Mark Cuban is an...
Posted by TF Boggs at 6:58 PM, 11/11/07 |
At the Blogworld Expo last week Mark Cuban, self-made billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, gave the closing speech Friday evening. I attended the speech not because I much wanted to hear what he had to say, but rather because I was somewhat bored and needed to kill some time before dinner. He talked about blogging and doing so responsibly. I was actually pretty impressed by his speaking abilities and some of the words of wisdom he had.
Near the end of his talk he discussed how bloggers shouldn’t be quick to insult others or use harsh language on their blog because the internet will always keep a record of what they say. He mentioned how he researches everyone who applies for a job and hires based upon what he finds. He joked that if someone had a blog post where they insulted him, for example calling him an idiot, then he wouldn’t hire them. Good advice for sure.
Before he opened up the floor for questions he made a shameless plug for his new film “Redacted.” If you haven’t already heard about the film let me inform you. It is directed by Brian De Palma and is about the rape and murder of an Iraqi family by a few American soldiers. According to De Palma:
“The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war," he said.”
The movie was financed by a company of Cuban’s and is thus directly supported by Cuban. Cuban described the movie in his speech at Blogworld by saying “Soldiers are bored 99% of the time, this film is about what they do with the other 1%.”
That statement taken to its logical conclusion means that the only time soldiers aren’t bored is when they are raping and murdering. What a guy that Mark Cuban is, a real winner. Now I am not going to call him an idiot because it takes a lot of smarts to become a billionaire, although I will say that I think he is slightly ill informed.
As an Iraq vet who found other things to do in my free time besides rape and murder I take offense to Cuban’s remarks. What is so bad about them is a seemingly smart guy like him should be able to figure out when someone has pulled the wool over his eyes like De Palma has with this film. Something tells me that Cuban could care less as long as there is a buck to be made. Too bad he has to make money at the expense of the soldiers. As if one terrible incident, that not one American soldier would condone, describes the whole Iraq war.
Needless to say I wasn’t too impressed with the closing speech at Blogworld. So Mark if you’re reading this I’m not exactly calling you an idiot, but you sure talked like one the other night.
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