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I’m late in seeing this, but LOLOLOLOL John McCain basically cut and pasted his bellicose posturing on Georgia/Russia/South Ossetia from Wikipedia. Lots of people have had fun with this, but I think it has a deeper significance. Namely: I don’t believe senior McCain foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann actually exists. I believe Randy Scheunemann is the human face of a series of Wikipedia searches. An actor portays the character of "Randy Scheunemann" to keep the truth from coming out. Let’s explore how this works:
1. Randy Scheunemann is comically corrupt. Matt Duss at ThinkProgress’ Wonk Room has done the real work here. The Alleged Scheunemann is a lobbyist for the Republic of Georgia who made his firm $2 million off the Rose Revolution and in the process firmed up McCain’s ossified anti-Russian sensibilities. This just can’t be real. John McCain is not a dim bulb. He would not hire someone with such an obvious conflict of interest. Alleged Scheunemann is merely a ploy to keep the Russians guessing.
2. Randy Scheunemann is a friend of Ahmed Chalabi. You know, the once and future midget-king of Baghdad? The Iranian "liaison" who manipulated credulous neocons and presidents into getting the U.S. mired in an unwinnable and astrategic conflict? Again, John McCain is not a stupid man. He knows better than to keep someone close to Chalabi in his inner circle. Instead, he’s just trying not to hurt Chalabi’s feelings. Why be a jerk, you know? If ever there was an Actual Scheunemann, he was killed by a Russian operative long ago and McCain is exploiting the opportunity Scheunemann’s newly-available identity presents. Laurie Mylroie can probably explain it.
3. Randy Scheunemann is a D-List neocon. Like, really? Was Michael Rubin returning videotapes when the McCain campaign called? The staff of Commentary too busy arguing over something they read in The New Criterion on the 4 train? One more time: John McCain is not a fool, and he would not hire a neocon of non-distinction who would only just make the campaign look like a laughing stock. Lots of people were dumb enough to back the war, but most of them can at least get calls returned from opinion-page editors.
In conclusion, "Randy Scheuenemann" does not exist, and Wikipedia presently earns $70,000 a year for imparting poorly-thought-through foreign policy advice for John McCain.
Crossposted to The Streak.
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707!!
I can’t imagine what makes you think McCain’t ain’t a hell of a really dim bulb. I’d say his filament is all but gone.
He existed on this site two days ago—huge photo and him front and center with reps from baltic groups–representing the mccain campaign with two others.
oooops.
scrubbed.
http://www.jbanc.org/
significance? stephen payne of mercury group and orion and others was on the board, until he was caught taking bush library bribes from 0—wait for it–baltic reps, undercover.
guess they were just there to have coffee.
two creepiest guys i’ve ever come across, i’m not kidding. so much on them i gave up…scarecrow and ew did a few posts on scheunemann-there are links in the comments.
anyone know how i can get the old page from above that was scrubbed??
someone gave me a site a while back, but only know how to use it once i have the old address….sorry, rookie still.
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and michael moore on oprah debating healthcare.whether children of the poor deserve same care as the rich. first i’ve turned her on since i got cable, good show.
I read Scheunemann was involved in the decision to adopt the ‘dump money on Musharraf and he will take care of it” policy as well. But I cannot find details to verify. Anyone know about that?
stephen paynes’ fingers are that one, too. try looking at his lobbying companies-found lots through them. left you a few of those the other day in the scarecrow thread.
i can’t dig into it right now. sorry.
New CHS post
Is this it dmac ?
found it by typing his name in their search box – tee hee
bad linky here it is for reals
and here is link to the article
cbl2 and dmac: Scheunemann was lobbyist paid by Payne to monitor legistation on “energy issues” about the time a bill to lift economic sanctions on Pakistan. Is that it? I remember reading it was something more than that, but cannot find it now. Maybe not true, and this is the only connection?
Well, here is recent Scheunemann dissing new elected government of Pakistan -says it probabbly is not up to snuff in getting terrorists. Below is link to commentary and transcript.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23392577/
I’m actually kind of amazed that McCain and team could cut and paste from Wikipedia. I didn’t realize they knew how to go to the internets.
Your argument rests on a false premise, which you’ve presented differently in each of your examples:
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See the problem?
thanks cbl2 you are a wiz!!
that’s the picture!!!, but link at 9 isn’t the article, was very damning, couldn’t believe it was on the site….now it isn’t..the site is still up, but they added some dems onto it to support their policy debate. schumer was already on there. completely different look to it now.the logo thing wasn’t at the top for one.
was a recent article and picture together. the lady on the right in the back row is the georgian association’s ’rep’….article had names and everytbing, i should have copied it but was in a hurry, was going to compare it to the riga conference list. and the stephen payne list.
wesg–there’s more. and don’t know, but don’t think scheunemann was ’employed’ by payne–maybe both had the same ’employer’.
wes at 11–thanks–saw his quote in the article, but not the other stuff/