Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 July 2002

Various big media television networks ^ | 28 Jul 02 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[NativeNewYorker]

Puh-leeze don't hold your breath. :)

[Outraged]

Your predecessor Robert Rubin has spoken out on this whole issue with Newspeak magazine, and I’ll show you and our viewers here: ”[Robert] Rubin, Clinton’s former treasury secretary, says an ‘adjustment’ is essential. He says that the 10-year, $1.5 trillion tax cut is a much bigger threat to the economy than the corporate scandals. Rubin suggests a kind of domestic ‘loya jirga’ (a big Afghan council) on the economy. ‘Get everyone together and put everything on the table,’ he says. ‘We don’t have to “raise” taxes, we just have to postpone or cancel what would otherwise happen in the later years.’ The fact is, deficits are once again the biggest threat to the economy. We’ve gone in less than two years from $5 trillion worth of surplus to new and growing deficits as far as the eye can see. That’s having its own effect on the markets.” Do you agree?

News-speak?...Is that a publication founded in Orwellian "double-speak".

”[Robert] Rubin, Clinton’s former treasury secretary, says an ‘adjustment’ is essential. He says that the 10-year, $1.5 trillion tax cut is a much bigger threat to the economy than the corporate scandals. Rubin suggests a kind of domestic ‘loya jirga’ (a big Afghan council) on the economy. ‘Get everyone together and put everything on the table,’ he says. ‘We don’t have to “raise” taxes, we just have to postpone or cancel what would otherwise happen in the later years.’ The fact is, deficits are once again the biggest threat to the economy. We’ve gone in less than two years from $5 trillion worth of surplus to new and growing deficits as far as the eye can see.

----Talk about Orwellian "double-speak"...Robert "Enron-Goldman-Sach" Rubin quoted, disclaiming reality and spreading outright lies, i.e. "double-speak".

Hey Rubin!!!!...Tax cuts stimulate the economy and "deficit spending" is purely a democRAT fault!!!...Scumbag NBC/CNN/DNC/Robert Rubin...SCUMBAGS.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Notice O'Neill answers Russert addressing him personally at points.

Much like I do my children when they are being just plain stupid.

[Jeff Chandler]

A Lieberman Muppet

I read somewhere that PBS was considering a Barney Frank muppet for their broadcasts in Africa.

[hobbes1]

O'Neill is too much of a nice guy, and Timmy knows it, hence the shark attack.

Exactly the way I put it to my wife...I was Apoplectic, watching that interview....Though O'Neill got in a good jab,(which he should have fired as a roundhouse...) when he said 'he's (rubin) down (i forget where) writing editorials while his company lost 50 billlion in market cap...

[hobbes1]

Here it is...No, he’s not. He’s saying raise the taxes, Tim. I’m sorry. You know where he said it from? He said it from Singapore while his company was losing $50 billion worth of market capitalization.

[smiley]

Boy, my spouse and I were absolutely LIVID at Russert!! If Timmy couldn't get the answer HE wanted, he just continued to BADGER! What a jerk!!!

[Ann Archy]

Lieberman sharpei-ish!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA.