Mercenaries
Last week, the Kerry campaign published a long list of supposed “Business Executives Supporting Kerry-Edwards.”
It’s an interesting list. Several are former Clintonoids (Robert Rubin, Harvey and Michael Weinstein of Miramax who co-executive produced Fahrenheit 911, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Lisa Caputo aka Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff); two are from the same Carlyle Group that Michael Moore’s piece of trash associates with Bush and “military-industrial complex” conspiracism; one - Peter Chernin – actually oversees the dreaded Fox News Channel. Guess he must be incompetent to have let Roger Ailes run away with that division, huh?
Forty Kerry execs are notorious job exporters, according to Lou Dobbs; several more have been tied to sweatshop operations overseas. Once again the expression “any port in a storm” seems to apply.
But this is nothing new. Corporate America sucked up to the Clintonoids during the ‘90s – remember Steve Case of Apple Computer sitting next to Mrs. Clinton in the House gallery during Clinton’s ’94 SOTUA? – for much the same reason that these CEOs are doing so with Kerry now: bet-hedging. They know a Democratic administration could be big trouble for them, so these execs are trying to ingratiate themselves in case Kerry wins in November. Whereas they also know that they have little or nothing to fear from the Bushies even after this double-cross. But it doesn’t stop there; doubtless some on Kerry’s list seek to curry favor in order to use government intervention to gain competitive advantage over their industry rivals. Remember how HMOs were all for HillaryCare? That’s why it’s a bit more difficult for me to gin up sympathy when barracudas like John Edwards go after them now.
What does this illustrate yet again? Simply that “corporate America” is no more monolithic than any other arbitrary grouping, and indeed is far less ideological, and far more mercenary, than the partisan media ever gives them credit for. Which is why we’ll never hear about Kerry’s “business cronies,” even while Bush’s line up to stab him in the back.
It’s an interesting list. Several are former Clintonoids (Robert Rubin, Harvey and Michael Weinstein of Miramax who co-executive produced Fahrenheit 911, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Lisa Caputo aka Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff); two are from the same Carlyle Group that Michael Moore’s piece of trash associates with Bush and “military-industrial complex” conspiracism; one - Peter Chernin – actually oversees the dreaded Fox News Channel. Guess he must be incompetent to have let Roger Ailes run away with that division, huh?
Forty Kerry execs are notorious job exporters, according to Lou Dobbs; several more have been tied to sweatshop operations overseas. Once again the expression “any port in a storm” seems to apply.
But this is nothing new. Corporate America sucked up to the Clintonoids during the ‘90s – remember Steve Case of Apple Computer sitting next to Mrs. Clinton in the House gallery during Clinton’s ’94 SOTUA? – for much the same reason that these CEOs are doing so with Kerry now: bet-hedging. They know a Democratic administration could be big trouble for them, so these execs are trying to ingratiate themselves in case Kerry wins in November. Whereas they also know that they have little or nothing to fear from the Bushies even after this double-cross. But it doesn’t stop there; doubtless some on Kerry’s list seek to curry favor in order to use government intervention to gain competitive advantage over their industry rivals. Remember how HMOs were all for HillaryCare? That’s why it’s a bit more difficult for me to gin up sympathy when barracudas like John Edwards go after them now.
What does this illustrate yet again? Simply that “corporate America” is no more monolithic than any other arbitrary grouping, and indeed is far less ideological, and far more mercenary, than the partisan media ever gives them credit for. Which is why we’ll never hear about Kerry’s “business cronies,” even while Bush’s line up to stab him in the back.
posted by JASmius at 11:40 AM
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