Hill & Knowlton: How To Dress Up A Really Ugly Pig

New York's Hill & Knowlton Mad Men Making Over Mind Boggling Image Problems While Avoiding Accountability

by Winsip Custer, CPW News Service


    In the Garden of Eden, the serpent had a problem.  How do you get the first humans to accept slavery.  Answer:  Paint the apple red!
    Fascinated by the role that public relations and advertising has had in recreating images, film director Matthew Weiner fashioned the wildly popular television series Mad Men into a nostalgic trip through the 50's, 60's and 70's Madison Avenue advertising and PR agencies as protagonist Donald Draper rose from obscurity to become a leading make-over artist who in season four, The Suitcase, said "Is this a substance much like bullshit?"  In season one Draper had given us a clue as to his motivations learned as a soldier....."I blow up bridges."   On Madison Avenue Don Draper struggled, sometimes well, sometimes poorly, with the ethical issues his profession did and did not address.
   The Mad Men series ended before the 1988 Young & Rubicam Co.'s Willie Horton attack ad showed the power of pointing beyond a candidates' flaws to another's thus deflecting the spotlight in order to redirect it toward a Presidential candates' better features much as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did in 2016 with a variety of lip glossings and lighting adjustments.  "If you have to be in a beauty contest choose who you stand next to and point to their wrinkles," said Sylvia Ramsay author of Beauty is Only Skin Deep, But Ugly Goes All The Way To The Bone.
   While Young & Rubican who employed George Herbert Walker Bush's nephew received the race card approval from the Bush campaign, there was on the horizon another ugly pig polisher....Hill & Knowlton.   When the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI also known as the Bank of Crooks and Criminals, the chief money laundering bank for the Iran-Contra Boland Amendment bashers needed a PR make-over they turned to Hill & Knowlton.  When the Church of Scientology was under the gun for it's abuse of its parishioners the e-emeter Dianetics devotees who followed the U.S. Navy intelligence insider and founder, L. Ron Hubbard, turned to Hill & Knowlton.
    There was no suitcase of bullshit that Hill & Knowlton could not, it seems, turn into a movable feast.  Take the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, a story that had CBS's 60 Minutes' Dan Rather and Mary Mapes proclaiming that they broke in 2004 a year after Amnesty International had exposed the clear violations of the Geneva Conventions at Baghdad under authority of Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defense while Rather co-owned the Las Vegas, New Mexico exotic game ranch, Tecolate Ranch, with Rumsfeld.  At the same time Rumsfeld owned the Mount Misery Plantation where Civil War Abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass, had been "renditiontioned" before being sent back to the South from the North to slavery.
    "You can't forget that a big ugly pig in our U.S. history, our Civil War, was actually a race to the opium poppies of the Golden Crescent," said historian Lowell P. Wigglesworth, "and not as we have been brainwashed into believing was a Civil War fought over freedom from slavery.  I have covered all of this in my writings....from the place that Jeff Davis, Franklin Pierce and Caleb Cushing had in molding public opinion under the guise of a 600,000 body count Civil War fought over ending slavery or protecting states rights.  Good people fought and died over that belief just as they did over the yellow cake induced war in Iraq when fifteen of the nineteen 911 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia as a growing number of scientists world-wide now hold the U.S. government's Official 911 Report in complete contempt," said Wigglesworth noting the support of their position from Bush economist and Texas A&M professor, Dr. Morgan Reynolds and former Under-Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Ronald Reagan, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.  They have pointed to the outstanding work of pilots, scientists, engineers and architects who have called the Official 911 Report written by Rice University's Philip Zelikow and managed most recently by CBS's 60-Minutes with the coverage of the Saudi royal's place in backing the alleged plot, but with no real effect on reopening a real investigation.   That was, perhaps, the biggest make-over of an ugly pig in world history, and not even Hill & Knowlton have the brainwashing ability nor lipstick to cover that fat pig of bamboozle," said Wigglesworth.
    Mad Men ends with Draper in total meltdown...emotionally, psychologically, spiritually.  We are led to believe that he is dropping out of the rat race and the big fat pig lip-polishing profession.  In the end he sits cross-legged at California commune overlooking the Pacific Ocean, perhaps not far from Fort Bragg just north of San Francisco near where it's namesake, Confederate General Braxton Bragg....business partner before and after the Civil War of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman....had worked with George Bragg securing the San Francisco terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad for the Union.  Perhaps Draper was near the Point Cabrillo Light House where in 1950 was discovered the wreckage of opium cutter Frolic built in the Gardiner Ship Yard in Baltimore for the New England Brahman Heard family....a shipyard that had employed the services of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, AKA Frederick Douglass, before he was invited to speak at Boston's Faneuil Hall as had been Jefferson Davis at Caleb Cushing invitation....a fine example of building consent for war....which Donald Trump would have us drop Andrew Jackson into the ring to stop the coming slaughter.  It was not Hill & Knowlton that was hired back then to rewrite history, but it was clearly rewritten by a tent full of P.T. Barnums.
    Mad Men's Don Draper's legacy is resurrected in the end when his face lights up and his thoughts turn to Coca-Cola and the iconic ad song "I'd love to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony."  That was just before Coca-Cola was documented by investigative reporter Peter Brewton  in his 1972 book The Mafia, CIA and George Bush to have been providing with the help of Houstonians' Walter Mischer and Coca-Cola's CEO, Charles W. Duncan, aide in funding the Contra death squads in Central America.  Teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony is NOT the agenda of the U.S. military complex in its push toward worldwide hegemony, not of the pig painters who polish up a really ugly bamboozle.
    Today, Hill & Knowlton's CEO is from Waco, Texas, home to the brutal government handling of the Branch Davidian Affair from a city that Brewton says domiciled the Iran-Contra's leading missile mule, Farhad Azima, who was transshipping weapons through his Waco-based Buffalo Airlines... the weapons used in the Iran-Contra weapons and drugs for hostages deal that almost cost Reagan and Bush an impeachment.  Waco would find the arrival of Kenneth Starr as the President of Baylor University coming there from Pepperdine and from the White Water investigation before that with no reference to his relationship to AIG founder Cornelius Vander Starr....to become the attorney, too, for the renegade U.S. mercenaries, Blackwater, and its founder Erik Prince whose sister is now in charge of U.S. education, in Blackwater's attack against its own employees killed chasing yellow cake and phony wars in Fallujah, Iraq.

