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Viewed as a real-life Dynasty or Dallas, this tale of large egos in high places could make compelling reading. Ken Auletta, who first explored the story in a two-part article for the New York Times Magazine, contends that the events were also resonant of "how Wall Street and capitalism were changing." In fact, the author's chronicle of strife at Lehman Brothers is a good deal more persuasive than his tentative efforts to link an ugly power struggle to a supposed national preoccupation with quick results and a runaway trend toward bigness. The narrative is slow in starting...
According to Auletta, the President responded without missing a beat: “You’re making a very powerful assumption—that you know what the American public thinks. I don’t believe that...
...Auletta called television news pundits “bloviators,” and blamed them for filling the airwaves with empty opinions and chatter...
...give it the scrutiny that we were supposed to,” Auletta said...
What is far more surprising is the extent to which Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld actually seem to believe in the fantasies they peddle. Auletta quotes Bush as boasting, “No president has ever done more for human rights than I have.” In fact, no president has persisted for so long with his fingers in his ears. It has been well-publicized that Bush distrusts most media sources and instead receives his information from close (and biased) advisers. It is no wonder then that Bush remains so out of touch with reality?...