Minnesota's WHORE Corporate Media CENSORS Michele Bachman's McCarthyesque comments from public 'news' consumption...

Minnesota's WHORE Corporate Media - the MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE and the St. PAUL PIONEER PRESS - have taken it upon themselves to CENSOR Minnesota Congresswoman MICHELE BACHMAN's McCARTHYESQUE DEMANDS for "investigations" into the "American" qualifications - of her fellow members of Congress! - the WHORE publishers of the Pioneer Press and Star-Tribune KEEPING THEIR READERS IN THE DARK about a leading political figure in the state, so as to give Bachman tHE APPEARANCE of of "mainstream respectability."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/20/0337/9913/689/635947
The Pioneer Press and Star-Tribune - TWO MORE EXAMPLES of America's entitled WHORE corporate media, taking it as their right to LIE to American citizens (in this case, LIES of OMMISSION), om pursuit of the RADICAL RIGHT-WING AGENDA that has LOOTED THE US TREASURY, EXPORTED US JOBS, DISENFRANCHSED AMERICAN VOTERS, STOLEN US election, and made America DEPENDENT on FOREIGN OIL and FOREIGN CREDIT.

HOW DISGUSTING & CRAVEN are the Media Whores? TWO WEEKS after Bush's $700 BILLION _SOCIALIZED_ BAILOUT of Wall St, Sarah Palin BASHES "socialism"!

HOW DISGUSTING, CRAVEN, LYING, STUPID, VENAL, and PROPAGANDISED are America's "Major Media" 'news' WHORES?

THEY FAIL to point out, even as SARAH PALIN is BASHING "socialism", that ALASKA is a NET TAX DOLLAR RECIPIENT, as are almost all rural "conservative" Republican-leaning "Red states."

Even more importantly, "the Media" FAILS to point out that Sarah Palin's running mate JOHN McCAIN JUST recently APPROVED OF President Bush's $700 BILLION _SOCIALIZED_ welfare BAILOUT of Wall Street bankers, brokerage houses, and insurers.... at workin' stiff American taxpayer expense!
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Sarah Palin's Alaska, receiving $1.87 in federal tax dollars for every dollar it sends in taxes to the US treasury, follows ONLY New Mexico for the highest ratio of SOCIALIZED NET TAX DOLLAR RECIPIENTS in America. uber "Blue State" New Jersey, by comparison, receives only 55-cents back for every tax dollar it sends to the US Treasury... America's tax structure MAKES SOCIALIZED WELFARE QUEENS of SARAH PALIN's OWN STATE, and the stupid, craven media does NOT even call the Alaska governor on her GROSS HYPOCRISY, IGNORANCE, and reactionary hate-baiting!

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MONTHS before the Bush-Paulson-Bernanke SOCIALIZED US Taxpayer BAILOUTS of WALL St. BIG, billionaire BANKS and brokerage houses, Elena Steier penned this scathing cartoon of AMERICA's ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM as SOCIALISM for big, insider, Republican administration connected millionaires and billion-dollar banks.


Well... TWO SHORT WEEKS after President Bush, his Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and the entire "Big Business" wing of the Republican Party BEGGED, DEMANDED, FOUGHT FOR, and implemented a $700 billion SEVEN_HUNDRED_BILLION dollar SOCIALIZED BAILOUT of the nation's large banks and insurance companies...

...SARAH PALIN, Republican candidate for Vice President, is out on the campaign trail, TRYING TO DRUM UP SCORN and DERISION for "Socialized" redistribution of taxes, as part of Senator Obama's economic tax package for 2009-2010!

OF COURSE the MEDIA WHORES are ENTIRELY TOO CORRUPTED, IGNORANT, VENAL, and DISGUSTING to point out to Ms. Palin, that WE ALREADY HAVE A _SOCIALIZED_ _REDISTRIBUTION_ of taxes tax system: It is called "SOCIALIZING America's taxes FROM URBAN, "blue" cities and states, TO RURAL, RED STATES !!

