Mainstream Media reports briefly on Prescott Bush, investments with Nazis

[Stuart G]

Frank Rich, of the New York Times at this column, in today's editions here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

briefly mentions Prescott Bush and his investments in the Nazi's. That mention is about halfway through his column. (eighth paragraph)

I have never seen this mentioned in any mainstream media outlet. There has been some kind of rule protecting papa Bush and that seems to be broken here. And it is about time.

[malaise]

1. Wait until it reaches

Jerusalem Times.

K & R. Good for Frank Rich!
<snip>
The president implied that Mr. Obama would have enabled the Nazis even more foolishly than his own grandfather, Prescott Bush, did in the 1930s when he maintained “investment relationships with Hitler’s Germany,” as Kevin Phillips delicately describes it in “American Dynasty.”

add snip

[Stuart G]

3. If people who read the Jerusalem Times..ask about this..how will

the Bush family respond? Or will they?
Talk about his reputation going down the drain. It will be lower than anyone could even imagine. And that is pretty low.

[malaise]

8. I'm very curious about that n/t

[SoCalDem]

4. they know.. they choose to ignore it because they want MONEY and aid

:grr:

[Stuart G]

5. I wouldn't be so sure..

Perhaps the owners of the Times know, but what about the average citizen of Israel? You know, for some reason the average citizens of Israel do not like those that enabled the holocaust.

[tom_paine]

11. I have long begun to wonder if the average citizen of Israel is as powerless as the average Amerikan

Imperial Subject.

I cannot say, for even though I have numerous relatives in Israel, I have never asked them about it. Further, it's the kind of question that, in this Age of Inverted Totalitarianism (which, unlike Classic Totalitarianism, mimics the trappings of democracy and does not overtly crush it's people), a powerless individual might answer incorrectly, believing the lie.

It certainly is a possibility. If American Liberty could fall so easily to this bunch of Right-Wing lunatics, then so could Israeli Liberty.

If that is the case, then it doesn't matter what the average Israeli thinks, any more than it matters what the average Amerikan Subject thinks.

Let me repeat again that I do not know the answer, but it is something I have been thinking about lately.

[annabanana]

2. Corpomedia has treating this info as radioactive. But you can't

hide this stuff forever anymore.

[Stuart G]

6. Someone once said, "the truth will out."

Over 400 yeas ago...I wonder if this will finally be it?

.....From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, 1600

[nashville_brook]

7. interesting read: he predicts a scuffle at the RNC convention, "celebration at Dems'

...For all the fears of a Democratic civil war, the planets may be aligning for a truce, and possibly a celebration. As fate has it, the nominee’s acceptance speech is scheduled for the night of Aug. 28, exactly 45 years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. electrified the nation with “I Have a Dream.”

The next day brings another anniversary: Mr. McCain turns 72. And then, on Sept. 1, comes the virtually all-white G.O.P. vaudeville in Minneapolis-St. Paul. You’ll be pleased to know the show will go on despite the fact that the convention manager, chosen by the McCain campaign, had to resign last weekend after being exposed as the chief executive of a lobbying and consulting firm hired by the military junta in Myanmar.

The conventioneers will arrive via the airport whose men’s room was immortalized by a Republican senator still serving the good people of Idaho. This will be a most picturesque backdrop to the party’s eternal platform battles over family values, from same-sex marriage to abortion.

For good measure, antiwar demonstrators from within the G.O.P. — Ron Paul devotees — could provide at least a smidgen of the 1968-style disruptions the Democrats may avoid. In April, the Nevada Republican state convention abruptly adjourned in midsession after the Paul forces won rule changes. The Los Angeles Times reported last week that other Paul cadres, operating below the national press’s radar, have also been fighting guerrilla battles “at county and state conventions from Washington and Missouri to Maine and Mississippi.”

[malaise]

9. Isn't their gig at some oil company's convention centre? n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Be still, my heart!

[Stuart G]

10. Here is a link, that the New York Times gives..more info on this financial relationship

from the London Guardian:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar/print

[bluesmail]

12. It has to come out, (corpmedia or not)

Bush did it to Himself! HE put the spotlight on the Nazis, and it is inevitable that columnists ignore the research when their conscience screams, *'s grandfather was a Nazi appeaser Himself!

[Stuart G]

16. That is the true irony here..exactly what you have said..

The media (except for us, and many progressives, and other look under the cover types.) ignored this for 7 years, and gave Georgie a pass.
...In his attempt to get a real good hit at Obama, without thinking, (or perhaps so arrogant that he is sure he can get away with it) he brings this up---the family's worst kept secret. Now, there is a chance that this will really get out. Perhaps he may even have to respond to a question about it? Can you see him try to answer this?
..Let's see, "How did your grandfather get his money back after the war?..can you answer that MR.President??

[deutsey]

13. Bad form, don't you know.

Nothing quells polite cocktail chatter better than to raise past unsavory business relations.

:evilfrown:

[bvar22]

14. The crack in the dam?

Will other MSM outlets pick this up?
I would love for it to become common knowlege that the Bush Family Fortune was based on money made supporting the NAZIs.
There may even be an avenue for the Bush Family to be forced to pay reparations?

[magellan]

15. knr

[SpiralHawk]

17. This also gives an opening for a courageous White House corporate reporter to ask a question

"What about the well-established financial and political links between the Bush Family, Adolf Hitler, and The Nazi Party? The NYT mentioned it in a Sunday column. How does the pResident explain this intimate web of connections to the American and Israeli people?"


Bwaaa ha ha ha ha - courageous White House corporate reporter - Bwa ha ha ha ha.

Excuse me for thinking what is obviously highly improbable.

[DCKit]

20. Helen Thomas would do it....

if only to watch Dana Peroxide have a seizure.

[SpiralHawk]

22. Hey, great idea. Let's send her some e-mails....

Helen Thomas has demonstrated intelligence, judgement, diligence, wit and courage over her career, This is what I found for her email [e-mail] . Will write her now. - SH

[SpiralHawk]

23. My e-mail to Helen Thomas

(Thanks to the OP and others for the ideas that built this email). - SH


Dear Ms. Thomas,
Yesterday in his Sunday NYT column, Frank Rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18rich.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

briefly mentions Prescott Bush and his investments in and collaboration with the Nazis in the run up to WW II. That mention is about halfway through his column. (eighth paragraph)

I have never seen this mentioned in any mainstream media outlet. There has been some kind of rule protecting the Bush family’s deep involvement with the growth of Nazi might. Frank Rich’s mention of it in the NYT seems to have broken this taboo.

I do wish you and other White House reporters would ask for an official explanation from the Bush White House on the Bush family’s Nazi ties. And how does that documented background square with the criticism Bush delivered against Democrats, when he spoke of Nazi appeasement before the Israeli Knesset?

With respect, Ye Olde Spirale Hawke

[Fireweed247]

18. Corporate media rebellion?

That's great!
:applause:

[EFerrari]

21. Kick

[SpiralHawk]

24. Kicking sfexpat's kick

because it confounds me how the media can ignore the

HUGE STINKING BUSH-NAZI TURD

in the middle of America's living room rug.