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Money graf, from Miami New Times:
Yet judging from New Times reporter Michael Miller’s photo, McAfee spared no expense and despite claims of being broke isn’t letting it stand in the way of a lust for nigiri. Miller reported that McAfee spent more than $400 on lunch. He said he’s received “sacks of cash from friends in Canada which was very nice” and that more than 50 people have given him their credit numbers, including one with a $100,000 limit who said “spend whatever you want.”
Other fine quotes, in a story dubbing John McAfee the “master bullsh—er:”
But then McAfee starts to talk, and it is instantly clear something is not right …
McAfee also started opening up about his life. He said that he cared deeply for both his girlfriends, Amy and Sam, and was worried for their safety in Guatemala, but that monogamy and love were illusions. “This is a rare truth,” he said, before quizzing his three listeners on whether they had ever had an affair.
“I don’t sleep with Amy anymore,” McAfee volunteered. “She tried to kill me four times. She stabbed me in the ass. I’m deaf in one ear because she tried to shoot me in the head. Since we stopped having sex, she hasn’t tried to kill me. Not even once.”
McAfee then offered to hook me up with his sadistic ex. “Sam is not going to want to skin you alive,” he said, “because she will notice that you are actually faithful to women.”
In one moment he promised to tell me the absolute truth. In others, he said he disdained journalists and admitted to playing “practical jokes” on them by routinely lying to them.
“I have no future, no dreams, no plans,” he said. “If you don’t have plans, then life is nothing but chaos.” McAfee paused. “Here’s the truth of life,” he said. “You can be the president but if nobody pays attention to you, you don’t exist.”
And suddenly I understood why McAfee looked so old, so ragged. Without a past or a future to retreat to, his life had become one frenetic moment: an endless search for recognition. Without his young women around, he had turned to reporters for validation.
Read it. Finally, a decent article on John McAfee, after the business and tech media’s weeks of bungling and being the man’s miscellaneous tools.
From CNBC transcript, this morning:
McAFEE: YOU KNOW, MY ACCOUNTANT MAY KNOW WHAT I’M WORTH. I HAVE NOT ASKED HIM RECENTLY. YOU KNOW, I’M 67 YEARS OLD. I EAT WELL AND I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR FOOD AND CLOTHES. I REALLY DON’T HAVE A CLUE SIR.
FRANK: JUST A BALLPARK.
McAFEE: YOU KNOW, LESS THAN FIVE MILLION DOLLARS CERTAINLY
McAfee uses the term “sir” to mock journalists. Some of them haven’t been hipped to this fact quite yet.
McAfee has 5 million, or maybe more, mysterious people give him money in Miami, he spends $400 on a routine lunch and has contempt for everyone he deals with, even people granting favors.
Read his blog for the comments. Note the banner marker — how many sycophants he attracts, even when he treats them like dirt.
Here at the end of 2012 I have the Culture of Lickspittle’s first ever Man of the Year.
Here, too, is a YouTube video of McAfee’s 1.2 million dollar beach front hooker palace north of San Pedro (think a criminal element Key West) on Ambergris Caye. Readers will note it was uploaded in 2011. McAfee was apparently looking to unload it well before his current bamboozling. By view count, very few people in media seem to have noticed the sale and video tour hiding in plain sight.
There’s another hidden laugher in this. If you do a keyword search of the news feeds for “McAfee,” the tycoon’s antics drown out everything issued by his former company. For the short term he’s made their publicity arm on enterprise security somewhat useless.
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UPDATED
Pix worth a thousand words.
“Broke,” but staying at …
The 20-year old girlfriend left in Guatemala.
“I would like spend my declining years on the beach, fishing … I would like to go to England.” — John McAfee
“‘Broke’: McAfee opens his new cell phone in his plush hotel room after saying he had nothing left of his $100m fortune but the suit he was wearing,” reads the caption at the Daily Mail.
