McClellen Book Just Another Soros Hack Job: The Connections

I guess I shoudl have figured on this. Much is explained. It’s just that Stop the ACLU got to it first:

I neglected to mention the traitor McClellan’s Bush bashing book cuz I had nothing to say that so many others hadn’t already covered, but now there may be a new twist. Tipster John Mark Williams of Frisco, TX did some research:

Here’s a great tip for you. The company that published McClellan’s new book is Public Affairs Books, and their Editor at Large is a guy named Osnos. He’s had a lot of lefty causes in his background (stuff like Director of Human Rights Watch). His bio is here.

But it gets better. The owner of Public Affairs Books is a company called
Perseus Book Group. Here’s their ownership tree.

I researched the firm and it’s owned by Perseus Funds Group, (holding company Perseus LLC) a capital management firm that grew from about $20 million in 1995 to over $2 billion now. Big infusions of cash seemed to help it grow exponentially and it closed funds almost as fast as it opened
them. The board has tons of liberals from the Clinton and Carter Administrations with credentials that almost put Osnos’ to shame as far as far left causes go. Their website is here.

Well, I went to the NY Secretary of State office (Perseus is a NY Corp)
and found the following on the second page:

PERSEUS, L.L.C.
PERSEUS-SOROS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL FUND, LP
PERSEUS-SOROS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL INVESTORS, LP
PERSEUS-SOROS MANAGEMENT, LLC

Well, I guess the question I asked last night about who got to him with a checkbook, has been answered. Now, we also would seem to have answered the question of why the talking points in the book so closely match that of the Soros worker bees.  NewsBusters also have a writeup on this very point this morning:

Peter Osnos, who wrote Wednesday that he “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on McClellan’s new book published by PublicAffairs which Osnos founded, is a liberal whose publishing house is affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine and the publisher of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. PublicAffairs has a roster of authors who are nearly all liberals and/or liberal-leaning mainstream media figures, including six books by far-left bank-roller George Soros. On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, Ari Fleischer related that “Scott told me that his editor did ‘tweak,’ in Scott’s word, a lot of the writing, especially in the last few months.” In an “Eat the Press” blog entry Wednesday, Rachel Sklar asked Osnos: “Did you work directly on the book with McClellan? (Who was his editor?)” Osnos replied: “The editor was Lisa Kaufman and yes, I worked very closely with them.”

The obvious question now becomes, how much of this book is Soros and his worker bees and how much of this is McClellen. My take is most of it is the former, particularly given the interview I saw him on this morning, (NBC/Today). The man certainly appeared to be massively conflicted to me. I think based on what I saw, that he’s started to understand he’s made a deal with the devil, who got to him with big dollar signs.  Frankly, I have no sympathy for him.