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2. Hollywood has a goodsized number of RWers. BushInc and their cronies bought into film biz long ago

Reply to ProfessorPlum (Original post)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 07:06 PM

Jan 2012

and there is an actual group that meets formally to discuss their plans to bring more of the 'town' along. You do know that GHWBush's CIA used 'concert tours' to get into countries they normally couldn't. Think.... Elvis Presley. Think.... Singing Angels. Think.... Up With People.

Think of the production folks behind those concert tours. It was no accident that Jerry Weintraub became a longtime 'friend' of Poppy Bush's.

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