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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Jews in Banks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.040552.17179@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov16.160701.16000@midway.uchicago.edu> <sffcu.16.722039882@cuais01.cc.columbia.edu> <1992Nov17.201925.1888@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:05:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.201925.1888@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >In article <sffcu.16.722039882@cuais01.cc.columbia.edu>, sffcu@cuais01.cc.columbia.edu (Stew Feuerstein) writes:
- >> You fail to mention why David Steiner was fired. The article I read
- >> stated that he was fired for making the whole thing up. In fact David
- >> Steiner and AIPAC has no connection to the Clinton campaign. Mr Steiner was
- >> merely trying to make AIPAC seem more important by lying about his influence.
- >
- >Maybe. Maybe not. I read Steiner claimed he was exaggerating after
- >he had been caught in an obviously embarrassing situation. Apparently
- >Harry Katz, a member of AIPAC, thought things were out of control or
- >I doubt he would have conducted his own personal 'sting operation',
- >thereby putting his own good name on the line. I can't envision
- >the manager of a previously successful lobby building its influence
- >on lies and exaggeration.
-
- You've never run a lobby, then. That's precisely how lobbies build
- their influence -- by making themselves seem more influential than
- they'll ever hope to be.
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