Comments on: Yes, Let’s Do Talk About Keating http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:55:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: hazmaq http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669345 hazmaq Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:36:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669345 <p>WHO EXACTLY IS IT THAT WILL BE TALKING ABOUT KEATING??</p> <p>Right now CNN, MSNBC and FOX have been carrying John MCCains campaign event live - uninterrupted –without commercials for close to 5 minutes now. Since when did the ‘news’ start broadcasting live full events??</p> <p>Even Brian Lambb’s C-span has refused to carrying any current live Obama or Biden events.<br /> They may have it ‘listed’ - C-span ‘looks fair; in writing only - but when you tune in - it’s an old repeat of something else. </p> <p>Whoops MSNBC went to commercial - CNN and FOX are still airing McCain…</p> WHO EXACTLY IS IT THAT WILL BE TALKING ABOUT KEATING??

Right now CNN, MSNBC and FOX have been carrying John MCCains campaign event live – uninterrupted –without commercials for close to 5 minutes now. Since when did the ‘news’ start broadcasting live full events??

Even Brian Lambb’s C-span has refused to carrying any current live Obama or Biden events.
They may have it ‘listed’ – C-span ‘looks fair; in writing only – but when you tune in – it’s an old repeat of something else.

Whoops MSNBC went to commercial – CNN and FOX are still airing McCain…

]]> By: ThatGuy http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669299 ThatGuy Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:06:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669299 <p>It’s about fucking time. They need to hit him on his flying record in the Navy, they need to hit EVERYTHING! </p> <p>Smack that prick McCain HARD!</p> It’s about fucking time. They need to hit him on his flying record in the Navy, they need to hit EVERYTHING!

Smack that prick McCain HARD!

]]> By: Mauimom http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669271 Mauimom Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:44:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669271 <p>I’d like to see Waxman’s folks ask about stock sales by executives of the “bail-ees” — esp. the reports that Hank Greenburg sold $18 million of stock right after the infusion of Fed cash propped up his company’s [AIG] stock price.</p> <p>Shouldn’t the Fed’s “recapture” those ill-gotten gains? Shouldn’t a condition of the cash infusion have been the surrender of executives’ stock & stock options?</p> <p>Kinda like letting the robbers keep the cash they’ve taken, right after the Brinks truck refilled the bank’s larders.</p> I’d like to see Waxman’s folks ask about stock sales by executives of the “bail-ees” — esp. the reports that Hank Greenburg sold $18 million of stock right after the infusion of Fed cash propped up his company’s [AIG] stock price.

Shouldn’t the Fed’s “recapture” those ill-gotten gains? Shouldn’t a condition of the cash infusion have been the surrender of executives’ stock & stock options?

Kinda like letting the robbers keep the cash they’ve taken, right after the Brinks truck refilled the bank’s larders.

]]> By: Mauimom http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669264 Mauimom Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:40:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669264 <blockquote><p>Yeah and high gas prices mean that people won’t drive to Florida.</p></blockquote> <p>You should see what gas prices [air fares] have done to Hawaii tourism!!</p>

Yeah and high gas prices mean that people won’t drive to Florida.

You should see what gas prices [air fares] have done to Hawaii tourism!!

]]> By: nufsaid http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669216 nufsaid Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:14:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669216 <p>TOO cynical.</p> TOO cynical.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669193 SouthernDragon Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:05:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669193 <p>edit - <strike>who’s</strike> whose pensions</p> <p>I know better</p> edit – who’s whose pensions

I know better

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669189 SouthernDragon Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:03:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669189 <p>OT - you’ve got to watch Naomi Klein’s speech on <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" rel="nofollow">DN</a> today. Given at U of Chicago in opposition to the school starting a Milton Friedman Institute. </p> <p>CTuttle has Rachel and I have Naomi. Quite the pair of hopeless vets.</p> OT – you’ve got to watch Naomi Klein’s speech on DN today. Given at U of Chicago in opposition to the school starting a Milton Friedman Institute.

CTuttle has Rachel and I have Naomi. Quite the pair of hopeless vets.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669183 SouthernDragon Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:00:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669183 <p>Powerful but I think it could be even more so if how the fraud was actually perpetrated and the kinds of folks who were directly affected had been included. The parallels between the folks who lost everything due to Keating and the folks who’s pensions, etc, are in the tank because of Gramm’s and McSFB’s deregulation mantra are too striking to ignore. </p> <p>One of my problems with the “bailout” is that the investments that pension plans, etc, have in the investment banks, which hold the big shitpile, are just as worthless today as they were 2 weeks ago. Any investments they held in Lehman are a total loss.</p> Powerful but I think it could be even more so if how the fraud was actually perpetrated and the kinds of folks who were directly affected had been included. The parallels between the folks who lost everything due to Keating and the folks who’s pensions, etc, are in the tank because of Gramm’s and McSFB’s deregulation mantra are too striking to ignore.

One of my problems with the “bailout” is that the investments that pension plans, etc, have in the investment banks, which hold the big shitpile, are just as worthless today as they were 2 weeks ago. Any investments they held in Lehman are a total loss.

]]> By: nufsaid http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669181 nufsaid Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:00:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669181 <p>Maybe I am being to cynical….but in this video McCain raises his arms with no problem. Does that mean that his inability to do so now is from some other reason rather than injuries while is was a POW?</p> Maybe I am being to cynical….but in this video McCain raises his arms with no problem. Does that mean that his inability to do so now is from some other reason rather than injuries while is was a POW?

]]> By: Knut http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669158 Knut Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:44:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/yes-lets-do-talk-about-keating/#comment-1669158 <p>The piece on the toobz is a shot over McCain’s bow, telling that there’s more where this comes from, and it’s coming.</p> The piece on the toobz is a shot over McCain’s bow, telling that there’s more where this comes from, and it’s coming.

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