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MSNBC Isn’t Buying the Joe Sestak Story

May 31st, 2010

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough went toe-to-toe with NBC Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd, who apparently sees nothing wrong with bribing a candidate to drop out of a political race

Click here to view a clip of the exchange from Eyeblast.tv

If MSNBC is doubting the Joe Sestak story, the story is in real trouble. No other network is as partial to Obama as MSNBC. Watching the NBC Chief White House Correspondent defend the story is like watching Nixon defend Watergate. Except, it was defending to the media, not having the media do the heavy lifting for Nixon.

We need to get Sestak and Emanuel under oath and see what they say.

How does Monica’s blue dress get more attention than a possible criminal act by the Obama administration? It seems to me that, ” I didn’t have sex with that woman” is a lot like Bill Clinton offered Sestak a non-paying job on a committee to drop out of the race. Especially when the gentleman from MSNBC says the job offer was Secretary of the Navy and came from Emanuel. It may well be the first offer was from Clinton and there was a second offer from Emanuel. One that may very well have criminal implications and involve the President.

Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them? I forgot, they and the rest of the media are still getting chills down their legs from Obama.

Tags: Coffee with Joe, Emanuel, MSNBC, NBC, Nixon, obama, Sestak, Watergate
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The Wall Street Journal is Incompetent

May 30th, 2010

One might assume that a newspaper that writes about business would be very good at doing their own business. After all, to critique every business in the world takes insight about what constitutes a solid business model. Their perspective is very special. The writers get to dig into the good, the bad, and the ugly. They should know the difference.

I’ve been a WSJ subscriber for many years. Their competence for a simple task like getting a newspaper to the end of your driveway 6 days a week is terrible. In two residences, one in the winter and one in the summer, I subscribe to 5 different newspapers. I’m a “read the papers over coffee” guy. Rating the five, the WSJ rates dead last on performance. If you think I’m judging them too harshly, let me elaborate.

When I switched from the winter address to the summer address, I needed to stop a paper, re-start two, and switch addresses on two. The WSJ was a switch address. I was able to do everything on line, except for the WSJ. They require a phone call. They do not keep the addresses on file, so you must give them the summer/winter address each time. All other papers keep the addresses on file. Even the local paper in Illinois that my wife reads. In fact, The Daily Herald is the most competent and convenient to start and stop.

When I got to Illinois, the WSJ appeared on my driveway right on schedule. Then, 7 days later it stopped appearing. I sent an e-mail, no answer. I called the next day when it didn’t’ appear again. The person told me they just messed up the address change. Couldn’t be, they had it right for 7 days. Then, it was a billing problem. Couldn’t be, it was automatic renewals to credit card. Four days later I got a response to the original e-mail. They had it worked out, my WSJ would be in the mail the next day. Except, I don’t want mail delivery. Never had it, don’t want it. Now, two phone calls and three e-mails later, I’m told it was fixed, paper will be on the drive. It was. But, it was also in the mail. Two papers every day for 10 days.

Then I get an e-mail, a billing problem, credit card renewal didn’t go through. So I call. WSJ says credit card was put through and denied. I checked all data credit card number, expiration date, etc., and they were correct. So, I called the bank. WSJ never put any charges through.

Now, this week, paper on driveway not there, paper in mail is. Despite three customer service people telling me they have put a note to account, home delivery only. You might think they have a problem getting a home delivery, but a person who brings two other papers was dropping the WSJ.

Back to the e-mail to get the mail delivery stopped and the driveway delivery resumed. What do you think will happen? I already know. Two papers again, one in the mail and one on the drive. Until someone at the WSJ realizes I’m getting two papers. Then, they will cut off the driveway paper again.

I just find it very ironic that a newspaper that struggles for readership,and spends millions in advertising for new business, can have a subscriptions operations system out of the 80′s. It is also ironic that they aren’t self-monitoring. And, the same reporters that tear companies apart for their shortcomings aren’t assigned to investigate the employer.

Funny times we live in today.

Tags: Incomptent, Wall Street Journal
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An American Dream

May 29th, 2010

Someone sent me this in an e-mail. To do this presupposes we, the people, run the county, not the fools we keep putting in office. This is a true tea party platform. To accomplish something like this, we need to vote every one in office out of office and vote in candidates who endorse this platform. I have yet to hear one candidate running for any major office put forth this platform. Someone in Congress has actually written a bill that would force the senators and representatives to go on the same health care plan as the rest of us. How far will that go?

We keep acting as if we are victims of our government. Like any sickness, we will only get well if we accept our illness as fact. I wrote a blog months back that posed the question, what if Obama had run for governor of Illinois and Blagojevich had run for the senate? Would Obama be in court right now? You bet he would. And Blago would have skated right along in the Senate. We are about to see how the Sestak deal comes out. It’s Chicago politics in Washington. Too big to worry about ethics or the law, just like Blago. Rahm Emanuel was involved in both deals, selling Obama’s senate seat and trying to get Sestak out of the senate race in Pennsylvania. What does that say about Obama? It’s Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers all over again. Birds of a feather flock together.

Here’s the dream. Fat chance of making this a reality, even though the public vote would put it through.

Congressional Reform Act of 2010

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms