Need more reasons to make the switch? Try this on for size, MicroSoft climbing into bed with Ralph Reed—conservative lobbyist and former president of the Christian Coalition.
AMERICAblog.com has learned that Microsoft is currently paying a $20,000 a month retainer to former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed’s consulting firm Century Strategies. Which now begs the question of whether Reed was in any way involved with Microsoft’s recent decision to abandon its decades long support for gay civil rights in order to curry favor with anti-gay bigots of the radical right.
…Now, just think a minute. Microsoft finds itself under criticism from the local evangelical leader, religious right shareholders, bigoted employees and who knows who else. They don’t know what to do. Who do they turn to? Well, if I’m in a religious right pickle, I’d turn to my $20,000 a month retainered religious right consultant, the former leader of the religious right, Ralph Reed.
John has more information, invoices, etc., in another of his intersting investigative pieces, a’la Gannon.
This is ridiculous. A convicted monopolist leverages political power witht he help of an admitted anti-homosexual bigot, in order to escape a department of justice ruling! How can people live in this country and pretend that things are OK? I spent a long time grappling with the causes of Bush’s re-election, but seriously I do not understand how, after reading this article, anyone can claim that Microsoft and the Bush Dynasty are not colluding.
The public revelation of this knowlege should be a seven-sigma experience for anyone – the moment when everything comes together and suddenly makes sense. Microsoft is not merely attempting to profit – Bill Gates has more money than he could ever spend. They are trying to control the nation. Many people have called Bush fascist, and while I would tend to say they are going too far, I have to wonder now. He certainly seems even more pro-corporation than previous republicans. Between the War for Oil, the War on Freedom (Patriot Act, et al) and the War on Liberalism (he and his neocon cronies trying to turn it into a dirty word)… I am not certain that this is a country I would bring children into the world in.
Perhaps moving to Europe would not be such a bad idea. If they could decide on a constitution….