{"id":13563,"date":"2010-11-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2010-11-10T00:06:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T07:06:42","slug":"attention-brad-inman-i-dont-want-your-dipshit-most-influential-citation-again-this-year-either-but-it-is-beyond-obvious-that-i-am-by-far-the-most-influential-voice-in-the-on-line-world-of-rea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13563\/attention-brad-inman-i-dont-want-your-dipshit-most-influential-citation-again-this-year-either-but-it-is-beyond-obvious-that-i-am-by-far-the-most-influential-voice-in-the-on-line-world-of-rea\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Brad Inman: I don&#8217;t want your dipshit &#8220;most influential&#8221; citation again this year, either, but it is beyond obvious that I am by far the most influential voice in the on-line world of real estate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with some music, just to set the mood:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3wkxAmQo-Vw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So: If you run in the wrong circles, these are the kind of &#8220;arguments&#8221; you can expect to hear about me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greg Swann is mean.\n<\/li>\n<li>Greg Swann is rude.\n<\/li>\n<li>Greg Swann is vulgar.\n<\/li>\n<li>Greg Swann is angry.\n<\/li>\n<li>Greg Swann is cynical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is an argument you won&#8217;t hear anywhere, except possibly at BloodhoundBlog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greg Swann is wrong, and here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You won&#8217;t hear the latter argument for two reasons: I don&#8217;t take positions I can&#8217;t defend with an impervious impenetrable invulnerability. And: If I should happen to discover that I have been wrong, generally I will be the first person to figure that out and I will announce my error to the world immediately.<\/p>\n<p>What explains all the <em>ad hominem<\/em> arguments cited among the first set? You figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kinds of games that some folks are running while making these persuasively useless claims about my character:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They piss and moan to each other about me behind my back.\n<\/li>\n<li>They campaign with each other to try to damage my interests.\n<\/li>\n<li>They pester contributors here to try get them to abandon BloodhoundBlog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In each of these cases, I think they&#8217;re doing me favors &#8212; which assertion will probably just piss them off more. People who run in mobs don&#8217;t like me, and I don&#8217;t like them. Anything dominating personalities can do to recruit those folks to their own side of the table can only save me time in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Not to put too fine a point on it, but this song summarizes my position on this kind of behavior &#8212; along with every other kind of behavior:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-niro6p2x4o?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Recent events have made it more than obvious that I am by far the most influential person in the wired world of real estate. People are wasting irreplaceable hours and days of their lives obsessing over me, topping each other with tales of how ardently they don&#8217;t pay any attention to me.<\/p>\n<p>Why would this be so? Again, you have to figure this out on your own, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13542\" target=\"_blank\">my take is that they know I&#8217;m right and yet they don&#8217;t want to <em>be<\/em> right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Witness:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?cat=30\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Swann is right about <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13563\/attention-brad-inman-i-dont-want-your-dipshit-most-influential-citation-again-this-year-either-but-it-is-beyond-obvious-that-i-am-by-far-the-most-influential-voice-in-the-on-line-world-of-rea\/#more-13563\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with some music, just to set the mood: So: If you run in the wrong circles, these are the kind of &#8220;arguments&#8221; you can expect to hear about me: Greg Swann is mean. Greg Swann is rude. Greg Swann is vulgar. Greg Swann is angry. Greg Swann is cynical. Here is an argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29,174],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-inmanically-incorrect","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5594,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5594\/another-year-another-challenge-for-greg-swann\/","url_meta":{"origin":13563,"position":0},"title":"Another Year, Another Challenge For Greg Swann","author":"Brian Brady","date":"November 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Who said, \"If you do it right, you can have all the business you can stand.\" ? If you guessed Greg Swann, you were right.\u00a0 Click the link to hear his exuberance about the power of weblogging. Here he is bragging about being the second best real estate blog in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Casual Friday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2444,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2444\/best-of-the-worst-bloodhoundblog-in-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":13563,"position":1},"title":"Best of the worst: BloodhoundBlog&#8217;s most popular posts for 2007","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a comment that got deleted earlier tonight, a pearl of wisdom issued from one orifice or another by a less-than-brilliant pundit who chose to keep his or her identity concealed. The soul and substance of this partial portion of wit:this is easily the worst blog on the RE.netTodd Seavey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":262,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/262\/greg-swann-can-be-an-insufferable-bastard-sometimes-but-that-doesnt-mean-hes-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":13563,"position":2},"title":"Greg Swann can be an insufferable bastard sometimes &#8212; but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s wrong . . .","author":"Cathleen Collins","date":"August 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay. I'll admit it: Greg is more efficient than I. Of course, that will surprise no one. He is able to communicate great big ideas with an economy of words... prolifically. While I have to sweat out each word, then use too many to get my point across. Sweat might\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8334,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8334\/greg-swann-duty-honor-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":13563,"position":3},"title":"Greg Swann: Duty, Honor, Country","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I wasn't born when General MacArthur gave \"the speech\", at West Point but I've read it a hundred times.\u00a0 I delivered it as an exercise for a public speaking class in college. Duty,\u00a0Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8229,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8229\/engenu-webinar-w-greg-swann-tonight-830-est-530-pst\/","url_meta":{"origin":13563,"position":4},"title":"Engenu Webinar w\/ Greg Swann TONIGHT @ 8:30 EST\/ 5:30 PST","author":"Mark Green","date":"May 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If curious to know how Greg Swann builds property websites in the time it takes most of us to eat a bowl of cereal, tonight's the night. 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