[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"When US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown was killed in a mysterious plane crash, he was replaced as Secretary of Commerce by Mickey Kantor – Lippo Group’s US lawyer. Kantor then appointed another Lippo executive to the Commerce Department.

But GW Bush is guilty of unprecedented cronyism, uh huh.

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RE: "When US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown was killed in a mysterious plane crash, he was replaced as Secretary of Commerce by Mickey Kantor – Lippo Group’s US lawyer. Kantor then appointed another Lippo executive to the Commerce Department.
...But GW Bush is guilty of unprecedented cronyism, uh huh."

'Teflon Effect' ping...

I just KNEW I'd seen this all 'explained' somewhere...but I wasn't sure if I could find it again for you...LOL   -SB

One entry found for: Teflon Effect:

Pronunciation:  'te-"flän   i-'fekt, e-, E-

 

It has been a long-observed phenomenon that, whenever an individual is sufficiently slimy, any criticism of that individual, regardless of the veracity of that criticism, or its amount, will merely slide off, without any measurable harm to its intended target. This is commonly known as the 'Teflon Effect'.

See also: Slick; Slick Willie; Hillary; Kennedy; Leahy; Byrd; Torricelli; Berger; Jack$on

 

Antonym: Velcro Effect