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April 5, 2007

When Good Fellas Meets Homer Simpson

by AltHippo @ 2:36 pm. Filed under US8

When I first read about the US8 scandal, I saw it in fairly conventional terms. By that I mean fairly conventional for the mafia. Like the plot of a Scorcese movie the sequence of events goes:

1.) Identify 8 USA’s who you feel haven’t wetted your beak sufficiently. At least, as of late.
2.) Have those 8 USA’s whacked.
3.) Put in their places 8 that are nearer and dearer to you, and are more likely to wet your beak.

Like a Scorcese movie, you can even imagine the Don saying to the hit squad on their way to whack the USA’s: “Remember. Don’t do anything stupid.”

Of course, it unfolds that in their “enthusiasm” to get the job done, the hit guys do something stupid.

For instance, whacking Iglesias for doing his duty in the Naval Reserve:

It may be one of the more unintentionally hilarious angles to the purge scandal so far. Administration officials couldn’t admit the real reason to fire Iglesias — he refused to politicize his office and cave to pressure about prosecuting New Mexico Dems without cause — so they came up with an after-the-fact rationalization: his 40 days a year in the Navy Reserve was too much time away from the job.

D’oh!

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7 Responses to “When Good Fellas Meets Homer Simpson”

  1. Swan Says:
    April 5th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    This may be a slightly off-topic comment, but this is important: There is a great post on The Carpetbagger Report from a few days ago about the mainstream media’s (specifically Time magazine’s) ignoring the prosecutor purge scandal.

    http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10367.html

    What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something?

    It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it.

  2. AltHippo Says:
    April 6th, 2007 at 9:10 am

    I would not be surprised if some of the techniques we learned from the Kremlin are applied here in the US. I think good old fashioned bribery (think Armstrong Williams) is simpler than blackmail, though.

    Having met a few reporters here in DC, some high profile, I’d say the power of “conventional wisdom” is strong enough to explain why the attorney scandal didn’t get more attention earlier.

    I don’t know how “conventional wisdom” is first created, but I’ve seen how reporters, reading each others work, and often speaking with each other privately, come to a consensus on what the news is. And, departing from that script makes you out to be some kind of a conspiracy theorist.

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