mini-trend in atheist chic, America’s last taboo.

And then this chunk:

He doesn’t get the answers he seeks – how can creationists ignore science? Is anyone bothered by the similarities in various savior stories? Isn’t magical thinking an enemy of rational thought? Unsurprisingly, he’s unsuccessful in making his interviewees doubt their long-held views. And while he finds hypocrisy, he’s after bigger fish.

What he does do finally in this funny, refreshing movie is assert how unrestrained religiosity could guarantee the “end days” many of his subjects admit to looking forward to.

This is just a sampling of the reviews I remember very vividly. Neumaier’s review stuck out to me, even though it’s almost a year later, because of his tone. Obviously, Joe is a fan of Mr. Maher’s brainless attacks on anything he doesn’t agree with judging by the four-star review he gave this steaming pile of a movie.

Well, I just so happened to stumble upon something today. The Box Office receipts for the movie… How did it do?

Can you say… EPIC FAIL?

Face it Bill… No one gives a shit what you have to say.

Nice Caption, Reuters

Vinny — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:13:29 +0000

It’s obvious he’s checking that chick in the magenta dress out. Reuters, however, would not allow the obvious to taint their caption…

Even when he does something somewhat funny, we dare not criticize the Great One.

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Methinks Thou Doest Protest Too Much

Vinny — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:50:36 +0000

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….

[See post to watch Flash video]

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.