   

Jon Meacham, Douglas Brinkley In No Position To Criticize Trump

"THESE TWO AMERICAN ACADEMICS ARE LAZY OR PAID PRESSTITUTE BASTARDS"

Commentary by Lowell P. Wigglesworth for CPW News Service

     Okay, Donald Trump is no academic.  He's not a historian.  He's not even a good President and his credentials for running the U.S. were as riddled with cues about his questionable abilities as Hillary's were of her corruption.   This doesn't let historians, Jon Meacham and Douglas Brinkley, off the hook for their piling on of Trump's frumpy trip-up over the role of Andrew Jackson in U.S. history.
     Trump got it wrong.  Andrew Jackson was dead sixteen years before the U.S. Civil War so he could not have stopped it.....UNLESS.....he had seen the coalition between New England opium trader Caleb Cushing, Jefferson Davis and Franklin Pierce coming.....and sought to derail it, but that would have required a crystal ball.
     Meacham and Brinkley are gatekeepers of American spoon-fed mythology.   Meacham is a Bush chronicler and Brinkley has sat for years in the shadow of Rice University's Frank Vandiver who, as another premier American historian, made nothing about the place that Jeff Davis, Franklin Pierce and Caleb Cushing played in hiding from the masses the real motive for the Civil War.....the South's better access to the flatland of the Great Southwest and the Savannah to San Diego rail route to the Pacific and to the Ottoman Empire's Golden Crescent of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Turkey's opium supplies that had made England an empire.  Picked up in Basra, then in Bombay when the Brits' premier opium middle-man, Sephardic Jew David Sassoon, was ejected by the Ottomans from Iraq, this U.S. triad of Cushing, Davis and Pierce saw the race to the Pacific as the race to U.S. riches.....for those who passed the laws to prohibit while controlling imports.  Problem was that you could not get an entire nation of people to slaughter each other over poppy-greed while the power elites wrestled over control of the rails.  We only do that for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Since slavery was not really being eliminated only changing its shackles....these two American academics are lazy or paid presstitute bastards.....or both.  These historians, not unlike Ken Burns relying on the work of Civil War historian Shelby Foote to the horror of serious historians in his 2005 C-SPAN interview from his Memphis office told Brian Lamb...."I consulted no original material.  It's all been gone over before."  Trump's faux pas may do one thing that's long over due.  Cause people to revisit their own history and find, as did Howard Zinn, Oliver Stone and others, that we've long been bamboozled.

An Open Letter To Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Former Under-Secretary of the Treasury of the United States

Rethinking Everything
by Rev. Quillermo De Monrovia, CPW News Service


"....ARE YOU, SIR, PLAYING THE TRUMP CARD IN AN EFFORT TO REWRITE YOUR OWN HISTORY?"