AS IS NOW USUAL, what lying, Republican pigs ACCUSE Democrats of doing or intending to do, IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY, Republican HYPOCRITES, ARE DOING and intend to do more of!

The ENTIRE Bush-Cheney economic agenda has been one of REDISTRIBUTING America's wealth FROM THE WORKING CLASS taxpayers, TO THE venal, selfish, traitorous Rich who DEMAND TAX CUTS in TIME OF WAR while SHIFTING that ADDITIONAL TAX BURDEN of INTEREST ON THE BUSH DEFICITS to those very workin' stiff, OVERTAXED Americans!

VILE HYPOCRISY, thy name is "RIGHT-WING REPUBLICAN", and your treacherous, slavish, venal, captive lying whore media.

Rush Limbaugh - CAUGHT IN ACT of SQUEALING like the DRUG-ADDICT, HYPOCRITE, ENTITLED, lying, squealing PIG that he is...

We haven't posted many, if any, post on the UBER-LYING HYPOCRITE BIGGEST PIG of the ENTIRE "major media", but it would be RUSH LIMBAUGH - and we are DELIGHTED to see Chicago Sun-Times Columnist MARY MITCHELL slice-and-dice the lying, sleaze-ball, smear-mongering, hypocrite - did we mention LYING - Limbaugh right back into his SLEAZY little slime-pit at CLEAR-CHANNEL radio - the radio network that has ENABLED LIMBAUGH for a DECADE by CENSORING those who can contest that DISGUSTING LYING PIG with actual facts, data, and research....
http://eurweb.com/story/eur47744.cfm

Chicago sun Times columnist Mary Mitchell has struck a serious nerve with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Actually, she phrases his actions as squealing like a pig after its tail had been stepped on...

US press/media IS IN THE PAID PROFESSIONAL LIARS business.....

Robert Parry - the great investigative reporter who became CENSORED from the American corporate media before his "IRAN-CONTRA" reports were VINDICATED despite an OFFICIAL, authoritarian, power-hungry WASHINGTON that PRETENDED that the United States under President Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush WAS NOT running a secret and illegal series of small wars and genocidal "ethnic cleansing" campaigns in Central- and South America during the 1980s...

Robert Parry hits the head of the nail about the DC/New York/Chicago/LA corporate media - the press/media THAT IS CONSTANTLY and CONTINUALLY trying to sell the American public A BILL OF GOODS, to BLACK IN TO WHITE, to turn night in to day and day in to night; to make Up seem "down" and Down seem up.... almost across the board, on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE AMERICA PEOPLE, the CORPORATE WHORE MASTERS of the US Media - in the office suites of the WASHINGTON COWARDLY POST and the NEW YORK LYING TIMES, and almost every "major" media outlet downstream of those two quasi-governmental titans, are CHRONICALLY and CONTINUALLY LYING to the American people.

(Today's example: THOM HARTMANN points out that, even thought today's 'news' headlines read "SOCIALIZATION OF US BANKS", all that Bush, Paulson, and Bernake are doing is PILING MORE _TAXPAYER DEBT_ on the very bankers who LED AMERICA INTO THIS CREDIT EXPANSION/CONTRACTION NIGHTMARE...

Paul Waldman: AMERICA's MEDIA WHORES _ENABLE_ Right-Wing vast destruction of popular programs, and Treasury looting corruption, by propagating the Republican Party's PERMANENT SMEAR CAMPAIGN....
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_permanent_smear_campaign

Robert Parry: Media WHORES COMPLICITY in Right-Wing ATTACK campaigns and SMEAR-MONGERING have CONTRIBUTED TO THE DECLINE of the American economy....
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/101308.html

<< The story doesn’t explain all that’s gone wrong in the past eight years, but it reveals how aggressive right-wing operatives, aided and abetted by a lazy or complicit news media, can create an impression for millions of voters that is nearly the opposite of the truth. >>

HOW STUPID, VENAL, CORRUPT, LYING, and DELUDED is America's press-Media? JOE SCARBOROUGH BELIEVES the GARBAGE attack ads about "William Ayers" !!

