This probably is the last time I'll respond to you, Phil. Because despite the nice words about my writing I feel I have ample evidence that you've been trolling me (which should get you some stern words from the mods, but when Jimmy Thick is allowed to stay, I sometimes think anyone but Tom Amity is welcome here).
I make it very clear when I post something that's a fact as such. And then I offer my opinions.
The issue some seem to have (all the while claiming they have no real interest in the subject, which makes anyone with half a brain wonder why they are posting on it at all) is that when I post something that I have vetted and know to be fact as fact, that's just not good enough for people. Some people. Largely the crew of folks who no doubt liked this post of yours.
I am not changing my tune on what I am reporting unless the song changes. And, sorry Phil, the band is still playing the same one.
Phil, that's all well and good. It's largely a smart way of taking in any information. Do you think I'm an idiot? (Yeah, I know, why ask?) I worked in journalism for many years. When it wasn't a sham. When you couldn't run a major news story with six sources who were all anonymous and you had to fight to use just one. I use that same methodology here. Why do you think I'm right so often? Dumb luck? Guessing? (IF so, someone really should offer to take me to Vegas!)
I think what you, and many others here, want is impossible to get. And instead of accepting it and either moving on to a different topic or a different thread, you insist on a back and forth that I simply don't have the time or desire to continue. You want to hear what Disney says. Why don't you call corporate communications and ask for a statement? They'll either laugh you off the phone or tell you it's all crazy talk and you can't believe anything you read on the Internet (unless it's PR for them by one of their paid shills or BRAND advocates).
And, BTW, why would an official statement from Disney trump something I, or any respected poster here writes? Do you truly not believe that Disney, like all major corps, tends to lie from time to time?
I'm trying to take you at face value, but I'm having a very tough time.
Everytime I offer up more damning evidence that all is not Kosher between Disney and the Chinese government, I'm told that it's not good enough, the sources are biased (every human being is biased that doesn't mean truth can't be told!), it's just all just coincidence or that I'm lying. I am many, many things but a liar isn't one of them. I'm not a Jim Hill. I don't take 10% reality and concoct the other 90% of the story to create a narrative that will entertain some fanbois and put a credential around my neck. I admit that I don't have the full story here. I doubt anyone outside of Bob Iger's closest circle does. But I flat out KNOW that I have more of it than anyone that has written about the subject on a Disney fan forum. Or in the mainstream USA press.
So, if I have 90% of a story, then I'm willing to put that out as fact and offer a very educated opinion on the remainder.
You don't have to like it, but you don't have to troll the subject either. Ask
@wdwmagic. He's got literally hundreds of threads here you can enjoy and partake in or you can start one of your own. It might even be nice if he suggested it because I'm sure he hates the typical summer flareups that pop up in the heat.
Best advice I ever got was ''just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.'' All I have to do is look at the same people taking shots to realize it isn't paranoia. And guess what? I don't want to meet you, talk to you and I have no intention of revealing my true identity (that bull$hit was an old JT line).
Why would people at TWDC care about me? Perhaps, they know more about me than you do? Perhaps, they aren't happy with what I write or that I attempt to get media coverage on subjects they'd rather no one discuss?
And again, you say you have no agenda and it's all about my ego and then you go and attack me. I'm sorry if I know Disney executives past and present and you don't. Guess what? They aren't nearly as exciting or interesting as some of the people I have met from MAGIC, I have talked to from MAGIC and are now very close friends. About the only high level execs I have met from Disney who I would ever call fascinating would be Michael Eisner and Roy E. Disney ... I guess you can now throw John Lasseter in there as well.
Most of the Disney execs I have met, whether I like them or not, are not exceptional people. They are rather ordinary.
And I hope you'll understand if I decide to simply ignore you. You've said your piece about wanting multiple sources and I can't provide that on ANY subject I post on. I can't even provide one source but you do understand why that is. I'm not looking to harm sources (good people, some friends, some people I only know anonymously, etc.) to place names on an Internet forum where they could be greatly harmed for posters like yourself to say ''yeah, I don't buy it. Source XYZ works for Disney and clearly hates the company.''
I don't think you need to repeat the same bs daily. You aren't going to get what you want here, so what's your purpose? Move on to a subject that interests you and enjoy it.
I'm dealing with a gravely ill family member now (as my MAGICal friends are aware) and I can tell you that life is most definitely too short. I really wish you and anyone who has an issue with what I am posting would simply move on. I like healthy discussion and debate, but the anti-China factions aren't engaging in that at all. So, I'm being very nice here and asking you to move on and you can take anyone else along for the ride who believes I'm the story here and not Bob Iger and his Chinese fiasco. What is it that the kids say? Bye Felicia?
