Hoo boy. I usually don’t get into knock-down drag out verbal brawls on the net. They are so hard to keep civil, and rarely influence anyone.

Sometimes, however, someone says something so boneheaded I have to do my best to show the holes in their argument.

Today I encountered such a situation when I read at Jeff Jarvis’ blog, “BuzzMachine” where he was attacked over his coverage of Dell’s handling of his service call, the overall lack of quality service from Dell, and how Dell fails at handling the PR fallout from such poor service.

Amanda “Strumpette” Chapel somehow tries to twist his personal tale and his journalism about Dell into a form of political agenda. Specifically, she accused him or trying to take over the company via extortion and called him a Communist.

In the comments of both Jeff’s post on the topic, and Amanda’s original post, I (and others) took issue with Amanda’s inflammatory assertion. I did my best to point out the holes in her logic, the weakest being the jump from consumer complaint to communism.

Please read through both, as I’ve done enough writing on the topic in both places. I don’t need to hash it all out again here. (Why be redundant when you can link?)

I will however say that Amanda’s credentials as a public relations professional take a hit when one reads from her bio page:

I’ve slept with clients. I sleep with my boss.

Then again, in an unrelated article she made the observation,

You want public attention? Today, the key is skin and confrontation.

UPDATE:

“Amanda” is apparently NOT a whore. She’s a fictional construct. An amalgamation of five writer’s work. These five cowards don’t wish to stand behind their statements, and don’t have the basic ethics to write under pseudonyms. They instead pretend to be someone they aren’t.

“Amanda”s authors are liars, and I wasted my time engaging them in conversation.

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