Joe Nocera Is a Slime Bucket

This one’s prob­a­bly not going to win me any friends; but then again, I’m not in this for the pop­u­lar­ity. As you all prob­a­bly know, one of the memes being bandied about in the media in the last week is the “Apple is ‘fuck­ing up’ by not dis­clos­ing Steve Jobs’ med­ical con­di­tion.” To which Apple has, so-far, replied with a firm “Steve’s med­ical con­di­tion is his busi­ness,” and an implied, “fuck you.”

At the cen­ter of this report­ing is one par­tic­u­lar piece of shit named Joe Nocera, who reports for the New York Times. Now, here’s the thing, I know a few things about Joe Nocera and his report­ing. Sadly, this is the part where many of you will tune out. But please take the time to click the link to the Deep Capture Blog in my side­bar. Deep Capture is the ongo­ing story of Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne’s fight against mar­ket manip­u­lat­ing hedge fund man­agers and the busi­ness media that is com­plicit in their attempts to fuck over pub­licly traded com­pa­nies. At the very least read this post from Deep Capture which deal specif­i­cally with the douchebag Joe Nocera.

The thing is, I am firmly con­vinced that the same anony­mous hedge fund man­agers who started the “Steve’s sick” rumor are the ones that have attacked Overstock​.com. The reg­u­lar­ity that these bull­shit rumors appear, usu­ally right before a prod­uct launch or quar­terly con­fer­ence call, can­not be ignored.

As a coda to this sor­did mess, Joe wrote another another attack arti­cle aimed at Apple pub­lished today in the Times. I won’t link to it, because I won’t dig­nify this shit-smear with the hits; but here’s a quote:

On Thursday after­noon, sev­eral hours after I’d got­ten my final “Steve’s health is a pri­vate mat­ter” — and much to my amaze­ment — Mr. Jobs called me. “This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arro­gant [exple­tive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.”

Good on fuck­ing Steve! It’s about time some­one else stood up to these crim­i­nally com­plicit “jour­nal­ists.” Here’s a mes­sage to Steve, give Dr. Byrne a call, I think you’ll find you have some things in common.