HOW STUPID, VENAL, LYING, CORRUPT, DELUDED and PROPAGANDISTIC is the American press-Media?

Well, for example today, REPUBLICAN former Congressman JOE SCARBOROUGH, on his morning 'news' talk show, Mr. Scarborough IS ACTUALLY STUPID ENOUGH to BELIEVE the GARBAGE McCain campaign attack ads about "William Ayers" !!

Mr. Scarborough said this morning, "IF ANY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE in the primary had ANY RELATIONSHIP with William Ayers, HIS FELLOW REPUBLICANS WOULD ATTACK HIM FOR IT."

HELLO JOE? YOU IGNORAMUS!

WILLIAM AYERS was PUT ON THE CHICAGO "Annenberg Challenge" CHARITY FOUNDATION BOARD by.... _REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRE_ WALTER ANNENBERG!

WALTER ANNEBERG, Joe, you stupid, Lying, Deluded IGNORAMUS... THE Walter Annenber WHO WAS RICHARD NIXON's AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND! THE Walter Annenberg who was a CLOSE FRIEND to RON and NANCY REAGAN. THE Walter Annenberg who was an associate and donor to George H.W. Bush (Sr.) THE Mrs. Walter Annenberg who, according to one source, is THE #2 DONOR to the current McCAIN - PALIN CAMPAIGN!

The Current REPUBLICAN DOMINATED US MEDIA TALKING POINTS that "BARACK OBAMA PALS AROUND WITH TERRORIST William Ayers!" for SITTING ON THE ANNENBERG CHALLENGE CHARITY FOUNDATION BOARD - set up and run by REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRE WALTER ANNENBERG - is as IGNORANT and MURDEROUSLY CRUEL as THE NAZI PARTY in 1930s German BLAMING ALL OF GERMANY's post-WWI economic problems on "the Jews'!

And USING "MURDER" in this context _IS NOT HYPERBOLE_! -

ALREADY _THIS YEAR_, we have seen TWO MURDEROUS ATTACKS by DELUDED Right-Wing Gunman, DRIVEN TO MURDEROUS HATE BY THE murderously ghoulish, lying, RIGHT-WING ATTACK MEDIA.

IN BOTH the TENNESSE CHURCH SHOOTING that killed two and wounded others, AND the murder by shooting of the ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY Chairman, the GUNMEN WERE KNOWN to have listened to RIGHT-WING HATE RADIO, and both actually had purchased (and presumably read) SEAN HANNITY, BILL O'REILLY, and/or MICHAEL SAVAGE's HATE SCREEDS.

George Will, John McCain, Sarah Palin, corporate media TRY TO BLAME ENTIRE Economic Crisis on... MINORITY (Black) Americans & Fannie Mae!!

BRAVO! For David Fiderer - he is DECONSTRUCTING the attempts by George Will and the Right-Wing Media - at the urging of John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the Republican Party - TO BLAME THE _ENTIRE_ US and world financial economic crisis on MINORITIES (BLACK AMERICANS) in general, and FANNIE MAE in particular.

We here at MediaWhoresUSA have _NO_ doubt that 'Democratic' Party leaders have been in the middle of the DEREGULATION agenda, and have not stood up forcefully enough to the climate of greed and lack of oversight on Wall St. and in the financial markets.

BUT TO BLAME THIS _ENTIRE_ ECONOMIC CRISIS on Fannie Mae is patently absurd - especially since THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS IN CONTROL of BOTH the White House AND CONGRESS from 2002 to 2006. As recently as JULY 2006, PRESIDENT Bush's OWN Secretary of Treasury QUASHED RUMORS that Fannie Mae needed a bailout, Treasury Secretary Paulson flatly asserting that there would be no bailout for Fannie Mae.

