This Just In--Clinton Advisor an Asshole!

Shock of shocks! The top advisor to Hillary Clinton has just been revealed to the 0.5% of Americans who read the newspaper as an asshole with no loyalty or common decency, but plenty of greed.

"Mark Penn, the pollster who has advised Bill and Hillary Clinton since 1996, stepped down under pressure on Sunday as the chief political strategist for Mrs. Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign after his private business arrangements again clashed with her campaign positions."

What business arrangements? Is his toy company making a mint selling plush Barack Obama toys?

"Mr. Penn, who was widely disliked by Mrs. Clinton’s fiercest loyalists and had bitterly feuded with many of them, sealed his fate last week by meeting with officials from Colombia, which hired him to help secure passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States that Mrs. Clinton, a senator from New York, opposes."

Oh. That makes sense. But what were the earlier offenses? Are they similarly obscure? No, they are not:

"Mr. Penn met with the Colombians in his role as chief executive of Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations firm. He has refused to sever his ties to the company, which also represented Countrywide Financial, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, and through a subsidiary represented Blackwater Worldwide, the military contractor blamed for numerous civilian deaths in Iraq."
(emphasis mine; source--New York Times)

Also shocking is the fact that Mr. Penn is an overweight, unattractive, white male with a combover. Come on, guys! Stop giving white men such a bad reputation!

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