WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > where's the beef? Wrote:
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> > Where in the links you provided does it say
> > Godfather's was the #2 pizza chain when Cain took
> > over?
>
> For clarification,
For clarification?
You said it was a fact.
You were wrong.
To clarify, then, what you offer here is not a "clarification," but a correction of your earlier error.
> it had been the #2 chain in the early 80s,
Source?
> but was in 5th place when Cain took over...
It was in 5th place according to a hyper-partisan blog post on a Yankees blog, of all things.
Moreover, there is no citation or source to substantiate the 5th place claim in that post,
or the equally partisan post Les cited earlier, which the Yankees blogger evidently
copied much of his material from.
That Godfather's was in 5th place when Cain took over is not an established fact, then,
but at best a hopeful assertion, akin to asserting the existence of the Great Pumpkin.
> before he drove it down to 11th place
> (apparently it came back a bit after he left to
> 10th place).
>
>
http://www.yankeesdaily.com/post/32751
Again, there is no source given for the 11th place assertion in the linked material.
Again, we are in the realm of the Great Pumpkin, rather than journalistic fact.
> Also, most news outlets have not found other
> Godfather's executives from that time willing to
> say the chain was on the verge of bankruptcy.
This tracks with Politifact's conclusion that it was a "slight exaggeration" for Cain to say
Godfather's would go bankrupt, but that his statement was nonetheless "Mostly True."
> Obviously it had its issues, but given that his
> plan was to take it from 500 stores to 1,200 in
> four years...and it didn't grow worth shit in
> 15...makes him a failure as CEO, IMO.
Your last word, "IMO," is key here.
Fine. You are entitled to your opinion.
But I find it very curious that you have repeatedly cited to Politifact in the past, and have
acknowledged that they are non-partisan.
Indeed, the organization won a Pulitzer Prize.
Yet now, when Politifact reaches a conclusion that rubs you the wrong way - to wit:
Cain's performance as CEO was a success - you ignore it, and instead hastily embrace
the unsubstantiated claims of a blogger of dubious journalistic credentials.
You are, or course, entitled to cling to this opinion, while sitting in your little corner
of the pumpkin patch.
But please don't be surprised when the rest of us - those of us who live in the reality-based
community - roll our eyes when we see you maintaining your lonely vigil.
Happy Halloween.
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