Ma, Ma, Ma, My Solyndra

Townhall.com ^ | September 18, 2011 | Doug Giles

[Kaslin]

The community where I live is upgrading our Comcast cable services—which means that I won’t have Fox News on the third floor of my hacienda until they get out to my place and give me whatever fancy box I need.

I had no idea how addicted I had become to Fox. I now know what Charlie Sheen must feel like when he’s out of smokes and hookers. It’s rough. Being the pit bull that I am, I’ve been trying to plow on ‘til Comcast comes out by watching MSNBC and the local Miami news. 

What I’ve found interesting during this forced Fox hiatus is that none of the stations at the particular times I’ve been watching are saying squat about the breaking $535 million Solyndra scandal which shamefully and directly points to Obama and Biden. Silencio conspicuoso, you know what I mean-o?

What you will hear these twits yodel about are the evil machinations of Rupert Murdoch (who allegedly had poor Sienna Miller’s smutty emails hacked), the dangerous arsenic levels in apple juice, or the possible cronyism behind Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine initiative. As they blather about Rick’s supposed dirty deed, I’m thinkin’, “Cronyism? You want to talk cronyism? Okay, let’s talk Solyndra.”

For those in my ‘hood who temporarily lost Fox during our cable upgrade—or for the poor saps who, for whatever reason, are not hip to the spectacle that is Solyndra—here’s the basic 411 on one of Obama’s half-billion dollar green stimulus babies.

• Solyndra is—oops, I mean was—a California solar energy company that scored a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan last year from BHO and his boys to save the earth via 1,100 tree humpers in lab coats cranking out solar panels.

• Prior to hitting the Obama loan lotto, both the President and Biden actually visited Solyndra and hyped it to us plebes as both sliced bread and Christmas for our flailing economy and our future as a super duper power.
• One year later (like, as in twelve months) after Solyndra had deposited the $535,000,000 check, the company mysteriously went tits up and declared Chapter 11. Oops! 
• Now, the 1,100 workers that Solyndra employed are sitting on their couches eating ramen and watching The Price is Right on their solar paneled TVs while they fill out unemployment docs for more drachmas from China and our great grandchildren’s piggy banks.

• The coincidence in all this is that when folks started poking around and wondering how a company goes bust during just one season of American Idol after receiving more than half a billion dollars, they found that, lo and behold, the major shareholders and execs of Solyndra were Obama’s buddies who helped fund his ‘08 bid for the White House. 
• One cat, George Kaiser, had even visited the White House 16 times in the last two years—which I believe is 14 more times than Biden has actually been there. What a coincidence that his business would get such a massive check for such a crappy company? Wow. What are the chances? 

• Another interesting ditty is that the loan Kaiser finagled for Solyndra guaranteed George and his pals could recoup their losses in case Solyndra folded, but that the taxpayers would be screwed as far as any retrieval of their cash goes.

• And all this went down in the face of Solyndra showing five years of $500 million in losses with everybody and their dog screaming at the President not to support the company.

But somehow the aforementioned is not worth mentioning by various news outlets.  

Here’s my guess as to why they don’t want to talk about Solyndra: It busts the fantastic fable they’re foisting on us on several different levels. Here are a couple myths it hammers:

1. It shatters the Obama All-Wise Money Spender spell they’re trying to dazzle us with as they queue up to blow through another proposed half trillion dollars we don’t have.
2. It also reeks not of “Hope & Change” but of Chicago-based BS cronyism at its finest. 

Welcome, my friends, to the machine. We need some Woodwards and Bernsteins on this thing ASAP.

[econjack]

You know what's really going to be interesting? Who gets a presidential pardon before his a$$ is kicked out of office.

[littlesorrel]

Fox run by Ailes.Ailes friends with McGinnis for 44 years. Fox is MSNBC lite.Get the picture.

[Erik Latranyi]

[andy58-in-nh]

We need some Woodwards and Bernsteins on this thing ASAP

They'll get right on that, as soon as they are finished with their latest exposé of the Tea Party.

Actually, the Washington Post, much to its credit, has been covering the Solyndra story rather well, and not pulling any punches.

Of course, the New York Times is still in full damage control mode (arguing that the government was just trying to "protect its investment"), and MSNBC is still largely AWOL on the scandal, obviously protecting their investment.

[sawmill trash]

Wait and see ... this will go no where.
Will be swept under the rug.

[InterceptPoint]

New Solyndra logo:

[PGalt]

HOORAY Doug Giles! Very good article. DEFUND fascist, agenda-driven collectives. Indict, convict, incarcerate the collectivist con-men involved in this theft.

[littlesorrel]

Google Gabriel Sherman Joe Mcginnis

[PGalt]

Very good logo. The new shape of fascism. Neo-fascism.

[knarf]

Well put, Doug ... succinct.

[central_va]

How about this?

"Solyndra™-Environmentally Friendly Corruption©

[A message]

MSNBC is still largely AWOL

from anything related to fact or reality.

[VTenigma]

ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And, count me surprised at the Gunrunner coverage from CBS News...

[Kaslin]

You are obviously referring to an article by the very left wing Politico. If you don’t know that you have to take anything from them with a grain of salt, then I feel sorry for you, nooby

[NavyCanDo]

The writer is spot on. We all beat up on FOX from time to time, but it still is the best place to get your news on TV. I just watched FOX talking about Solyndra for the last 10 minutes. Not going to see that anywhere else.

[kalee]

CNN did a segment on Fri night with Wolf Blitzer interviewing someone form the Daily Beast. CNN labeled it a WH fiasco. I was stunned that they even mentioned it.

[andy58-in-nh]

That confirms what I already believed: Roger Ailes thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot. Of course he does; he's been a Washington insider since he founded his company in 1969. (Aside: I met him while publicizing my own company's work on some of his 1984 GOP campaign ads).

But this has nothing to do with the Solyndra scandal, which his network, FOX News has been hammering for days now, with other networks now beginning to realize where there's smoke, there's fire.

[andy58-in-nh]

The media are staring to wake up (a bit) to the corruption of this Administration. But I’m not sure how far they are willing to press their search for truth where it might actually damage The Anointed One.