Posted on 05/28/2008 8:20:13 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
The hat tip for this post goes to LGF reader John Williams in Texas.
The company that published Scott McClellan’s new Bush-bashing book is Public Affairs Books, and their Editor at Large is a guy named Peter Osnos: About The Century Foundation.
The owner of Public Affairs Books is a company called Perseus Book Group. Here’s their ownership tree: Perseus Books Home.
The firm is owned by Perseus Funds Group, (holding company Perseus LLC) a capital management firm that grew from about $20 million in 1995 to over $2 billion now. Big infusions of cash seemed to help it grow exponentially and it closed funds almost as fast as it opened them. The board has tons of liberals from the Clinton and Carter Administrations with credentials that almost put Osnos’ to shame as far as far left causes go. Their website is here: PERSEUS - merchant bank and private equity fund management.
If you go to the New York Department of State web site and enter “Perseus” in the “Business Organization” search, you get this on page 2 of the results:
Hi, George!
I count 6 books authored by George Soros from Scott McClellans publisher.
GEORGE SOROS ON GLOBALIZATION
GEORGE SOROS
THE AGE OF FALLIBILITY
Consequences of the War on Terror
GEORGE SOROS
THE BUBBLE OF AMERICAN SUPREMACY
The Costs of Bushs War in Iraq
GEORGE SOROS
THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM
Open Society Endangered
GEORGE SOROS, AUTHOR OF SOROS ON SOROS
THE NEW PARADIGM FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means
GEORGE SOROS
UNDERWRITING DEMOCRACY
Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe
GEORGE SOROS
Buy Danish (Hot Air) on May 28, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Won’t matter to the left wing hacker haters on the left.
For your next talk radio spot.
Reminds me of Soros’ last propaganda effort with the Lancet i.e. 600k Iraquis died in the war!
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.*shaking head*
I wondered from the time I saw that fat little pos at the podium why he had that job. He was absolutely awful at it. I guess he was planted there by someone with deep pockets and sinister intentions. George Soros strikes again.
The sad fact is that Osnos, once a very good reporter for the Wash. Post in Vietnam, has gone off the deep Left end. Some of his comments in the past few years raises serious doubts about his credibility.
Why he has changed, I don’t know, but he is not the Osnos that I read so religiously during the Vietnam war.
“McClellan comes from a democratic family in Texas.”
Sort of. His mom is a former Republican Railroad Commissioner, State Comptroller, and independent candidate for governor.
From wikipedia:
“In her campaigns for school board, college board, and mayor, Strayhorn was not identified by partisan affiliation since those posts are elected on a nonpartisan basis. Strayhorn was a Democrat until the mid-1980s; she served as Democratic nominee Walter Mondale’s campaign chair in Travis County during the 1984 presidential election. Strayhorn switched parties and became a Republican in 1986, when she was the GOP nominee for the U.S. House seat held by J. J. Pickle.”
In other words, she’s a political whore. Guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Pres Bush must think ‘ if they are from Texas they must be ok’....wrong...He just doesn’t get it...
He gives a press conference and the front of his suit looks good...But i’d bet the back is ripped to shreds by the cats and moles in the WH...
A caller brought this up on Mark Levin’s show tonight.
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
by Vincent Bugliosi
A unique collaboration between publisher and author
I suppose a guy like that would do anything for a buck.
I will not feel any sorrow when I hear of soros sorry azz passing away. That is one anti-American dirtbag I will be glad to see buried.
Precisely! We get them in my overwhelmingly Republican county all the time - - rats who want to get elected know that they must be "Republican" to ever make it happen. So they switch registration but remain putrid rats at heart.
Unfortunately, that strategy is pretty much a one-way street since few Republicans ever want to live in, or get elected in, a rat's nest. Rat's tend to vacate their own nests after fouling them and move on to new climes to foul.
This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
by John Kerry (Author), Teresa Heinz Kerry (Author)Bill Clinton : mastering the presidency
by Nigel Hamilton (Author)Is Iraq Another Vietnam?
by Robert K. Brigham (Author)Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush
by Lou Dubose (Author), Jan Reid (Author), Carl M. Cannon (Author)
Well, I found one good one:
Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio: History as Told through the Collection of the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum
by Lou Cannon (Author)
Amazing !!!!! /sarc
Why Scott McClellan was ever chosen for Press Secretary in the first place, was always a wonder to me. Fleischer said he was accepting of his job, no qualms given.
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, thats what really struck me is if Scott thought it was propaganda, then Scott should not have accepted the job as White House press secretary. If Scott viewed what the White House was saying was so irresponsible or wrong that it rose to the level of propaganda for him, its not a job he should have accepted. He should on principle have declined it.
MR. CHADWICK: Did you have any discussions with him about this at the time about what you all were saying about the war in Iraq, about getting ready for it?
MR. FLEISCHER: I did, and Scott was 100 percent fully on-board. Scott helped me prepare for the briefings. Scott and I would talk about what I was going to say. His job should have been to report them to me. He worked for me. He should have said, I wouldnt say that if I were you, Ari. Or, Im not sure I could say that, Ari.
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/28/ari-fleischer-speaks-out-on-mcclellans-book/
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