From a CBS piece:
A source familiar with the McAfee’s situation told CBS4 News that McAfee was briefly questioned by IRS agents after he got off the plane in Miami. The source told CBS4 investigator Jim DeFede that federal agents are examining whether McAfee engaged in money laundering or tax evasion when he left the United States three years ago and settled in Belize.
“I don’t know why the IRS would because I am paranoid and the last people in the world that I want after me is the IRS,??? he replied when asked about the IRS.
One assumes McAfee must still have a considerable amount of liquidity.
Here’s his property at Ambergris Caye, listed for sale at 1.2 million. And if you look on YouTube, you can see he’s had it up for sale since 2011.
It is, indeed, the same property I found using Google Map a week or so ago.
When the Republican Party moves on something it can never contain it’s burning desire to attack everything it hates, across the board.
I’ll leave the coup which turned Michigan into a right-to-work state to others.
Close on the heels of it is another bill, GOP authored, to curb the menace no one can see but the far right.
From the Detroit Free Press:
A Muslim rights group has urged Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to veto legislation designed to block use of Islamic law in the state should it reach his desk.
A House bill to bar use of “foreign laws that would impair constitutional rights??? was on Tuesday’s House agenda. Rep. Dave Agema, R-Grandville, sponsored the bill, which doesn’t specifically mention the Islamic legal code called sharia. However, the bill’s supporters have said they are concerned about the use of sharia spreading …
Pure and simple, it’s a bigot’s bill, another part of the Republican Party’s obsession with getting after people they hate.
And, nationwide, it has been common in red states since the election of Barack Obama, pushed by persistent lobbying by Islam-o-phobe groups in Washington, often associated with Frank Gaffney.
“The question now is whether Michigan Republicans can find time to deal with a nonexistent Shariah takeover when they’re so hard at work crushing unions and curtailing women’s rights,” comments a piece at Mother Jones.
It would be almost funny. But when you’re laughing the Republican Party, even though a minority, always manages to ram through toxic
legislation at the local level.
The creeping menace of fluoride sharia — from the archives.
Guatemalan immigration officials Wednesday afternoon deported John McAfee, who is headed to Miami, according to news reports.
“I’m free, I’m going to America,” the software anti-virus pioneer said at the Guatemala City airport, the Associated Press says. He was escorted to the airport by immigration officials.
Before leaving for the airport he told Reuters, “I’ll be leaving at 3:30 (p.m.) to Miami. That was the only option I had. I can’t take a flight that stops in any other country and there are only two flights going to America today.”
“I’ve been running through jungles and rivers and oceans and I think I need to rest for a while,” is one quote.
“But I will continue my fight for human rights and the charitable work for 20 year-old girls I have become known for in Miami,” the ex-anti-virus king said.
Living Like John McAfee just lost its luster. Miami not quite the same jungle home.
What he really thought.
With today’s news of the Oregon AR-15 massacre, what would Ted say?
We know.
Just this week, on the last shooting, from the WaTimes:
[Bob Costas], blamed the murder-suicide on easy access to guns. He lives in a strange fairyland of ignorance and denial …
What Mr. Costas didn’t say and possibly doesn’t know is that 2 million Americans use guns each year to defend themselves from punks and thugs. Access to guns saves an incalculable number of lives each year.
A young masked man, bent on a mission of destruction and death, entered an Oregon mall and opened fire, turning the holiday shopping season into a chaotic horror that could have been much worse, police officials said Wednesday …
The man entered the Clackamas Town Center, a popular suburban mall several miles from downtown Portland, on Tuesday afternoon. He was wearing a hockey-style mask and a protective vest and began firing with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, stolen from someone the suspect knew, police said. There were also several magazines of ammunition.
If only more people would carry AR-15s when doing Christmas shopping, perhaps this could have been avoided and the punk shot dead.
Some people are mentally unfit. Ted Nugent is such a person.
The black and bleak humor in this is that it presents Nugent with having to write about another nuts shooting only two days after he ranted about all the idiot liberals who try to destroy American freedom after each massacre.
UPDATE
And now it’s orders of magnitude worse. Why would anyone want to be in any club or organization this man speaks for is beyond understanding.