BUT - IF Sec. Paulson had to ACKNOWLEDGE the POTENTIAL need for a bailout at Fannie Mae, SHOULD HE NOT HAVE ADDRESSED a BUDDING CRISIS THERE long before September and October 2008?????

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Wagging the Dog With Fannie Mae: Republicans Explain the Financial Crisis With Racist Mythology
David Fiderer
Posted October 9, 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/wagging-the-dog-with-fann_b_133388.html

"Is this video a lie?" wrote someone in response to my last piece on HuffPost.

No, "lie" is an inadequate description. I uploaded the video link, seen by two million people before me, and gasped at the artful perversion of history. It was like a post-millennium version of The Birth of a Nation. In that silent film classic, a pivotal scene is prefaced by the title card:

"AN HISTORICAL FACSIMILE of the State House of Representatives of South Carolina as it was in 1870."
Then we see black legislators in session, drinking whiskey, eating chicken, resting bare feet on their desks, and leering after white women. As J. Lapper wrote:

"This is also the first instance of "bait and switch" in the film. Prior to this, as noted above, [Director D.W.] Griffith used 'historical facsimiles' to give the film an air of historical accuracy...The subversive logic being, 'Earlier we saw facsimiles of Sherman's March, Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination. We know those are true. This must be too.'"
The updated "historical facsimile" from NakedEmperorNews.com, is just as dishonest and just as racially incendiary, since it has the semblance of reasonableness and reality. The hero at the Congressional hearings is the courtly southern gentleman, Republican Richard Baker, whose calls for regulatory oversight are drowned out by the shiftless uncouth blacks: Maxine Waters, Gregory Meeks, Lacy Clay, Artur Davis and Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, aided by one white guy, Barney Frank.

[Update at 9:00 am October 10, 2008: Yesterday John McCain echoed this video by saying, "Democrat members of Congress fought against reform and it is a matter of record and hearings that they said everything was fine." Barney Frank was one of the "willing co-conspirators."]

To appreciate the mendacity of the video, you need to understand the history of what happened at Fannie Mae, and the causes of the current financial crisis. You'd be hard pressed to get that knowledge from mainstream media, whose piecemeal reporting comes across like blind men describing an elephant.

Into this void of understanding, Republicans have sought to absolve themselves of blame with a racist mythology that has gone viral. George Will, a chief proponent, neatly summarized the narrative on This Week last Sunday:

"In fact, much of the crisis we're in today is because the government set out to fiddle the market. That is, we had regulation in effect with legislation that would criminalize as racism and discrimination if you didn't lend to nonproductive borrowers. We had Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac existed to rig the housing market because the market would not have put people in homes they could not have afforded."
Will's narrative is about as accurate as D.W. Griffith's portrayal of Reconstruction. Fox News invokes it constantly. The ABC commentator invokes four different phenomena, none of which he understands:

1. The financial problems of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
2. The mission of Fannie and Freddie,
3. The Community Reinvestment Act,
4. The greater mortgage crisis.

To refute the lie, we need to address these issues one at a time.

What does the video have to do with Fannie Mae's collapse? Nothing.

The best way to understand what happened is to start off with an understanding of when things happened. Therein lies the bait-and-switch. The financial problems at Fannie Mae began after these Congressional hearings, which were conducted a few weeks before the November 2004 elections. Fannie Mae's troubles were caused by Daniel Mudd, who reversed the policies of his predecessor, Franklin Raines, when he became CEO in December 2004. The New York Times laid it out very clearly:

"[B]y the time Mr. Mudd became Fannie's chief executive in 2004, his company was under siege. Competitors were snatching lucrative parts of its business. Congress was demanding that Mr. Mudd help steer more loans to low-income borrowers. Lenders were threatening to sell directly to Wall Street unless Fannie bought a bigger chunk of their riskiest loans.

