Those of us who read him took his advice and profited hugely. The man has contacts. He does his footwork.

Respect his opinion.

I don’t consider those points particularly damaging to our “honest abe capitalist” case:

1) We don’t care who Ambrose has worked with; we look purely at the content of his writings.

2) Some people consider capitalists “right wing” automatically. We think the deeper truth is that true right-wing fascist-types often co-opt capitalist terminology, which is often used in a manner precisely opposite of what it really means.

3) My dad works for naval research. Oh no! Does that mean I can’t criticize the government? Does it mean I’m a government operative? I most surely am not.

4) The press corresponds with all kinds of people routinely.

5) When I travel I always consider it an “anthropological expedition” too. That means actually paying attention to the culture and attempting to learn something.

6) Even if Pritchard is some kind of intelligence-agency “cutout,” presumably he actually endorses what he writes. But even if not, we list the public persona of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard as our Honest Abe Capitalist. Whatever.

7) While we don’t think getting a blowjob was the worst of Clinton’s transgressions (and would like to see Bush impeached for much worse), politics is politics. Luckily, playing politics doesn’t disqualify one from being a Good Capitalist.

1) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard played a key role in the conservative media’s rush on President Clinton in his sex affair.He has been among the principal right-wing conveyors of conspiracy theories peddled by Mellon heir, Richard Mellon Scaife, into the media mainstream.

2) Ambrose’s Father was a key British Military Intelligence operative. He had worked first for the Colonial Office as an anthropologist to help rig what is today the British destabilization of Sudan, and then, during World War II, Sir Edward worked with British military intelligence to mobilize the Senussi Bedouin tribes to found Libya.

It seems to me most probable that Ambrose has today the same kind of tie with the British Intelligence services. He once described his presence in the United States as an “anthropological expedition,” and told a, EIR journalist that he had collaborated with MI6, since he covered both sides of the Central America war.