The best comment on the Whole Foods fiasco

[ProSense]

The best comment on the Whole Foods fiasco

by Suburban Blue

I just skimmed through the Whole Food Forum where the Glenn Beckers of the world spew their talking points. But alas, I found some comedic gold that I must credit and spread to all of those on the tubes.

Check out below for the call and response.

Whole Foods Online Forum

You're an ignoramus. Look at the facts. Anything the government has involved itself in haS becomes less efficient and more expensive. That's not partisan it's reality. The CBO has twice now substantiated that this trend will only continue if the government gets involved. We need to address the cost of health care but the gov. is not the solution.
Posted by Stump

A wonderful person by the name of MBShopper came back with this whopper:

Once again, for the benefit of the government-can't-get-anything-right flock:

I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and tTechnology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issed by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

Oh it continues...

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it's valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

Bring it home my man...

The only reason government doesn't work is because conservative Republican administrations defunded and/or patronage staffed them with people with ties to special business interests: to wit the last FDA, Dept of Interior and Agriculture under Bush. No one seems to have a problem with pumping over $500Bil to the Defense Department which last I hear is a socialized entity.

I don't know if this is fair use, but I'm just sharing it because it is too damn funny. Cheers!

:applause:

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Most excellent.

WF CEO John Mackey would be quaking in his boots if he wasn't so blasted oblivious.

[PretzelWarrior]

2. in the words of the Guinness commercials, "BRILLIANT"

[PretzelWarrior]

3. P.S. Everyone email this or variant to your email distribution list

and post on as many blogs, social networking sites as you can. THis is too awesome NOT to go viral.

[ProSense]

4. Background on what's going on over at the WF forum

Didn't want to detract from the OP with this

Freepers Invade Whole Foods Website: Hilarity Ensues (updated):

I've been going to the Whole Foods website for about a year, (daughter's special diet and the forums have been excellent for exchanging ideas), and I have never seen anything like this

i cant believe all you late sipping liberals got your panties in a wad over the opion of the head of the store. i don't shop at whole foods but now i'm gonna start since he is my kind of guy. he understand liberty and doesnt want the government to decide who lives and dies cause if obomabotcare passes then your gonna see a bunch of old folks shipped off to die. i will shop at whole fodds now cause i want to support this man who udersatnd the real needs of this country and it isn't paying for doctors for a bunch of lazy smelly hippies who need a bath. thank you for making me know about this great company.

god bless america and the men who stand up for liberty!

So far, it's one of the more popular threads in the healthcare discussion forum. Check it out, if you have the stomach for this kind of thing.

"late sipping liberals...in a wad over the opion"

:rofl:

[Touchdown]

11. "Whole Fodds"

:rofl:

[beac]

16. Which do you think will drive that moran out of the store first?

A) The cost of free-range organic chicken

or

B) The number of smelly hippies shopping alongside him *





* This lazy, bath-needing "late sipping" liberal has vowed not to shop there any longer, so maybe the foul stench will be bearable if most other "obamabots" are like me. ;)

[BrklynLiberal]

5. truthiness!!!!

[PretzelWarrior]

6. no. Truthiness is sorta true and SOUNDS true. THis was solid TRUTH!

oh yeah baby.

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. He forgot that his gas pump was certified by a state department of Weights & Measures

There are possibly a dozen other government agencies that had a hand in his day. The piece is brilliant!

[Ikonoklast]

10. And the GPS he uses to navigate his vehicle

uses those damn gubbamint sat-lites to do so.

[localroger]

12. Indeed, I'm licensed by those guys

I have a little deal I tell my customers when they balk at the price of legal for trade scales -- "You gotta remember, scales are about the oldest human technology other than stacking rocks up and fire. People have been using them for 5,000 years, and trying to cheat them for 4,999."

[Canuckistanian]

8. That...was...AWESOME

Bravo, MBShopper, whoever you are!

:applause:

[Cha]

9. Rec'd! For

Pricelessness!

