Isn't this the same guy who said on CNN earlier this week that he was quitting politics for good? Isn't he the guy who said "enough is enough"? Would you buy a used mobile phone from this man? HONG KONG: Deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has signed up a firm of American political lobbyists to seek support in Washington. Thaksin, who was unseated in a military coup in September, met with lobbyists from Barbour Griffith and Rogers (BGR) in Hong Kong last week, the South China Morning Post reported. BGR describes itself on its website as America's "leading Republican government affairs and consulting firm" and has close ties with the Bush administration. **** From the IHT:Thaksin now seems determined to make himself heard. He has hired the public relations firm Edelman, which is based in Chicago and New York, to help arrange meetings with the press. He is represented in Washington by another public relations firm."We're working with him in his capacity as a private citizen and supporting some media outreach to support his efforts to return to Thailand," said Alan VanderMolen, vice president for the Asia-Pacific area for Edelman, in a telephone interview from Hong Kong.  ****   

Is anyone really surprised? :-/

Money can buy everything.

running to the bathroom to puke now.......i must have drunk something toxin-ous...

I do agree with censorship on him (even though I'm against censorship normally). I'm just sick of his flip-flopping. Anyway, whatever he has said on CNN or anywhere else is not at all newsworthy so I think media are making too much a deal out of it. Everything he has said so far turned out to be the complete opposite of his intentions so I'm a bit surprised that big media outlets keep running stories on this muppet and in an interview even hardly challenge him.. Somehow I don't think we'll see him on hard talk on BBC World any time soon though that is an interview I would be looking forward to. Maybe mainstream press is still a bit afraid of rubbing him the wrong way.

The story's not over yet... as long as they keep on reporting about him... Without any media attention he would soon find himself between a rock and a hard place. Just kinda silly to see CNN being used just like that :-D.

now now loburt ... r u trying to imply that our glorious (ex) leader Toxin is being less than totally honest and transparent in everything he does and say !!

powerful and money is a kind of bad addicted.

Once you try, you can not stop

need it more and more

..ha ha ha..funny.. He has very Hi-so good taste spend his money.. :-S His Propaganda by the pro will be launched soon.. i guess..

I'd bet he somewhere snuggled with Bush now.......

Only one answer here:

LOBURT for president!!

-----He came from electoral power----

That is what a coup gangster scared of-----

The coup should not be scared of Thaksin's interview if they have 80 percent of people who is supporting them.

Excluding him from election is very easy...by dissolving TRT party. And prohibit the leaders of the party to participate in the election within 5-10 years as they wish.

And I do not think it is wrong to lobby in order to appear on CNN.I assume that Sondhi Limthongkul have to lobby the BBC too. To me, it is so perverse if the media haven't been trying to interview Thaksin.

I even think Saddam should have a chance to be interviewed on the international media.

They have the right to speak up for themselves. This by no means implies that the charge against them should be cancelled.

I second the motion of bobbyboy!

LOBURT for president!

There is no doubt he could do a better job than BUSHwinkle!!!

You assumed wrong, as usual. As I know the BBC correspondents, Sondhi never had to lobby for an interview. Please notice, duanja, that you're the only person here who can't see what a liar and hypocrite your corrupt and murderer hero is. Perverse is right.

>>-----He came from electoral power----

That is what a coup gangster scared of-----

The coup should not be scared of Thaksin's interview if they have 80 percent of people who is supporting them.>>

This is funny too.. He is just a jerk, NO ONE scare of him in Thailand .. if there has some left they would be some people who had got money from him (and wanna have more ) or used to kiss his ass for self benefits.. ( corruption by policy etc. )

He came from buying votes.

He came from bribing Election Commissioners - who are now in jail for the crimes and that's where he should be too.

He killed people - 2,500 in his War on Drugs and 87 at Tak Bai.

He came from lucrative government concessions which made him rich and gave him money to buy votes and election commssioners. Then sold it all to Singapore. And paid no tax. And gave nothing back to charity. The TFers at the orphanage today have given more to charity from their own pockets than he has.

Sounds like the gangster is him.

So who have your "coup gangsters" killed or bribed?

Duanja, you are a lying fascist. Totalitarian you is right.