Barclay’s Warns of Financial Storm
Today I received a drive-by flaming from one of our listeners calling himself/herself “nobody” with the email address “nobody@nothing.com.” Here is “nobody’s” accusation:
I tried to find evidence to support or deny emails sent to me about your show and the first place I looked was Barclays own website under “media” and this is their media coverage for June 27, 2008: http://www.newsroom.barclays.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=1386&NewsAreaID=2 which does not say what your Barclays 6/27 quote says… at all. I didn’t bother to double check any of the other quotes, but I assume if the first one was not true, the others might not be either. Doesn’t mean that people aren’t already scared and stockpiling food…. they probably are. But falsely quoting Barclays (maybe others?) is wrong. Please doublecheck your facts before airing them. Keep it real.
Dear nobody, I assure you, we are “keeping it real.” If you want to know the source of any quote from one of our programs, please just ask before accusing me or our program of lying to our listeners. You don’t need to be afraid to give a return address to receive the answer because we will not treat you rudely. Of course, if what you are afraid of is the truth then a drive-by flaming with no return address may help you to unload an unpleasant truth you don’t feel prepared to deal with. In any case, your accusations are entirely unfounded. Below is the British Newspaper source for that quote you accused us of “falsely quoting.” You will find that it is a real newspaper and it contains the exact quote just as we read it on our program. It is from the Telegraph of 6/27/08 and is entitled: Barclays warns of a financial storm as Federal Reserve’s credibility crumbles By the way, all the rest of the quotes from the program are equally real. - Shalom, Eliyahu ben David
