Cincinnati's corporate culture held the city back for years. Mere criticism of this milieu brang swift condemnation on yourself. Cincinnati marched in lockstep with corporate interests more than any other American metropolitan area at the time.
Former Procter & Gamble vice-president Lou Pritchett has been rumored lately to be the sender of a frenzied right-wing open letter blasting the Obama administration. (I don't know if Pritchett was veep yet when P&G threatened to pull advertising from ABC if it didn't delete negative references to Sun Myung Moon from 'Soap', but that's another matter entirely.)
Now it turns out that this rumor is true, is true, it's all true!
Pritchett has confirmed that he was in fact the writer of this screed. He boasts that he sent it to the New York Times but they never published it.
Pritchett's letter whines like a big baby about Obama getting an expensive education, when Pritchett ain't exactly hurting for money himself. It's also rife with tired Red-baiting and sore loser talking points that make the Heritage Foundation seem almost calm in comparison.
The funniest part? It's where Pritchett tells Obama, "You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do." Then he complains that Obama wants to silence a whole slew of conservative radio hosts. If the media gave Obama a free pass, why would he want to silence it as Pritchett claims?
If any recent White House occupant has gotten a free media pass, it sure isn't Obama. If Bush hadn't been getting a free pass, how did he manage to win 2 terms?
Naturally, Corporate America considers Lou Pritchett one of its greatest geniuses.
Just last year, meanwhile, P&G was named as one of the 7 corporations that continue to flex unusual muscle over public policies in the Cincinnati region.
Nice to know one of America's largest metropolitan areas is still ruled by execs who are zillionaire sore losers who think people care about their ravings that look like they were copied from one of those goofy right-wing newspapers that used to pile up at NKU and ended up being hoarded for firewood.
(Source: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
P&G exec sent Red-baiting letter
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Tim, I'm going to have to dock you at least 15 Bandit Points for this one.
ReplyDeleteSo you're saying the whole thing is just a big hoax?
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm saying you lose 15 Bandit Points.
ReplyDeleteYou know what I'm saying? Pooing is cool.
ReplyDeleteWell Pritchett certainly proves the second line ("You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.") with the rest of the letter, doesn't he?
ReplyDeleteand what is wrong with the letter? Have any of you read it? Does what is in it scare you just a little bit? Or are ya'll such a fan of obama that NO matter what he does it is all cool? His changes are taking this country down the wrong road and soon we will be like the former USSR. I am guessing most of you are too young to remember any thing about the horror stories that came out of there. I sure hope you like making money to give to those who won't work. I sure hope you like living 2-5 families in a small home or apt. because that is where we are headed. Don't say any negative because who knows if it will be reported and you will disappear in the middle of the night. We have a man as president who promised transparency and yet we know nothing about him and he reufuses to let anyone know anything. He should never have been elected without showing his birth certificate just like McCain had to do.
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