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From One Non-Profit To Another - Jay Carney Moves To Amazon

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As one wit noted, it appears former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is moving from one non-profit organization to another. As Politico reports, Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs - reporting directly to Jeff Bezos and topping current veteran PR Chief Paul Misener.

 

As Politico reports,

Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook will report:

 

Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs.

 

The new position brings the e-commerce giant’s worldwide public relations and public policy shops into one department under Carney. He’ll split his time between Seattle HQ and the D.C. office, where Amazon veteran Paul Misener will continue to run the company’s lobbying efforts.

 

Misener and PR chief Craig Berman will now report to Carney, who in turn will report directly to CEO Jeff Bezos. Carney will give up his post-White House perch as a senior political analyst on CNN to focus full time on Amazon.”

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Here is what Bezos is getting...

As trustworthy as John Williams...

 

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Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:18 | 5831226 Clueless Economist
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Good move by Amazon.  Jay is one of the most well spoken, intelligent candidates for the job out there.

Plus he's hot i a nerdy Steve Liesman kind of way.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:20 | 5831238 Cow
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/s

you're welcome

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:22 | 5831252 Cognitive Dissonance
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Anyone who can successfully spin Obama's shit will have no problem spinning quarter after quarter of endless losses.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:27 | 5831277 stinkhammer
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the new Amazon Prime Douche Bag

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:31 | 5831293 SoilMyselfRotten
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Jay Carnie, brought to you from the J.E. Strates Side show

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:51 | 5831384 SWRichmond
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Because ability doesn't matter, conections to government does.

Because government is the only one with money to spend anymore.

because they are printing it.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:56 | 5831409 TruthInSunshine
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From the bitch who literally wrote the Obamacare statute now working for Big Health Insurance, to countless other, to this douche nozzle -

- sing it with me to the tune of "The most wonderful time of the year" -

It's the most
transparent administration
evvvvaaah!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:06 | 5831462 DaveyJones
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it's his experience talking about drones 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 23:59 | 5834219 Theosebes Goodfellow
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No it's not. It's just that Bezos wanted to be able to say he had one of Obama's former "house help", that all. Think organ gringer monkey.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:51 | 5831385 cifo
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Not-profit for shareholders, for-profit for insiders.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:55 | 5831339 clade7
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Smarmy fucker....

 

If you can imagine yourself having him as a close friend, somebody you hang out with and go fishing together etc.  FUCK YOU!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:35 | 5831310 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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I always hated Jay Carney. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:37 | 5831319 Ignatius
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And it tells us a lot about Amazon and their agenda.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:41 | 5831332 Took Red Pill
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and their ties to the gov't

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:45 | 5831350 NotApplicable
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Just yesterday I was explaining how Amazon would be the entity that solves the logistical problems of global internet sales tax, and offering it as a service to other sellers.

They may end up as tight with the Treasury as that other private corp called the Federal Reserve.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:47 | 5831360 kaiserhoff
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Amazon expects to have a lot of antitrust trouble, because they have earned it.

They also bought the Washington Post, aka Propaganda Central.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:45 | 5831348 PartysOver
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Which is a good enough reason to cancel your Amazon Account.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:52 | 5831390 Max Cynical
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Any company that thinks it needs such a silver tounged devil such as Jay Carney deserves the scrutiny it invites.

Would love to know his compensation package.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:52 | 5831667 City_Of_Champyinz
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Another reason not to use Amazon....like I needed one.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:58 | 5831695 overmedicatedun...
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city, who won't use Amazon? there is a .gov agency who would like to know who is doing  that..we are run by mafia can't it be any clearer?? I fear a civil war clock is at 12 midnight..obuma's actions recently are setting my alarm sense ..he is in direct confrontation with congress and judges..that is a story buried deep right now, but something bad is coming net neutrality vote is today..then ZH and other sites could be gone..

t

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:42 | 5831329 giovanni_f
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He merits our compassion. I am sure he is "dead broke" like the cunt was you refer to with your avatar.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:20 | 5831241 froze25
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This is the same guy that admitted he was told to lie about the drone program to the people.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:24 | 5831263 Cognitive Dissonance
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It ain't a lie if you were ordered to do so. It's a paycheck.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:46 | 5831356 NotApplicable
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"Gee, someone must've provided me with some incorrect facts."

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:01 | 5831431 Clever Name
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"I lied to some folks"

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:28 | 5831279 wallstreetapost...
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Then he will be perfect for Amazon and their drone problems.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:33 | 5831302 Normalcy Bias
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As it turns out, Professional Liar is a very lucrative career choice...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:39 | 5831327 Cognitive Dissonance
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The greatest spin job ever was creating the social acceptance of PR spin as not lying. We are so co-opted by our consumerism we are willing to accept anything as truth so long as it allows us to remain in denial about our insanity.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:00 | 5831711 Clever Name
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Frikk...

