tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post1319248249823615729..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: The Latest Candidate For Bailouts...Left-Biased Newspapers!Freedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-67891805032261665652009-01-02T09:34:00.000-08:002009-01-02T09:34:00.000-08:00Hi Nazar...Happy New Year!Thanks for the kind word...Hi Nazar...Happy New Year!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words...I'm glad you enjoyed the article. <BR/><BR/>The bailouts are going to come back to haunt us, I'm afraid, and Congress and the president did this without a whole lot of debate entirely to protect the special interests they were in bed with as far as I'm concerned. Check out <A HREF="http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2008/12/happy-new-year-from-joshuapundit.html" REL="nofollow">Weekend Monkey's comment</A> on the Madoff scandal as see if you agree with him.<BR/><BR/>As to WHY there wasn't much debate and why Bush was so anxious to get this thing through..<A HREF="http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2008/11/gop-senator-freeze-bail-out.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> may provide some food for thought.<BR/><BR/>There were a couple of standup guys in Congress who tried to stop it, just not enough. ( BTW, my choice for president Duncan Hunter was one of them. He voted against it.)<BR/><BR/>Take care, have a great 2009 and don't be a stranger.<BR/><BR/>All Best,<BR/>RobFreedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-81288872774575492562009-01-02T09:23:00.000-08:002009-01-02T09:23:00.000-08:00Hello Anonymous 10:08...Likewise Happy New year an...Hello Anonymous 10:08...Likewise Happy New year and thanks for dropping by.<BR/><BR/>Y'know, I actually follow the Trib relatively closely, and it seems to me they were just a mite enthusiastic in shilling for Obama and fairly good at not vetting him over some of the more questionable items about him..but that COULD be just my impression.<BR/><BR/>I agree that they're hardly the worst offender in that regard.<BR/><BR/>FYI, I'm on the Left Coast( a native), the home of undoubtedly one of the biggest jokes in 'journalism' around. But the last time I checked, wasn't the LA Times owned by the Trib? Ah, well..<BR/><BR/>Oh, one more thing...having been fortunate enough to see most of this incredible country, (including your home town)I prefer the term Heartland to 'flyover country' and have a real disdain for people who espouse that attitude - as you'll find out if you become a regular member of Joshua's Army.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for dropping by.<BR/><BR/>All Best in `09,<BR/>RobFreedom Fighterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-80829207993046242082009-01-02T08:05:00.000-08:002009-01-02T08:05:00.000-08:00You raised some amazing points, FF. If we can bail...You raised some amazing points, FF. If we can bail out big car and financial companies, why not the big newspapers? <BR/><BR/>As you know, I'm not exactly a hard-line conservative, but even I don't understand how these billion dollar giveaways are going to change anything. Are the companies in question going to magickly start making products that consumers will want? Will they change their production methods to become more cost-efficient? Will they stop the flow of bonuses to CEOs who probably don't deserve them? Granted, I haven't been paying much attention to the news lately (only reading your blog whenever I get a chance to), so maybe I missed out on the debate...but I somehow get the idea that there wasn't one. <BR/><BR/>I loved your "pravda on the hudson" line...brilliant *chuckles*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-20684193899402402982009-01-01T22:08:00.000-08:002009-01-01T22:08:00.000-08:00Why are you dragging the Chicago Trib into your li...Why are you dragging the Chicago Trib into your list? Other than Obama, they have never endorsed a Dem presidential candidate. They endorsed Horace Greeley, the Liberal Republican, in 1872 (versus the corrupt Grant of the Reps), & they foolishly endorsed T Roosevelt, the Bull Moose (with the accent on the Bull) candidate in 1912 (thereby allowing the racist Wilson, the Dem, into office). Otherwise, they have endorsed Republicans & Whigs only for the Pres. That's hardly the standard gauge for the Left. Their courage in standing up to the Ill Gov, a Dem, resulted in their being the victim of a failed extortion plan wherein the sale of the Chicago Cubs & Wrigley Field was derailed because the parent company adamantly refused to fire the paper's editorial board. (The paper's parent company engaged in an ill-advised acquisition spree in the 1990s & ca 2000. The resulting debt-load of the parent company is the Trib's real problem.) I haven't the foggiest notion in the world where you are situated, but I'm going to take a wild guess that you are either in the NE Coast corridor (sc, Boston, New York, Washington, DC,) or California. I think I'm perfectly safe in guessing that you are not residing in 'Fly-over Land' ! Trust me, it shows sometimes. Anyway, Happy New Year !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com