Mommy! Leo said a Swear!
Posted by Andrew | Filed under New Media
If you have been paying attention to what has been happening in the TWiT-verse (not to be confused with the Twitter-verse, an any other verse for that matter), you will know that a certain naughty boy named Leo Laporte revealed his extensive vocabulary while on the Gillmor Gang last week. Apparently, Leo will no longer broadcast the Gang on TWiT Live, and good riddance too, if I wanted to listen to boring old men gassing, I would tune to NPR. Just kidding, as a white guy, I love NPR!
The problem all started when Mike Arrington accused Leo of having a positive review of the Palm Pre, a desperate attempt by Palm to stay relevant in today’s tech world, because Palm gave him a review unit for a week free of charge. Wow, I would totally kiss Palm’s butt if they LOANED me a phone FOR A WHOLE WEEK for FREE. Well, Leo, a man who is as soft as he is doughy, gave Arrington a piece of his mind by calling him, among other things “a troll.”
Finally, someone gave that self righteous, big headed, dirtbag what he had coming to him. Arrington, who’s biggest accomplishment was making $32 million off of the sale of a company that he had nothing to do with other than being the Founders best friend, is the founder and Editor of TechCrunch, which is one of several blogs covering Internet start-ups. OK, the guy did have one good idea, but he acts he is the second coming of Christ most of the time. John C. Dvorak summed him up well in his posting about the incident.
To sum up my thoughts about what happened, here it is. Way to go Leo, thanks for putting the dirtbag where he belongs. As for Mike Arrington, screw you. If you didn’t laugh at that last sentence, then you need to watch the video, and read more about the incident here.
