Posted on 07/13/2010 7:08:42 AM PDT by blam
Turns Out Last Week's Sun Valley Media Retreat Was One Big Obama Trash-Talking Session
Joe Pompeo
Jul. 13, 2010, 9:28 AM
Not much of the chatter being exchanged among moguls at last week's annual big-media gathering in Sun Valley, Idaho made its way into the press.
But it turns out that much of what the moguls talked about, while they boozed and golfed and white water rafted and stuffed their faces during the all-expeneses-paid retreat, was President Obama and his attitude toward the business community, according to The Daily Beast's Peter Lauria, who spent the week collecting on- and off-the-record dish from the people who "collectively control hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars, of the country’s gross domestic product"
"The most generous comment about the current state of the economy," Lauria writes, "came from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who serves as an adviser to the president on science and technology, and even then the best he could muster was that, 'Everybody is in a sort of funk.'”
Here are some other remarks Lauria was able to get:
"When asked if he thought the administration was anti-business, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes smiled silently for a few seconds, then said, 'I think it’s time for a glass of wine.'” “I do think the administration will blame business for things too quickly,” said a brave Peter Chernin, the former News Corp. chief operating officer and heavy Democratic donor. “I don’t think they are anti-business, it’s more nuanced than that, but they appear that way because they jump too quickly on the bandwagon.”
“To start to have negative relationships with the banks hurts our economy because we depend on them.” —Former Yahoo and Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
What would one expect from the commie in the WH...and illegal alien on top of that.
I agree. Everytime I read an article about something Chavez has done, I cringe, thinking that it looks like something FUBO would do.
Now, wait a minute! Didn't the Nobel Prize winning Economist, Paul Krugman, just tell us that Obama didn't have anything to do with businesses choosing not to expand or spend money? He can't figure out why they're not taking risks, and hiring folks, in this economy. /s
These are people who played a major role in putting this bum in office. Why should I give consideration to their business acumen when their political acumen is so harmful to America?
“How can somebody be so smart and yet so stupid at the same time? “
You took the words right off my keyboard. How stupid can these people be.
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