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Roger L. Simon, themanwhomadebloggerswhine, searches his soul (it’s that withered black thing in the corner. No. That’s a raisin. It’s under the raisin.) and makes an amazing discovery:
As a business neophyte, in my relatively short stint as the accidental CEO of a new media startup (PJM), I have had to learn many things and to play catch-up in many areas. But if there is one lesson that I have had drummed into me repeatedly, it is that success is almost entirely dependent on the people you pick to work with you. Your ability to judge character is close to the most necessary trait for someone trying to lead anything ….
Which is to say that Roger failed to choose wisely and those bloggers in turn failed Roger.
It’s The Circle of Fail.
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He cannot fail, he can only be failed.
He could maybe hit Rupert up for a bailout, but he seems to have a bit of indigestion from the WSJ purchase.
I suggest the aggrieved Pajama-ites pool their resources and hire Anthony Pelicano to wiretap Rog’s phone, dig through his garbage, and otherwise do the private-enterprise version of the warrantless intrusions they’re so fond of when the Bushies do them. They may learn where most of the venture capital that was supposed to
be funneled to themlay the groundwork for the great conservative counter-media revolution went.Sure, Tony’s in jail, but that never stopped free enterprise before.
So Obama picked a couple of people whose tax problems forced them to step aside. Never mind that Bush nominated crooked cop Bernie Kerik, and hired corrupt crony Joe Allbaugh.
For these mis-steps by Obama — the sky is falling! — fetch C. Little Simon the smelling salts!
OTOH, for PJ Media Simon picked a roster of bloggers with talent problems, & the mediocre product forced him to shut down his business.
The sky isn’t falling, Roger: that’s the market pissing on you.
You mean to tell me that paying people who beg their readers to buy them a new charcoal grills wasn’t the savvy business move it appeared to be?
What Roger really “learned” (and I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means) is what all wingers “learn” after another epic fail.
My ideas can’t possibly be wrong, so it must be somebody screwing me over. Probably the dirty hippies. BTW, here’s a PJTV video of a Joe the Plummer, Michelle Malkin, and Glen Reynolds discussing the economy. Please pay me for it. No? Say, any of those new government generated stimulus jobs available? Christ, I’m screwed.
A mistake Paul Mazursky probably regrets to this day.
I wonder if Roger used the hollywood method of financing his pj media empire.
It’s also pretty obvious that Roger’s projecting.
Hey, why don’t you take a look at your own character, you snivelling, haughty little turd?
Wellington once said that Napoleon’s hat on the battlefield was worth 50,000 troops all by itself. Shame this isn’t true of cornpone wingnut fedoras.
WTF is an “accidental CEO”? Is that like some Tom Hanks comedy where he’s this pizza delivery guy who has to go to work one day in his only suit, and he delivers an extra-large All the Meats to some big honkin’ skyscraper, and sits down at a big table for a minute to catch his breath, and a bunch of board members file in and before you know it he’s running things?
Hey, I could dig it, as long as they spell my name right on the $50 million golden parachute.