Unofficially Observing the Fairness Doctrine for a Minute
Posted by TFG on 10th May 2008
Looks like John McCain has the same problem as old Barry. Wants some dude named Doug Goodyear to run the convention in MSP this year. Except, Goodyear is a fathead consultant who took 1/3 of a million dollars to represent Burma’s military junta six years ago.
Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma’s military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today. Justice Department lobbying records show DCI pushed to “begin a dialogue of political reconciliation” with the regime. It also led a PR campaign to burnish the junta’s image, drafting releases praising Burma’s efforts to curb the drug trade and denouncing “falsehoods” by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses. “It was our only foreign representation, it was for a short tenure, and it was six years ago,” Goodyear told NEWSWEEK, adding the junta’s record in the current cyclone crisis is “reprehensible.”
I love that “burnish the junta’s image.” That means mountains of bullshit designed to extract more money from the Burmese generals. As a capitalist, I can’t blame him, because there are only about a gajillion more PR firms who’d blow the junta in Times Square for 1/3 of $1,000,000. Still looks ugly, because it is ugly.
Lobby, lobby, lobby, lawyer, lawyer, lawyer, PR, PR, PR. Thomas Jefferson would be so proud.
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