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Does the FTC know that magazine travel & gadget writers get freebies all the time?
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Adios, Chihuahua! Taco Bell dog dead at 15 - http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id...
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"She charmed millions without ever saying a word — and managed to make fast-food tacos adorable. Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco Bell ad campaign (and her famous overdubbed tagline, "Yo quiero Taco Bell"), died from a stroke on Tuesday night at age 15. "She made so many people happy," says Gidget's trainer, Sue Chipperton. PEOPLE met both Gidget and Sue at a Hollywood animals photo shoot in February, where the pup was a consummate pro and delighted the crew with her playful nature."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
This caps off a terrible summer for celebrity deaths.
- Steve Rubel
This thing could play out to be bigger than Michael Jackson's death! Does anyone know if the Staples Center is available in the next week or so?
- charlie magruder
They've already made an EHollywood story on his life and death. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Davis Freeberg
I think I'm going to go have lunch today at Taco Bell in honor of Gidget. Charlie, if they do do something at Staples, I hope L.A. tax payers don't get stuck with the bill on it again.
- Thomas Hawk
alright, back with lunch. 3 soft taco supremes and a Dr. Pepper.
- Thomas Hawk
Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington...seriously. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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update from Arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Zee.
Pretty amazing
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
wow. I've never seen that side of Leo.
- jbrotherlove
naa, no way Cristo.
- Zee.
Mike later said "it was important to disclose that. Palm canceled [TC's] review unit after [TC] wrote critical articles".
- Jérôme Flipo
i've never seen Leo lose it like this before
- Zee.
What Cristo said.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
"I can assure you Mike Arrington will never be on anything I do again. - Leo Laporte"
- Jérôme Flipo
discussion here: http://friendfeed.com/twit-co...
- Zee.
I don't get Arrington's point. Many journalists/bloggers get free review units all the time, and Leo said he had to return his. *shrugs* Arrington is rapidly becoming the Mark Cuban of the tech world.
- LANjackal
C'mon, even Arrington's Wikipedia entry says he's a troll: http://en.wikipedia.org/w... (I didn't do it).
- Rob Haas
can't stop watching Leo say "fuck you guys..."
- Zee.
I laughed my as of. I mean holy shit man.
- Matt Ruiz
Cristo: Arrington is quite frankly an asshole. I don't get why anyone reads TechCrunch or anything related to the site, I've blacklisted it from my news sources
- LANjackal
@Cristo: I don't doubt that's the case. That's why I deliberately refrain from reading articles by bloggers who behave in that manner or are venomously biased.
- LANjackal
@cristo: but Dvorak is smart, nice, and well-rounded.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Leo Laporte has always been classy, even way back in the 90's when he was doing his tech radio show. That's why people listen to and respect him. The gillmor gang started out interesting like 5 years ago and quickly devolved into a sour morass of bitter tech journalists talking over each other, fighting, blathering and pontificating. They try to act as wise, old sages dispensing salient...
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- mike
That's weird, I mean sure Arrington is being an ass - every single pre-launch review you see was a "free Pre" there's no reason anyone would think otherwise, but why suddently turn things off after that? That said, I've never seen that show before.
- Richard Lawler
Oops - accidentally deleted my comment. The jist was GG needs Leo (a professional broadcaster) more than it needs Arrington (a professional writer). That said, it looked a bit staged to me.
- Martin Bryant
did this happen today?
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
@J yep
- Zee.
@mike: embarrassment requires self-awareness.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Sorry Leo, but you just fed the trolls. Entertainment at its finest.
- Shannon
Are we going to find out a week from now this is like the MTV movie awards ala Eminem and Bruno, that it was all staged?
- Laura Zickus
I think they've already kissed and make up
- Jerome Gotangco
Laura, it definitely wasn't staged. I can tell you that Steve & Tina Gillmor were shocked, and then Steve furious that his show was cut off without his say-so. What bothers me about the whole thing is that the one who didn't do anything (steve) ends up looking like an asshole in the aftermath, inviting the Twit community to a free-for-all at his expense. He's a big boy, can defend himself, but it's undeserved and does a disservice to his work.
- Karoli
His perception was that his integrity of an honest review was questioned since he had a special hi tech unit for 7 day review. When a person is honest and their integrity is questioned it's extremely insulting. Whether the person intended it or not. From what I've seen Leo Laporte is genuine and authentic as well as transparent. Hopefully this gets resolved in the best possible way for both of them.
- James Stratford
I was watching Leo's twitlive.tv stream for hours leading up to this. Unless they palnned it the day before, which seems unlikely, it wasn't staged. Even if I hadn't been watching I would have a hard time thinking it was staged. Leo hasn't ever done a stunt like that before so why would he start now?
- jccalhoun
Leo went a little nuts. Yikes.
- Johnny
Part of it is jealousy on Arrington's part that he was promised a pre-release review product and didn't get it. Whereas Leo did. Jealousy is what this is.
- Diego Barros
way to go Leo.
- Alan Le
Both parts of the show are here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheGill...
- Jack
If you've "been in the valley since '89" and haven't heard of Leo Laporte until FriendFeed, then you've been under a rock in the valley. He's been very well known in tech circles for at least the last 10 years.
- Chris Luckhardt
We each live under our own little rocks. I'm sure everybody involved in pretty much any field can name three or four or six people in that field who *everybody* MUST have heard of. Who you have or haven't heard of is a pretty lame way to keep score.
- Ken Sheppardson
Astonishing. I have watched Leo for years and have always been impressed with his amiable, good natured demeanor. I'm sad to see him lose composure like this, even if he was "provoked". In the space between stimulus and response we always have choice.
- Sean Oliver
Leo is the man!
- Bradley Goetsch
LOL I see someone has come through and sanitized all his comments and deleted himself......again......LOL
- Matthew DeVries
Wow, totally shocking. Leo is nomally so calm, this is really baffling; out of character moment. Leo really lost it there ... Oops! That was majorly ackward
- Susan Beebe
It's obvious this thing is going too far when Arrington's wikipedia page gets hacked with the 'troll' bit.
- George Hall (Australia)
from BuddyFeed
Wikipedia defacer and clueless pottymouth added yesterday's video and a comment to this (stub class) bio. It was reverted by bots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - "Note: This page has been semi-protected so that only established users can edit it. " - (edit) I think the pottymouth was some other anonymous troll, my mistake. The first was just a...
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- Richard pancakhaus Walker
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