The media mogul wore Puma sneakers with his business suits (smart move, given that people in dress shoes were slipping and falling right and left on Davos's icy sidewalks). And at a sesssion on "Rebuilding Brand America"--which I didn't actually attend but heard so much about that I had to watch the Webcast--he declared that those who worried about the U.S. "brand" needed to just "stop reading The New York Times." He added, apropos of the United Nations: "Everyone knows it's a corrupt, ridiculous, dysfunctional place."