Peanut gallery mum: Salmonella Republicans refuse to explain their deadly malfeasance
By David Neiwert Wednesday Feb 11, 2009 1:00pm
See that nice fellow up there refusing to answer any questions about why his company kept selling salmonella-tainted products even after it knew it was making them?
Doesn't it somehow figure that he was a Bush administration appointee to the USDA panel charged with overseeing the quality and safety of peanut products?
The president of the peanut company linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak serves on an industry advisory board that helps the U.S. Department of Agriculture set quality standards for peanuts.
Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corp. of America, based in Lynchburg, Va., was first appointed to the USDA’s Peanut Standards Board in July 2005 and was reappointed in October for a second term that runs until June 2011, according to the USDA.
Conservative governance in action, folks.
Parnell was removed from the board last week.
More about the Peanut Standards Board here.
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for "profit" just say it you jackass. actually some of them did mention cost during the questioning. the identity of the corporation has gone way too far. this sickens me.
Threaten to make him eat something made with that peanut paste if he doesn't talk.
A bush appointed fox assigned to guard the hen house? No surprise at all. Didn't bush have any friends that were good at doing something besides screwing shit up?
what do they say, birds of a feather flock together!
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Of course the TV spokesmodel in the clip certainly wasn't going to mention anything about the Bush appointment. It just wouldn't be polite to say aloud that we've been dealing with dangerous messes like this for years because Bush stacked the hen house with corrupt foxes whose mission was to clear a path through any regulations that wouldn't allow them to put people's lives in danger for higher profits.
They offered to let him eat some of his company's own product, some of which may have contaminated, during the hearing. He declined. The executives of that company should be in prison and subject to large civil penalties as well.
why? because they dont have too! these politicians can be bought ! simple as eating persimon pie!
Lynchburg?
How appropriate.
Same dull affect, same lack of remorse, same blank stare.
You cannot embarrass these people. And we cannot execute 'em, unfortunately. SO we have to break them another way: take away ALL their money, property, savings, and stocks. Break 'em down to nothing. It's no less than they deserve...
...and serve Peanut Butter & jelly sandwiches??!!
Peanut Butter & (jellyfish) sandwiches??!!
Typical question evasion. Remind you of some recent times?
BTW Dave, nice pun in your subject line. :P
China has the decency to execute people that pull this kind of crap.
they don't just execute real criminals, they also execute people who "embarrass" the State.
Lord, if we did that, we would run out of execution supplies.
oh, i don't know they made a lot of peanut(salmonella) paste. give them a taste of their own paste.
Good thing he isn't in China, they probably would have executed him by now.
lol someone JUST commented on that before you pop.
They say great minds think alike. Well, we just proved that other kinds of minds think alike too. ;)
I said a similar thing in my below comment before I read yours. Yes, great minds do think alike.
The other half of "great minds think alike" is traditionally "fools seldom differ."
I'm sorry I mentioned it now....;)
When I see corporate scum like this, how I wish this were China. A room, a chair, and a an explosive cranial enema is what he needs. Who cares what he has to say.
EDIT: Hmmm, justice Chinese style seems to be popular here today :)
When you hear about or read the description of what the place was like where this stuff was made, it makes you gag. Totally gross and disgusting.
Surely not as bad as a GOP convention?
nothing's as bad as that!!! not even hell on a hot day!
And the horrorshow that was the Bush administration just keeps on delivering! Expect much MUCH more of this as every department Bush stacked with corporate foxes reveals itself to be as truly corrupt and devoid of morality as the White House.
THIS is what has become of America under Bush/Cheney. A thoroughly corrupt banana republic.
Can we render this jerk to China?
suggesting rendering for him? How appropriate.
....HAH!!!!
I need to get that checked. Lol.
Is it the 10th or the 14th he is due to go to Congress and sing.
I didn't hear that he had turned up for his date yesterday.
christ, he has so much to clean up
bush turned back the clock to the 20s
Well, I think Bush turned it back to the END of the 20s, culminating with a nice long depression. Pretty apt for that numbnut actually.
without the fabulous 20s-30s aesthetics...
They should be kissing his ass for volunteering for what Bush has turned into the worst fucking job in the world.
No shit! He's a hell of a man for taking such a god awful job.
we'll soon have our resident Canuck and the others here saying, "See, Obama's just like Bush, cuz' he didn't fire this guy right away. No Change!". Just wait and see.
Bankers say they'll clean up their act:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Bankers-vow-to-...
I think we've learned once again, the hard way, about the "free market" regulating itself. There is only one solution to this, only one way to protect our economy, our consumers. Regulate the shit out of these people, they WILL NOT do it themselves.
And some Congresscritter is happily lobbying for them to steal the American pension.
hey you know what happened to the corporate head who tried to cover up the tainted milk in China? That person is now pending to be executed. Now i know we're a modernized country that doesn't believe in the death penalty (well, me personally at least), but at least we should put these greedy, irresponsible, corporate bastards in jail for life. Our country is WAY too soft on white collar crime and it's about time we bring back some discipline and responsibilty back on these SOBs.
Hey, you put salmon in my peanut butter!
Hey, you put peanut butter on my salmon!
Two great tastes that go great together!
When these criminals take the 5th, it usually means there are indictments coming down the pike. These criminals need to go to jail for life.
and their money. Which would they miss the most?
I imagine every family who lost a family member will be suing these guys big time. Of course their assets are probably hidden away in the Caymans.
and say it... Off with his head!!! or better yet, feed him some of that peanut butter and peanut crappy-product he's not answering questions about, the effin' efftard!
Someone in authority would have placed a gun at the back of head and pulled the trigger. Fortunately for this killer, he lives in the USA where he is at least entitled to a trial. Hope the families that are suffering from his negligence sue this ugly face into oblivion.
