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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004
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To: American Spirit who wrote (3092)7/7/2003 8:28:05 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 10965
 
Carlyle Gets Some Bad Press

AS,

Re: Bush Sr. now goes around thre world making speeches for the Carlyle Group, a clear conflict of interest since his son is in the position to make Carlyle billions from OUR money. Why doesn't anyone report that?

I assume this is a rhetorical question. <gg> There's been an interesting phenomenon on the "Laughter is the Best Medicine" thread this past week. While in the past hundreds of tasteless Clinton jokes have passed on that thread without much notice, a couple of recent Bush jokes have elicited a vicious response from the Right Wing, who apparently are among the most thin-skinned people on the planet. And among the world's most despicable hypocrites. Perfectly happy to be off-color attack dogs, but unwilling to have the truth told about their leader. This sort of blind loyalty is more appropriate to a Hitler or Stalin regime than American, but that's what we are faced with.

And this same unbalanced, unfair and destructive attitude also plays out in the corporate whoredom of media.

For any sort of balance and sanity from the media, we need to get away entirely from the morally bankrupt American corporate media. A recent example of some skepticism regarding the Bush/Carlyle corruption was an article and editorial in the UK based Economist. It was very gratifying to see a conservative business publication like this actually question the propriety of the underhanded crony capitalism that the Bushes and the Carlyle Group are engaged in.

Here's a link:

economist.com

The author reviewed, Dan Briody recently gave an interview to Democracy Now!. There's a very intriguing snippet of a talk given by David Rubenstein, the chairman of the Carlyle Group, in this segment:

democracynow.org
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