Lee Iacocca: Billionaire Turncoat
Sad news, friends: Our onetime ally Lee Iacocca has endorsed John Kerry for President.

Among Iacocca's justifications for switching from Bush in 2000 to Kerry today is that Kerry supposedly supports "innovative new technologies." But don't be fooled: Chief among those innovative technologies is clean energy, which you and I know can only take the place of our own not-so-clean energy companies.

In the coming century, science will be one of the greatest threats to our right to choose profits over clean air, clean water, and the public health. Unlike Kerry, who pledges to "actually believe in science," and has the support of 48 unwealthy Nobel laureates, Bush has been consistently praised for ignoring or distorting science when it conflicts with Billionaire business interests.

Therefore, let us sadly relegate Lee Iacocca to the rank of BINO (Billionaire in Name Only). Perhaps he'd like a new job with an environmental research non-profit? We hear they pay in the five figures.


- posted by Colin A. Faver