[lbo-talk] Naomi Klein on Conrad Black

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Fri Mar 23 14:27:14 PDT 2007



>
> But do we loathe other country's elites?
>
> Interestingly, the Black trial is largely being
> neglected by the Chicago media in favor of sexier (for
> a local audience) scandals, such as the tightening
> ring that Fitzgerald the mediocre (this review has
> occasioned some bitter mirth among his likely targets
> locally) around Da Mare. Sanchez, the former head of
> the Hispanic Dem Party Committee and a Daley
> hatchetman was just indicted.
>
> Reminds me the old days in NYC, almost 30 years ago,
> when then-US Atty Rudy G decided to pass up personally
> trying the first major RICO case against the Five
> Families (he gave the job to a then fairly green and
> unknown ASUA named Michael Chertoff) to take the first
> chair in another RICO case involving the parking meter
> scandal, a matter of considerable local importance.
> (Yes, yes, I know you New Yorkers think that "New
> York" and "local" are incompatible terms. So, it
> seems, did Rudy G.)
>
> Black's current trophy wife is really cute. One of my
> colleagues says, "Seen one trophy wife, you've seen
> 'em all."
>
>
Ew! If Lady Conard gets anymore plastic she really will be the ugly duckling that never matured.



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