Excellent blog post!
"Open (blunt) letter to CNBC.com managing editor on purging GOP poll
From CNBC editor: An Open Letter to the Ron Paul Faithful
Dear folks,You guys are good. Real good. You are truly a force on World Wide Web and I tip my hat to you.
That's based on my first hand experience of your work regarding our CNBC Republican candidate debate. After the debate, we put up a poll on our Web site asking who readers thought won the debate. You guys flooded it.
Now these Internet polls are admittedly unscientific and subject to hacking. In the end, they are really just a way to engage the reader and take a quick temperature reading of your audience. Nothing more and nothing less. The cyber equivalent of asking the room for a show of hands on a certain question.
So there was our after-debate poll. The numbers grew ... 7,000-plus votes after a couple of hours ... and Ron Paul was at 75%.
Now Paul is a fine gentleman with some substantial backing and, by the way, was a dynamic presence throughout the debate , but I haven't seen him pull those kind of numbers in any "legit" poll. Our poll was either hacked or the target of a campaign. So we took the poll down.
The next day, our email basket was flooded with Ron Paul support messages. And the computer logs showed the poll had been hit with traffic from Ron Paul chat sites. I learned other Internet polls that night had been hit in similar fashion. Congratulations. You folks are obviously well-organized and feel strongly about your candidate and I can't help but admire that.
But you also ruined the purpose of the poll. It was no longer an honest "show of hands" -- it suddenly was a platform for beating the Ron Paul drum. That certainly wasn't our intention and certainly doesn't serve our readers ... at least those who aren't already in the Ron Paul camp.
Some of you Ron Paul fans take issue with my decision to take the poll down. Fine. When a well-organized and committed "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of "the many," I get a little worried. I'd take it down again.
Sincerely,
Allen Wastler
Managing Editor, CNBC.com
(Letter above contains disrespectful amount of sarcasm toward Ron Paul supporters in justifying the erasure of the post-debate GOP poll)
My response is as follows
Dear Mr. Wastler and Mr. Harwood,
Your impolite and arrogant letter is disingenuous in that you would prefer the likes of Rudy Giuliani and other members of the Establishment who plead to ravish the Constitution to benefit the autocratic oligarchy that rule the United States of America.
I am telling you the unvarnished truth. You don't believe this? Look deep in the historical background that led to the creation of the illegal money scheme that is Federal Reserve, contrary to the wishes of the Founding Fathers and Andrew Jackson.
Combined with the Fed are the forces of the corporatist fascist element that control Washington body politic with favoritism and blackmail. This is why greed and ego overrule the Constitutional principles the Founding Fathers swore by.
You are part of the problem that continue to aid and abet the continuous corruption that severely harm and will destroy American sovereignty, and your hostile letter is the proof of that profoundly anti-American (against the noble and just principles that founded the American republic) attitude.
We have the solution prescribed for the likes of you, your associates, your bosses and Washington & New York influence peddlers, policy makers and statesmen when the decline and fall of the United States become a grim reality.
America continues to lay in dying on her deathbed because of your ignorant and elitist attitude.
A sincere fuck you and fuck the ruling American Elite oligarchy.
