TPM uncovers Haley Barbour slime in Iraq contracts

[lanlady]

Have you guys been following this? Check this out at Josh Marshall's site:

Crony-palooza!

I should have known that a little digging into this Iraq contracting biz would bring me to uber-GOP-insider Haley Barbour. But I tend to be a touch naive about these things, as you can imagine.

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At the moment, in his spare time, Barbour's running for governor of Mississippi. But his real digs are at his DC lobbying shop Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc.

Now, yesterday I told you how President Bush's right-hand-man Joe Allbaugh has just set up a new outfit -- New Bridge Strategies -- to help companies get the sweetest contracts in Iraq. New Bridge, as their site says, is "your bridge to success in Iraq."

But when you look more closely at New Bridge, of which Allbaugh is Chairman and Director, you start to see that New Bridge looks an awful lot like an outgrowth of Barbour Griffith and Rogers.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com

[PNAC_butter_jelly]

1. The real question is this..

Why are only the internet sites capable of finding out about these slimy deals?? The "mainstream" press has been scared off of stories like this one..

By NOT covering it, they are actually implying that it's just "internet stuff"... I hear people sayiing .."Where'd you find out about "....."??..The INTERNET???

Mainstream press guys are sitting on their asses reporting fluffy stuff and ignoring what is really happening, and then they belittle the journalists and researchers who are doing what THEY should be doing.. It makes me CRAZY...

[10digits]

3. Here is what I think.

The media is controlled by 6 corps. They have the profit line and propaganda as their goals.
I can remember in the 50's when the network news was 15 min. and they were produced by Timex and some tobacco co.
It was John Camron Swazi reading headlines. Thats all they could do.
It was all done live. There was no tape.

There was a good show called Today and it was a really big deal when the coax cables and the microwaves linked NBC to the Pacific coast.
If there was a great time for media it must have been 1960 until 1985.
I can add this,no one ever cared how much money a movie made over the weekend or TV ratings back then it was inside the industry.
People waste their time on this and don't even ask me about sports. Somebody wrote a book called "Media SMOG" I never read it but I got he point from interviews.
We are bombed with endless messages round the clock.

The republicans are way ahead here because they understand the markteting and advertising that worked for business.

Murdock bought TV GUIDE just to promote FOXTV.

I think profit is always in the front seat,its today.
Propaganda backseat drives the future.

Well thats my rant. Good morning.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi 10digits!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[10digits]

6. HI! 50,000

Or soon to be. I have been here for awhile. TNX and Gm.

[QC]

7. Any Mississippi DUers have connections with Musgrove's campaign?

This is exactly the kind of thing that could help them out, particularly when combined with Barbour's work as a lobbyist for foreign corporations seeking to import Mississippi jobs.

[TacticalPeek]

9. Good idea, QC. I just emailed them the TPM link.

:toast:

[shirlden]

2. This admin gives a new definition

to "den of thieves". What do Republicans do when they are not grunting up the money tree? Personally, I find that way of life not at all appealing. Tromping over dead bodies to get a money "fix" has to be an addiction from hell.


:hangover:

[annagull]

5. This would be front page news in a free press

since we live in the crazy press, this shall be noted and put in a box. Jeez, I long for the free press.

[izzie]

8. Was Mr Slime from Dickens and he was slime.

I do think I am right but please set me right if you know.

[TacticalPeek]

10. Kick KKKarl and the Barbourian!

:kick: