Gunty is very important, because it shows how are highest level of academic institutions will continue to support people of dubious character who then go out in the world and steal and cheat. In this day and age, could there be anything more important in the business community? All who know the guy think he’s an aweful human being; lawyers, deal guys, bankers, but he pays them and apparently that’s what matters, right? Honor, ethics, loyalty? These are meaningless in a world of Murry Gunty. Is this the kind of guy, or the type of people, we feel HBS should push out into the world? They should be ashamed, because he certainly isn’t.

Say goodbye to a one-time good company (Rauch Industries, Gastonia, NC.

honestly, i was just rambling one day on an airplane on my blackberry, pissed off at a world that celebrates and elevates a murry gunty while leaving so many more deserving souls behind. i’ll also admit that it is fun for me to see this story get all this attention now.

as for six apart, that’s a tough call for me. they were wrong and i applaud them for so quickly admitting it but i do worry about the people who get a terms of service violation note and dont know they can say fuck off. 6A should affirm in their TOS that they have no right to remove any of my content.

For me, the meat in this material is that a guy like Murry Gunty tried to get to a blogger through the service provider (SixApart) in order to control information. SixApart self corrected with a pretty quick “oops, our bad,” but the fact of their intitial contact remains. And that contact was an attempt to dumb down the quality of info that bloggers provide by asserting terms service that would prevent identifying real people in blog postings that appear controversial.

I was circumspect, selective in my choice of information to include in this post, not mentioning for example the ironic circumstances that Murry Gunty and his wife support Sidwell Friends School, a private school in the Bethesda and DC areas that purports to “prize diversity” and to inculcate “Quaker values” while actually drawing children of privilege away from the public school system and thereby diluting the quality of public education.

My writing was cautious and attempted self-protectively to draw a line between what we know and what we infer, because while the truth is a defense against libel, who wants to have to defend himself?

Everything I’ve presented is second hand and/or derived from source materials found only on the web. My post could therefore be taken as the first mutterings of an angry mob of swift boat style true believers and discredited for that.

Yet, if we are to shine the light of critical scrutiny on Michael Milken or the Nazi Pope, must we not also criticize Murry Gunty?