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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

In the 60's it was Harvard Business School. Now it's Geoge Washington University

Dearest grandchildren:
nce upon a time, in Grandma Letty's day, the sheiks sent their sons to Harvard Business School. Now we're sending those sheiks $700 billion a year. The HBS was the villain in the last century. The villain today is undoubtedly George Washington University. Why? Because leaders of far-away countries are retuning to their neutrinos from studying there, where they learned how to manipulate our media. Need an example? The Georgian President (John McCain doesn't know how to pronounce his name so it's ok I can't spell it) quickly spun his case with Russia, where he was partly at fault, on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and other high-class media outlets and even convinced President Bush to weigh in prematurely. Of course that wasn't hard. To weigh in prematurely, I mean.
It was poetry in motion to see that guy manipulate.
Since most people are watching American Idol rather than CNN, the resonance wasn't wide; but the nightly news picket it up and that;s 60 million people. A few of the boys and girls even interviewed Mr. Georgia on the air. His perfect English and his knowledge of our culture were scary. After all, he's a foreigner.
But then, so were the sheik's sons.