Dear Dr. Paul Craig Roberts,

     While touring the Guggenheim Museum I remembered walking through the Whitney on an earlier trip to Manhattan.  The Whitney had strangely unveiled the work of former Houston, Texas artist and curator of the Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Mark Lombardi.   Lombardi had, from his front row seat in Houston's "Art Museum District" supported as it is by the petrochemical industry's Vatican, Mecca, Medina and Baghdad on the free flowing River Carbonicus Fossilius and supporting the evolution of industrialized applications of sulfur, lead and petroleum products....the backbone of the Texas economy and the U.S. military industrialist....and as you, Paul Craig Roberts now say, security complex....artfully sketched the Iran-Contra network of the 1980's in clear and vivid detail.  It was as if Martin Luther's 95 theses had been drawn in graphic form to help the rabble visualize the power structure of the top-down, pyramidal, monarchial mindset of the Pontiff's power base.
     That Lombardi's work emanated from the city where Julius Robert Oppenheimer had been defrocked from the Deep State's cloistered oil cartel assembly of acolytes led by the President of Rice University, Dr. Kenneth Pitzer, singing in harmony with the Gregorian chanting of William Liscum Borden under the direction of chorus-master, Gordon Gray, takes one to St. Peter's Basilica at the height of the Spanish Inquisition.   That this city produced not only Philip Zelikow, Paul and David Rhodes, but also....about fifty miles to the north in Huntsville.....Robert Abercrombie Lovett, father of the preemptive bombing of civilian structures....and Trump's Secretary of State, Enron's "T-Rex" Tillerson is obviously informative, but missing from Lombardi's grid work because of his untimely and questionable demise.
     Lombardi had visualized the entire Iran-Contra network that was woven through the Houston economy like a script of a dress rehearsal for the 2008 housing bubble pop and bailout, the earlier 1980's savings & loan crisis that Houston Post investigative journalist, Peter Brewton, showed was clearly staffed by the same bottom feeding opportunists, many of them proving the profitability of such butt-munching.  Between that earlier crisis and the later one that would not, could not, avoid implicating major Texas banks, like James A. Baker's Texas Commerce Bank that would be absorbed by the leading "too big to fail" bank of New York, Morgan-Chase, there was the failure of First City Bank that had been the key bank for Houston's Enron and their lawyers, Vinson & Elkins, who worked closely with CPA's Arthur Anderson Inc.....experts in hiding real debits and credits with a paper shredder.
     Some at the Whitney were saying that Lombardi's masterpiece of politically inspired reverse-Pollock-painting should have been shredded, too, but wasn't.   This brings me to the fact that you, sir, had the insider's seat at the right hand of Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury, James A. Baker, III.    How has that vantage point inspired your obvious change of position with respect to capitalism as the solution to the world's problems?  Do you feel bad that when reflecting on ABC's reporter, Bill  Stewart, having returned from Iran to investigate the connections in Central America between the Contras and the approaching 1980 election between Carter and Reagan, only to find Stewart blown-away by the hedge hog of Anastasio Samoza's National Guard brutes?  How has this inspired your claim that you had not, back then, a better understanding of the depths of our national corruption?
     As a theologian-in-the-trenches I have often reflected on the fact that from this same bastion of slick and slippery bamboozling that has produced, beyond Enron, the more recent blood-letting of Elizabeth Holme's Theranos,  the equally disconcerting, disharmonic screeches of a choir clearly off-key.  Yes, the academics whose nasally cantillations do not improve with their cranial-colon impactions have joined in all led by the likes of Rice University's Dr. Frank Vandiver, who for decades sat over the letter of Jefferson Davis to Franklin Pierce in which he describes their close fraternal fellowship with Boston's premier opium trader, Caleb Cushing.  Caleb's desire to reach the Pacific and the Golden Crescent's Yin of the growing complex's war-weaponry's Yang, anesthetics, informing the investigative work of historian Lowell P. Wigglesworth.  As James A.  Baker's chief strategist for "trickle-down" did you, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, factor into the U.S. economy the unreported influence of this untaxed, or is it an unreported tax on America's urban poor, as part of the U.S. economic equation?
    I am mindful of that terrific Renoir painting "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" and I envision that in that masterpiece sits John Perkins Cushing, Caleb Cushing, the Forbes, Lowes, the Delanos, Huntingtons, Russells, Heards and Tafts....and with the Delanos....we can't forget the Roosevelts who said of Samoza..."He's an SOB, but our SOB".   There is also the wannabes.....who like some star-struck underling, Frank Buchman perhaps, or a Paul Adams Rush in the court of a Stuart Bowen, who aspired to sit on the yacht's fan tail sipping, not grog, but julips.   Forget that Caleb Cushing owned America's fastest cutter yacht, that the Heards' opium cutter Frolic was skippered by Edward Faucon, the opium hauler model for Dana's Two Years Before The Mast and that Cushing's personal impulses informed the development of the American merchant fleet and navy....about which Richard McKenna would write The Sand Pebbles, omitting the U.S gunboat Panay's defense of the Rockefeller interests merged as they were with the pursuit of oil and opioids.  There's reason why this history is a blur when the Hollywood director. Robert Wise, regretfully omitted as the opium connections in his 1966 film of the same name while historians have similarly done the same to the relationship between China's opium trade and the Union's Southern river clearing agent, Admiral Andrew Hull Foote, whose connections to the unexplored motives for the U.S. Civil War are unpacked by Lowell P. Wigglesworth in great detail.
     Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, have you read, by chance, the interview with Dr. Lucien Von Pyre titled "On Playing A Trump Card" or the other one relative to the Flint, Michigan water issues?  Are you,  sir, simply playing the Trump card in an effort to rewrite your own history?