It looks to me like he's always been a cowboy!
Posted on 08/06/2004 8:22:20 AM PDT by nypokerface
-News Corp. President Peter Chernin has broken ranks with his Bush-backing boss, Rupert Murdoch, by endorsing John Kerry. Chernin even went on Fox News to trumpet his support for the Democratic candidate. A source close to Murdoch insists the right-wing media mogul "isn't troubled" by Chernin's politics. "Rupert has lots of Democrats working for him."
-Bear Stearns President Warren Spector can only wish his boss were so tolerant. CEO James Cayne has sent out a memo to his 10,500 employees blasting Spector for giving the impression the company was endorsing Kerry. "His views were his own," wrote Cayne, who has raised at least $100,000 for President Bush.
-Don Henley forgot he was in GOP country when he poked fun at Bush during a recent performance in Orange County, Calif. Audience members booed the former Eagle when he tried to defend his friend Linda Ronstadt, who was evicted from a Vegas casino after she touted Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."
When Henley went on to dedicate Randy Newman's satirical song "Political Science" to Bush and Vice President Cheney, some fans voted with their feet by walking out.
-Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has no fear of alienating his wealthy readers with his monthly jeremiads against Bush or his new book, "What We've Lost."
"We run enough stories about rich people to make them happy," he tells W magazine. "The [reader] mail, when I first started doing this, was running against me about three-to-one, then it settled down to about two-to-one, and now it's about one-to-one. So it's on the uptick."
-And, finally, Moby wants to knock off Bush's cowboy hat. The techno-whiz tells us that, when he was growing up in Fairfield County, Conn., his first deejay gig was at a party at the church the Bush family attended. "He bought his ranch in Texas in 1999," scoffs Moby, who just launched his drink Teany. "He's an inbred WASP, just like me."
Ping
Vanity Fair is a liberal rag; so is Vogue (for what it's worth).
The Missouri election was a poll with a very different result.
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Somebody's in trouble, somebody's in trouble ...
During the meltdown of LTCM in 1998, he stood his ground against a consortium of nothing less than 1) the Federal Reserve, in the person of Wm. McDonough, and 2) the largest investment banks in the U.S. and Europe, Merrill, Goldman, Paine, Citi, Paribas, etc.
Just prior to a poll of the consortium (in an effort to raise $4 billion to bail out LTCM's assorted positions) as to how much each party would contribute, his comment was beautiful: ''If you want this thing to work, you'd better not go alphabetically.''
Mr. Spector would be well advised to cool his jets.
Like me. I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as soon as I could.
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