The Red Team victory for Virginia governor woke Ari Fleischer from his twelve year nap as a media consultant. Yahoo News reported:
"To put a finer point on what's happening in Virginia, particularly in the suburbs, what you really have - and this is the risk the Democrats have going into 2022 - is an anti-woke rebellion," Ari Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under former President George W. Bush, said on Fox News Tuesday night.
Rabid Trumpians have no use for Ari's old boss, President George W. Bush. But that's not the group that pushed Youngkin into the winner's circle. Independent voters and Red Team members (who could no longer stomach "punch back harder" Donald Trump in 2020) switched from Blue to Red in the Virginia race.
Youngkin levered his appeal by toning down his hard right tendencies. He hid his recent stint as a globalist, union partnering, ESG committed, diversity/inclusion loving private equity underwriter (PEU).
Did Ari help Youngkin hide his tendency to monitor rush hour traffic in Beijing? Was Fleischer behind Youngkin avoiding the thousands of American jobs he and The Carlyle Group sent to China via affiliate United Components Inc. during the Bush years? How did Youngkin get to advocate for public-private partnerships but not have to explain how he left the Port of Corpus Christi a potential $400 million hole when Carlyle abandoned it lead developer role for Harbor Island expansion?
The Red Team sold independent voters a chimera in Glenn Youngkin.
(It's a) pattern that has spanned Republican and Democratic presidencies and Congresses: Private equity has conquered the American tax system.
Private equity firms have devised to help their managers avoid income taxes on the roughly $120 billion the industry pays its executives each year.
Glenn Youngkin and The Carlyle Group are tax avoiders, exported U.S. auto parts manufacturing jobs to China and abandoned their lead developer role and $400 million commitment to a Corpus Christi port expansion.
Update 11-6-21: Youngkin's 17 year old son tried to vote for his father twice and was turned away. One might expect young Youngkin to be educated on voting rules. Maybe his father hasn't had that talk with him yet. "Son, there's this thing called the policy making billionaire. They get the government to stack the laws and steer the federal budget in their favor."
Update 6-7-22: Ari is the spokesperson for the Saudi backed LIV golf tour.
Update 7-4-22: Ari is the media coach for LIV.
Take the money and run boys. Next LIV stop is Trump Bedminster where ex-President Trump is in residence. I expect Jared Kushner to drop by if Affinity Partners is an equity holder in LIV.Media consultant Ari Fleischer, the Fox News political commentator and White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, has appeared at both LIV events and listened intently to how players answered questions.
Once it was clear players were giving the same talking points, a testy exchange occurred when some were asked how much media training they received, especially to address questions about human rights abuses happening in Saudi Arabia.
"Zero," Pat Perez said.
"Yeah, I mean, unless you want to do it yourself," chimed in Brooks Koepka.
When Koepka was told it was just a question he said, "I'm just giving you an answer, man."