"So Mr. Mudd made a fateful choice. Disregarding warnings from his managers that lenders were making too many loans that would never be repaid, he steered Fannie into more treacherous corners of the mortgage market, according to executives.
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"Between 2005 and 2008, Fannie purchased or guaranteed at least $270 billion in loans to risky borrowers -- more than three times as much as in all its earlier years combined, according to company filings and industry data."



Democrats Supported Regulatory Oversight But Objected to a White House Power Grab

So if the October 2004 hearings did not address concerns associated with Fannie's risky mortgages, what was everyone talking about? Something quite different, though an ignoramus like George Will could easily conflate the two concepts. An Administration report had skewered Fannie for engaging in some dodgy accounting practices - relating to timing differences over the recognition of income - which had a slight impact on its overall financial metrics. Fannie and its management deserved to be criticized and increased regulatory oversight was absolutely appropriate. But what the House Democrats in the video were objecting to was the Administration's level of overkill. From how they saw things, the Bush Administration was using the pretext of regulatory oversight to accomplish a power grab that would compromise the mission of Fannie Mae. Here's what Barney Frank said at the time:

"I believe we were well on the way, the chairman and I and the staffs, to putting together a bill that would have enhanced the regulator and could have passed. What stopped progress on a new bill was the Bush administration's determination to go beyond safety and soundness and into provisions that would have restricted the housing function.

"To the extent that people played games [with accounting rules] to get bonuses, I'm outraged. People making that much money, let me put it this way, at the level of compensation of the top officers of Fannie Mae, they should get bonuses if they rush into a burning building a rescue a kid, maybe a cat, but not for doing their job. I think it is unseemly of them to be getting bonuses in the first place for doing what they're getting paid very well to do.
[...]
"To the extent that there was manipulation, that is very wrong and should be penalized. But I've seen nothing in here that suggests that the safety and soundness are at issue, and I think it serves us badly to raise safety and soundness as a kind of a general shibboleth, when it does not seem to be the issue."



Banks Governed by The Community Reinvestment Act Were Not The Ones Who Caused the Subprime Market to Expand

Daniel Gross in Slate attacks a lot of the same mythology discussed herein, focusing specifically on phony claims pertaining to the Community Reinvestment Act, which has been around for 30 years and never affected the soundness of the mortgage markets. The CRA never suggested that anyone compromise credit standards and it didn't apply to the mortgage lenders or investment banks who were pumping up subprime mortgages.


Hank Paulson: The mortgage crisis was caused by events that began during the run up to the 2004 election and ended soon after the Democrats took Congress in early 2007.

Again, to understand what happened, begin with understanding when things happened. In this regard, there's no secret. Everyone in financial services knows when and how things happened. Hank Paulson's report to the President reflected the common knowledge expressed by Treasury, the Fed, the SEC and the CFTC:

"The turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for US. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into early 2007. "[Italics in original text.]
We see this in all the numbers. According to a survey by the New York Fed, about 77% of subprime mortgages and 85% of Alt-A mortgages were issued after 2004. What happened in 2004? Subprime mortgage securitizations were able to take off because, as Bloomberg reported, in August 2004 Moody's and Standard and Poor's loosened their standards for rating mortgage backed securities, which had traded in a highly liquid market for almost 20 years. The impact of the rating agencies' practices cannot be overstated. To date, banks have recognized about $500 billion in losses on subprime mortgages, the lion's share of which were packaged in securities originally rated AAA, i.e. presumed to always be salable at close to par.

In 2004 short term interest rates, reduced by Alan Greenspan to stimulate the economy going in to the election cycle, reached their lowest point, enabling certain buyers to get variable rate mortgages at teaser rates of 3% for the first two years.

Nowhere in Paulson's report will you find anything that suggests that the financial crisis was triggered by, as George Will put it, regulation that compelling lending to "non-productive borrowers" or by Fannie or Freddie, which had been around for decades, "rigging the housing market."

