Manafart: “We have a candidate who doesn’t need to figure out what’s going on"

[kpete]

MANAFART: And the good thing is, we have a candidate who doesn't need to figure out what's going on in order to say what he wants to do. So our campaign is organized. We're ready, we're going to have a good convention, and we're confident that we are not behind the Clinton campaign. They're muscle-bound. We're not.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-june-26-2016-n599196

[Rex]

1. Okay I know it is not cool to make fun of names...but...Manafart?

[In_The_Wind]

2. That's what I read before my old eyes refocused.

[Rex]

3. "And from the Heavens fell...mana...farts..."

[Gabi Hayes]

4. [b]Making Foreign Lobbyists Great Again[/b]

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-06/donald-trump-talks-america-first-but-hires-a-long-time-foreign-lobbyist



Manafort is a veteran of the Ford, Reagan and Dole campaigns; the press considers him a political operative extraordinaire who has a lobbying business in the off years. One particular aspect of that lobbying trade that got short-shrift in the initial wave of Manafort coverage is his collection of foreign clients.

When Trump hired Manafort, The New York Times buried the story on page A14, with only a single sentence about his international political consulting; The Wall Street Journal also had only one sentence. Similarly, The Washington Post ran a story in its section that covers lobbying, and it too ran just one sentence on his foreign dealings: "Over a 40-year career as a lobbyist and political consultant, Manafort and his firms have advised, in no particular order, a business group tied to Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator of the Philippines; Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted Ukrainian president and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin; and Lynden Pindling, the former Bahamian prime minister who was accused of ties to drug traffickers. Now, he works for Donald Trump."

The Post forgot to mention that Manafort also advised "the despots of the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, and Somalia," according to a recent article by Franklin Foer in Slate, one of the few domestic news outlets looking into Manafort's, ahem, checkered past. (New York magazine is another.) When the Center for Public Integrity published a 1992 report entitled "The Torturers' Lobby," Manfort's firm was mentioned repeatedly, Foer added. But for the most part, the story hasn't broken through in much of mainstream American media.

not really news around here, but I like their take, in that they bring up how the M$M rarely, if ever, what a true monster this guy is.