“Steve Jobs and Apple are in trouble for backdating. Backdating is a complex financial prodecure requiring Mr. Jobs to call old girlfriends,” Chip Bok, a rather famous editorial cartoonist, blogs for Bokbuster.
Bok writes, “According to Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal it is a perfectly legitimate business practice. A special 2 man committee, including Apple director and Internet inventor, Al Gore, investigated Jobs and cleared him.”
“Since executive options come out of the existing shareholders’ hide you’d think they’d be pretty steamed about the whole backdating thing. Not. Apple stock rose to record highs,” Bok.
See a larger version of the cartoon here.
I backdated once.
Stuff like that really makes you appreciate quality cartoonists. That just isn’t funny or even clever. It’s just a pretty unappealing drawing with a rather lame joke about technology having lots of features.
I guess we’re going to squeeze the scandal jism rag until there ain’t nothing more to squeeze.
Let’s get this thing investigated, slap fines and jail sentences worthy of the alleged crimes on the alleged criminals, and get back to business dammit!
Its already gotten to the point where they BETTER find some illegal activity on Steve’s part or I’m going to be pissed about all of the hot air that’s been pointed at the public over this thing. Can’t anyone succeed in this country anymore without being demonized?
I felt, and still feel the same way about BG, never the less, it has been proven many times over that his company does carry on its business unethically and in some cases illegally.
Hasn’t anyone learned from politics yet that going after a front runner when they’re winning just looks like what it is – a cheap shot.
Steve Job’s backdating has gotten more press (and outrage) than Sandy Berger’s pant stuffing routine. Kinda sad.
Lookit mommy! Another useless stupid blog!
This is the same Chip Bok who recently penned a cartoon comparing “W” to
Abraham Lincoln because Bush, like Lincoln, didn’t listen to his generals.
Bok is a Bush apologist and fellow Neo-delusionist!!
Why do ‘reporters’ keep getting away with publishing lies about Al Gore? He never claimed to invent the internet. He claimed he was one its early supporters and that he helped draft some of the legislation that led to it.
“Neo-[insert term here]”
In word of Fizzek, “I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Oh golly, what a clever cartoonist.
Monsieur Kenobi,
Oh…I see. How ’bout Neo-warmongering-idiot!!!!!
OBill-Wan Kenobi — It was actually Inigo Montoya:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
First … many editorial cartoonists simply go through the morning paper to find something they can make fun of or make a point of. This was an ill-mannered point, but who knows what all those buttons/options do? If he really compared Dubbya to Lincoln, there’s more than a kernel of truth there – though I doubt if history books printed after 2020 will have anything positive to say about the current administration.
AFAIK, Gore never said HE <u>invented</u> the Internet. He did claim to be part of the process that made it possible. He was one of the law-makers (not leading technologists) who played an important part in making the Internet possible, he did play a significant role. I have a small trophy on my shelf proclaiming my own participation. I was a minor cog in the group within a large company – the group that worked on making the hardware and software work, and work together. Thus I made a contribution to it. So did my boss’s secretary. These parasites who never contributed anything to anything or anyone that did not benefit themselves need to STFU about the many thousands of us who at least tried.
DLMeyer – the Voice of G.L.Horton’s Stage Page
“Chris, I think you need to check your references. CNN, hardly a contributor of “ultra right wing crap” still has the interview with Al Gore posted in which Al Gore said, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” (Link: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html)”
[comment found on Bok’s blog]
DL,
Well, sure there’s a “kernel of truth” in comparing
Lincoln to Bush–they both served as president,
breathe(d) oxygen, had parents, etc., but to say
Dumbya compares favorably to Lincoln is the
epitome of idiocy. That’s Fox News’ territory.
SteveH,
Al Gore saying he “took the initiative in creating
the internet” does not mean he said he invented it.
If you Bush-loving folk want to parse and dissect
politicians’ statements, I’d say you could stay
busy for the rest of your lives rummaging through
the double-speak of Bush and his fellow
travelers.
LAME, PETHETIC, SILLY. MDN is
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Actually, there are some similarities to besieged Lincoln and Bush.
During the US civil war, Lincoln gave a two minute address in Gettysburg about the importance of fighting to uphold a liberal democracy.
The following day, the Chicago Times, his home state newspaper, summarized, “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.”
MDN MW = ‘indeed’.
Wow. That’s pathetic. And he’s the cartoonist for my local paper.
good grief; lighten up, fanboi’s. skin’s pretty thin around here.
Hitler also ignored his generals–refusing to release a Panzer division on
D-Day because he was convinced the invasion of the Cotentin Peninsula
was a feint and that the “real” invasion would be at the Pas-de-Calais.
So, Bush is like Hitler.
Notice that Bush listens to his generals when they tell him what he wants to
hear. When they tell him anything contrary, he fires or ignores them.
Making decisions that are unpopular does not mean they are wise.
Haha I’d like that feature!