Tag: Bamboozled!
Yeah, He Lied
Any better conclusions than that? Seriously, after the huffing and puffing and bluster that the News Journal and his critics were trying to mislead people or trying to hurt him or trying to delegitimize his function in office — Treasurer Chip Flowers finally meets with the News Journal and what we find out is that he really is that incompetent. And we find out that records requested are conveniently missing. From this morning’s NJ, where Flowers admits that there are financial records missing from his office:
Late Night Video — Chip Flowers Takes His Denial Tour to TV
Apparently The People’s Treasury has plenty of time to yak it up with the local news media. NOT to give them the records they request and even FOIA, but he can talk to them. This one is from NBC10:
Chip Flowers Does Not Know the Difference Between Epic Spin and Transparency
There’s more on Chip Flowers and his inability to manage the travel budget of his organization today in the NJ. And at this point, this is more about his inability to live up to the transparency he keeps promising and the failure of his epic spin to get him out of this thing.
What If You Held a “Fix the Debt” Twitter Chat and Only People Hip to Your Scam Showed Up?
This is nothing but awesome sauce. The astroturf group Fix the Debt had a live Twitter chat yesterday to try to keep spinning up the fearmongering on the debt and they got trolled Big.Time — by smart citizens who know that Fix the Debt is nothing but a front to eliminate Social Security and to cripple us with their austerity program. If you are on Twitter, you can look at #fixthedebtqa to see the fun up close and personal. But here are a few sites who are posting up some of the favorite Tweets:
Late Night Video — The Speechless Banker
A few days ago, there was a press opportunity with ECB representatives, where Irish journalist Vincent Browne wanted to know specifically why the people of Ireland are being asked to live with the debt burden of a defunct bank. This is the kind of questioning many of us would like to see our own journalists perform when standing in front of folks who are taking crazy decisions on our behalf. These questions are fierce, fearless and utterly just. And the banker has nothing to say.
Dean Baker Writes to Senator Carper On Social Security
Dean Baker’s (from the Center for Economic and Policy Research) letter to Tom Carper, reprinted with permission.
A Modest Proposal
First — read this: Feast of the Wingnuts (How economic crackpots devoured American politics.) This is a great article (teasing Chait’s book on the same subject) from about a year ago — it is sorta long, but stick with it. Here’s some of the intro: American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of […]
I’m Shocked, Shocked
to find that they’re playing the Rev. Wright card in here! Somebody please tell Rick Davis to stop treating all of us like McCain’s likely voters. We’ve never been so dumb as to have ever believed McCain in the first place that Wright was off of the table. But I guess that is why David […]
McCain Has Not Suspended His Campaign
And Jeffrey Toobin calls Bullshit on the media nonsense of the day: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsOpwjY53E[/youtube] Good for him. I wrote NPR for being bamboozled by this earlier today. This campaign is not suspended if your VP nominee is campaigning at Ground Zero, if you are appearing at scheduled events in the morning, and showing up on all […]
Drill Here, Drill What?
Yesterday, I wrote about the current state of play of the legislation up to allow for off shore drilling. Finally, someone provides the graphic that shows the magnitude of the latest bamboozlement over off shore drilling: Source: 9/11/08 Gristmill Using data from the US EIA. There isn’t much oil to get, according to this Government […]
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