[paganel]

> Icahn playing consigliere,

I like this tidbit that implicitly assumes that guys like Icahn are like Mafia people. I'm still waiting for magazines like The New Yorker to compare the financial executives from Wall Street with Michael Corleone, I'm pretty sure that that will happen once one of them decides to switch camps and pass on to openly supporting Donald Trump.

And before anyone accuses me of being a right-wing paranoid nut, I'm not an American, I've never set foot in the States, have very little skin in this game, I'm just writing down what I consider as being mass-media manipulation (one of my first jobs while I was in my early 20s was to read papers, did that for 3 years, after you're doing that it's pretty easy to see all these journalistic "schemes").

[zeitg3ist]

As an Italian, “consigliere” to me just means “counselor”, so I completely missed that reference. Thanks for pointing it out.