{"id":1416,"date":"2008-04-22T17:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-08-14T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:02:12","slug":"patrick-byrnes-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/patrick-byrnes-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Byrne&#8217;s delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More delusional talk from Patrick Byrne, CEO of POS Overstock.com. From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.marketwatch.com\/greenberg\/2008\/04\/time-to-have-pity-for-patrick-byrne\/?mod=MWBlog\">Herb Greenberg at Marketwatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking on the <strong>Fox Business Channel<\/strong> today to my friend <strong>Liz Claman<\/strong>, [Byrne] said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that there\u2019s been an unhealthy collusion developed between certain short sellers and certain journalists. They center around your competitor, CNBC. I happen to know for a fact that there\u2019s a fax machine in the CNBC offices where hedge funds send instructions and journalists sit around and take instructions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Liz quickly responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell I worked in CNBC and I never saw that fax machine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course she didn\u2019t, <em>because there is no such fax machine!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why, oh why does Herb have to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.marketwatch.com\/greenberg\/2008\/04\/on-a-personal-note\/?mod=MWBlog\">leave journalism<\/a>? And why don&#8217;t I get those special faxes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?s=%22sith+lord%22\">the Sith Lord<\/a>???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More delusional talk from Patrick Byrne, CEO of POS Overstock.com. From Herb Greenberg at Marketwatch: Speaking on the Fox Business Channel today to my friend Liz Claman, [Byrne] said: \u201cI think that there\u2019s been an unhealthy collusion developed between certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[827],"tags":[1486,1557,1558,188,1114],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-companies","tag-cnbc-fax-machine","tag-herb-greenberg","tag-liz-claman","tag-patrick-byrne","tag-sith-lord"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-mQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}