Reply #16: I used to work for Merck and DuPont [View All]

At Merck, I helped compose the regulatory documents for Vioxx studies, several of which were found to be fraudulent.

Does this make me a "fascist"?

I also worked for a scientist who was under contract with the military studying particle beam weapons.

Let's see ... worked for DuPont ... worked for Merck ... worked for a mad scientist ... Cockburn and The Nation would have my ass in a sling.

Or not.

If I run for president some day, will the uber-hip leftist press think I'm a fascist/DLC/traitor/whore?

This is a deceitful, sloppy practice, no matter who it is its target. Mark Penn -- or anyone else -- should not be judged guilty by association. More stringent criteria should be used. As it is, anybody with a Powerbook and pretensions to journalistic fame can write a book that can make the target of their choice look like a mass-murderer.

If all you've got is being related, acquaintanceship, or employment, you've got nothing.

Not just for the Clintons and their friends -- for EVERYONE.

--p!