Article

2020-12-02 Home Front: Politix

Biden to Nominate CNN Analyst for Secretary of State

[Free Beacon] Another media figure is joining the incoming Biden administration. The president-elect's team announced over the weekend Biden's intention to nominate CNN global-affairs analyst Antony Blinken for the role of secretary of state.

Blinken, in addition to his role at CNN, is a cofounder and managing partner of WestExec Advisors, a "strategic advisory firm that offers unique geopolitical and policy expertise to help business leaders make the best decisions in a complex and volatile international landscape." He also served as a deputy in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017.

Starting one's own "strategic advisory firm" is one of the more conventional ways in which selfless public servants ensure they become rich enough to afford a life of selfless public service. The job of secretary of state, for example, pays a mere $210,700 a year. Multinational corporations will pay a lot more than that for strategic advice from politically well-connected media analysts.

Though the practice is typically frowned upon when Republicans do it, Democrats can often count on journalists and other liberals to defend them for simply having "participated in society" by raking in cash from corporate clients while their Democratic colleagues routinely badmouth those clients in public.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-02 02:51|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Nearly 40 swamp re-treads on the Blinken's WestExec team. ~~I can't imagine where how he makes payroll.~~

Link to WestExec site.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-02 03:02|| 2020-12-02 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The World - Blinken will 'repair some of the damage' to US diplomacy, says John Brennan

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-02 03:03|| 2020-12-02 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Really thought it was going to be one of the Obama's.

Posted by NN2N1 2020-12-02 04:55|| 2020-12-02 04:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Was he in on the Hillary Email criminal coverup or Benghazi? I think he is a supporter of the Russia hoax, true?

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-12-02 15:35|| 2020-12-02 15:35|| Front Page Top

07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker
07:03 NN2N1
06:58 NN2N1
06:58 Besoeker
05:28 Whiskey Mike
05:23 Whiskey Mike
05:21 Whiskey Mike
05:18 Whiskey Mike
05:15 Whiskey Mike
05:13 Whiskey Mike
05:08 Whiskey Mike
05:05 Whiskey Mike
05:03 Whiskey Mike
03:23 Besoeker