Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne on Patrick Byrne
January 21, 2010 by William K. Wolfrum
Why exactly did Patrick Byrne become a CEO? Giving Goldman traders blowjobs didn’t work out?
You see, Byrne is manifestly chimpanzee-like in both comportment and worldview–a fully arresting specimen of unsated mammalian appetition–a self-styled “journalist” who grunts and growls and snorts and says funny things.
But Byrne is on the take, and getting paid off somewhere in order to do hatchet-jobs-to-order. Is Byrne afraid his checks may stop clearing? Still, Byrne proves himself as resilient as syphilis.
As my feelings may not be obvious, in the interests of fairness and transparency I should at this point disclose that compared to Byrne I’ve observed more brainpower in a ice-head sitting on the floor of a 7-11 scanning the Comet and Pam Spray labels trying to remember the formula to make meth, and more dignity in a wino living on $2 hand-jobs at the bus station.
These days Byrne spends much time posting dozens of deposition-style posts directed at me and my colleagues, over-and-over, dozens if not hundreds per week (what an odd “hobby” for Byrne to have).
Byrne’s hatchet jobs take an unusual form. They resemble Thomas Friedman’s write-ups on the Arab-Israeli conflict: “Let’s see, Arabs, Israel, Arabs… Israel, Arabs…….. Israel…… okay, I gotta call this one for the Israeli’s.” In op-ed after op-ed.
Can everyone sense Byrne sweating? He seems to be getting nervous, doesn’t he? Hence the posts full of non sequitors and picking of nits about unimportant details.
To put it simply, Patrick Byrne Sucks It Likes He’s Paying the Rent. Just remember, though – I’m not interested in “blasting” anyone: I am just a seeker of truth.
But Byrne is evil. I’ll stand by that. More than evil, he’s soul-less evil.
That said, I hope you understand that I don’t have anything against Byrne per se. I have things I want, and he stands in the way, so now I’m removing him. At the same time, there’s no reason we can’t co-exist under specific circumstances.
If I don’t hear back, I’ll assume he’d rather take his chances on what’s coming.
PS So May We Go with “Jamook”?
–WKW
In fairness to Skippy Byrne, I don’t think he’s necessarily evil nor do I think he’s being paid off by anyone to engage in his sleazy tactics. As an heir of John Byrne of GEICO fame, Skippy’s not relying upon Overstock.com to put food on the table or keep a roof over his.
Of course, given the way he runs Overstock.com, if he were reliant upon the company for his survival, he’d be living under a bridge and dumpster diving for scraps. But I digress…
Skippy is unable to come to grips with his own gross ineptitude as a CEO. Several years ago another inept individual who was active in touting Novastar Financial, a disaster of a sub-prime lender, convinced Skippy that he and his company were the victims of “naked short selling”. Never mind that no company, anywhere, at any time, has ever been harmed by “naked short selling”. Skippy jumped into the grift with both feet and has never looked back.
You’ve done some homework.
J.B. I think you missed the gist of the post.
Whacky Patty remains Whacky. And Paddy! Some things never change.
Paddy needs an intervention. A Criminal Indictment might be just the thing!
I’m really serious when I say you have gone too far by comparing Byrne to chimpanzees.In many ways chimps are more intelligent than either you or Byrne and they aren’t holocausting us – we are holocausting them.When I see everyday the disappearance of chimpanzees,orangatangs and other mammals as a result of our overpopulating and consuming biocidal behaviors I have no doubt that we are the dumbest mammal that ever ‘evolved’.So keep chimps out of it.
They,(humans), eat their fellow human pigmie or gorilla neigbors don’t they ? And Chabad Lubavitch and its Iowa Agriprocessors while waiting for their messiah t return was found to have a mad cow or two that could only have occured if the bovine vegetarian animals were fed meat or brain and spinal cord.Chimpanzzes didn’t feed the cows spinal cords and brains – humans did ! How smart or ‘kosher’ is that ? Go figure.
Now if you wish to compare him to Utah’s Moron Repugnicon Senator
Bob Bennett’s,et.al.’ ‘Angel Moroni’ go for it.Then I’ll really laugh.
“That said, I hope you understand that I don’t have anything against Byrne per se. I have things I want, and he stands in the way, so I now I’m removing him. At the same time, there’s no reason we can’t co-exist under specific circumstances.”
Since this quote received some attention, I’ll expound on its etymology. It’s WKW paraphrasing a composite of Byrne’s hireling, channeling J. D. Salinger and a female persona unveiling her mask as a Wikipedia stalker/confidence man. Whew! Simple, really.
[...] “So he’ll be around – at least for now and then after he gets out of jail,” added Wolfrum. “But all that’s left now is the crying, for all parties. What can I say, I’ll miss him. Patrick Byrne is a douchebag for the ages.” [...]
[...] the song remains the same. Because while Byrne’s rants about naked short sellers and his blatant attacks on any who question his accounting may be all fun and games, it is pure diversion. What matters is [...]