Icahn's persecution complex: Corporate raider billionaire as Haitian peasant

And The Economist, which dutifully attends stultifying panels about “The Future of Corporate Democracy” today reveals exactly how surreal Carl Icahn’s fight for the control of Time Warner has become.

In what is surely one of the most bizarre arguments we’ve ever heard for the removal of Time Warner chairman Dick Parsons, Icahn recently said that shareholders remain very much the underdogs against established management.