Is anyone else tired of Entergy’s rather lame PR push to gain support for relicensing Vermont Yankee?

If so, you will enjoy the entertaining and informative parody posted by VY challenger Fake-Rob Williams. You see, Fake-Rob Williams (a parody of VY official spokesman, Rob Williams) has discovered that the link provided on Entergy’s “I Am Vermont Yankee” site for the public to post their presumably supportive comments about VY is, in fact, non-functional.  

Leaping into the breach, Fake-Rob Williams has helpfully provided an alternative site for readers comments called “I Love Vermont Yankee.”  Against a bubblegum pink background,  “I Love Vermont Yankee”  echos the features on Entergy’s “I am Vermont Yankee” website, offering smiling celebrity pics as stand-ins for the suspiciously homogenized representations of “actual” VY employees that appear on the Entergy site.  Fake-Rob makes his own comments on Vermont Yankee; remarks that he repeatedly tried to submit on the “I am Vermont Yankee” site over the course of an entire day, finding that they NEVER appeared in the queue of that day’s submissions.  Fake-Rob’s comments were a series of “helpful” reminders of the many embarrassing faux pas committed by VY and it’s employees over the recent past.

“For example, absolutely none of the messages you submit to the “Show Your Support” section of the official web site will show up. I should know. I’ve been testing it all day. I sent in a message about certain financial shenanigans, and another one about pending environmental problems. Then I sent in one about the stoned control room operator, one about the guard who shot himself in the foot, and another one about the woman in charge of checking people for alcohol impairment. (She showed up drunk.) These are controversial issues, and we need support on all of them. Big time. So what’s up with an official website that doesn’t take my pleas for help?”

Intrigued, I crafted my own “helpful” comment to submit on the Entergy site, about how my family is prepared to do our part for energy efficiency by accepting the opportunity to glow-in-the-dark, courtesy of Vermont Yankee. Nine hours later, my comment has still not appeared in the queue although many more have been added.  Curiously, there is not one single negative comment; and all of the positive comments are uniformly literate and enthusiastic!  

Looks like Brad Ferland has certainly rolled up his PR sleeves on this one, but forgotten a few lessons in credibility.