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When pushed, Joel Klein portrays the fraternal drama as a non-issue. “We will follow all of the rules,” he says. He admits that this unique situation might be s

When pushed, Joel Klein portrays the fraternal drama as a non-issue. “We will follow all of the rules,” he says. He admits that this unique situation might be so hazy as to preclude bright boundaries, but is nonetheless certain that the Kushner distraction is non-material to Oscar’s fate—rather, he characterizes it as an “amusing media story.” The (glaring) conflicts of interest exemplified by Kushner's role in the company -- just a small subset of the conflicts exhibited by the Trump-Kushner administration as a whole -- can hardly be dismissed as merely an "amusing media story". Attempting to do so is a sign of, at the very least, rampant cognitive dissonance - if not pure and simple intellectual honesty.

chimeracoder 9y ago
> The (glaring) conflicts of interest exemplified by Kushner's role in the company -- just a small subset of the conflicts exhibited by the Trump-Kushner administration as a whole -- can hardly be dismissed as merely an "amusing media story". Attempting to do so is a sign of, at the very least, rampant cognitive dissonance - if not pure and simple intellectual honesty. His brother is actively involved in the administration's efforts to repeal the law that provides the foundation for the company that he founded. It's not cognitive dissonance; dismissing the question is the only thing he can do, from a PR perspective. It's not like he's going to say, "Yeah, the future is really uncertain for us, as a result of my brother's work." I get that the situation could be a conflict-of-interest, but at the moment, if anything, the evidence suggests that the two brothers are working directly against each other here.
- kafkaesq 9y ago
  It's not cognitive dissonance; dismissing the question is the only thing he can do, from a PR perspective. That's exactly what I mean: "from a PR perspective", the only thing he (thinks he) can do is shrug and say "it's all just a big non-story" -- which is an outright lie, of course.

chimeracoder 9y ago

> The (glaring) conflicts of interest exemplified by Kushner's role in the company -- just a small subset of the conflicts exhibited by the Trump-Kushner administration as a whole -- can hardly be dismissed as merely an "amusing media story". Attempting to do so is a sign of, at the very least, rampant cognitive dissonance - if not pure and simple intellectual honesty. His brother is actively involved in the administration's efforts to repeal the law that provides the foundation for the company that he founded. It's not cognitive dissonance; dismissing the question is the only thing he can do, from a PR perspective. It's not like he's going to say, "Yeah, the future is really uncertain for us, as a result of my brother's work." I get that the situation could be a conflict-of-interest, but at the moment, if anything, the evidence suggests that the two brothers are working directly against each other here.

kafkaesq 9y ago
It's not cognitive dissonance; dismissing the question is the only thing he can do, from a PR perspective. That's exactly what I mean: "from a PR perspective", the only thing he (thinks he) can do is shrug and say "it's all just a big non-story" -- which is an outright lie, of course.