I have an 80 warrior, 80 Death Knight and 80 Ret Paladin so it's not like I don't "get" what's going on here. I don't think the relative stat weight is any higher for Retribution than Unholy or Fury given that ghouls receive 100% of their haste rating from their masters and haste rating benefits both Necrosis and Blood-Caked Blade and dual wield classes (Fury) use melee haste a lot more than single weapon classes.
In any case, I clarified the point a couple of posts back (it got buried on the page); I understand his (flawed) general idea behind "more white - more procs," it's just that it would take an astronomical amount of haste to cause you to get enough procs to cover the fact that your procs are doing less damage because your attack power is lower (because he's gemmed for haste over strength). This doesn't even *consider* the fact that the DoT would be doing less damage also.
It's the fact he wants to gem and ninja loot certain items to achieve a totally faulty gearing strategy that's not based on sound logic that pissed everyone off.
Even if we took it to be true that haste is better for Retribution than Unholy (Not forgetting of course, that even if it was, it's not true by much) the point is, no sane person would suggest that they should be guaranteed an item (and another person should be forced to go emblem buy another item) simply because he it has some stat that person wants (despite the fact that other people might want it too) I mean, this is the item in question.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50791