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Bob_Huntley

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The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« on: June 13, 2008, 03:54:05 PM »


There was a delectable article in Thursday's edition of the WSJ by Bill Coles, a Scottish journalist based in Edinburgh. It can be found on page D11.

I cannot get the link.

Bob
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David_Tepper

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Re: The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2008, 04:04:21 PM »
Bob -

There were also articles in The Scotsman, the Press and Journal and the Financial Times this week about The Donald's testimony.

DT   
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John Mayhugh

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Re: The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2008, 04:04:47 PM »
Great article.

This link should work.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121323855507966955.html

The gist of the article can be found in this paragraph:
"What's noticeable is that the many talents that have served Mr. Trump so well in America are nothing but a liability in Scotland. His skill for self-publicity as well as his irrepressible bullishness are perceived in Scotland as the most shameless posturing. As for his private jet, his limos and his mountain of personalized luggage, they are the complete antithesis of the sober Scottish way."
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David_Tepper

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Re: The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2008, 04:11:41 PM »
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Adam Clayman

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Re: The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2008, 10:05:48 PM »
From the Times 
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He couldn't entirely cut the crap. It would be, he kept saying, "the greatest golf course anywhere in the world". Already a Trump course was rated number one in California, number one in Florida, "one of the best" in New Jersey . . . He repeated these assertions as though they were killer stats rather than just someone's opinion published in a golf magazine

Here's fodder for this group.

Is this true? #1 in California? Florida?
« Last Edit: June 13, 2008, 10:22:08 PM by Adam Clayman »
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Mike Golden

Re: The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2008, 10:06:28 PM »
Who remembers this movie, it is scaringly similar to the current situation with Trump except he hasn't sent one of his 'apprentices' over to negotiate:

Plot summary for
Local Hero (1983)

Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

Happer was played by Burt Lancaster, Mac by Peter Riegert (Boon in 'Animal House', Congressman Zellman in the Sopranos)-I guess no one can match 'the Donald' for his arrogance though
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Brian_Ewen

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Re: The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2008, 03:48:38 AM »
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