Leo Laporte, Stickam’s highest-ranked yet most boring Entertainer, finally did something worth posting on the Internet’s gossip site of record.
Yesterday on the Gillmor Gang—a techie discussion group of sorts—Mr. Laporte blew up at TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington. At issue was Arrington’s accusation that Laporte gave the Palm Pre an “overly positive” review because he received the device as a free, permanent gift which he kept for himself. Arrington claims that the proper procedure would have been for Laporte to return the device after reviewing it. Arrington flat-out called Laporte’s cozy relationship with Palm a “financial conflict of interest.” That charge elicited an unprofessional explosion of expletives from Laporte, including the Queen Mother of Cussin’, the F word.
Later, when Laporte had regained his composure, he clarified his position: “Ive worked for 30 years to prove my integrity. Mikes insinuation that I was somehow on the take with Palm was about the worst insult you can offer any technology journalist.” However he did apologize (it is unclear whether the apology was directed to Mike or to Leo’s fans) and added, “I’m embarrassed by my overreaction.”
However, the rapprochement did nothing to mollify Laporte’s outraged fans, who swamped Arrington’s own blog with death threats. Arrington deleted most of them, but left up this one:
Eventually, the harassment became so bad that Arrington felt it necessary to disallow further comments on his blog. Frankly, Michael, if you think THAT’s rough, you wouldn’t survive 5 minutes on StickyDrama.
“you’re the most.. erm.. troll’ish person i know”
ahahah :3
“Screeeeew YOU!”
xD
he said troll lol
MIKE YOUZ TR0LLIN.
oh my he did one lil mistake *cough*
people actually watch his show? it’s fucking insanely boring i tried watching for 5 minutes and feel asleep
I loveee Leo XD.
that was funny.
It is little sad, because I respect Leo. I remember his days at TechTV (G4TV) – he knows his stuff.
that was seriously hilarious.
IMMA BREAK DAT BACK AND FUCK DAT AZZ!
sounds like a scene off the Howard Stern show.
Leo fucking Laporte. More interesting than most people on stickam.
Old men arguing, that’s almost as exciting as watching flies round a pile of poop. Of course Leo’s going to take advantage of whatever he can – it was bound to happen sometime, as if this is really the first time he’s participated in something like this.
I love how “shocking” for Leo is saying “BS” and “screw you”. He’s got the expletives of a 3rd grader.
He really flew off the handle didn’t he? I’m suprised he didn’t call the guy a lint-licker or stinky.
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