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

"If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance"

"Saddam and Al Qaeda blah blah blah..."

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:50 | 5831660 williambanzai7
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Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:17 | 5831228 q99x2
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At least it wasn't a freakin bank

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:19 | 5831235 NoDebt
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Amazon Bank.

Just sent a shiver up your spine, didn't I?

 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:26 | 5831270 Consuelo
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I thought it was a 'tingle down my leg'...?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:28 | 5831281 NoDebt
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Generally you tinkle down your leg shortly after the shiver goes up your spine, but yes.

 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:20 | 5831244 froze25
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No, that is what ex-congress people do.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:48 | 5831368 NotApplicable
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As I posted above, it's worse. They're going to be the tax-collector par excellence, making the IRS look like pikers in comparison.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:20 | 5831243 Mercury
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More like one Panopticon to another.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:21 | 5831246 astroloungers
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GOV-CORP is almost complete.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:26 | 5831272 onewayticket2
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he'll be running the "objective" Washington Post....

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:21 | 5831247 SillyWabbits
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So, no drones for Amazon …… for now!

Net Neutrality is a given then?

Does Amazon have a book section on lobbyists?

Just askin.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:22 | 5831248 RealityCheque
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So long cuntface. Hope your years of lying come back on you in a storm of karmic blindness and cancer.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:35 | 5831297 giovanni_f
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Lets wait by the river. Sooner or later the cadaver of Jay Carney will float by.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:22 | 5831249 kaiserhoff
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It's called buying access.

Otherwise, you would have to call it buying politicians.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:22 | 5831250 Bumbu Sauce
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On the board with Jamie "The Wall" Gorelick.  Whores of Babylon the lot of them.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:24 | 5831262 astroloungers
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now that all of us can identify THEM what do we do?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:50 | 5831380 NotApplicable
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Realize that there's always an infinite number of "Al-Qaida #2s" and carry on with your life.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:22 | 5831253 Pareto
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I just liked the title of the article.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:22 | 5831254 SloMoe
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"White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is moving from one non-profit organization to another."

That's pretty funny....

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:31 | 5831294 Rainman
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There could be no better choice to make shit up in volume

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:23 | 5831256 Wm the Shrubber
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Time to cash in.  How this ass bag lives with himself is an absolute mystery!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:46 | 5831354 ironmace
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He has no morals, principles or scruples. He sleeps very well.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:23 | 5831257 thamnosma
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What a puke.  I wish him the worst.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:25 | 5831267 AustrianJim
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Very clever and funny headline.

Gradually, IT is becoming an ossified industry, more and more in bed with the government.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:25 | 5831268 tarsubil
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It's good to be in the club. Good to know people are chosen for leadership positions in leading corporations based on merit.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:30 | 5831278 db51
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Karma Is for Muppets only.  Now we can only hope that helll exists and Lord Blankfein isn't seated on the throne come judgment day 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:33 | 5831300 Panic Mode
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He is a right c...........

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:33 | 5831303 TrustbutVerify
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Govrnment is non-profit?  LOL...What an effin' laugh. 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:52 | 5831387 NotApplicable
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Well, once you add in $18T in current debt and more than $50T in future unfunded obligations...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:36 | 5831313 roddy6667
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Amazon must be in big trouble. Carney set some kind of world record for Most Consecutive Lies while in the White House. I wonder what they need to lie about. maybe the fact that they never make any money, but just keep going back to Wall Street to borrow more from "investors"?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:53 | 5831391 NotApplicable
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Has any CIA business ever faltered just because they can't turn a legitimate buck?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:36 | 5831314 Ghostdog
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Stool

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:40 | 5831321 Yen Cross
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  Carney has graduated from" a chicken in every pot", to "a drone in every window."

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:39 | 5831326 WTFUD
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He'll be missed! huge sarc.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:39 | 5831328 Chuck Knoblauch
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Jay will be working in NY over at The NY Times.

Don't believe the bullshit.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:43 | 5831342 TalkToLind
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When a corporation needs to spread BIG LIES, he's your guy.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:48 | 5831362 Dig Deeper1
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Can't stand carneys...they smell like cabbage

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:50 | 5831364 redwater
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He's there to help roll the metadata  that Amazon has of you into the NSA database.

He's a lifelong communist. He's still in the game. He just has a different mission now.

 

Fuck Amazon.

 

 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:49 | 5831375 Bumbu Sauce
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Carney is the type of pencil-necked geek that salivates at getting to use the power of government and the media to manipulate and harm regular people.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:54 | 5831401 NotApplicable
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"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Gettin' laid!

Gettin' paid!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:50 | 5831376 localizer
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All this 'revolving doors' crap is getting rather revolting... what a disgrace! Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest - so true indeed. Being "in the loop" is what matters.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:50 | 5831379 Frank N. Beans
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Like any good Carney, he goes from one carnival to another.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:51 | 5831383 Joe Tierney
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I wondered whatever happened to J-Cornholey....

