Re: Barbara Ehrenreich Loses Her Mind
On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
Speaking of this Josephson book, will the book about the us ruling class you’re writing be like it, doug,
but updated to present times? because pound for pound, I think the
funniest and most robber-baronly series of embarrassign scandals by corrupt
right-wingers these days was the whole conrad black broohahah. I guess he got
offf on most charges, but still, all that crap seemed pure josephson.
As Michael Pollak pointed out to me the other week, drawing on an FT
piece, Black had always cheered the U.S. and denounced the UK and
Canada as pussy countries. So now the non-pussy country is sending
him to jail for the rest of his life, whereas in the pussy countries
he mightn’t have even been charged with a crime.
As for my book, we just don’t have the raw material today. We can
make fun of Steve Schwarzman for his $400 stone crab lunches, but
Rupert Murdoch didn’t hire goons to take over the Dow Jones
headquarters or set up companies that competed with News Corp. that
would damage the company while enriching him personally. Conrad Black
is no Jay Gould!
Doug