Here's the rest of "Bob O'Brien's" post for the sake of getting the total picture.
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The Motley Fool OSTK Article of 08/18/05
In response to the article of 8/18/05 by Seth Jayson:
Seth, Seth, Seth. Do you even try to get things right? I mean, nobody's perfect, but still, you are a "financial journalist", with everything that entails, right? I appreciate your marvelously pedestrian fiction-writing skills, but still, you have to make it believable.
Try this for starters: "Today, Rocker fired back a counter suit." Did he? Where is the filing? At the time of this article's posting, there's nothing in the court system I can find. In fact, all I could find was the press release, which was a statement of intent. So what he actually fired back with was a rambling press release, as far as I can tell, in which he apparently thinks that I am part of the suit against him (I'm not) or thinks he can suck whoever he dislikes into it, and a declaration that he intends to counter sue (again, implying that I sued him) me as well as the plaintiffs. That isn't the same as a lawsuit. Hint: One says press release. The other is a court document.
So right out of the gate with an inaccuracy. Now allow me to address another blatant declarative falsehood that Seth makes from the get go. Namely that I insinuate that he is being paid by hedge funds:
"In fact, since I penned my thoughts on the matter, "Bob O'Brien," the anonymous Rasputin in this sordid affair, promoted little ol' me to junior member in this vast scheme. Conspiracy fans will no doubt be excited to learn that my mother's family name is Eisinger, though I'm pretty sure I'm not related to Jesse Eisinger, the Wall Street Journal writer who's high on Bob's (and Byrne's) enemies list. Though I'm flattered to have joined the ranks of Bob's big baddies, I find the insinuation that I'm on the take from hedge funds to be both hilarious and sad. I mean, I drive a beat-up truck with those wood things sticking up in the back, eat leftovers for lunch, and wear pants from Target, for crying out loud. Obviously, they're sending those checks to the wrong Seth Jayson."
Well, now let's see. First off, I never discussed, anywhere, his family name. Second, I never insinuated that Seth was on the take. I tend to be pretty capable of articulating thoughts, and what I said was "Seth is low-end even by junior Fool standards. Whole sections of his "story" could have been written by Rocker, and he cites numerous links to known affiliated hedge fund droogie Jeff Mathews of Ram Partners, who is frequently touted by Rocker stooge Herb Greenberg. So we have Seth in with the same crowd, predictably trying to spin, spin, spin, and never once stopping to go "what if it is true?"
Now, nowhere does it insinuate that he is being paid by Rocker or hedge funds. I lump him in with the crowd of "journalists" that spin facts in a hedge-fund friendly way, and observe that Rocker couldn't have written it better. No insinuation of payment there. Why they do it is a mystery to me. I have a feeling it might just be because they are suck-ups trying to curry favor with the NY in crowd, but that is just a speculation. |
