Michael Arrington does not deserve his success.

I’m not afraid. I’ll say it point blank. Michael Arrington does not deserve the success he has reached with TechCrunch. At what point do you abandon, disregard and disrespect your readers? What’s it worth?

The Scenario

Apparently, for Mike, all it takes is the promise of news coverage from Fox News to become a traitor to his readers. In case you’re unaware, TechCrunch officially endorsed two technology presidents; one from each major political party. On the Democratic side, Barack Obama. On the Republican side, John McCain.

The notion put forth was this, and I quote:

TechCrunch will endorse one candidate from each the Democratic and Republican party as the pro-tech candidate based on the popular results of reader voting and blog input from our community of technology leaders and entrepreneurs.

The Problem

It stands to reason that on the Republican side of this “tech primary”, Ron Paul would have won by a landslide. With 73%, he far overshadowed the second place runner of 16%, John McCain.

So why then, did John McCain get the TechCrunch endorsement? It wasn’t from popular result. John McCain didn’t have one-fourth the votes that Ron Paul received. According to Mike, his reasons include Ron Paul being against net neutrality and the FCC regulation of the wireless spectrum. According to the readers, that doesn’t matter, and I think Mike missed a very big part of what makes Ron Paul the landslide winner of the TechCrunch Primaries.

Ron Paul is for limited government. This means even government regulation of things like the wireless spectrum and how much net providers can charge. The thing Mike missed is that under a Ron Paul presidency, a monopoly would be a very hard thing to maintain. Ron Paul is an economist and for free market economy. This means that monopolies cannot survive because their competitors can simply undershoot them. Even in a market monopoly like the cable companies offer (relating to net neutrality), a competitor will pop up that doesn’t support a pay-for-higher-usage scheme.

As for McCain? He knows nothing of technology, and admittedly knows nothing of economics. These are issues that matter greatly to the tech sector, which as Mike has admitted is generally libertarian leaning. In fact, according to the TechCrunch primaries issue, John McCain is against net neutrality as well! In fact, in all the issues listed as the reason for endorsing McCain, he had the same stance as Ron Paul. So where do your allegiances lie, Mike?

To Mike Directly

You should believe your readers. You are not smarter than a crowd of of 10,000 voters (the amount of people who voted in the Republican “tech primary”). To go against not only your readers votes, but even your own word that popular opinion would determine the outcome is an abomination. You don’t respect your readers, and you don’t deserve the success you’ve attained.

Was the promise of Fox News coverage too much to resist? They’re notorious for being anti Ron Paul, and you’ve been parading the video of yourself on Fox News to anyone with eyeballs.

After Duncan Riley’s antics, I was glad to see you step in and start reporting on tech news again… but I sadly took TC out of my feed reader last week. Now, I’m glad I did. You don’t deserve my time and attention span, Michael. You should probably concede to better people and consider a return to domain vulching for a living.

My Disclaimer

I am a Ron Paul supporter. My websites have been featured on TechCrunch a couple of times. I do stand to lose credibility with Mike and the awesome promotional powers TechCrunch can garner. I’m not afraid, however, to call Mr. Arrogant a shill to his face. I wash my hands of you, Mike.