Locked for exactly the type of statement you just made, though I think the discussion in response to the "freep" header thoroughly refuted the original post. Here is the link to that thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=798828&mesg_id=798828Second, your link may or may not have a post about Clark people being encouraged to use DU, but it was simply underhanded to direct people to an Anti Clark rant thread on that pretext. Even a quick glance at the opening post reveals an out right lie (or maybe misinformation at that point, the thread is from Mid October for christ's sake) That lie that caught my eye by the way was "Clark likes the Patriot Act".
Third, if we are about directing people to our favorite threads. Here is a hatchet job debunking exploraton I would reccomend regarding Clark's "encouraged retirement" from the military, which was the first topic hit on in the thread you directed us to:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=798403Now, regarding the Clark as corporate tool rant which was the prime focus of the thread you directed folks to with your "freeper" claim, here is a post I copied from another thread on DU. Sorry I didn't save the link for it, but it does deals with those types specific attacks in response to another poster who was making them:
: "As far as looking into Clark's buddy boy circle... Take a look at Anthony Huang and a company called Rexton Media. Take a look at their customer list. http://www.rextonmedia.com"
(The reply):
Despite my best efforts, I can find no direct link between Welsey Clark, Anthony Huang, and Rexton Media. The Closest link I could find was that while Clark was managing director of merchant banking for the Stephens Group Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., the company bought shares of Tyco stock and that Tyco is a client of Rexton Media.
If this is the case you are building, I totally reject it. It is nothing more than the odd little connect the dots game that gets played here often. Are we living in a bizarro world where associations, even indirect associations, with companies that one political group or another finds to be lacking makes one lacking, too?
But I did study Rexton Media's customer list like you suggested. Sure. Some baddies on there. Some good folks, too. Can't find a Carlucci link (that you mentioned in a PM) unless, again, Carlucci is associated with one of Rexton's customers which gives an odd "third cousin twice removed" link with Wesley Clark.
"Next have a look at Entrust Technologies, the company Clark just stepped down from... http://www.entrust.com (Kind of sounds like Enron, doesn't it?)"
(The Reply):
I guess ENtrust does sound like ENron. So? Are you implying that because the company did business with several government agencies, this is a bad thing for General Clark? And because "Entrust" sounds like "Enron" that makes them bad? "Intel" sounds like "Enron," too.
Where's the connection?
"Now go look at the insider trader reports here: Look up symbol ENTU and go to insider info- (take note of NORTEL connection there too.) http://www.finance.yahoo.com/ And who is Nortel? FRANK CARLUCCI president until very recently...who is Nortel in partnership with? ENTRUST!"
(The Reply):
First off, what does "insider trading" have to do with the link you gave?
Secondly, Carlucci wasn't president of Nortel, he held a non-executive chairman of the board position.
Now, the Nortel-Entrust connection? This is about all I can find:
"Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU), the global leader for solutions that bring trust to e-business, today announced that Nortel Networks'* (NYSE/TSE: NT) Contivity* Extranet Switch has passed Entrust Technologies' in-house testing earning the designation of Entrust-Ready™. Customers of Nortel Networks are now assured that the Contivity Extranet Switch is tightly and securely integrated with the Entrust/PKI™ software to bring scaleable and manageable trust to their remote access, branch-office, and business-to-business Virtual Private Networks (VPN's)."
So Entrust tested a Nortel product, it passed the test, and now they partner with Nortel using it?
So?
Where does Wesley Clark fit in with this? Oh, I get it. Because Clark was on the board of directors at Entrust at the same time Carlucci was the non-executive chairman of the board of Nortel when that deal was struck, right?
WRONG!
Wesley Clark was on the board of Entrust from January 2002 to October 2003. Carlucci resigned from his position at Nortel in April of 2001! They never served on the respective boards at the same time.
You post is just another example of far-left "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" name/corporation association that, after scrutiny, just doesn't wash.
Your implication is that being associated with said companies and/or profiting from them makes you a corporatist.
Here, then, is what I expect from you:
You cannot purchase, use, or benefit from the following companies who have done business with Rexton Media:
Do not buy gas from...
Amoco
BP
Texaco
Got an Air Conditioner from Honeywell? Rip it out!
Don't use phone and phone services from Sprint or T-Mobile (oh dear god! Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is T-Mobile's global spokesperson! She's in bed with Clark, Carlucci, and the BFEE!)
If you get sick or injured in Houston, DON'T go to the Methodist Hospital of Houston. Die before you let them corporatist pigs work on you!
You cannot purchase, use, or benefit from the following companies who have done business with Entrust:
Cisco Systems Inc.
IBM
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft Corporation
Novell
..and many others whose products and expertise have allowed you to post on Democratic Underground..
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