MSM Defending Blago and Obama Over Corruption Charges

any bets on whether he will be convicted ? many are saying Fritz was forced by the Tribune into arresting to soon.

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we cant trust them, that is why we get our news from alternate sources, we are smarter than they are and they know it. if they tell the masses that the shy is purple, they will believe it.

I watched the Lehrer News Hour in question. I think you are misinterpreting Lehrer’s comments. Lehrer was saying that there are frequently quid pro quos for lots of things in government. Practically every bill that gets passed has quid pro quos. If you vote for this, then I’ll vote for your bill. If you vote for this, then I’ll do this. I’ll appoint Smith, in return for your support of Jones. It goes on all the time and it’s been going on since the founding of the Republic. It’s what politics is. So Lehrer is being a good new anchor. He’s asking the experts (Shields and Brooks) to explain to him and, more importantly, to the audience, exactly how this case is different than the usual state of affairs. It was an excellent question, under the circumstances.

I know that you guys think that the Obama team is “reeling” from this, but it is going to turn out to be a big nothing, relating to Obama. It’s got nothing to do with him or with his transition team, and it’s a big nothing that someone from Obama’s team (whether Emmanuel or anyone else) gave a list of preferred names, as long as they didn’t offer money or give a job to an unqualified relative or anything like that.

How do you suppose that Brown got appointed Director of FEMA? You don’t think that was some sort of quid pro quo? I mean, he’s an expert in horse shows, or whatever, and he’s put in charge of FEMA?

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

Larry, I forgot this one. Take a good look at your President:

WASHINGTON – A man who has long been dogged by charges that the bank his family owns helped finance a Chicago crime figure will host a Windy City fund-raiser tonight for Sen. Barack Obama.

Alexi Giannoulias, who became Illinois state treasurer last year after Obama vouched for him, has pledged to raise $100,000 for the senator’s Oval Office bid.

Before he promised to raise funds for Obama, Giannoulias bankrolled Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution.

Giannoulias is so tainted by reputed mob links that several top Illinois Dems, including the state’s speaker of the House and party chairman, refused to endorse him even after he won the Democratic nomination with Obama’s help.

Giannoulias was the bank’s vice president and chief loan officer for most of the more than $15 million in loans.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/giannoulias/index

The media is as corrupt as the Socialist Democratic Party. They aren’t going to look into Hussein’s connections to this scandal in Chicago. To them it is more newsworthy to show a shoe being thrown at President Bush over and over and over all day long.

Larry;
I agree with you that this is not likely to have Obama or the Dems “reeling from the feeling”. But it should. That’s part of the problem. How many ethic viloation hits does it take until the general population says, “You know what? No.”

A little horse trading, mediation, and concession on language SHOULD be part of the bill passing process as it tempers legislation to something all can come to final agreement to or not. Yes that is part of the process of parliamentary procedure and congruent with what the founding fathers probably envisioned with the system. I suppose it’s partially their fault as they did allow people to “buy their way out of having to serve in the military” or to purchase a commission, yet I doubt they would have approved the marketing of political positions for money. Otherwise, King George could have just purchased control of our country rather than spending that money to fight a Revolutionary War.

But it’s has gone way beyond seeking compromise and for far too long it’s been perverted via corruption. I doubt they would have approved of buying votes by adding pork spending that has nothing to do with the legislation on the bills under consideration. Introduction of new and hidden taxes. Unfunded mandates being forced upon the states, or upon military spending to force the military to pay for things they neither want nor need only to please some financial backer, wealthy campaign contributor, or a special interest lobby that does not have the interests of the American people and greater good at heart is all corruption that our founders would not have approved. Yet politicians on both sides keep immersing themselves deeper and deeper into corruption.

Now it’s gotten so bad that as is demonstrated here. Nothing can phase the Democrats or the media when it has to do with the Democratic party. Selling a political job position is illegal. Mary Mitchell tries to blow this off with a Boss choosing the best employee to advance analogy. But that is disingenuous. When did it become acceptable to bribe a boss to get hired for a particular job? What kind of boss would hire a person on such unscrupulous grounds in the private sector? It’s like a CEO passing up qualified job applicants to hand over a VP position to an inexperienced teen-aged child without consulting his board of directors. What message does that show to other workers? How does it effect corporate morale.

You’re a doctor Larry. In your opinion:

Do you think a surgeon facing valid malpractice lawsuits should be afforded the opportunity of “investing” in a chief of staff job to boost his income enough to cover his errors in judgment and to hire more expensive lawyers to get him out of it?

Is it perfectly okay for him to purchase new cars for every person on the hospital board to get that position or should the position be based on their merits and experience?

Would it be valid for those filing suit against him to be informed of this chicanery?

Should the judge and jury not take this information under consideration in the malpractice cases should they go to trial? How about in establishing compensation?

Should the patients at that hospital be made aware that the individual with the responsibility for making life-changing medical decisions concerning their own health and wellness received his position through unscrupulous means?

Should it be made public?

Would you commit your own loved ones to that individual’s oversight?

Now think of the American people as potential patients, corporate America as those supplying and servicing that hospital, Wall Street becomes the stock-holders, the staff and board of that hospital as our political leaders.

Now explain again why corruption in our government is no big deal and tell us why we should not take this matter seriously.

I agree with Cary. My impression from media coverage has been that what Blago did was horrendously wrong, and that he should be impeached or resign. As far as Obama goes, he and his staff have been cleared. The difference with Delay was that he actually did what was claimed (hence the guilty verdict). There were also plenty of conservatives in the MSM, who were calling Ronnie Earle a “partisan”, and decrying Delay’s innocence.

http://townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2006/04/06/tom_delays_paradox

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You defended Delay, and now, you’re cherryp-picking clippings of coverage of this Blago scandal, and acting as if the MSM is not concerned enough about it. Well, how about you? Is it only a crime when Democrats are corrupt? I, for one, am appauled at both.

The first line of lib defense when they are caught: Everybody does it.

The only difference is that when Republicans do it they get thrown out of office immediately and when Democrats do it they get lauded for their courage.

And now Soetoro has cleared himself of any wrong-doing, and the MSM reports it as “Obama is Cleared”. Why didn’t Nixon think of doing that?

” And the best part – George Bush – who skirted Insider Trading charges – was never touched for his crimes BEFORE he got into the White House”

And here we have it…..again. Another left wing loon is guilty of doing the same thing it accuses others of doing.

Hey warDouche, you claiming Bush broke the law carries no weight. We know how f*cked in the head you are.

Craig,

Thanks for the interesting information.

I’ll follow with interest what the substance of those conversations turns out to be.

Quote from your link:

“President-elect Barack Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement, and transition aides “did nothing inappropriate.””

That’s the key phrase. “nothing inappropriate.”

If it was recorded, it will all come out.

- Larry W/HB

16. I agree with Cary. My impression from media coverage has been that what Blago did was horrendously wrong, and that he should be impeached or resign. As far as Obama goes, he and his staff have been cleared. The difference with Delay was that he actually did what was claimed (hence the guilty verdict). There were also plenty of conservatives in the MSM, who were calling Ronnie Earle a “partisan”, and decrying Delay’s innocence.

WHAT? There was no guilty verdict in the DeLay case.