Don't forget - tomorrow morning (Sunday) UP w/Chris Hayes having someone from BAIN

[jillan]

on his show.

Edward Conard, former partner at Bain Capital from 1993-2007 and author of "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong."

Also going to have:
Alexis Goldstein (@alexisgoldstein), Occupy Wall Street activist and former vice president of information technology at Merrill Lynch.

William Black, associate professor of economic and law at University of Missouri-Kansas City and author of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry."

along with others.

My DVR is set!! Should be an amazing show.

http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/

[Raven]

1. Don't get your hopes up about Conard.

I heard him interviewed on the BBC a few weeks ago and he's rabid.

[jillan]

2. I didn't know that. Let's just hope that Chris Hayes will ask the right questions, including

follow up questions.

I have more faith in Chris to do that than those jokers that interviewed Mitt last nite.

[Raven]

6. I posted the BBC/Conard Interview here

on DU on June 30th. I'd link it but I don't know how to do that.

[Firebrand Gary]

3. He is the illusive million dollar Romney donor. What is Hayes up to?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Someone yesterday wrote he was on Virginia Granholm's show

and it didn't shed any new light. I wonder if anyone has tried to interview Joshua Berenstein, the Treasurer at Bain who filled in the annual report for Bain Capital for the state of Massachusetts for 2001, listing Romney as President and sole Director, with no listed expiration date of his term.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/07/12/document.pdf

[Yeah Its Spin]

5. Edward “Ed” Conard on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

http://www.edwardconard.com/2012/06/ed-conard-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-discussing-his-book-and-why-risk-taking-isnt-the-enemy-of-a-properly-functioning-economy/

[Spazito]

7. This guy is a million dollar donor to Romney...

and wrote a book with shit like this in it:

"Unintended Consequences” “aggressively argues that the enormous and growing income inequality in the United States is not a sign that the system is rigged,” writes Adam Davidson, founder of NPR’s Planet Money podcast, in a New York Times Magazine column that’s been raising a firestorm. “On the contrary, Conard writes, it is a sign that our economy is working. And if we had a little more of it, then everyone, particularly the 99 percent, would be better off.”"

I sure as hell don't expect him to do anything but kiss Romney's hand while genuflecting before him.


It seems clear this show is not going to be about Romney's time at Bain, the lies he has told and will be about the issues in Conrad's book.

Edited to add the link to the quote I posted:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0508/Unintended-Consequences-by-Edward-Conrad-already-the-most-hated-book-of-the-year

[Yeah Its Spin]

8. Exactly,

He will be pushing his book, as he did on the daily show.

[Tennessee Gal]

9. Chris Hayes is quite sharp, but I don't expect anything much out of this.

Chris will make a valiant effort, but he will get the run around or denials from this guy.

The only positive I see coming from this is if the guy just stonewalls, which would be a sign that he knows something harmful on Romney but won't give it up.