Disgruntled Employee…of the Year!

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We have really been trying our best to help the mainstream media folks like Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, Kim Zetter at Wired Magazine and Adam Smith at The St. Petersburg Times.

All of them have passed on, without any supporting evidence, the charges by Yang Enterprises, Inc (YEI) attorney — and former law partner of Tom Feeney — Michael O’Quinn (of “Fowler & O’Quinn” nee “Fowler, Barice, Feeney & O’Quinn), that Clint Curtis was a “disgruntled employee”.

Despite having demonstrated how Mr. Curtis seems to have been anything but disgruntled on several occasions here, having reported that he stayed on an extra six weeks at YEI after his resignation date at the request of the company’s CEO and had even received a farewell party from the company when he finally did leave…apparently some of those “responsible mainstream media” reporters seem to think they needn’t offer any context or supporting evidence when helping embattled parties to defend themselves against serious charges by simply slurring individuals without even the slightest shred of evidence or fact-checking!

In our final attempt (we hope) to answer once and for all to the unsupported “disgruntled employee” slur, we offer yet another exclusive piece of evidence that would seem to belie those charges.

And this time, it’s a visual aid!…With cute cartoon animals! Perhaps that will be easier for such “reporters” to comprehend…

(Our promised complete reply to Olbermann’s inexcusably irresponsible report filed yesterday on the Clint Curtis matter has now been published here.)

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Disgruntled Employee…of the Year!

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  1. 1)
    winter patriot said on 12/22/2004 @ 11:05am PT: [Permalink]

    "slurring individuals without even the slightest shred of evidence or fact-checking…"

    … does seem to be the preferred method. It’s been going on for a long time, and the really spooky thing [to me] is that so few Americans have shown the ability [or the inclination] to see through it. It’s a disease, one which has infected a huge proportion of the country. "If the media cover it, it must be true. If they ignore it, it must be false." As if nobody had *ever* been caught telling a tall one.

    Fortunately for us, Brad seems immune to the disease. Keep up the good work, Brad. Your immune system is working just fine. 😉

  2. 3)
    Me Again said on 12/22/2004 @ 12:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    Again you tell it like it is, THanks for being there Brad!
    Perhaps the Congressional investigators would like a copy of this, could you send it?

    They will I’m sure be hit with this farce in their investigations!

    Happy Holidays!

  3. 4)
    Eric Zuesse said on 12/22/2004 @ 1:21pm PT: [Permalink]

    I know how it feels to have the major media ignore what they ought instead to be pressing to develop as a major news story. It seems that you’re experiencing this, too. Unfortunately, they’ve got the megaphones, and if someone like Olbermann wants to dismiss Clint Curtis, there’s no way that we–who lack such megaphones–can be heard above the din of propaganda from the major media, all of whom share George W. Bush’s fascist bed.

  4. 5)
    Brad said on 12/22/2004 @ 6:50pm PT: [Permalink]

    Eric, I’ll stay out of Bush’s fascist bed for the moment, but I’d suggest our megaphones are actually pretty powerful.

    To that end, I’d think Olbermann has likely "heard" me, and I hope he’ll correct the record. For *your* part, I hope you’ll help him hear what I’m sure he’d rather not.

    They may own the megaphones for now, but their days are numbered and things are changing a lot out here. By the day.

    The good news is, I can confirm the major media is *not* ignoring this story. They are, however, playing it astoundingly "carefully" for reasons that I can’t really explain. I mean, even if you take the "vote-rigging" stuff entirely *out* of the Clint Curtis, it’s a *huge* story.

    I’m confident that will get through, and when it does, be more like a damn breaking.

    In the meantime, Alex Babcock at the Seminole Chronicle, I believe, is making more noise at his little hometown paper on this story than might be immediate apparent. The internet gives even the smallest of papers a mighty big megaphone at times.

    More to come…

  5. 6)
    Mixter said on 12/23/2004 @ 2:43am PT: [Permalink]

    Excellent job! Remarkable that Curtis saved this card (I would have tossed it after a week or two), but good thing he did.

    It’s obvious he left on HORRIBLE terms, especially when the CEO says she would leave the door open for him…

    Reporting in the MSM is not reporting at all. MSM tells us what "they" want us to hear. I can’t believe they actually reported that the attack in Mosul was a suicide bomber. Of course, in this case, with so many people there the truth was bound to slip out somehow, so they decided to play it somewhat straight. Maybe.

    Keep up the good work, Brad. And I hope you have a great holiday and a wonderful 2005. (I’m not so sure about after Jan. 20, but hey…)

  6. 7)
    rhonda said on 12/23/2004 @ 7:54am PT: [Permalink]

    Funny… but all patriots who speak out against Bush or his minions are always called "Disgruntled Employees". Thank you for following these stories.
    Thank You ,especially , ….all you pissed off employees , you are very brave. Truth is the best fix to our problems , all of them but seems to cause meltdown on the gop side. Shameful ,really since telling the truth is the moral thing to do, didn’t the goppers say they were the great Morality Kings???????oophs that must of been a lie too…….

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    Dredd said on 12/23/2004 @ 9:33am PT: [Permalink]

    I sent this letter to the good folk at the Seminole Chronicle:

    Greetings,

    Just a short note to thank you for speaking out on election problems.

    I pledge to put anyone in my party in jail who does vote fraud. Period.

    It is one thing to steal money, which is bad enough, but it is another thing to steal the heart of my fellow americans (their vote).

    All we stand for is stolen when election vote theft takes place.

    Keep up the good work.

    [name]
    >>

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    reality-based liberal said on 12/23/2004 @ 12:41pm PT: [Permalink]

    Until this election, I had great respect for Wired magazine. Now I am flabbergasted by how wrong I was. Reports before and since the election had swayed my oppinion, but this! Honestly, can’t anyone out there follow the basic methods of journalism. Even Wired magazine has pr flaks for ‘journalists’, you know, they re-guritate the press release they are given, regardless of provenance or veracity.

    Fie on them! Fie!

  9. 10)
    Mimi said on 12/23/2004 @ 3:56pm PT: [Permalink]

    Keith still has my thanks for at minimum "talking" about it.

    It’s true, he acted more like a stenographer than journalists, but hopefully, he will amend his professional lapse.

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    terrill raspberry said on 12/27/2004 @ 1:30am PT: [Permalink]

    thanks for giving us the truth. please continue to spread good will. it feels good when the truth slaps you right in the face. :O

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