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Boy, for a guy who is normally savvy about his image, this 3-minute homage is so wrong on so many levels. Who came up with such a cringe-worthy idea - and why? From LAT columnist James Rainey:
That glossy, overproduced bauble landed in the in-boxes of Disney employees over the weekend and on the website of ABC News, a Disney property. The three-minute video paid tribute less to the fallen warriors, new beginnings in New York or even the movie and entertainment behemoth than to the man at the top of the Disney food chain. The video was so frothy, had so many references to Iger's New York ties, not to mention a couple of links to Empire State politicians, that several political analysts who looked at it for The Times said they could easily see it being the preview to an Iger political campaign. Iger has been mentioned as a possible candidate before. And it wasn't lost on the experts that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leaving office at the end of his third term in January 2014.
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