Scouts president has 85 billion reasons to excuse Trumps wildly inappropriate Jamboree speech

[G_j]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/boy-scouts-president-has-85-billion-reasons-to-excuse-trumps-wildly-inappropriate-jamboree-speech/

The Boy Scouts of America have been criticized by some for their “weak” response to President Donald Trump’s highly politicized speech this week before the Boy Scout Jamboree in which he got thousands of scouts to boo former President Barack Obama.

As a new report from QZ notes, the president of the Boy Scouts of America has tens of billions of reasons to not more forcefully criticize the president’s speech at the Jamboree, as it could hurt his chances of getting his company’s mega-merger approved.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson became the president of the BSA just over a year ago, and at the moment he is seeking approval from the Trump administration to sign off on a proposed $85 billion acquisition of media company Time Warner, Inc.

“The [Department of Justice] is currently conducting an antitrust review, which evaluates how the deal would affect competition in the industry,” writes QZ. “The process is supposed to be private and apolitical, but there are concerns in Congress that president Trump is trying try to influence it.”

Among other things, members of Congress have expressed concern that Trump would approve the merger only on the condition that Stephenson order CNN –which is owned by Time Warner — to give the president more positive media treatment.

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[Girard442]

1. We'd like to think the BSA has a moral core that would resist Trumpism.

But then again we used to think conservative Christians did and look where that got us.

[PatSeg]

8. Apparently

These days, nothing is as it seems. Perhaps it has always been that way, but it sure seems to be worse now than ever. Perhaps we are living in a perpetual "Opposite Day", I'm exhausted.

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin' with disgust

[rzemanfl]

3. Oh for fuck's sake. It is all about the money, everywhere. K&R n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

6. Amen

Cherchez l'argent, pas la femme!

https://www.jmberlin.de/en/exhibition-cherchez-la-femme

[delisen]

4. BSA president needs to resign.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Was he the other guy on stage

yucking it up with Trumpstain?

[FSogol]

9. No, that was a memeber of Trump's cabinet, Interior Ryan "Shithead" Zinke. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

10. What a despicable doofus.

[FSogol]

11. Agreed. He can't destroy the environment and our Park System fast enough, another thing that flies

in the face of what Scouting stands for.

[Achilleaze]

7. typical republican scuzzbucketry

no honor