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The tycoon in a men’s adventure setting each week. The famous raconteur will call a lucky viewer or journalist in each episode to tell a fantastic story and extend an invite to his jungle home
Resurrecting some bits I added in comments yesterday:
This, from a NY Times piece on the media role, Gizmodo reporter Joel Johnson opines at the end:
While Mr. McAfee seems determined to drag out his drama as long as he can, some of the journalists who have covered him say they have had enough. “People try to behave ethically,??? said Mr. Johnson. “And he milks that out of them until they get to the point where they’re like, ‘You know what, you’re just nuts.’ ??? “I know as a journalist I can’t say that, so I’ve got to get out of this story.???
Not half an hour after this hit the net the Hollywood Reporter ran a bit informing McAfee had sold movie rights while in jail, although one is dubious whether that meant any immediate windfall:
“U.S. anti-virus pioneer John McAfee, arrested by Guatemalan police and facing deportation to Belize, has apparently entrusted his life story to Montreal-based TV producer Impact Future Media.The TV producer is currently looking for investors and production partners which is tentatively titled Running in the Background: The True Story of John McAfee.???
However, it’s obvious John McAfee is in trouble it will be hard to worm out from under. The publicity and his blog haven’t accomplished whatever it is he actually wanted.
Dispensing with the nonsense in which he dubbed himself a “human rights advocate” on Sunday, McAfee’s in a cell for a straightforward problem — he crossed the border into Guatemala illegally.
It’s humorous. The wealthy white gringo, holding a press conference in Guatemala City, then eventually taken to jail after returning to his hotel.
Not quite like Border Patrol snapping up the poor illegals for detention cells here but …
And McAfee’s blog has made things worse, a chaotic mess with embarrassing photos, shady but trivial characters and weird semi-perverted stories he now probably wishes he’d held back on.
There’s no transparency with McAfee, just what he wants others to think.
It’s difficult to view him as any kind of genius. Indeed, with antivirus McAfee may have just been lucky. He was at the right place at the right time with a tool that worked good enough. And, of course, he had enough knowledge about computer viruses — which were a total mystery to the media — to write the story to his ends.
The viruses of 1992 did not come at you every day. Their only reliable way of travel was through the sharing of infected floppies and diskettes. It was a strength and weakness, the latter because the programs had to be written small to fit into the master boot record, plus occasionally, a few extra sectors. Removing them was, relatively speaking, a lot easier than disinfections are now.
And after McAfee’s SCAN was in the corporate workplace nationwide his fortune was assured. There was only one other real competitor in the US — Symantec. And conservative business behavior guaranteed McAfee Associates would remain a dominant force in the industry.
So rather than being a genius, McAfee was — perhaps — more lucky. Because after antivirus there’s been nothing except spectacle.
And finally, his disaster of a show in Belize. Which is most definitely not evidence of a shrewd operator, just the intrigues of a strange publicity hound with a lot of money.
John McAfee was the same in 1992. A sleazy manipulative salesman with, sometimes, a bit of offbeat smiling charm who never really changed. His fortune turned and, along with bad judgment, got the better of him. Most people don’t get nearly as much string in a lifetime.
The Little Virus That Didn’t in the American Journalism Review — McAfee and the press in ’92. Taken for a ride then, too.
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This can’t be good.
City hall wants me? Uh-oh.
Kidding aside, I’ve noticed an increase in social media worker bee employees scraping Twitter profiles for information that ties you to their locale.
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The demographic of mentally unfit white men who nurse crazy grudges, proven by science:
“49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama … ACORN doesn’t exist anymore.“
Here. And it gets worse.
Guns, Booze, Jesus — you heard it here first. Talk about synergies in factors leading to declines in mental health.
Number One and Two from the year’s Top 10 Quotes, property of Mitt Romney:
1. “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” –Mitt Romney, remarks at private fundraiser, Boca Raton, Fla., May 17
2. “We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet [in Massachusetts]. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.”
The most loathed presidential candidate in our time, easy. And whatever for?
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