[Sir Napsalot]

Tsk tsk tsk. According to Ed,

Only a 'friendly conversation' that happens in DC and media all the time. "Not a threat" after all.

When some one in position says "you will regret this" after yelling for 30 min then followed up with such email, I don't think it is a friendly tap.

[grobdriver]

So who exactly is Sperling, and why is he so frightening frightened?

... is, I think, the better question.

[muawiyah]

It's a threat ~ a very real threat. Sperling is an old Cuomo apparatchik, so this could well involve proof of homosexuality ~ or gambling debts ~ or narcotics use ~ or...... name your vice.

Sperling is not a nice guy and he doesn't associate with nice people.

[McGruff]

Here's his picture.

What's so funny? Do I make you laugh?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Because of Hollywood movies, many Europeans imagine Americans are either “cowboys” or “gangsters”.

Oddly enough, there is some truth in that, because Republicans power base is middle America, with strong values of independence and work ethic success; whereas Democrats to a great extent are the party of the big city machines (including Arkansas, which is the last big entire state machine.)

For example, look at the Democrat power bases, New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and certainly Chicago and others. All big city machines with their own organized crime syndicates.

Now this being said, both the big city machines and organized crime syndicates have a way of doing business that is Democrat party right down the line.

First of all, everything is for “the big boss”, the “Capo di tutti capi” or Godfather, who is the dominant player and community organizer among the heads of the various crime families. However, these mobs have learned to rotate who the Godfather is among their number.

Think of it as “gangster federalism”.

Now granted, the heads of each family also profit from their organizations, so most of what the Godfather gets is “political” support. He is the “chairman” of their syndicate, but he is just currently the most powerful among equals.

Perhaps the number one purpose of such criminal mobs is to “reward their friends and punish their enemies”, and to continually expand their influence and control over society.

Actually governing or ruling is unimportant to them, unless it is to get what they want, or rewarding friends and punishing enemies.

Years ago, a senior mobster was arrested, and was actually grateful because of the stress of the job. “Every morning I would wake up and have to think up some new crime scheme. It couldn’t be anything legal, even if it made more money. The stress was killing me.”

[popdonnelly]

So telling the truth about something that happened is now a major offense to the White House? Sperling must go.