Comments on Lelo in Nopo: OPB invites feedback in the blogosphere on how the...

Lelo, good work! You have my trust and attention!<...

2007-08-31T22:07:00.000-07:00

Lelo, good work! You have my trust and attention!

What I posted at the OPB site:

OPB: where’s the apology? You indict the nasty, unwashed blogsphere for your insensitive mistake, and you blame the messenger in this ridiculous post. The blogsphere is based on trust and attention. OPB you have lost your credibility here, so if you expect to raise funds among these listeners and gain credibility, you are currently lacking. Marie Antoinette you are not!

Git down offen yer high horse girl. Did you bothe...

2007-08-31T15:20:00.000-07:00

Git down offen yer high horse girl. Did you bother to contact OPB BEFORE you posted the original bit of this astro-turf campaign? Be careful - I know what the correct answer is.

Wake up and smell the coffee - the blogosphere IS full of rumors misinformation and hype. How you could claim your post wasn't hype is beyond me.

"They evidently can do that no problem, and are paying a pretty penny for the use of the venue."

hype. And misinformation.

"...John Bell, OPB’s Associate Director of Membership, New Hope was the only space available. I really don’t buy that one bit."

You called John Bell a liar. That's character assassination. You should be ashamed of yourself.

"Word is there are plenty of other places available that night."

rumor.

QED

P.S. I'm an Ira Glass fan as well, but there is a...

2007-08-31T11:15:00.000-07:00

P.S. I'm an Ira Glass fan as well, but there is absolutely no way I could support an event at the ironically named "New Hope".

Congrats to you Lelo for a job well done!

2007-08-31T11:13:00.000-07:00

Congrats to you Lelo for a job well done!

Great story in the Oregonian!

2007-08-31T09:52:00.000-07:00

Great story in the Oregonian!

I am a big fan of Ira Glass, OPB, Lelo and the res...

2007-08-30T22:55:00.000-07:00

I am a big fan of Ira Glass, OPB, Lelo and the rest of the left wing bloggers. You could not pay me to attend any event at the New Hope house of hate. Kudos to Lelo for bringing this up- I was shocked when I heard the ad on the radio and honestly wondered how this was going to fly. Discrimination is not to be commended and supported, especially in a city such as Portland. The blogosphere should be celebrating a victory against bigotry and intolerance. I will now attend the event gladly. Thanks for moving the event. YOU Go GIRL

Oh, dear, lelo...you ventured where I'd be too tim...

2007-08-30T18:31:00.000-07:00

Oh, dear, lelo...you ventured where I'd be too timid to go (did you hear me cheering you on?) and you did so without ugly bashing. You behaved like an adult whose differing opinion needed to be heard and you used today's technology to do so.

And then they treat you so rudely and callously, as if your opinion doesn't matter.

Shame on those who performed and condoned this behavior. Since OPB generally does a bang up job of reporting news that is censored or overlooked by other media, I'm going to hope that this episode is an aberration and not a sign of things to come.

OPB's "rumors, misinformation and hype" remark irk...

2007-08-30T18:09:00.000-07:00

OPB's "rumors, misinformation and hype" remark irked me too. The statement conveniently overlooks OPB's misinformation yesterday when their own VP told The Oregonian that the venue would not change. Of course, even when they corrected their VP's "inaccurate" statement they seemed to blame The Oregonian reporter for calling their VP at home. Is anyone at OPB willing to take responsibility for their self-inflected member-relations problems?

Worse, the dismissive, unapologetic, unsympathetic tone from OPB's John Bell and Becky Chinn has exacerbated this controversy.