Comments on: Mackey and Me: Why rahodeb speaks for all of us. http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: George & Marian Kirby http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174526 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:56:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174526 The FTC, like the rest of MegaCorpCabalGov, couldn’t find its own corpulent keister in a double mirror. Somebody obviously handed them “the package”. Believe it or not, you can make a pretty decent living building packages like that. Granted, most of your market is in the so-called private sector, but every once in a while you can squeeze some honey from Uncle.

]]> By: GigaOM Can privacy be a premium service? « http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174525 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:25:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174525 [...] last week we had the quirky WholeFoods CEO whose “anonymous” self promotion has gotten him into trouble, lately with SEC. There [...]

]]> By: Laurie Siegel http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174524 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:58:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174524 Don’t ya just love anagrams? I know I do, especially when all the letters are used to form a new word, or words spelled correctly. The anagrams that I see in RAHODEB are:
BAD HERO
DO REHAB
HE BOARD
I suppose there is no substitute for genuine lack of preparation.
John Mackey may have exhibited a bit of indiscretion in recent behavior, however, his name is synonymous with some of the most brilliant and highly regarded corporate leaders. Whole Foods is one of the worlds leading retailer of natural and organic food, and with Mackey as it’s leader, continues to be an outstanding investment opportunity.

meta4lor

]]> By: JPS http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174523 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:01:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174523 ‘Rahodeb’is actually an anagram for ‘Abhored.” Mackey loathed using a sock-puppet on Yahoo!

]]> By: Cult of Mac » Blog Archive » Rumor: Fake Steve = Andy Ihnatko? http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174522 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:48:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174522 [...] Andy, if it’s you? You’ve been doing a great job. Keep up the good work – or get John Mackey to do it for [...]

]]> By: Anon http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174521 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:51:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174521 Anybody who doesn’t know how to post anonymously on the net is incompetent and deserves to be outed.

]]> By: Michael Katcher http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174520 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:26:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174520 “or they’re hedge funds mercilessly dissing a stock toward $0″

Talk about your blatant, false stereotypes. I cannot imagine any hedge fund manager spending his time on a Internet message board in hopes of talking down a stock. More to the point, you cannot ‘diss a stock toward $0′. If a company really is overvalued, it deserves to see its share price fall. If it isn’t, then no amount of talking will keep a stock down.

I challenge you to find me a single example of that ever happening… that is a healthy company’s share price falling because of ‘hedge fund dissing’.

]]> By: brownte http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174519 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:15:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174519 Clearly Mackey is an idiot for those actions…but can someone explain the actual basis for opposing the merger? Who would a combined Whole Foods/Wild Oats actually threaten? Wal-Mart? Please….there are plenty of examples that probably deserve more scrutiny than this: the rebuilding of AT&T, Oracle buying up (well, everybody), and on and on.

]]> By: jon harmon http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174518 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:42:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174518 That Mackey’s behavior was irresponsible is without a doubt. Whether it was also criminal is the issue. Mackey deliberately used his anonymous attacks to hurt his competitor, and likely to drive down the value of a stock Whole Foods would try to acquire.

Will the blogosphere’s defenders of transparency rush to condemn this unethical behavior by a supposedly “good guy company” with the same fervor that was directed against other larger corporations? Don’t you think Wal-Mart’s “flogging across America” was pretty tame by comparison?

What will blogs become when they grow up? Join the conversation at http://jon8332.typepad.com/force_for_good/2007/07/what-will-blogs.html

Jon Harmon
http://www.forceforgoodcom.com

]]> By: Eideard http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174517 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:03:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174517 Uh, when the FTC decides to lop off the corporate lobbying and musical jobs for Congressthugs – waltzing to the tune of corporate America, Pharmcos, weapons suppliers, Insurance industry, the Oil Patch Boys, etc. – then they might be doing something to justify their cushy chairs.

I ain’t holding my breath, waiting.

]]> By: Jeff Mowatt http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174516 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:03:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174516 Well he doesn’t speak for me, which is ironic from one who endorses John Mackey’s vision of Conscious Capitalism. Let me illustrate, in a similar scenario, from the perspective of a victim.

For the past year, a colleague and I have been under attack for our own ethical business stance. It began, as many of these things do with a minor disagreement when our detractor began by insinuating drug abuse. It moved up to the level of fraud allegations when we published NGO reports of “Death Camp, For Children” in Ukraine and the smear blog began with a vengeance. Though he’s a would-be politician we can’t name him because a UK barrister defends his anonymity with threats of legal action and Google the blog medium will not respond to complaints.

Most recently, it’s escalated to insinuations of child molestation on a discussion forum, where fortunately, he’s been monitored.

What our detractor objects to is that we want to do something about those without a voice, and that we advocate applying ethical business to help the disabled children in institutional care who are mistreated and condemned to die and the able bodied children whose outlook is one of prostitution, HIV infection, crime and suicide. That doesn’t tally with our detractors political objective, preserving the status quo.

In a stroke, John has not only undermined the principles of the ethical paradigm we both endorse, but he’s also stepped straight into the same camp as the most odious campaigner, he who would have us shut our eyes to voiceless and least empowered, should they obstruct his personal agenda.

John wouldn’t endorse this, I know, if he only understood what goes on elsewhere. Otherwise where does this playfulness end?

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174515 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:22:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/mackey-and-me-why-rahodeb-speaks-for-all-of-us/#comment-174515 “If the SEC goes after Mackey, it had better go after the other corporate employees who have been surely doing the same thing. “

Isn’t that all that needs to be said? Rather than try and defend Mackey, I say congratulations to the SEC on this bit of good work, but now step it up!

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