Manhattan Strip Clubs: Jiggle joints and jihads: the tabloids get Important

We talked a bit yesterday about the Post’s constituency of New Yorkers with special interest in the conflicts of the Middle East: American Jews who watch Israel closely; right-wingers looking for flashpoints in their continuing narrative of a macro-conflict between Islamic nations and the West; left-wingers who object to the state of Israel altogether; and many in between. It’s not “HEADLESS WOMAN IN TOPLESS BAR,” but it still often works well for the Post.

Daily News: Meanwhile, the News tries to flex its political muscle in a different way: To make Charlie Rangel’s challenger for a seat in the House, Adam Clayton Powell IV, return somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000 in donations to Gus Drakopoulos, a former Wall Streeter banned from securities after a finding he’d engaged in fraud, who now owns Sin City, a strip club in the Bronx. Powell talks a lot in the piece: He was happy to take money from the owner of a strip joint—”I’m not Charlie Rangel. I don’t have a million dollars in my reelection campaign,” he said—but not happy to take money from a Wall Street grifter.

See the full article from “Capital New York”

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