Posted on 05/07/2009 4:45:55 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
The reports started to leak last week with Tom Lauria appearance on the Frank Beckman show where he claimed that the White House threatened to sic the WH Press Corps on the non tarp investors if they didn't go along with the plan to give primary investors much less than their share, and the UAW much more than their share of whats left of Chrysler.
Earlier this week a different participant in negotiations said that the administration's tactic was to present what one described as a "madman theory of the presidency" in which the President is someone to be feared because he was willing to do anything to get his way. The person said this threat was taken very seriously by his firm.
The Business Insider has been contacting the WH since the report broke to get a comment on the new charge, they have been strangely silent. They should also ask about the brand new report of a threat that the Business Insider found:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Sptizer redux..this could get good.
Slowly but surely Wall Street is turning against their hero. Until next pay check that is.
Are we surprised? Noooooooooooooooooooo.
Reads like an episode of “The Sopranos.”
And we didn't even ask them about the even more serious charges that the financial blog Finem Respice has made:
Confronting the head of a non-TARP fund holding Chrysler debt and unwilling to release it for any sum less than that to which it was legally entitled without compelling cause, this country's "Car Czar" [Steve Rattner] berated the manager of said fund with an outburst of prose substantially resembling this:
Who the f*** do you think you're dealing with? We'll have the IRS audit your fund. Every one of your employees. Your investors. Then we will have the Securities and Exchange Commission rip through your books looking for anything and everything and nothing we find to destroy you with.
The list, ping
WTF????
...and the response from the WH press corps is.........(crickets).......
bkmrk
Well, if the allegations of threats to investors is true, then should we assume that reporters and news outlets face similar threats?
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!
Biggest scandal of the presidency and even if WH reporters weren't ideologically predisposed to not cover the story, a quick phone call by the WH to their editor or producer would end their career in an afternoon.
They could, but most of the media doesn't have to. They're firmly in BHO's camp.
Hey, the US taxpayer has to realize that their bailout of the auto makers is just union dues.
We are just paying the union dues so the unions can be paid wages, their retirees pension & healthcare.
We must take care of them or they won’t be able to donate to the dem’s and do the dems dirty work.
Pay your dues buddy or we’ll break your legs!
I firmly believe these threats were made.
Why isn’t any of this on tape (or is it, and being held by the recording parties for protection/leverage/avoiding nuclear option)?
CAN the people present actual hide a recorder, or are they searched?
Who the f*&% do you think you're dealing with? We'll have the IRS audit your fund. Every one of your employees. Your investors. Then we will have the Securities and Exchange Commission rip through your books looking for anything and everything and nothing we find to destroy you with.
Marvelous, just marvelous.
Two bug union thugs walk into the room...
Hey, nice fund you got there...
More like a mafia thingy.
More and more.
And the press corps are willing participants in being the enforcers for Obama? Is that what they're going to teach in J-school now? Is that what the news mag shows are going to show now, stories on how they aided in the pressuring of Obama's opponents?
-PJ
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