"Open Letter to Obama": This is why we call the fringe right 'wingnuts'
Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 17:22 We have a lot of friends here in northern Nevada that aren’t exactly wingers or ‘true believers’ as much as they’re absolutely devoid of the critical thinking gene. They don’t possess one iota of curiosity … curiosity that might lead them to examine the emails they get, finding out who wrote them, and the kind of people the writer might be playing to before they hit the Forward button.
Maybe that’s a good thing, as I think some of them would be more frightened of the audience for this type of venomous garbage if they understood it at all. Read on, and I hope you haven’t eaten lately, and then I’ll show you who else is reading this and taking it all as gospel truth.
The following is copied and pasted without changes from the email I got:
Lou Pritchett
Foremost Leader in Change Management
Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ‘s true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as “partnering.” Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America ’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett
My husband kept saying, “wow, and this guy is a big wheel with Proctor & Gamble, too.” My guess is that Proctor & Gamble has probably done a lot better since Mr. Pritchett left the company, if his thinking is truly this profoundly flawed.
When I see emails like this floating around, with people who otherwise appear normal taking them seriously, I get curious. That’s just my left leaning nature… to question things. So I noodle around the internet, in an attempt to get a better picture of the real who and what.
Here’s a reader who is deeply impressed by Mr. Pritchett’s letter to Obama:
Re: Pritchett’s Letter to Obama
Fascinating letter!
…Too bad Obama will never read it.
In the end, it’s all about the survival of the White race.
This is posted on the White Pride website comment page. Doesn’t that just figure. This ‘Open Letter’ lands right at the top of the comments at the USA Carry - Open and Concealed Carry Information website. A thorough google search brings up numerous other Libertarian and Republican sites that think this letter is the best thing since scripture … and they quote a lot of it during their hysterical rants about Obama being the reincarnation of Karl Marx or the antichrist. They can’t decide which.
If Mr. Pritchett doesn’t ‘know’ anything about Obama by now, despte the endless media coverage, then he’s been living in a cave deep inside Afghanistan. In other words, he hasn’t been listening because he doesn’t want to hear.
Pritchett throws out one nasty inuendo after another, conveniently forgetting to support anything with facts. Fortunately, there are some out there in the blogosphere that are just as offended by this sort of unfounded rumor mongering - intended to play into the racial fears of the ignorant - and have done their homework.
You should enjoy reading an in-depth analysis - taking the ‘Open Letter’ apart line by line that Ken Watts at the Daily Mull offers up.
At the end of the day, I’ll tell you what scares me … it’s that some really disturbed person out there - much like the one that murdered the abortion doctor the other day - will be moved to ‘do something’ by these unquestioning, unthinking morons.
Oh, and I’d suggest that if you’re looking for sound business advice and guidance, Lou isn’t the one to go to.
maven
Reader Comments (4)
Dammit. I didn't take your advise and wait to digest my breakfast before reading this! (urp). This is so amazing. It's like the right wants to get back at liberals for questioning Bush's suitability for being president! Like we weren't justified in doing so.
These things are endlessly frustrating to me. At least when we receive this one from our idiot relatives now we can reply with the Daily Mull post.
I started reading this and I was wondering why I had never heard of this guy. "Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ‘s true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management." Heck, I have been studying and practicing change management and organizational development intensely for a several years now. So I pulled out one of the books I use in my grad school program titled, "Organization Change: Theory and Practice" (2002) written by W. Warner Burke, one of THE foremost leaders in the field of change management, to see if Mr. Pritchett was quoted or referenced. This is a textbook introducing and discussing the leading theories in change. He doesn't mention Mr. Pritchett or any of his "groundbreaking" work in partnering with other businesses. I read Mr. Pritchett's website and he sounds like he was successfull in partnering with WalMart to drive sales at P & G, which must have made him a huge hit ($$$) at P & G. I think calling himself a leader in change management is a stretch though. So, you start off with half truths and it goes on from there.... these politically motivated e-mails get tiring and I rarely read them anymore.
I realize he doesn't work for P&G any more, but really, this makes me want to boycott them. He's no socialist (would that he were!). And I'm not even an Obama fan, but this shit is off the rails. The whackos are still with us, it appears.
Have you seen this post at Corrente?