Secrets of the Bilderbergs

Jack Shafer's report on the Bilderbergs contains many interesting pieces of information, but the most interesting to me is that this putatively powerful, highly-secretive group met in a Marriott in Chantilly, Va. Doesn't this mean rather dispositively that the Bilderbergs are not, in fact, powerful? A Marriott? Do you think that Henry Kissinger is collecting Marriott Reward Points for his stay? When the Elders of Zion meet, it's Four Seasons or nothing. When we're not at the King David, of course.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2008/06/secrets-of-the-bilderbergs/8352/