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P.r. firm working for them. remember burson, the pr firm run by mark penn who continues to pop up as a talking head. the company represented those guys and also indonesia when they were putting down the uprising and three days after 9/11 saudi arabia hired them. i wonder why. there is this class of american politicos who build up their rolodex and reputation and d.c. contacts and political capital by participating in american politics but then they sell it abroad. they sell all that clout they build up here to the world's scuzziest dictators in the world. baby doc went back to haiti this week....

By every measurable factor americans have a great appetite for news about our own politics and we have a fairly small appetite for news about politics or really anything else going on in the rest of the world. but there is a place where american politics and the stuff going on in far corners of the world we don't really like to think about come together. there is a place where american politicos turn up in the 20th paragraph of mostly otherwise unread international news stories about scary things happening in far away places. i've always thought of it as the scuzzy dictator portfolio. it's a f...