I Agree 100% with your tag line....While I am on FB, its for my business and fro free entertainment. The ridiculous things people, especially millenials who by the way blithely beliieve that what they post on face book is "private", post on social media is better entertainment that any full length feature film..
Back to topic....With Ergen and his monstrous ego, he finds a way to piss everyone off and any deal falls thru.
As "monstrous" Ergen's ego may be, it aint no where near as MEGA-Monstrous as the ego's of the CEO of
Softbank (who let it be known that any bank that would dare to finance Dish's bid for Sprint--in which Softbank was in competition to aquire--would NOT see any business form him or Softbank, and financing for Dish came hard to find--by coincidence), Apple's Tim Cook, even Jeff Bezos of Amazon has garnered a "monstrous" reputation himself, Comcast's former CEO now Chairman Brian L. Roberts--the KING of your "monstrous" ego award, but even he is dwarfed by the GOD of all monstrous egos: Steve Jobs, the creep of creeps and neo flim-flam man, the Pied Piper of Menials lined up outside his stores as he leads them, one by one, off the economic cliff charging hundreds of percents above cost only because he created a luxury brand through his ads, marketing, and presentations on stage stating things that could be seen as NOT true or just making his target audience feel horribly insecure and moronic if they don't follow him down his path, and all earning him the smite of the big C. On the upside, he did live long enough to win our Professor Harold Hill award, still being "monstrous" and a flim-flam man (still dressed in those 80's jeans and ridiculously dated and white basketball shoes and black turtlenecks as if he really dressed like this outside of the public eye) all the way to the very end, and that could not have come soon enough, according to those who coveted to take his place with the top "monstrous" award.
But not far behind are Mark Zuckerburg, former CEO Bill Gates who is still the same nasty troll he was before he began his rehabilitation campaign by handing out money and smiling. However, no one in the post-Jobs era seems to have topped the one who created a completely NEW level of "monstrous", a hitherto utterly unimaginable CEO "monstrous" ego that comes closest to those at the top level of La Cosa Nostra: The lifetime achievement award for "Monstrous" ego goes to . . . Travis Kalanick. Accepting the award for Travis who is recuperating from his penalty box of CHAIRMAN of the company he has besmirched, is former winner himself, Rupert (Darth) Murdoch:
"I am happy to accept this award on behalf of Travis, and he is pleased to have carried on such a tradition of large scale offensive law breaking, attempts (some successful?) at ruining the lives of people such as rape victims in India, distributing ridiculous junior-high and "monstrous" romantic advice for his employees whilst at party, creating a corporate culture that seemed to support rampant sexual harassment of women, and just plain bad behavior that is far too long to list here. And as for Ergen, listen up, mate: sorry Charlie, but you weren't even nominated because you are just too bush league. I hear you are hell to work with and can blow your top, and many feel in mortal terror of their jobs around you, and you might treat employees like kids or just obsess about people clocking in 30 seconds late, but even all that aint enough to get any of the awards in contention in this awards show, so move on, mate.
As for Travis, he's putting a shrimp on the barbie or whatever her name is, and he loves you all for voting for him, especially Richard Branson and Ring CEO James Siminoff who, while at a recent conference, campaigned for sympathy and tears for poor Uber Trav, all the while Rich and Jimbo could hardly fight their own tears as they hung their heads in deep sorrow for what Sir Richie and Jim Sim feel was a bad wrap, like those California Eggs who were finally released after being accused of having too much cholesterol. Travis will always cherish this award, even if he should ever land behind bars, like those California Eggs, or end up being shunned by society like that Glenn Close did at the end of that film Dangerous Liaisons, but, thankfully, that aint likely in today's society, even with Travis achieving new superlatives of "monstrous." I am a good example of how great my life still is after all my deeds, so don't sweat it, Travis. Thank you from Travis, and goodnight. FREE Travis!!!!!!" [Cue the music and commercial]