[governsleastgovernsbest]

GMA/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.

[MEG33]

Good Grief!! Are they going to cap rock stars earnings?

[Red Badger]

Ayn Rand was a profitess.................(sic).....

[navyguy]

There's a name for the economic system where the government micromanages the financial resources of a privately owned company. It's called Fascism.

[Nathan Zachary]

Typical leftist moonbat idiocy. Tax them more, that will help lower oil prices.
They'll say anything rather than admit enviro-wienies have made drilling for our own sources and building more refinery capacity an impossibility.

[caver]

I say that we limit Charlie Gibson's salary to $35,000 a year. He is being paid way too much just to read words off a page and besides he doesn't need anymore than I do.

[johnny7]

Mulva? His real name is Deloris.

[L98Fiero]

All I know is that when I was a kid a candy bar cost 10 cents and now it's almost a dollar. McDonald's burgers were 15 cents and you could buy a bottle of Coke for a quarter. I also just heard that Time Warner just postyed record profits. Why no calls to cap them?

[Straight8]

The Exxon-Mobil Exec's $400 mil compensation package was accrued over a period of several years. Now, let's say he wanted to give all that money back to the American public.
That figures out to less than $2.00 per person.
Viewed that way, it doesn't seem like the $400 mil has much effect on the price of gas.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I'd like to stress what a fraud it is for GMA to use 'viewer questions.' Since GMA gets to choose which viewer questions to pose to guests, the exercise is little more than convenient cover for putting the MSM's own opinions in the mouths of others.

Consider that Gibson could surely have found viewer questions along the lines 'how much have consumers been hurt by restrictions on drilling in ANWR and the continental shelf?" But Charlie only picked questions that gave voice to the MSM's penchant for bashing the free-market system.

[palmer]

$7 million is apparently just fine for a guy with no responsibilities other than to sit in a comfy New York studio doling out MSM conventional wisdom.

And I'm sure we don't pay you enough to sit and watch that shlock. Now, where's my checkbook?

[Lunatic Fringe]

I love this part... the moment in every local newscast where they drag us out to a local gas station and get some moron to whine and cry about high gas prices. It's always some toothless hick who has no clue how a free-enterprise market works. "Well I think it's ridiculous... Someone needs to do something about this." He tells this sob story as he is gassing up his big Ford F-250 that probably gets 19 miles a gallon on a good day. And what makes this scene hilarious is they always go to a place like the one single gas station in downtown Dallas where gas is $3.59 a gallon, but costs $2.89 everywhere else within 60 miles. Hey, Bubba... you deserve to get ripped off if you're that stupid. The price of a barrel of oil has exceeded your IQ.

The news media then explains how families are being "gouged". These are the same families that have no problem buying a bucket of KFC chicken for $23.99 on the way home from soccer practice, driving their 17 MPG SUV in heavy stop-and-go traffic with the a/c running full blast, drinking their $5 Starbucks cappucino. But ask them to pay an extra $10 a week for the convenience of fast, safe travel and they howl and wail and gnash their teeth like a Muslim reading the comics.

[Rummyfan]

"Sounds to me like you have a greater responsibility to shareholders, than to consumers to reinvest." I wish Mulva had told the truth - that a corporation's only real responsibility, other than obeying the law, is to shareholders.

Charlie must have missed that lesson in business. Also, I'm sure he wants all the companies that he owns stock in to totally ignore their shareholders and just make the consumers happy. Why just yesterday I read Apple is going to start giving iPods away and that ABC will be charging advertisers nothing to air their commercials!

[D-Chivas]

When is Charlie Gibson going to rag out the executives of automobile manufacturing companies? The cost of an average new automobile has far outpaced inflation and even the price of oil over the past 25 years.

[mysterio]

The tax will just be passed on to consumers. It's a stupid idea. Find evidence of collusion, or shut up and let us build a damned refinery.

[FlyVet]

Mulva: "We've tried that, countries have tried it. It doesn't work. You put in price controls it holds down the price but increases consumption which is not good. Windfall profits tax takes away from the ability of the companies to reinvest, to grow and add to capacity."

And how could a smart guy like Gibson not know that historically, price controls don't work? (Answer: because he doesn't care. He's too busy portraying himself as Great Protector of the Publik).

I hadn't watched GMA in a long time. Their level of political correctness is even more sickening than Today's. Concerning the Bonds home run chase, they just couldn't help themselves. "Someone should point out that it's Hank Aaron that owns the record, not Ruth." Uh, yeah, Robin, but it's Ruth's mark that Barry's approaching right now, not Aaron's. The message seemed to be, "All you stupid racist little peons out there are focusing on the wrong guy, but don't worry, we the intelligent and enlightened ones will straighten you out."

[hotshu]

GLGB,

Never forget that Gibson is related via marriage of offspring to a Clintonista (I forget which one). IIRC, the "Toon" himself attended some of the wedding festivities.