Lifestyles of the rich and richer

Fabulously wealthy Former First Lady Senator Hillbot (pictured, with new chief strategist) is no longer burdened with the services of Mark Penn, her very own Karl Rove. A union-hater, Penn ostensibly had to go because in the course of shilling all whore-like for one of his many, many other clients, he sung the praises of a free trade deal with Colombia.

Like U.S. free trade deals generally, the agreement mostly lacked any safeguards protecting labor, the environment and human rights. Apparently the former first lady's position, or at least her most recent one, via-a-vis such deals is "against." So that presented a good, public reason for Penn to go, supplementing the real reason, i.e., the former first lady will never ever be president, Penn's most despicable cynical efforts to help the Clintons destroy the Democratic Party notwithstanding, and at the end of the day everybody hates him anyway.

But the fabulously profitable Blackwater firm of private mercenaries, also one of Penn's clients, just got a contract extension to continue representing America's democratic ideals abroad, specifically in Iraq, as only Blackwater can. So however tough the economic outlook might be for America and Americans, Mark Penn will probably land on his feet.

In another, somewhat related item regarding the fabulously wealthy, Brian Greenspun, the patriarch of a local media and real estate concern, has used a column in one of his various publications to ask readers to answer his questions. Frankly, it would have been better for the struggling local economy had he spread some of his wealth around and commissioned consultants to gather the information for him, instead of just asking readers to work for free. Yet another means by which the rich stay richer, s'pose.

Anyway, one of the things the aforementioned patriarch wants to know is, "since when in this great democracy does one side in a presidential race get to overwhelm the country with his narrative about how democracy works?"

Hmm, probably depends on who you ask, but most observers agree that the presidential "election" of 2000 was certainly a watershed moment in the general area of the media shamefully allowing one side to frame the narrative about the democratic process. So that's one answer: Since 2000.

But turnabout being fair play and all (and more to the point of his question, for that matter), perhaps Greenspun would be magnanimous enough to answer a question from the Gleaner:

Since when does the media cover a presidential candidate as if she is still a viable contender even though the only "hope," for lack of a better word, she has of winning the nomination hinges on extraordinary circumstances so exotic and unforeseen that even her own campaign can't envision them?

If memory serves, this'd be the first year that's happened.

Comments

[RussBBinVegas@aol.com]

Too bad Greenspun didn't remind readers what great fun his favorite candidate is ..
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0110081clintons1.html

Or provide his e-mail address so that smart readers like the ones on this site actually could answer his questions.

[KidFromVegas]

And here I thought the media framed the narrative, silly me. Brian is part of the problem, along with the gaggle of other Silver State Democratic power brokers who fail to realize this election is not about them. Like the band on the Titanic played on, these folks are caught up in a rhythm that is a beat of two behind... or should I say 134 delegates behind. But we in Nevada should be proud, because according to Hillary caucus states don't matter, except for us.

[texexnv@gmail.com]

One has to be pretty impressed that BG even realizes there is a war going on. And even more impressed that he went all the way to Babbleon to write about it.

[Sam Dehne]

Does crime pay in Las Vegas?
The

murder of Las Vegas’s Buffalo Jim Barrier

should scare the Watchdogs.
It looks like a cover up of the murder is being orchestrated as citizens stand idly by. Steve Miller is not going to let that happen.
That was not a suicide. Period.

Where is the FBI?

"Democracy is messy"

[MikeZ]

Brian is an idiot. His sister is even worse. I'll bet their Dad is rolling in his grave on how he managed to raise such self-absorbed, disconnected, blathering idiots.

He censors his own threads on the Sun and wonders why only 12 people in this state read the Sun.

Silver-spooned, limousine liberal who never worked a day in his life, lecturing us on how much we should all love and bow to Harry and Hillary to protect the Greenspun family tax shelters?

And he wonders why no one in journalism nationwide even knows who he or the Sun is.

I've read better supermarket flyers.

[The Penguin]

Uhhhh, Mike? I believe the Sun IS a supermarket flyer. With smaller fonts.

[A dose of reality]

What is this "Sun" you refer to?

[KICKBOXERMOMMA]

Greenspun-middle age angst kinda boring. More interesting was the side panel about Hillary considering being Majority leader. Kinda takes the wind out of MZ's anti-Reid invectives

[Kickboxermomma]

BTW I see little blurbs about Condi and McCain. I said a while back that would make the ticket for McCain.Loyal conservative Repub puppet. Plus she is Black and a woman.Talk about being the minority in the race-I mean Mc Cain the white male. Mc Cain would be foolish not to consider it.

[texexnv@gmail.com]

A Mc-Condi ticket? Why the hell not? It would surely go into Ripley's Believe It or Not right beside Dan Quayle.

But it looks like Nillbot is already interviewing new VP candidates since Bill Judas left her court.

[MikeZ]

The Sun staff are good kids, but Brian treats his employees like shit, and everyone in town knows that. That's why they don't tend to last very long down there on Green Valley Pkwy. His sister was the same at the puppy pound she ran. They tend to treat employees as indentured servants at Greenspun Worldwide.

V, you're email is still blocked. Had much to share with you recently, and you drew a slot over 1500 for Sat. Call me at home or open your email to me again.