Bush Will "F--- Whack This S---" for Enron, "Crude, But True"(CBS Rather Blathers Enron Bush Tie)

MRC ^ | Wednesday June 2, 2004 | BrentBaker

[ntnychik]

More breathless coverage of the epithet-filled Enron tapes tonight. Sure seemed like Dan wanted you to associate this "scandal" with Pres. Bush.

Tonight's lead-in was a Breathless Dan "exclusive" that Pres. Bush has obtained a private attorney in the case of the public outing of the not-so-secret agent Ms. Pflame, enabling them to dredge up that whole story again.

I watched all the alphabets tonight to see how they covered the President's fine Air Force Academy speech. NBC was the only coverage briefly using the President's own words. PBS left the event out entirely. The other two had scant one-liner coverage, spinning the speech as equating Iraq with WWII. NBC had comprehensive coverage of the launching of "Fahrenheit 9/11".

Tonight's far more important topics included Chalabi, air national guard recruitment, military "stop loss" policy, old Gen. Skarpinski shoplifting story, teen antidepressant use, and the South Dakota "pivotal election" of someone who will serve for five months. PBS added earthquake prediction, and analysis of whose campaign ads are more believable (guess).

No cable here. If it weren't for FR, I might have been tempted to believe the "news" was really news.

[Dog Gone]

I liked that article you linked.

There's absolutely no way that California avoids more blackouts this decade. Demand for electricity continues to grow as the population increases, more homes are being built, and the economy kicks into high gear again.

It took the Perfect Storm of bad legislation, high natural gas prices, Enron, and a drought in the Pacific Northwest to create the last crisis. It won't require that much the next time. Demand is up several thousand megawatts since the last crisis, and new plants haven't been built to match it.

There's a drought in the Pacific Northwest again this year.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Nice letter! I Love It!

[lonestar]

If I remember correctly, the biggest trouble with Enron was the fake companies the big-wigs were creating on paper and doctoring the books.

[McGavin999]

I think they just saw a bunch of suckers. California DIDN'T deregulate, they only deregulated halfway. That's what cause the problem. Arizona deregulated all the way and we all saved a bunch of money. Of course, we didn't have an idiot like Grey Davis doing the negotiating.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Um, Great, dero. This is not weird at all. I see impartiality and fairness in this JD. Some of the people currently griping about this would be the LOUDEST ones bitching if Ashcroft hadn't recused himself.

I am highly amused, but only for a moment, when Bush-bashers try to indict the officials of this administration for doing the right thing.

His JD is still the one doing the investigating...Ashcroft isn't involved in the day-to-day...not necessarily because he is being coerced by the law, but because he wants to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Unlike Democrat Party Operatives of all stripes: who revel in such appearances.

My statements in the letter to See BS "News" are accurate and stand without need for change or amendment.

[SuziQ]

This will get as far as the last attempt to discredit Bush, and that went NOWHERE!!

[Koblenz]

Sounds like silly trader speak to me. I imagine if you went to any trading floor in NYC, you could get people cheering the fact that such and so company had lower sales or higher sales, or that a fire or transport strike or something was making the price of some commodity higher.

What's the smoking gun here? That traders wanted the prices to go up or down?

[mewzilla]

Gee, I wonder how many stories CBS has done on Oil For Food. If they care about big time graft, corruption, screwed American taxpayers, and brutalized Iraqis....Oil For Food has it all.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Index

[gitmo]

The attack at Bush will be for not admitting the markets were manipulated and bailing out California. Bush allowed the fiscal situation in California to deteriorate for partisan gain.

The fiscal disaster and the energy crisis in California were easily predictable. The policies of the state made it almost inevitable. Bush shouldn't be bailing states out from themselves.

[Joe Hadenuf]

For cripes sakes, I was just reading you're very interesting posts and found your account was just eliminated?

WTF?

[sheik yerbouty]

It should be Hillary's panties, the ones that, unwashed, lie beneath "old crusty"!

[Joe Hadenuf]

And yet there have been absolutely no blackouts since the prices were capped. Weird, huh?

Yeah, weird.....

It's almost like the whole "power shortage" line was concocetd by a buch of con artists who were joking around in private about sticking it to grandma.

Yeah, just joking around.

Hey Dog, know why this guys account was just banned? He seemed pretty legitimate to me.

[IamConservative]

I "rather" feel they made the point that Bush would have nothing to do with the price fixing that went on previously.

Seems like MRC may have read between lines that weren't there..??.. Perhaps I am an optimist. Maybe you get "Bush" and "Enron" together in the same sentence enough it rubs off.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thought you may be interested in this Ernie....