I say this turd needs to be fed a nice lunch of peanut butter sandwiches followed by say, peanut butter cookies washed down with some melamine-tainted milk.
or strip these turds naked, smear peanut butter all over them and lock them in a room full of ravenous, rabid rats.
I read a great violent image the other day in Bad Mag's volume 1. They have about a 40 page section of the short stories of Ed Woods Jr., who turned out to be a prolific writer, and not too bad. Not all have been found though, but people are looking for them. Woods wrote for underground magazines, and even edited some, of the late sixties to mid seventies, that were primarily about sex and violence.
In a story called Blood Gutters, an insane killer targets this one guy he thinks is gay. But his target convinces him he could help him become a professional killer, which is his ambition, and takes him to his office. It turns out he runs a human version of a chop shop, where people are vivisected for spare parts. They strap the insane killer to an autopsy table, that had the gutters of the title for draining the corpse. During a long drawn out torture process, the insane killer is sure he'll escape and fantasized about his retribution. In his fantasy, he pictures ripping out the guy's eyeballs, make him eat them, then make him vomit, so he can take his eyeballs, and shove them up his ass, so he can watch as his butt is kicked.
And I was like, "Whoa...Hank Hill on crack!"
A good scifi writer and novelist (Startrek & Twilight Zone etc) but one of the strange ones.
How do you explain these jokers. Rotten to the core and don't give a shit. There are some families suffering out there because of the decisions of this so called "businessman", and he could care less. These Repubs seem to be all alike, heartless.
Contempt of Congress. Jail. NEXT!
OH OH I know, I know.
How about some one in law enforcement do their frickin job, March in, Arrest these pieces of crap, Charge them with MURDER!. Send them to Guantanamo, throw away the key and let the Taliban have them as boy toys. Go ahead, plead the 5th, All the other testimony was all I needed to hear to find these low life's GUILTY! How unconscionable.
Heckuva job, Stewie!
I've been hearing about this Owner/CEO....but I didn't know he was a Bush appointee.
It's bad enough when the CEO of a company doesn't have the smarts, the ethics, nor the conscience to properly run his company. But when the President of the U.S. hires people like this and has screwed up in so many other areas....I just don't know what to say any more.
I'm telling you...we have not seen the last of Bush's screwups. What other kind of deregulation and lack of oversight has Bush the Chimp overseen? We've had salmonella outbreaks in other foodstuffs this past year or two.
Oh, and by the way, throw those peanut guys in jail.
We have just now scratched the surface of Bush's fuck ups and I look forward 10 years, when The Secret Service stops protecting the Crook known as Bush, and his family!
Mr. Peanut looked classy, this guy looks like Humpty Dumpty
Respectfully, huh?
What a waste of time. What a waste of breath.
means "GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY Look at me I'm GUILTY"
He's a domestic terrorist...he knew that this product was tainted, and distributed it anyway...
9 people have died, 654 are in hospital...
Set him down at a table and make him eat his own products ...some that were distributed...not the new batch..
then the sun shines out of their.... and no matter what they do, they are lauded and promoted to sit on USDA food safety panels.
Then we read of the conditions of the plant where they made their products. Good job the USDA were on the case, oh wait...
Whats the odds they will do a Haliburton, and offer money to make the case go away.
The peanut poisoner reminds me of Lard-Ass Hannity.
Dead people tell no lies.
Full hearing...
Peanut Corp. of America owner Stewart Parnell pleaded the 5th amendment thus refusing to answer questions during today's House Energy & Commerce Cmte. hearing on the nationwide salmonella outbreak. The committee also heard from government witnesses on their investigation of Peanut Corp. of America.
Washington, DC : 4 hr. 15 min.
[http://www.cspan.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-R-15319] 04:14:34hr
...is execute pigs such as Stewart Parnell.
No wonder one of the Bush administration's main goals was tort reform. They wanted to take away citizens abilities to fight back against gross negligence of CEOs and those responsible for turning a blind eye to safety just make more money.
There must be strict laws and mandatory jail time for the people who knowingly send out tainted products to consumers. Sure sounds like domestic terrorism to me.
is his relation to Bush reason we are just now finding source of the Salmonella poisoning. Bush has been unable to find source of Salmonella since September. this is almost unheard of even in third world countries. Now Obama is in two weeks and we have found the source?????
Is there any way in which Bush is not the biggest criminal who has ever held office?
a republican can hypocritically embrace the constitution after 8 years of pissing on it. odd that the first amendment remembered is the 5th.
These guys aren't just crooks & Liars. They are murderers for profit!
You might need a killers & violent criminals section.
Sort of like Law and Order Special Unit series.
sending him to china sounds like a good idea at first but why not put this scumbag in a room and let the families of his victims have at him first the parents of the sick kids then the parents bro's sis's and so on....till theres barely enough left of him to fit in a peanutbutter jar and then bush and cheney
Or CSI Mattress Tag Unit.
If somebody goes off the deep end and fatally injures this COCKSUCKER,PLEASE let me be selected to be on the jury so I can vote to not punish the perp! As a matter of fact,not only declare the perp innocent but re-emburse the cost of the persons ammo! (if they use a fire arm)
What a stretch!!!! Bush admin had nothing to do with this volenteer appt!!!!
The all-volunteer board isn't directly involved with food-safety issues. Its main duties are to advise the USDA on how to grade and classify peanuts after they come out of the field --- setting the sizes for jumbo vs. medium peanuts, for instance, or standards on how much moisture they should contain before they're allowed on store shelves.
The Peanut Standards Board was created by the 2002 Farm Bill
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