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The Commercial CNN Won’t Run

On August 8, 2009, in GreedOverPrinciples, Health Care, Media, Videos, by tommy

Apparently, CNN is refusing to run a 30 second ad ripping the GreedOverPrinciples party and the insurance industry. Let’s look!

Well, our good friends over at CrooksAndLiars.com went to the video archives, and pulled a YouTube from 2006 that puts the ad that CNN won’t run into proper perspective – let’s look!

Well, all-”righty”!

That line, “My salary’s in the millions and my dividends obscene”, at the beginning?

Remember an insurance guy by the name of Bill McGuire? From a 2006 Kare11 news report:

How big is the stock option compensation at UnitedHealth? CEO William McGuire has accumulated options presently worth more than $1.5 billion. (Kare11)

Ladies and Gentlemen, there are billions of reasons the GOP is fighting health care reform, and none of those billions are for you.

(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)

Tagged with: banned • cnn • commercials • Crooks and Liars • Ed Hanway • golden parachutes • GOP • insurance companies • lou dobbs

Another Example Of That Old GOP Double-Standard

On August 8, 2009, in Bachmann, GOP Hypocrisy, Michael Brodkorb, town halls, Videos, by tommy

Yesterday, a blogpost topic was That Old GOP Double-Standard, Once Again and it dealt with the typical and usual double-standard at the somewhat local level by noted GOPer and Professor King Banaian. Last night, CrooksAndLiars.com found a great example of that old GOP Double-Standard at the national level. Let’s look!

Here’s what CrooksAndLiars.com says, just under that video:

Oh, the irony! Frank Freakin’ Luntz, the man so amoral, he actually got censured by his trade association, lecturing Democrats about right and wrong for using “misleading” poll-driven language? I think my heart’s about to seize from me laughing so hard. Republicans are such flaming hypocrites, aren’t they?

Republicans are such flaming hypocrites, aren’t they?

Yes, they are.

“Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP”

(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)

Tagged with: Crooks and Liars • Erik Paulsen • Frank Luntz • GOP • Hypocrisy • John Kline • King Banaian • Michael Brodkorb • Michele Bachmann • MN-03 • MudSlingerMike • town hall meetings

The Best Comic Strip From Last Week!

On July 19, 2009, in Bachmann, Sarah Palin, by tommy

Well, ok – I missed it last Tuesday, but: I caught it on CrooksAndLiars today!

The title? “Sarah Palin!” on This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, July 14th, 2009

Wait’ll ya get a load o’ the last panel….

(crossposted from Tagged with: Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive • crazy • Crooks and Liars • Governor Moose Meat • Michele Bachmann • MN-06 • Palin • This Modern World • Tom Tomorrow

Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP

On July 13, 2009, in CommentGate, Dirty Politics, Family Values, GOP Hypocrisy, GreedOverPrinciples, republiCon, Videos, by tommy

Eric Cantor, R=Hypocrite, was on Fox News yesterday, trying – TRYING – to make the argument that after being elected on a “Family Values” platform, getting caught in, say, an “unFamily Values affair” doesn’t much matter in today’s GreedOverPrinciples Party. Let’s watch!

(h/t to CrooksAndLiars.com)

What makes this performance by Eric Cantor, R=Hypocrite, even more hypocritical, is the smear campaign directed at GOPer Laura Brod – allegedly masterminded by high-level state GOPers.

Transcript of Cantor’s We-a Not-a Culpa and a couple of thoughts:

WALLACE: Finally, when you’ve got Republican leaders like Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina or Nevada Senator John Ensign admitting to extramarital affairs and staying in office, questionable use of either private funds or state money, in the case of Sanford, doesn’t the GOP, with all its talk of family values, risk looking like a bunch of hypocrites?

CANTOR: Look, I mean, is anyone happy to see all that have happened? No. I mean, it’s not good. But listen. We have our thoughts with their families and they themselves.

However, look. The party is not just about personalities. It’s about ideas. It’s about our ability to go out and prove that yes, we can lead this country again. So we have got a plan. We are talking about the solutions that actually can address some of the problems that working people in this country are facing, and we’re going to do that over the course of the next 16 months.

WALLACE: But if you’re going to talk the talk, why not walk the walk and say, “You know what? They should step down?”

CANTOR: Well, listen. I mean, again, I say in the instance of the people in South Carolina and Nevada, it is up to them, and those are the elected individuals by those states.

And again, it’s not about, necessarily, these personalities. The direction of this country — and the challenges that we face are enormous. And we ought to be talking about how to go about creating jobs again. We ought to be talking about the things that matter most to people in this country.

WALLACE: Congressman Cantor, we want to thank you. Thanks for coming in today and please come back, sir.

Everybody catch that? Let’s do that again:

We ought to be talking about the things that matter most to people in this country.

Two Points:

One – if the situation were reversed, does anyone really think that Cantor would be saying the same thing about a Democrat that got caught with the proverbial pants around the ankles? and…

Two – while Cantor, a national high-level GOPer is defending Sanford and Ensign at the national level, it’s allegedly state high-level GOPers trashing Laura Brod at the state level.

Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP.

(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)