As a final aside, you may remember this little gem from the McCain campaign. It's an ad that claims Obama relied on economic advice from Franklin Raines, which wasn't actually true. What do you think McCain was getting at?

Tom Freidman.... DITCHES the NEO-CON INSANITY held by his NY Times stablemates... and joins the "Sanity in American Media" crowd again?

WOW - THE Bush-Cheney ECONOMY IS CRASHING SO QUICKLY, that EVEN UBER- Neo-CON _whore_ THOMAS FRIEDMAN - privileged neo-con Times' hawker of Neo-Con FANTASY ("EXPORT AMERICAN JOBS!" "IMPORT MORE OIL!" "THE WEALTHY DESERVE EVERY DIME OF PROFITS THEY GET!" "TAX CUTS FOR RICH IN TIME OF WAR!" "LET the WAGE-SLAVE PEONS PAY FOR THE WAR, the DEFICITS, AND INTEREST ON those Bush Deficits!"; "American Taxpayers SHOULD BE FORCED TO BAIL OUT Corporate ROBBER BARONS!" "THE WAR IN IRAQ is a JUST, justifiable, AND HOLY!") -

- well, neo-con Tom FINALLY returns to his roots - as a PRAGMATIC LIBERAL. We have saved a photo-copy of a similar Friedman column - written in the early 1990s at the peak of the BUSH-1 RECESSION - comparing Conservative's calls then for "LESS TAXES!" and "LESS GOVERNMENT!", during the Bush-1 Recession, with LIBERIA, then ruled by MASS-MURDEROUS WAR-LORDS RUN AMOK.

The Ft.Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel published Friedman's syndicated column common-sense appeal to America's common-sense that day, printed Friedman's column under a picture of.... a Liberian warlord's foot-soldier walking down a burned out, desolate dirt street, carrying two decapitated heads by their hair or a string.

Well, it has only taken just under 20 years, and just over TWO TRILLION DOLLARS of American INVESTOR MONEY VANISHED INTO THIN AIR this past week, alone, for overpaid Times-boy Friedman to REGAIN HIS SENSES - but in this case better late than never....

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Palin’s Kind of Patriotism
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published: October 7, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html

Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can’t just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden that really sticks in my craw. It was when she turned to Biden and declared: “You said recently that higher taxes or asking for higher taxes or paying higher taxes is patriotic. In the middle class of America, which is where Todd and I have been all of our lives, that’s not patriotic.”

What an awful statement. Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led endeavors should not be considered patriotic.

I only wish she had been asked: “Governor Palin, if paying taxes is not considered patriotic in your neighborhood, who is going to pay for the body armor that will protect your son in Iraq? Who is going to pay for the bailout you endorsed? If it isn’t from tax revenues, there are only two ways to pay for those big projects — printing more money or borrowing more money. Do you think borrowing money from China is more patriotic than raising it in taxes from Americans?” That is not putting America first. That is selling America first.....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html

Media Whores may not be in Bed with McCain.. but they love the FREE BOOZE!

<< To a greater degree than any candidate in thirty years, McCain offered reporters the three things they want most: total access all the time, an endless stream of amusing quotes, and vast quantities of free booze." >>

