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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey...Rumor that Chris Matthews was at "Bohemian Grove".. Has he been missing?
On "RT" Abby Martin had interview with Peter Philips from "Project Censored" and he was describing Bohemian Grove attracts Power Brokers (not so different from the Aspen Institute & other Think Tank Retreats) and he said that Matthews was there.
Did anyone else see this? And...is Matthews live tonight? Or was he "outta town last weeks?"
http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/
Peter Philips from Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)the last two weeks. Generals and other Wall Street and Other Powerbrokers were there...according to Philips report.
BTW...this didn't sound like "CT" from "RT. I wouldn't have posted it...but, thought that Matthews being there was kind of interesting.
Subject Line: I gave Up on Matthews ...meaning I haven't watched him for a couple of years on MSNBC...so thought others might know if he's been missing.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)has he been gone? I think so
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Smurfkonish was in for him.
Segami
(14,923 posts)The "weaving spiders" motto also provides cover for a club that discriminates against women.
Thus, in the Bay Area, good liberals and civil libertarians, who would not dream of joining a club that refuses to admit blacks or Jews, raise their glasses in a club that discriminates against women.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, is a member. Vaughn Walker, the former federal judge who overturned California's same-sex marriage law, is a member. MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews is a member.
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is a member. Ditto band member Bob Weir. There are more big names on the right, starting with former President George H.W. Bush, former Gov. Pete Wilson and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Business titans have long bankrolled the retreats. A roster of 2010 members released by norcaltruth.org -- the club does not release its membership -- includes a couple of Rockefellers and the ubiquitous Koch brothers. Hence conspiracy theories about sinister deals cut amid the redwoods.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is a member. William R. Hearst III, trustee of the Hearst Corp., which writes my paycheck, has been a member. I have friends who are members. John McCain has addressed the group. Ditto Francis Ford Coppola. Like good Democrats, Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have avoided Bohemia. "When I first started and they acquired my services, it was to help handle protests at the grove and the City Club," Singer noted. "Over the years, it's gone from a thousand people to literally one person."
That one person is Brian Romanoff of norcaltruth.org, and he told me he doesn't go there to "protest" so much as to "reach out and inform the members" as to why they should make retreat policy seminars -- on Afghanistan or nuclear power -- public.
He thinks some members are "probably guilty" of war crimes. He doesn't reach out to them. "I don't really want to get to know Henry Kissinger."
Sonoma State sociology professor Peter Phillips attended the retreat in 1994. The club was the subject of his doctoral dissertation. He told me that he met a lot of "ordinary rich guys" and "some very important people." Some men kept coming back to the same camps every year to discuss intimate issues -- their prostates, wives -- in an atmosphere analogous to a men's group.
Phillips also saw and heard a lot of networking. "They're very clearly talking politics and business constantly." No weaving spiders? "I proved the opposite, quite clearly. I heard conversations about business. 'If GE comes in on the deal, we can get the Japanese to join' -- three men walking down a trail together."
Note to Mr. Hearst: I believe in the right to free association. I do not want the government to encroach on men's right to socialize among themselves, or force men to share gyms, bathrooms and poker games with women and shutter fraternities.
The Bohemian Club has a right to exist. California courts have upheld the club's right to exclude female members, but ordered it to hire female staff at the club and at the grove's food facilities.
I also believe in free speech, but that doesn't mean I would say things I believe others have the right to say. I do not believe the Bohemian Club is a social/theater/music club -- although I believe the former member who told me that's what the club's emphasis used to be.
Now I buy Phillips' summation -- that the retreat presents powerful "men celebrating their male eliteness, which is kind of how the world works."
The male-only bastion's discriminatory polices hurt women trying to compete in business and politics -- and everyone in politics knows it.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/10/bohemian_grove_--_men_only_110520.html
tularetom
(23,664 posts)But somehow I can picture him as the kind of dipstick who would enjoy runnin nekkid through the redwoods getting smacked on his flabby pasty ass by his fellow campers with wet towels.
malaise
(269,224 posts)for about two weeks.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Thanks!