[Milspec]

13. Love it K &R

[CitizenPatriot]

14. after realizing that my congressman

lied to me abut the CBO reports yesterday, and then hearing some tard discuss it on the WF forum, I've come to the conclusion that Hanity, Orieely or clown have been spewing lies about the CBO reports. Who was the Republican asshat who claimed the CBO report was twice as high was it was? I'm sure those are the CBO reports this clown heard about.

Have they even read them? Ever? They should start reading for themselves. Oh, that's right; they can't.

[PSzymeczek]

15. I think it is fair use.

It's unattributed and I've seen it in a lot of places.

[boppers]

17. It's been around.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,020 for "by the public power monopoly regulated by the US"....

I've seen it in various forms for at least a few years now.

[tiptoe]

18. K & R!

[Honeycombe8]

19. Recommended with enthusiasm!!!! APPLAUSE!!!!!!! nt

[mod mom]

20. Just came from the forum, please add your comments:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/forums/index.php?plckForumPage=Forum&plckForumId=Cat%3a338a2432-3a3c-459f-9c58-00df096792c5Forum%3a624bcd7f-b978-4ad6-996c-450fba4971f9

[mod mom]

21. Background on CEO Mackey (from The Nation '07):

Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
by MATTHEW BLAKE

August 28, 2007


The August 16 federal district court ruling that allowed Whole Foods Market to acquire Wild Oats Market--which withstood appeal the following week--should come as no surprise. The Bush-era Federal Trade Commission has successfully stopped exactly one merger. The deal is still not technically done, as an FTC administrative law judge, separate from FTC antitrust lawyers, could still conceivably rule against the merger (at which point Whole Foods would then be the party issuing an appeal). But the core legal question of whether Whole Foods would monopolize the choices of fancy organic grocery-store shoppers was not what drew attention beyond Wall Street. What really grabbed the headlines was the bizarre, pseudonymous philosophizing of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey--and his rather conventional commitment to the bottom line, which belies the groovy, feel-good vibes pumped out from the company's PR machine.


Wide public interest in the planned merger was piqued in July when antitrust investigators discovered that for seven years Mackey had been posting comments on the Yahoo Finance Bulletin Board chat room under the name "Rahodeb" (an anagram of Deborah, his wife) that promoted himself and Whole Foods and frequently ridiculed Wild Oats. The Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the Whole Foods board has launched an investigation of the chat-room barbs. Mackey used the pseudonym to tell the world he had a cute haircut and that Whole Foods shoppers had outrageously cool tattoos and piercings. More pertinent to the proposed merger, "Rahodeb" had a habit of belittling Wild Oats whenever its stock rose. "Whole Foods says they will open 25 stores in OATS territories in the next 2 years," Mackey-as-Rahodeb wrote after a March 2006 Wild Oats stock jump. "The end game is now underway for OATS.... Whole Foods is systematically destroying their viability as a business--market by market, city by city."

Such comic-book malevolence exposed the megalomania of a CEO who had cultivated a maverick image. Mackey likes to tell reporters he is no longer interested in making money, and he frequently quotes Charles Darwin, Samuel Beckett and even the Talking Heads. Now, disgusted at the pseudonymous postings, many Whole Foods shareholders want him to leave the company or, at the very least, resign his second job as board chairman. "The legal questions are pretty hazy, but it's bizarre behavior at the minimum," says Mike Garland, whose Change to Win Investment Group has invested some of its members' pension funds in Whole Foods stock. "He spent hours of company time on these chat boards." The SEC will determine whether Mackey committed fraud. James Cox, a securities law professor at Duke University, told the San Francisco Chronicle that Mackey would most likely be charged with omitting material facts by obscuring his identity. He added that the SEC could make an example of him to deter other blogging CEOs from surreptitiously manipulating stock information.

-snip

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/blake

[graywarrior]

22. Their forum is hell fire right now!

:rofl: