Posted on 09/24/2008 12:56:23 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive.
By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 9/24/2008 3:08:50 PM
Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party on his Sept. 17, 2008, show, suggesting blame for Wall Street problems should be focused in a partisan way. However, he and other media have failed to thoroughly examine the Democratic side of the blame game.
Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.
The media coverage of Frank’s coziness with Fannie Mae and his pro-Fannie Mae stances has been lacking. Of the eight appearances Frank made on the three broadcasts networks between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 21, 2008, none of his comments dealt with the potential conflicts of interest. Only six of the appearances dealt with the economy in general and two of those appearances, including an April 6, 2008 appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes” were about his opposition to a manned mission to Mars.
Frank has argued that family life “should be fair game for campaign discussion
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Barney only loved him for his fannie...
Which one was he?
Herb Moses.
“his pro-Fannie Mae stances”
Wide stances no doubt.
You made me laugh so hard I scared the dog!
If that image is not worthy of a projectile vomit alert I don't know what is.
Stephen the Madman: The good Lord tells me He can get me through this mess.
William Wallace: And what about me?
Stephen the Madman: Oh, He says you're f*****! HA! HA! HA! HA!
I don’t want to hear about Barney Frank’s Fannie Love.........
I guess he planted some Herb’s in the old Fannie..
Looks like old Bwarney Fwank is in this up to his eyeballs!!!
I knew there was something queer about Fannie’s Mae.
The love that dare not speak its name.
Did the White House keep meeting minutes from the discussions with Frank and Dodd?
Why has this President refused to use the bully pulpit to call these guys out when there were problems coming?
Now he uses the bully pulpit to bail our ass out.
This whole thing is sickening and the Democrats are going to get away with it. Shely, Bush, Rove, Gramm and many others knew this was going to happen and they did nothing.
Why didn’t Shelby launched an investigaiton in 2005 when he was chairman of the committee?
Republicans are wimps.
Prissy Chrissy tries to blame the repubs for the mess at Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. This P.O.S. Matthews also wants to run for congress from his home state of Massachusetts. In that state you have a homo representative named Barney Frank, a war hero Senator named John F’n Kerry, and a drunkard Kennedy. Why does this not bother the folks up there? Are they all that damned shallow they don’t care? Chrissy knows he needs them to win, so Chrissy will help them out any way the dummies want him to.
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