AS SEEN ON TV
The initial television “news” furor about the DeathLodge has subsided into an awkward silence. Every outlet ran a :: “Three People Dead, Dead, Dead … tonight at 11″ type story. But the more complicated story {which would require ACTUAL fucking journalism} remains untold.
Perhaps they are reticent to tell a tale which so starkly frames their own chronic negligence :: Or maybe they just totally fucking suck {more likely}. Either way :: The Droid officially demands MORE from them in the aftermath of the ginormous mess they helped to create.
Before the DeathLodge :: The television media couldn’t get enough of Death Ray. They gave him millions of dollars worth of free advertising :: passed him off as an “expert” giving qualified opinions :: and never asked him a SINGLE tough question that hit at the core of his transparent financial scams.
As you watch the video in disgust :: keep in mind that James Ray is a telemarketer and salesman :: he has no education :: he has no credentials or certifications :: his ADVERTISED top-end seminar is $10K :: and not very deep below the surface he’s taking people for much much more than that.
It’s not a failure to report on his horror show manipulation tactics {although it is}. No :: No. They can’t even screen him out when he comes asking for PROMOTIONAL spots. They package him up as an expert and herd the hapless into his sales funnel with their Prozac smiles :: and bleached of truth tongues. Forget about fact checkers :: they are reading off of his fucking notes!
Maybe I can help :: Let’s role play. I’ll pretend that I’m the real journalist {the kind of person who gives a shit about the public good} :: and the television networks and their affiliates can pretend like they’re a horrible monster that needs to be interviewed. Wait :: maybe this isn’t role playing. Anyways :: here’s how one might ask questions of a party behaving dubiously …
Me 2 U: Did you receive ANY form of compensation from JRI in consideration for his appearances on your programs?
U 2 Me: Uhm … oh … well … we’ll have to check with our accountants and their mommies.
Me 2 U: Are you concerned that you’ve opened yourselves up to liability to the various parties who have been substantively harmed by JRI due to your thinly veiled promotional activities?
U 2 Me: What is this some kind of hatchet job? I didn’t come here to be crucified by some god damned robot! We’ll have to check with our lawyers and their mommies.
Me 2 U: How do you intend to repay your viewers :: and society :: for your flagrant breach of trust?
U 2 Me: We haven’t admitted accepting compensation … so you speak to soon SIR!
Me 2 U: There’s a breach of trust either way you ignorant turds. Just one last question: Are you fucking kidding me with this shit? I mean seriously … are you fucking kidding me with this shit?
… and scene.
I came off pretty well there {I might just win the Peabody}. U :: on the other hand :: sucked it! You were unprepared … you sounded stupid and nervous and guilty … you won’t be asking to come back on my show {which is great because I have standards and you sicken me}.
Mayhaps you could try conducting some of your interviews like that in the future? It might be a tiny bit more useful than your current Give a Bastard a Back-rub approach.
I know some television journalists have been sniffing around this story :: Some of them have contacted me. I hope all of those stories get done :: and that some actual light is shed upon the darkness. The news media companies OWE IT to Colleen Conaway :: James Shore :: Kirby Brown :: Liz Neuman :: and all those of yet unenumerated victims. Pay up you assholes!!
>> bleep bleep
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:: read one now before you die of stupid.
Wow, you can almost see that asshole’s head getting bigger and bigger as the clips go on.
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I can’t believe we’re going to have to wait another month til this SOB is actually put on the hotspot. I will feel so much relief when the investigation comes to the open, although that’s nothing to what close friends and family members affected by all this will feel. I really do hope that some legal justice comes to Colleens family too although I know this particular investigation seems to be only about the sweat lodge.
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Make sure to notice the Fox Detroit {saddest city on the whole planet} guys special pronunciation of the word entrepreneur at 0:51
My attempt to spell the “word” he says :: intraupator :: I think it might be a kind of dinosaur
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_cartman_ Reply:
November 16th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
hahaha….I wondered what he was saying….