As quoted by Eric Alterman and George Zornik in their article in The Nation magazine, quoting an excerpt from _REPUBLICAN_ media personality Tucker Carlson's book, Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/alterman
Tucker's quote is just one of several dozen examples of how reporters put playing courtiers to McCain's campaign court as a far greater priority than analyzing how the senators policies, votes, and positions would impact the American economy and foreign policy... or even how McCain's positions have impacted America in the past. (For example, McCain's role as a KEATING FIVE Senator, running a WASHINGTON PROTECTION RACKET for Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan before it went belly-up during the S&L Crisis - a debacle that cost American taxpayers an estimated TWO BILLION DOLLARS for Keating's Lincoln S&L losses, alone.)
IN McCain's defense, THE OTHER FOUR of the "Keating Five" Senators.... WERE DEMOCRATS!
Nominal Democrat "leaders" NANCY PELOSI and HARRY REID this week REPRISE the role of the KEATING FOUR Democrats RUNNING A PROTECTION RACKET for Keating's S&L... Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi (et al) all but bowing down and Kissing King Henry Paulson's feet, in order to shower Paulson with, not one billion, not two billion, but SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION taxpayer DOLLARS in the Paulson-Pelosi-Bush "CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY for Wall St. in 2008" WALL Street millionaires BAILOUT BILL!
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Loving John McCain
By Eric Alterman & George Zornick
June 19, 2008 (the July 7, 2008 edition of The Nation)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/alterman


<< But even though we might be taken with McCain personally, we would like to think that we would resist the urge to offer the sort of spontaneous testimonials to his character that have gushed from the pens of so many MSM journalists. These would include calling McCain "a cool dude" (Jake Tapper, Salon); "an original, imaginative, and at times inspiring candidate" (Jacob Weisberg, Slate); "a man of unshakable character, willing to stand up for his convictions" (the late R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times); "a man of intelligence, honor and enormous personal and political courage" (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek); "blunt, unyielding, deploying his principles.... What he does do is what he's always done, play it as straight as possible.... The maverick candidate still" (Terry Moran, ABC News's Nightline); "worldly-wise and witty, determined to follow the facts to the exclusion of ideology...willing to defy his own party and forge compromise...pragmatic in the service of the national interest...rises to passion when he believes that America's best values are at stake" (Michael Hirsch, Newsweek); "kind of like a Martin Luther" (Chris Matthews, MSNBC's Hardball); "the perfect candidate to deal with what challenges we face as a country" (Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC's Morning Joe); "rises above the pack...eloquent, as only a prisoner of war can be" (David Nyhan, Boston Globe); "the bravest candidate in the presidential race" (Dana Milbank, Washington Post); "an affable man of zealous, unbending beliefs" and "the hero [who] still does things his own way" (Richard Cohen, Washington Post); and who, in "an age of deep cynicism about politicians of both parties...is the rare exception who is not assumed to be willing to sacrifice personal credibility to prevail in any contest" (David Broder, Washington Post).

Believe us, we could go on (and on and on...). Suffice it to say that no candidate since John F. Kennedy, and perhaps none since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has enjoyed such cozy relations with the press. >>

NY TIMES WHORES David Brooks, Bob Herbert pour SCORN on taxpayers for WALL STREET's FAILURES...

NY TIMES WHORES David Brooks, Bob Herbert pour SCORN on taxpayers and voters for WALL STREET's FAILURES...
#1. "Revolt of the Nihilists" - NY Times' David Brooks whines "GIVE US New York Wall St. con-men MORE OF YOUR consumer/taxpayer money - or else!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30brooks.html

#2. Bob Herbert echoes his nyt op-ed stablemate Brook's scorn and derision for American taxpayers, homeowners, and consumers (the "little people") and their congressmen - they are all -
"MADMEN!" shouts Herbert, IF THEY DON'T HAND OVER ONE TRILLION taxoayer DOLLARS (put on our national credit card, at daily compounding interest at that) to our Wall St. banker friends!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30herbert.html

Mr. Herbert and Mr. Brooks - just two more of the UNPRINCIPLED LYING HACKS at Arthur Sulzberger's NY LYIN' TIMES, the organization that PRETENDS it is looking out for American consumers, taxpayers, and citizens, but is really in bed with the kleptocratic oligarchs of Diebold, Wall St. the murderous War Industry, and the Bush administration shell-game, FLIM-FLAM, ENRON ACCOUNTING, TRILLION-DOLLAR DEFICITS, WARS, LIES, & frauds con men.