Displaying 271 To 300 Of 16,275 Comments coveark, Correct me if I am in error, but the did not the example of the 89,000/650,000 home also add to the false financial economy? Many homeowners were doing refinancing and taking out the equity of their homes further fueling the housing bubble? I realize that some amount of capturing of the equity, from one’s home, was good for the hard economy if the money was spent on actual products and or remodeling, however too often it wasn’t. » Posted By bito On June 22, 2012 @ 3:49 pm
Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. FDR » Posted By bito On June 21, 2012 @ 4:41 pm Told ya to keep Fox, no thought needed. 😉 » Posted By bito On June 12, 2012 @ 11:32 pm To take your examples further k’es, it was like watching someone bake a cake. The R’s picked out the ingredients, folded them together, baked,decorated it then lit the candles when they handed to the media. I think they even thanked the media for the good job they did with for the recipe and they media gobbled it up. For the full story see Breaking Down MSNBC https://planetpov.com/2012/06/11/breaking-down-msnbc/ Wonder if Beck is going to replace Cliff Notes with Beck Notes now those will have some profs heads shaking “Where in the hell did you get this from, Kid? 😆 » Posted By bito On June 12, 2012 @ 11:28 pm Sue, It is true, I do have a certain “luxury” spending time watching cable TV and this one was so blatant I had to rant. I debated posting it because of both your and AdLib’s post. Both of them took a great deal of research and work, mine very little. It was amazing. I watched the presser and I would have never dreamed that those 6 words would end up being the story, it wasn’t and shouldn’t have been until the R’s gave them the story. I just watched it unfold. The media didn’t even slow down and say it was the Republican’s take/ spin. They went straight to IT being the news. They just took the GOP’s handout and passed it along. » Posted By bito On June 12, 2012 @ 11:09 pm Sally, and they are doing nearly the very same thing on the leaks. It’s a John (bitter old man) McCains and Lindsy Graham’s political/Repulican talking points, the “news” barely picked up on it until the R’s made it a talking point. So what did the media do, they obliged the R’s by making it news. While AdLib’s article seems to come down on a 60-40 corporate split, I think I may come down on a 60-40 lazy split. » Posted By bito On June 11, 2012 @ 10:13 pm goleafsgo, You captured my experience with MSNBC almost perfectly! Do you have a camera in my house! 😆 » Posted By bito On June 24, 2012 @ 2:46 pm Issa, Mrs. Greenspan and President Nixon! For some stupid reason I flipped on Mute the Press for the first time in many months to hear Darrell Issa droning on about the “Fast and Furious” and all of it’s monumental consequences and harm it has done to democracy as we know it. Oddly he did not bring up the conspiracy that the whole episode was concocted by the President and his AG to overturn the second amendment and take everyone’s firearms. He must save that crazy talk for Fox audiences exclusively know that they will actually believe such bullshit. No, what I heard was him comparing the non compliance by AG Holder to turn over certain records and the President using Executive Privilege with Nixon and insinuating “Watergate.” And who should chime in with her own Nixon line but Andrea Mitchell! UnFuckingBelievable! Nixon who illegally burgled offices, wiretapped, used the FBI, IRS, CIA along with laundering hush money, just for starters, is compared to President Obama for Fast and Furious? Back to my Sunday morning routine of making sure I Mute The Press » Posted By bito On June 24, 2012 @ 2:42 pm Excellent job AdLib and it reminds me of when CBS was sold in the midst of the huge story on tobacco and the end of independent news. A major loss for the American people. What was the second, perhaps the exception made for NewsCorp, I don’t know, there may have been others. The bad thing about Murdoch is that the Aussie’s warned the Brits, the Brits warned the US and we ended up with FOX. What to do, what to do? Now that most media is corporate controlled how can it possibly be rolled back when they have the final say on what passes or not in the FCC and Congress? Wonder why so many Oil and Gas commercials? Gotta soften all those die-hard libs up for the #1 issue for them this election cycle: Completely unregulated fracking » Posted By bito On June 12, 2012 @ 11:03 am Weekend Music Thread – Send Your Love Kalima, and I can thank you 10 X’s over for helping me through some very rough spots over the years! » Posted By bito On June 2, 2012 @ 7:25 pm The Shape of the GOP Win in 2012? I Fear The Coup is Coming Murph, why were the R’s able to successfully frame the story as the recall being unnecessary, anti-democratic and just sour grapes from the Union thugs? Just money? Did the Dems even address this issue, because it seems to have been the winning point, not collective bargaining/union issues. I will admit, I didn’t even hear that was one of Walker’s main points, that the concept of the recall was unjust until after the election. I never heard it mentioned on the MSM or twitter until post election. