ABC Nightly news hit piece on Dems and lobbyists

[dweller]

did anyone else see this? Pointing out the power Dems have now (Pelosi, Rangel, Baucus) with lobbyists paying to party w/ them, after promising to end the culture of corruption of the Repugs ...

showed Darryl Issa at a Who concert that he bought his own tickets for (but implied he scalped the other tickets for a hefty price) :crazy:

where was ABC/NBC/CBS during the previous Congress, did they report on Repug corruption they now are trying to point fingers at??? :wtf:

ended up the newscast w/ *moron dancing, Charlie Goofin Gooden says, 'i hope everyone had as good a day as pResident *moron' ... :puke:


dp

[aquart]

1. Issa's a Republican crook.

And ABC is run by the fascists at Disney.

[dweller]

4. it was their idea of compare and contrast

w/ the ditty that he scalped tickets at the end, i guess.

dp

[melody]

2. Three little letters: ABC n/t

[Clark2008]

3. Isn't Darrell Issa a Republican?

But, in this case, I'll defend him.

Even if he didn't pay for the tickets, WHO cares? It's not like the boys in the band can curry any favors with him.

What's he gonna do? Make Pete Townshend the ambassador to Britian? Considering Pete's already British and lives there, I doubt it. Make Roger Daltrey the nation's "fitness guru," a la Arnold Schwartzenegger? Pssshawww.

:eyes:

[dweller]

6. yep, but he had to BUY HIS OWN TICKETS !!!

but he scalped some along the way ... ABC was trying to be 'fair and balanced' i guess.

dp

[AlCzervik]

5. issa, a car thief, ticket scalper and a member of congress.

[Beaverhausen]

7. So, did they show any Dems partying with lobbyists?

golf trips? what did they show the Dems were doing?

[dweller]

8. at a party

Nancy Pelosi showing up w/ tight security, Baucus not answering how much they paid for attendance (the astute investigators for ABC found out it was $9200/per) but Baucus said he didn't know how much.

basically they were stating that the Dems had promised to 'clear up the corruption' but were just as involved.

again, where were any of the MSM during the last 6 years? I don't recall the nightly news on Repug/lobbyists connections, parties, etc.

dp

[AlCzervik]

9. abc did do a piece on the RNC convention and all the unseemly parties.

[Virginia Dare]

12. They're called political fundraisers...

and they happen on a daily basis in Washington, for both Parties, regardless of who is in power. How is that corruption specific to the Dems being in power? The whole political process is corrupted. I remember the Repubs promising to clean up the corruption too once upon a time. I'm still holding my breath.

[dweller]

14. i agree, they are fundraisers

but they weren't presented as such.


watch the news.
dp

[Virginia Dare]

16. Sorry, I wasn't trying to shoot the messenger..

you report, we decide :hi:

[Virginia Dare]

10. Did they juxtapose the moronic oaf doing the happy feet with..

Pickles talking about how much they're suffering?

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

11. he has no business smiling or dancing ever again.

[annabanana]

13. Meanwhile, Abramoff is "talking so much he doesn't have time to eat"

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17129035.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_nation

So ABC is just trying to deflect some of the heat... (standard operating procedure, ya know)

[Virginia Dare]

15. Exactly, here you've got a blatant quid pro quo relationship...

THAT is a scandal.

[wiggs]

17. Did they mention that the number of dc lobbyists DOUBLED under the Bush administration? nt

[dweller]

18. no,

just that the Dems were as crooked as the Repugs they had failed to report on before now.

or so it seemed to me.

i was hoping for news of subpeonas, impeachment, etc.
foolish me.

dp

[dysfunctional press]

19. the corporofascist media is beholden to it's chosen master.

i thought that was common knowledge