American Politics Journal -- Taiwan-Gate

Taiwan-Gate
The Latest Bush Scandal
by Tamara Baker

April 4, 2002 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- Imagine this:

Agents of an Asian power use boatloads of cash to buy influence in the White House and the political party of its occupant.

In the 1990's this was alleged, by the GOP and its media allies, to be happening to Bill Clinton and the Democrats, the supposed eager recipients of gobs of Commie cash from dirty ol' Red China.

Never mind that this never really happened -- or that GOP bigwig Haley Barbour, during his tenure as RNC head, really DID get a boatload of Chinese cash from his buddy Ambrose Tung Young while on a lovely yacht one moonlit Hong Kong evening -- it was all over every major corporate media outlet. You couldn't escape it.

"CHINAGATE!" it was called.

Well, guess what?

A foreign Asian power has, for the second time in a decade, been caught dumping boatloads of cash directly into RNC coffers -- and the American corporate media can't be bothered to mention it.

I'm referring to what the esteemed Political Amazon calls Taiwan-Gate.

I'll let the Amazon do the talking here for a bit:

In an ever-widening scandal involving a Taiwan government secret "slush fund," the purpose of which was to covertly influence other countries' (including the United States and Japan) politics, leaked Taiwan government documents name two Bush appointees as receiving money from this "slush fund" for services including convincing Bush to agree to $4billion worth of sophisticated arms sales to Taiwan.

Carl Ford, Usurper Boy's appointee for assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and research, and James Kelly, the Bush appointee to the job of assistant secretary of state for East Asia, are the US officials named as accepting bribes in exchange for their secretly massaging American politics as directed by their purchasers.

As the Amazon tells us, Ford and Kelly took millions of dollars from this secret slush-fund.

It gets even worse: According to to the Taiwanese press, it's looking more and more like a good chunk of this money was given by Carl Ford -- while he was working for a Washington, DC public relations firm, Cassidy and Associates -- to George W. Bush's presidential campaign, as well as the Republican National Committee.

This scandal has rocked the foundations of Taiwan's government -- and seriously damaged U.S.-Taiwanese relations.

And this is probably the first, Gentle Reader, that you've heard of it -- because the U.S. press flatly refuses to it, except for a pro-forma burial in a tiny little column somewhere around Page Z58 in one edition of one newspaper somewhere. (Of course, if Bill Clinton was involved, it'd have been front-page news months ago.)

Go and read what the Amazon has to show you -- and then go and write your local papers to ask them why they're not covering this. And tell them that, no, running one teeny little three-column story buried on Page Z58 is NOT "coverage".

'Nuff said.