Tom Perkins is not exactly sorry for what he said.
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Tom Perkins, a founding partner of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, over the weekend compared the current wave of ostracism towards the incredibly wealthy to attacks on Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II in a letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal.
This, naturally, caused an Internet uproar. So today Perkins went on Bloomberg TV to apologize. Except he didn't apologize at all — other than saying he regretted referring to the Kristallnacht, the the Nazi-organized pogrom against German Jews in 1938 that foreshadowed the Holocaust.
Aside from that, he basically reiterated instead of apologized for his position. And things went further south when he began talking about his material position, his old firm and even one of his former partners, now deceased, who would have agreed with his views had he been alive.
Here are some choice selections from the interview, which was aired on Bloomberg West.
"Let the rich do what the rich do, which is get richer."
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"My late partner Eugene Kleiner fled Hitler from Austria and fought in the US Army... I believe that he would have understood my Wall Street Journal letter and would have agreed with the warning."
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