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the media is all about $$.
ratings are $$.
the media is paid for by advertisers. advertisers want an audience who doesn’t think or ask questions, and just buys what they are told to buy.
they promote whatever crap they think people will buy.
they don’t want their audience to ask questions.
the main media is not going to go after these crooks, only the fringe media like bloggers and citizens who give a shit.
if it bleeds, it leads.
the main media is never going to take these guys on, only the small investigative and alt-media.
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If any one reading has experienced psychological or physical injury while attending or because of attending a James Ray seminar, this link is advertising as providing whatever legal representation is possible to those damaged by the James Ray empire.
http://sweatlodgeinvestigation.com/
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Uh, yeah, intraupator.
From Wikipedia: a type of dinosaur, thought to be extinct, may be related to the velociraptor, preys on the weak, gullible, and the rich alike. These slithering, spineless, sociopaths inhabit many positions of guru-ship around the world. Alone, they aren’t dangerous, but when they have a roomful of sycophants and believers, they are known to strike viciously at anyone in the audience with the temerity to question their omniscience and absolute knowledge.
These creatures are hard to distinguish from normal humans, but they can be recognized immediately when they open their mouth and words like “attract” “quantum level” “what if it works” “can you afford not to” “essence” and other key phrases are strung together with oily precision that makes you feel like taking a shower (or for cartman, an acid bath) any time you listen to them….
Ok, so maybe it’s not from Wikipedia. Sorry. Maybe it should be.
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I have to share this – too ridiculous to be believable.
Seems in order to work for the Death Ray, you have to subject yourself to numerous Coaching classes and other bullshit that, I’m sure, is easy on your wallet. Then, once you have passed all of their coaching, seminars, Journey of Power, etc., you can have the privilege of working for the “Team”, but don’t expect to get paid – it’s on commission only.
Check it out: http://jamesray.com/pdf/careers/cert_hw_coach.pdf
Looks like another way to bilk folks to me. But what do I know?
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Wow, look at this…day 2 of this post and only a few comments. “Phew!” said all the Internet Marketers out there yesterday and today…”thank God for James Arthur Ray and the Droid’s continued interest in him.” Sigh of relief….
So…nothing new about our totally useless mainstream media here. Although maybe somebody should consult my NOT favourite blogger Arrington, over at Tech Crunch. His coverage of scamville at least attracted the attention of Newsweek and resulted in a decent article plus a couple of non-newsworthy puff pieces by the NYT and Globe not worth mentioning.
But…that’s nothing compared to DEATH here. Not sexy enough , no publicists with agendas pushing it, no promo $.
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Droid Edit ~ @franksgaycousintrey’s victim hate {including this comment} has been banished to :: http://saltydroid.info/sheeple-part-2-conformity/ ~
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RJ Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Hey, jackass…
If what you’re pushing really worked, you wouldn’t be pushing it…you’d be working it. Idiot.
Oh, and the real reason you came here: you’re scared shitless about your future.
You should be.
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_cartman_ Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 12:29 am
This is the internet Bimbecile…..an amalgamation of two words; “International” and “network”. When you claim the greatest country in the world on an international (which means whirly wide) network, you have to ”name” the country you are referring to.
So you sell infermation….in the greatest country in the world…is that correct? I have yet to meat one Bimbecile that even understands, or quantifies correctly, the metrics behind the infermation they sell.
Excuse me bonehead who didn’t go to skool….do you even watch the news…..
Lets see toxic assets up the wazoo….the biggest companies failing…others requiring bailouts….car sales are down…housing starts are the lowest they have been in 50 years..gold prices are up…the US dollar is weak…unemployment rates are at 10.2…..but according to the bonehead on the Internet (the greatest country in the world) there is a lot more opportunity…obliviously you are an economics major….
Would it be wrong of me if I acted like I was hella tarded around you, so you can feel like a king….
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gap Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 2:30 am
saltydroidblowsdogs:
“This is the greatest country in the world. There’s more opportunity today than has ever existed before.”
Um, by “opportunity”: you must mean the opportunity to bamboozle those people who “just sit on their fat asses and are too lazy and dumb to actually use the info” and by “greatest country in the world” you must mean: there are more people who “just sit on their fat asses and are too lazy and dumb to actually use the info” in America than anywhere on the planet (HAHA-TAKE THAT-CHA CHING)
“Sure, I’m guilty of making it look perhaps easier than it really is in my sales pages”
It only looks “easier” to people who “just sit on their fat asses and are too lazy and dumb to actually use the info”; without the fat, stupid people…without the fat, stupid people, where would you be today.
