Comments on: Phillips, Like Bush, Can’t Say Those Two Little Words

By: Himself

Himself — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:31:38 +0000

Thanks, Julia, but she’s already taken herself out of the game. Lucky for you Canadians, you won’t be subjected to her coprate schools nonsense dictated from her new job as director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

By: julia

julia — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:55:02 +0000

Hi - just found your blog from the Thursday Thirteen site, and “More hockey Less war” was too intriguing to pass up. And here I get a post about snotty politicians. Wonderful surprise! Ms. Phillps ( I hate to snark on her, since I was once a Ms. Phillips, myself) is only doing what business rewards people for doing. Crushing the competition. Success in business and having a soul generally don’t go together. The only way to counter someone like that is to crush her into the boards with a sneaky body check. You may spend a short time in the penalty box, but it’s the only way to take her out of the game.

By: Zarwen

Zarwen — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:43:13 +0000

I forgot to add that the words “I’m sorry” cannot be translated into Phillipspeak.

By: Zarwen

Zarwen — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:42:01 +0000

“Appropriately critical” is Phillipspeak for “fawning all over me.” “Supportive and problem-solving” means “doing it my way.” “Positive things going on” means “corporate money is in control.” There are many other examples of Phillipspeak in all of her published interviews; I am sure you get the idea.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:34:47 +0000

I posted the above comment on WWeek’s site as well. Thanks again for another great post.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:26:16 +0000

Way to go, Beth. You’ve picked up where the Trib’s Jennifer Anderson left off before she started writing fluff pieces about Vicki Phillips.

What does Phillips mean “appropriately critical?” She wants us to be polite? Nobody’s called her names, have they? The criticism I’ve read has been direct, factual, and blunt, but hardly inappropriate. What’s inappropriate is her refusal to respond substantively to charges that she has negotiated back room deals with corporate bigwigs –and Tony Hopson– while completely ignoring the concerns of the real Jefferson community. Her tactic, like Bush’s, is to essentially stonewall her critics.

Corporate largesse is all well and good, but not if it supplants adequate public funding from citizen taxpayers. Corporations are accountable only to their stockholders, not to the public. Unlike Doug Morgan, I can’t vote Phil Knight (or Mark Parker) out of office.

One definition of fascism is the merging of corporate and governmental interests. That seems to be the educational road we’ve taken under the leadership of Vicki Phillips.