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June 11, 2009 9:06 AM
AT&T, GM, and Exxon
Hmmm. The news that Ed Whitacre is the new chairman of General Motors is at best perplexing and more likely really bad news. Mr. Whitacre is pretty well known. He was the chairman and CEO of AT&T during the time that it was alleged to have cooperated with the Bush Administration in violating the privacy rights of its customers. Mr. Bush felt so strongly about the matter that he insisted on Congress providing AT&T with retroactive immunity! No wonder that he was a so-called Ranger, raising over $100K for the Bush/Cheney election campaigns. At the same time, Mr. Whitacre was national chairman of the Boy Scouts, which was actively kicking out any gay leaders or scouts that it could uncover.
Mr. Whitacre had retired from AT&T, but remained on the board of Exxon Mobile, the well known funded of those who deny climate change is real. Linking GM and Exxon made perfect sense when GM was privately owned and made all of its money from the worst gas guzzlers on the planet (think Hummer and Escalade), but now it is publicly owned and is running television ads about reinventing it self as a green company.
This appointment is wrong. He should step aside immediately.
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So the man helped the Bush administration pursue wholly legitimate means of enhancing national security and acted as the chairman for one of the most active and admirable service organizations for young men in the United States. In your pitifully narrow mind, this is a problem. I shudder to think of the kind of person you DO support in a position of responsibility, sir, if you are so incapable of seeing merit.
Perhaps you didn't get the memo but the US Supreme Court affirmed the right of a private organiation to determine its standards of membership without petty legal retaliation from self-designated "victims". Also, on the heels of the scandals in the Catholic Church breaking, where it was proved that it was EXTREMELY unwise to put young men in isolated close proximity to an authority figure, the Boy Scouts were proved to have done something very wise and rational. I guess wise and rational is a bad thing in your world.
As to denying climate change, isn't it sort of a good thing that the new chairman of GM isn't given to believing fairy tales like global warming? You ought to encourage him, not discourage.
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