Is there any scandal or threat to public safety and global stability that Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, can't be linked to.
First it was union busting.
Then it was Blackwater.
We thought it had reached its apex with corrupt Pakistani politicians.
But, no, Mark Penn as added the Chinese-manufactured Aqua Dots, i.e. Date Rape Drug for Tots, to his stable of clients.
Details below the fold.
Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly is on it.
Burson Marsteller, the PR/lobbying firm run by Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, is handling crisis management for the owner of Aqua Dots, the bead toys with an adhesive coating that too easily turns into the date-rape drug, GHB.
And I nominate this development for the Poetic Justice Hall of Fame:
A source directly familiar with the arrangement confirms that Aqua Dots' manufacturer, SpinMaster, based in Canada, has turned to Burson Marsteller for help.
Penn employs the Sargeant Scultz defense:
An official of the company said that Penn has no role in the Aqua Dots contract.
"There are over 2000 clients," a company official said. "Mark had no contact with them in any way."
Background on the latest tragedy from which Mark Penn will profit, but with which he has nothing, nothing to do:
http://abcnews.go.com/...
Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.
Moose Enterprises said Bindeez and Aqua Dots are made at the same factory, which is located in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province. Last week the Chinese government announced an export ban on more than 700 toy factories in the region because of shoddy products.
Is there a single cause, plague, scandal, affliction, or other form of bad behavior over which Mark Penn is NOT compromised?
Is there a source of harm and tragedy that doesn't wind up lining his pockets?
And this is the man whose judgment Senator Clinton is basing her Presidential run. Her Karl Rove.
Oy.