 

He cornholed the American public for his entire tenure at the WH, and now he's brought his unique skills to Amazon.

 

Waiting for the stock plunge.....

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:54 | 5831399 Bumbu Sauce
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Gibbs->Carney->Earnest.  All true believers willing to tell any and every lie to advance the rogue Obama Regime's agenda.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:54 | 5831394 TeethVillage88s
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Yeah, Corporations now are like governments not only in budgets, but in power in the world.

We need Jay since we are negotiating for territory, for treaties, for economic zones, and since we demand tax protected zones as any government would.

- smile

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:53 | 5831395 eyetaliano
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Bezos loves Bildeberg. He, Peter Thiel & Eric Schmidt are jockeying for lord of the universe. Carney "nomen est omen", the name is foretelling. A smarmy, intelligent Carnival barker.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:54 | 5831403 22winmag
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Carney us right up there with Geither and a few other elite assholes that you would pay money to watch get flogged.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:17 | 5831515 Chauncey Gardener
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Can I use my PayPal account for this? 

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:55 | 5831406 Armed Resistance
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Fuck Jay Carney. The lying asshole should be choked to death with his own tiny balls.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 11:56 | 5831412 WTFUD
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Carney's no better than a drug dealer, peddling Obama's shit on behalf of the money-changers.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:00 | 5831429 Yancey Ward
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Carney is living proof that shit floats right to the top of everything.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:01 | 5831439 Zymurguy
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He's the best I've seen at getting paid to lie.  Such brilliant talent... simply amazing he is.

I was always slapped by my mama when I lied, this guy has works it into a true artform and lines his pockets with it.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:07 | 5831469 overmedicatedun...
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Like R rubin, ron immanuel, mr carney career is in media time mag editor and reporter, white house liar er speaker, how his backround makes him a senior vp at Amazon a internet retailer is beyound me, unless Amazon's real business is to wipe out retail stores across america and he is there to tell us all to eat our peas.

"carney was raised in Northern Virginia, attended high school at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey,[13] and earned a B.A. cum laude in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University, in 1987.[3] He, his wife, Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News), and their two children live in Washington, D.C.."

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:06 | 5831459 madcows
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Look kids, a weasel!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:09 | 5831482 czarangelus
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I wonder what kind of bribe or threat was applied to Bezos to hire this goofball. I mean his name is even Carney. They're just fucking with us now. Breedlove, Carney, Kashkari...

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:11 | 5831495 Coldfire
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What a fucking doorknob.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:25 | 5831537 Max Cynical
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Carney took that position to new lows. Most former press secretaries enjoy a good reputation. Two that stand out to me are Dana Perino and Tony Snow.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:32 | 5831573 vegas
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Translation: Amazon now has a "new" officer in charge of kickbacks, corruption, crony capitalism, and influence peddling. Whatever they pay this boy prick is less than the cost of doing business the way Bezos wants while at the same time punishing Amazon's competitors by either making their life miserable through government interference or preventing them from competing with Amazon.

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:46 | 5831642 overmedicatedun...
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so vegas are you saying Obuma is going to be with us longer than most think, bezos seems to have bet on it.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:49 | 5831653 Eahudimac
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I wouldn't put this guy in charge of cleaning toilets at the airport, but then again, I am not a crony capitalist. Clearly, the world is run by lunatics. If Bezos believes he is going to get his money's worth out of thuis guy, then I am not surprised than Amazon loses as much money as it does. Bezos is a poor businessman. He is just good at kissing ass and sucking up the the right people. Pathetic.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:52 | 5831669 overmedicatedun...
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bezos is owned by NSA/cia/HLS..just like face book..does it now make sense why they hired this .gov prick?

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5831719 esum
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Shit eating maggot

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:03 | 5831728 Anunnaki
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Shoveling Obunghole's shit for six years, now it's time to collect your prize, midget

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:29 | 5831859 Mike Honcho
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Now hiring: sniveling, pencil neck pansy, with an unjustified arrogant level of confidence, must possess extreme desire to deceive, success in business not a prereq.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:01 | 5832012 R19
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I think he's hottt!

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:00 | 5832006 R19
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Communist propaganda posters and more breakfast carbs than would feed the 101st Airborne for breakfast bundle pack now on Amazon Prime!

Seriously, maybe he can convince the street that Amazon is profitable.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:06 | 5832049 Rikky
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must be nice being paid big $ to lie, obfuscate and twist the truth.  if there ever was a poster boy for what's wrong with America it's right here.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 14:08 | 5832067 roadhazard
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Amazon gets the most insidest of the inside info.

Thu, 02/26/2015 - 15:20 | 5832402 Agent P
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Best headline ever! 

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