Hey, why don’t you have your tombstone inscribed with
Here I (Don’t Lie) Finally!
Without The Fat, Stupid People…
Without The Fat, Stupid People…
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“but don’t expect to get paid – it’s on commission only”
I know a certain Aussie who is frequently targeted for being such a wanker employs COMMISSION ONLY! What dickhead would work commission only for these losers? They have nothing to sell and they know it thats why they want people to work for them for nothing. When they challenge what they are being paid guess what, all they get paid in is blame and lame excuses why the pay doesn’t add up to any agreement.
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its sad that a so called guru calls his buyers stupid and fat. also think that is ridiculous to work for measily commission for james ray
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What makes this whole thing all the worse is that I know someone else who is also doing this and taking no responsibility for their actions, but I wholeheartedly believe that justice is being served slowly, deliberately and painfully:
“As you watch the video in disgust :: keep in mind that James Ray is a telemarketer and salesman :: he has no education :: he has no credentials or certifications :: his ADVERTISED top-end seminar is$10K :: and not very deep below the surface he’s taking people for much much more than that.”
What I have discovered is that these foolish peoples first thought is that people are angry with them because of MONEY and nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone who gives to someone like this believing what they are being told gives MUCH MORE THAN MONEY. This is the missing link in all of these guys argument because I believe THAT IS WHAT THEIR WHOLE BEING IS FOCUSED ON.
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Anyone who thinks that people should be willing to work for commission only has no faith in their products or their business and their focus is only on money. Run like hell if that is what you are offered.
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@Anonymous what exactly do you believe it that they are focused on?
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I wonder if Oprah, or larry king, or anyone else who helps these hucksters, is going to be, or can be, held financially responsible????? Seems to me if you are sending people to these charlatains, maybe you should be held accountable????? Might be a good question for an attorney….
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SD Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Hey John ::
I think it would be tough :: but more than worth a try. They are responsible :: no doubt :: they should be forced to pay so that think about it harder next time.
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I’m way behind on my comments here, but this issue has really been a sore point with me since Death Lodge first hit the news. I too find it astonishing that the news media seemed to be so utterly appalled about the whole thing, when they gave JAR and so many other hustledorks a free pass, especially in the months following the release of The Secret.
I discussed this matter a little on my own blog a couple of months ago after the ladies on The View had a discussion about Sweatgate. This was shortly after the story first broke. The View gals expressed puzzlement about why ANYONE would follow a guru, or would want to attend extreme workshops — and most of all, why anyone wouldn’t have the sense to just get up and get out of the sweat lodge when things started looking dicey. It was as if they were discussing some newly discovered species. They honestly seemed to have no clue that (1) their very own audience includes lots of self-help consumers, some of whom probably do go in for these types of workshops; and (2) in a real sense, talk show hosts as well as the news media helped create the New-Wage culture that gave rise to Sweatgate. I’m not saying the media should be held criminally accountable or anything like that. But they are, in their own way, partially responsible.
In a related story, ABC News is apparently cooking up yet more free advertising for James Ray’s colleagues. Joe “Mr. Fire” Vitale, who was also in The Secret (and is one of those chastising us to withhold judgment about Death Lodge), recently Tweeted that ABC News is going to film one of his Rolls Royce Masterminds this coming January. This is a scheme in which Joe charges people $5,000 each to ride with him in his Rolls Royce Phantom and brainstorm on business ideas or whatever they want to brainstorm about.
http://twitter.com/mrfire/status/6811982132
Now, if this actually comes to pass, it’s possible that ABC is planning to do a critical or at least reasonably balanced piece. Maybe they’re even planning some surprise attack like Australia’s A Current Affair did with David Schirmer.
But I wouldn’t count on it. After all, Sweatgate is so yesterday… let’s get on with the positive thinking already. After all, we have a recession to recover from! (For those who aren’t familiar with my writing, that was irony again.)
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Should I holler at the gold folks at ABC and let them know about this blog and a few other things about Mr Fire?
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