http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/06/08/anderson.joins.apple.board/
Fred Anderson elected to Apple's Board of Directors
updated 08:40 am EDT, Tue June 8, 2004
Anderson joins Apple Board
Apple today announced that Fred D. Anderson, Apple’s former executive vice president and CFO (for 8 years), has been elected to Apple's . Anderson retired on June 1 and was succeeded by Peter Oppenheimer as chief financial officer. "Fred is widely regarded as one of the industry’s leading financial experts and we want his guidance and judgment to continue benefiting Apple's shareholders," said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. "Though it is currently out of vogue to add insiders to boards, Fred is the exception to the rule." Anderson currently serves on the board of directors of eBay and E.piphany.
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What. Ever.
Somehow I get the impression that if Steve-o was not a flagrant Liberal this move would be ripped apart in every major newspaper from coast to coast about how the "ol' boys club" pervades the corporate boardroom and how this further proves the point that *somehow* the Bush administration is in league with all of corporate america to enslave us all.
John Kerry would come out and say that he would have voted Apple's board, before he voted against it. And if he were elected president he would outlaw all Boards of Directors and replace them with Al Gore-bot, who created the Internet and is thus qualified to be on every Board of Directors. Just like a Lawyer from Arkansas was qualified to convert the free-market health care system to a Socialist Utopian system, like Canada (where you must wait 6 months to get a doctor's appointment for just about everything more serious than a paper cut, but it's free).
Andy Rooney would flap his chops for 20 minutes, rambling on about how Apple's Board of Directors secretly went down the streets of San Francisco stealing food from homeless bums and scurried back to Cupertino to eat it, cackling maniacally the whole time.
But that would NEVER happen, because Steve Jobs isn't a conservative and the Liberal media may prattle on about excessive "Executive Compensation" Jobs receives, but give him a pass because he endorsed Howard "The Scream" Dean for President.