Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently put to a blog entry at this site:
“Also, I don’t Jack, Larry, Rick or Scott would consider you a friend.
You’re wrong, Pink.
They don’t want to go to prison. So, yes, they are concerned about my exposure of the 11-year cover-up.
But that is only one part of what these fellows are.
Jack loved the idea of helping millions of middle-class investors when he started out. His amazing accomplishments testify to this reality. The part of him that wants to help investors is still present within him on some level of consciousness. That part of Jack Bogle LOVES the idea of coming clean on safe withdrawal rates and scores of other critically important investment-related topics. That part of Jack Bogle recognizes Rob Bennett as his best friend in the world. That part of Jack Bogle CANNOT WAIT to put all the ugliness associated with his “support” for John Greaeny and Mel Linduaer behind him and to return to being a ETHICAL and HONEST stock advisor.
The same is obviously true of all the others. There are REASONS why we have a ban on the tactics employed by those posting in “defense” of Lindauer and Greaney at EVERY investing board and blog on the internet. It is because those tactics are sub-human and we all want to protect our humanity. Bogle didn’t agree to follow the published rules of the Morningstar site just because he had to do so to be permitted to post there. He pressed the “I Agree” button because he appreciates the need for those rules. Bogle is SICKENED by the tactics employed by you Goons. He is just too afraid of what you will do to him if he says so to speak up at the moment. I intend to take care of that problem.
Bogle has done wrong things. So have all the others you mention.
Bogle and all the others have also all done good things.
Just because they betray the good of themselves from time to time because of their fear of you Goons does not mean that they are no longer “friends” with their good sides. I will be enjoying a good relationship with all these people for many, many years to come. Their pretend friendship with you Goons will come to a total and complete stop on the day your prison sentences are announced. Pretend friendships don’t stand the test of time, Pink.
I naturally wish you the best of luck in all your future life endeavors, Pink.
Rob
Goon says
The only person who is unethical and dishonest with his posts would be you, Rob.
Rob says
Okay, Goon.
Rob
The Pink Unicorn says
You are a broken reord, Rob. No matter how many times you repeat stuff, it still does not make it true.
Rob says
Backatcha, my old friend.
The Buy-and-Holders are broken records too. They say “long-term timing might not be required” over and over and over again and never present even a sliver of evidence to support the case.
I’m not God and you’re not God and Jack Bogle is not God and Robert Shiller is not God. We each have to look inside and go by what we sincerely BELIEVE (never knowing for certain) to be true.
I go by the peer-reviewed academic research. I use that as my guide because I believe that it helps me get beyond my personal biases by giving me something objective to ground me. I am going to continue doing that.
Whether I am proven right or proven wrong, I hope that I always have the decency to acknowledge that my Buy-and-Hold friends are human like me, fallible like me, and doing the best they can like me.
Please take good care, man.
Rob