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 3:43 pm Bourne, I do think him talking about “rampant voter fraud” is a set-up for a fall in the recall. One R on the TeeVee remarked about the rampant voter fraud in 2004 in Milwaukee–there were 7 whole case in a city of that size. Wanna bet 4 of them were wrong polling place? The whole voter fraud is a fraud. Think about it, if one were an ‘illegal’ would you go out of your way to chance getting arrested/ deported? I sure wouldn’t! » Posted By bito On May 31, 2012 @ 10:06 pm Another good sign is that the RNC chair (the one with the name that sounds like a skin disease/Latin law phrase) said today that they need to watch out for a large amount of voter fraud. A sure sign of an excuse for a loss and voter suppression. Funny thing he used Kenosha and Milwaukee, as examples of voter fraud, Kenosha is heavily Republican and it was the Republicans that were accused of fraud and Milwaukee had 7 cases in 2000. » Posted By bito On May 31, 2012 @ 7:09 pm Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and The Theory of Relativity AdLib, correction, Hoover was our first “CEO President”, we have had two now Hoover and Shrub. Results? Coincidence? 😉 » Posted By bito On May 31, 2012 @ 10:38 pm And damn it, they want credit for something! 😆 » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 6:59 pm That’s true AdLib, but before this year he has faked a run for president or NY gov. many times. He has accomplished what he set out to do;keep his name in the public. Now besides his birther talk, he’s whispering about being Mitts VP choice. Not because he has a chance, or would even take it, too much actual responsibility, but to keep his brand alive. » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 6:43 pm That’s true, KT, but there was a birther movement against McCain. Nut jobs don’t need logic or laws. » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 4:13 pm Case closed, Mitt is not a birther according to his spokesperson, however, just to keep the topic alive: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/47620148#47620148 » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 2:09 pm Wasn’t Martin Van Buren’s eligibility also questioned because of his broken English? » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 2:04 pm I, for one, have never really figured it out, side, back, backside? 🙂 » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 12:41 pm Right AdLib, Trump believes in what will keep his name in the news, that’s all. How many times has he run/threatened to run for some public office, hmmmm, how many times has Mitt run (and lost) for public office, they do have something in common there it seems. What do Mitt/Trump believe in? Money, Power, Greed! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy What are the odds of the Mitt/Trump fundraiser on June 28th going happening? Will Mitt find his “leadership gene” to just say no to Trump? » Posted By bito On May 30, 2012 @ 11:43 am George Will is a very large voice for the conservative Republican wing of the GOP. Too bad there are so few left in the GOP. He called the candidates in the primary buffoons, and they didn’t listen. » Posted By bito On May 29, 2012 @ 9:21 pm So simple but oh so true: Follow the money! » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 9:04 pm But somehow you got it right, fc! 😎 » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 7:32 pm Understood C’Lady the point I was attempting to make was: Would Mitt want the Rev Wright and religion subject be even mentioned with his Mormonism? Wouldn’t it just remind the fundies that they consider it a cult, or worse? The conservative RC’s? Turn hold-your-nose voters to stay-at-home non-voters? Romney can hardly afford a loss of 1-3%. » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 7:27 pm Win? I gave an A. and a B. — and you chose C. That must be worth something. 😉 » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 7:08 pm Your welcome, fc. » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 7:05 pm Which lacks the most transparency, the Mormon church or Bain Capital? 🙂 » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 6:14 pm Here ya go fc: » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 6:10 pm fc, I don’t know how that worked, did he choose France, or was it chosen for him? » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 6:05 pmComments Posted By bito
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The media didn’t even hit a lick of work on the story.
Adlib’s article explains it 10 times better seeming this cake backed and then the media feeding it as their work made me sick.
I know this isn’t anything new but this one slapped me in the face.
If one watched/ listened to the complete presser, one would never had come away with those six words, never. Not unless they were spun.
Now Issa I could excuse, he’s a grade A+ megalomaniac drunk with his chairmanship but for Mrs. Greenspan to chime in with her Nixon remark was plainly ignorant. She is old enough to remember the whole Watergate/Nixon episode and for her to chime in was completely irresponsible. She should have scolded and mocked Issa for making any comparison!
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