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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
11 Sep 2006 09:55:09 AM |
| Object: |
Mickey Mouse's Karl Rove, Zenia Mucha. |
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/9/10/22035/2310
Sep 10, 2006
Mickey Mouse's Karl Rove, Zenia Mucha
by Matt Stoller
So I've been trying to figure out what's going on at Disney.
I'm still not sure why they are sticking with this right-wing
propaganda piece, but it's becoming a little clearer who has been
ordering everyone to lie about it.
Zenia Mucha is the EVP of Corporate Communications for Disney
Corporation, in charge of all media relations, financial
communications, employee communications, and corporate positioning.
She is clearly a big part of how Disney handles sticky corporate
situations, including the fights with Miramax over Fahrenheit 911,
where she sparred with the Democratic Weinstein's for six months in
the press.
http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/2004_thb/041004_mon.html
What possible incentive could she have for trashing Disney's brand and
losing money on an ad-free propaganda piece that helps the
conservative movement?
Maybe this incentive.
http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/2004_thb/041004_mon.html
Governor George Pataki insists he's not thinking about the 2008
presidential race, but his denials seemed a little hard to believe
with the sudden reappearance by his side this week of Zenia Mucha, the
tough-talking political operative who left Albany in 2001 to become
the top flack for Disney's Michael Eisner.
As a longtime aide to Senator Al D'Amato known for colorful rows with
the press, Mucha was dispatched to shore up Pataki's faltering 1994
campaign against Mario Cuomo and was widely credited with engineering
his surprise victory.
Her ability to keep Pataki--and everyone else--on message is thought
to have helped spur his rise from unknown Peekskill state senator to
governor and onto George W. Bush's short list for vice-president in
2000.
(***** Cheney, head of the selection committee, selected himself
instead.)
When Eisner lured Mucha to the Mouse with an extravagant salary, many
of her associates nevertheless were certain she'd return to politics;
her reemergence is viewed as a sign the governor is getting serious
about 2008.
Tight-lipped as ever, Mucha insists she's merely taking a week off
from her day job to "help out."
But friends say she's planning a return to New York as head of
Pataki's national campaign.
Mucha was Eisner's protege, not Iger's.
She came into Disney's empire in 2001, recruited out of New York
politics, where she had enormous power as advisor to a very detached
Governor Pataki, who nicknamed her the 'the Director of Revenge'.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2004/03/disneys_warrior.php
Before that, she was Communications Director for a very nasty and
effective conservative Senator, Al D'Amato.
Eisner was a terrible CEO of the Magic kingdom, and he left behind a
real mess.
Wow.
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Another piece of the puzzle
Harry
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