Comments on: Come Saturday Morning: If Conservatives Do Pay-To-Play, Is It Still News?

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:09:37 +0000

I think Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, has that kind of alert, wary look of reserved, lethal power that Pacino portrayed so well. speaking of faces.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:01:48 +0000

Only the faces have changed.

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:59:39 +0000

just watched the Godfather trilogy again. Corleone found corruption the higher up he went.

By: solai

solai — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:57:19 +0000

just looked up extortion. The key thing is ‘threat of violence’ so this doesn’t meet that standard.

By: RickinSF

RickinSF — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:57:16 +0000

FedEx is hardly a progressive organization, at least as far as their labor practices go. ACU is shaking down their own here.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:45:03 +0000

Simply selling their PR services to those willing to pay for it. They’d have taken Bernie Madoff’s money to pimp his firm, no questions asked. Nothing personal, strictly business, as Don Corleone would say.

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:36:22 +0000

then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.

so it was something like if you pay us, then we’ll support you, or else we’ll support an opponent of yours.

has a certain logic, doesn’t it?

By: solai

solai — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:30:05 +0000

For you lawyers: why isn’t this extortion? Is there no law that would cover this?

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:28:52 +0000

LOL, oh, so true.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:26:30 +0000

I like to think we are debating ideas, tactics, and who should implement them in the Socratic tradition of Moe, Larry and Curly.