Global Eye -- Blood Kin (Russian author takes on Neil Bush)

[TheReligiousLeft]

<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/12/05/120.html>
Imagine these banner headlines, circa, say, 1998: President's Brother in Biz With Red Chinese! President's Brother Beds Prostitutes as Corporate Perk! President's Brother Hip-Deep in War Profiteering: The More Blood His White House Sibling Spills, the Fatter the Family Coffers!

Hoo-boy! There would've been a hot time in the old media town with all that, eh? Wall-to-wall coverage, 24/7, Fox News frothing, Washington Post pounding, tabloids screaming -- "Oval Evil: Reds, Beds and Milking the Dead!" Earnest clucking in the halls of Congress: "We must get to the bottom of these unsavory connections." Late-night comics cracking wise: "Hey, when the president's brother orders Chinese, he ain't just talking chow mein: 'Yeah, I'll have the rice, the won ton, two blondes and a bag of unmarked bills, please.'"

But of course, that was another millennium. In our new, more enlightened age, we humbly accept -- even celebrate -- the special privileges accorded to the great ones among us. And so, with a couple of honorable exceptions, the big-time American media lay a nice soft comfy quilt of silence over last month's revelations about presidential brother Neil Bush -- details which emerged from the nasty divorce suit Neil brought upon himself by his flagrant adultery with a close family friend.
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With all the enrons etc. shouldn't we start mentioning Col. Savings and Loan? "When the feds finally caught up with him in 1990, Bush had cost American taxpayers $1.3 billion in bailouts to cover his mismanagement. As the son of the sitting president, Neil could not possibly go to jail for stealing $100 million; the high-born don't do hard time. No, he was merely fined $50,000 and banned from all banking activities. Naturally, Neil didn't pay his own fine; fat-cat Republican fundraisers covered it for him. " Quotes like this could punch Gdub in the gut!
Anyway, read the article, it is pretty good

[JohnyCanuck]

1. Will it ever see the light of day in the mainstream US press?

Silly me, why did I bother to ask.

[TheReligiousLeft]

2. Yeah, kind of strange, to find stuff like this we have to

go to the former USSR! But things are good, Raygun defeated evil and brought democracy to the world, so we can now honor him with the Dime... Man, I feel nickled and dimed to death by a knucklehead.

[izzie]

3. Looks like it is out but will it hit TV as we know GOP can not read.

Sorry I not help my self.

[RBHam]

4. Every time you hear the epithet "Left Wing Media"

This is what you counter that with.

This story has everything -sex, money, power, etc.

And Larry King isn't covering this story? Huh?

I want to know what the always judgemental nancy Grace thinks of Neil's antics, what?

[RBHam]

5. Chris Floyd is AMERICAN

In Exile, he's not allowed to write the truth in America.

sad, isn't it?

[MrPrax]

6. LOL...those Russkies tricks...

These guys are just commenting on our corruption to--um--downplay their own corruption...

You can trust the communists (to be --um--corrupt Capitalists like us)


Comrade Bush takes time out of the killing and looting to greet the People