Wow, the foreign press has way more info on Fuddgate

[OffWithTheirHeads]

than we get from Corpo-press,

Check out these few paragraphs from an excellent, information filled article from Der Spiegel, Germany.

The White House's secretive response to Cheney's misfire cannot be understood apart from the society of Texas royalty.
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Managing Bush

About an hour after the shooting, an unidentified traveling aide of the vice president's called the White House Situation Room, which put him in touch with Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Why a call would be routed through the Situation Room, which receives and transmits only national security information, rather than the very capable and secure White House switchboard, remains mysterious. Card was deliberately misled, told only that there was an accident in Cheney's party, not that Cheney was involved. The vice president's staff obviously felt no need to inform the president's chief of staff of the true facts of the matter. Why Card was deceived is also mystifying, except insofar as it reflects the vice president's instinctive view of him as someone to be routinely stepped over and around. Card, acting responsibly, promptly called President Bush, who as a result was momentarily kept in the dark. Confusing Card was a way of managing Bush, and yet ...

Enter Rove. Within minutes of the call to Card, the president's chief political advisor and deputy chief of staff spoke with Katharine Armstrong, an old friend of his, who told him that Cheney had shot Whittington. Who initiated this conversation is unknown. In any case, Rove, not the duped Card, informed the president of what had actually transpired.

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The royal family

Both the vice president and the deputy chief of staff, as it happens, owed their previous, lucrative jobs in the private sector to their relationships with the Armstrong family. Anne Armstrong, Katharine's mother, was on the board of Halliburton that made Dick Cheney its chief executive officer. Tobin Armstrong, Katharine's father, had financed Karl Rove & Co., Rove's political consulting firm. Katharine herself is a lobbyist for Houston law firm Baker Botts, a major Texas power broker since it was founded in the 19th century by the family of James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state and close associate of George H.W. Bush's.

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The curiosities surrounding the vice president's accident have created a contemporary version of "The Rules of the Game" with a Texas twist. In Jean Renoir's 1939 film, politicians and aristocrats mingle at a country house in France over a long weekend, during which a merciless hunt ends with a tragic shooting. Appearing on the eve of World War II, "The Rules of the Game" depicted a hypocritical, ruthless and decadent ruling class that made its own rules and led a society to the edge of catastrophe.


Much more at
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,401260,00.html

[marmar]

1. Thank goodness we can rely on the free and truthful media...

in Canada and Europe!

Welcome to America. Let freedom rot!

[spindrifter]

2. A good find.

Thanks for posting it.

[KoKo]

3. That seems to be Sid Blumenthal's article from Salon,though...

which I just finished reading over there...on the free day pass. They must have picked it up.

It's a good read, though.

[sandnsea]

4. Whittington is James Baker's brother-in-law

Armstrong is a lobbyist for Baker Botts. Baker Botts is representing Michael Scanlon, Abramoff's partner.

But they don't know Jack.

Armstrong won't release who she lobbied for, but it was clients in S Korea. Abramoff has some S Korea clients too.

They were out on the ranch, conniving new ways to rob the country, drinking and shooting up farm animals, and one of them got shot. Boohoo.

[Mr Rabble]

5. Bush Crime Family.

This is unreal, and yet not at all surprising.