On AlterNet: cronyism

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Administration Still Purging Those Who Are Not "Loyal Bushies"

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report. May 2, 2008.

The Bush administration hasn’t changed its habit of ridding itself of those guilty of independent thinking.

From the ‘You’ve Got to be Kidding’ Files: Wolfowitz Getting Cushy Defense Job?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 3, 2007.

Joshua Holland: It's official -- we live in a banana republic.

Immigration Director Hosts Party With Guest In Blackface

Paddy, Brave New Films. November 6, 2007.

Paddy: Julie Myers is another of Bush's crony appointments who has NO qualifications for the job, at all.

Naomi Klein on Post-9/11 Panic: "People So Scared...They Thought Giuliani Was Their Long Lost Daddy" [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, October 15, 2007.

Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine", talks with Bill Maher about her belief that corporations and politicians who seek a horrific national disaster to advance their idealogical, privatization agenda.

Naomi Klein Debates Alan Greenspan

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007.

Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.