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By Mike Finnigan Friday Jul 17, 2009 7:00amWonk Room: Black Chamber of Commerce CEO calls Barbra Boxer a racist
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The corporate fascists at the COC are getting desperate. Next they'll be calling people racist who eat cocoa puffs.
I just had Barbara's Chocolate AND Vanilla Bunnies cereal. She was very inclusive in her integrated cereal. But for some reason they discontinued that flavor with a new one called Jungle Bunnies.
for us to have chance of seeing any kind of green shoots sprouting.
The only other chance for survival as we knew it is if people start consuming like the easy credit crazed maniacs of the 90's.
Don't expect businesses to invest much more without lots of consumers hankering after lots of new stuff like crazed maniacs.
Nice...
It reminded me quality wise...of FORA.tv
→ → →[ http://fora.tv/ ]
Reminds me of some of the BBC offerings and the Knowledge Network in British Columbia. Great stuff for anyone who is intellectually curious and is willing to move out of the shallow end of the pool.
PCR is a must-read every time he submits something to C-punch
and this article is all the more illuminating (for those still in the dark) as we see obama attend a corzine rally
Corzine, trying to link his own beleaguered campaign to Obama’s presidency, noted, “Now, with a partner in the White House, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.” (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/0...)
i am sure his old company,
goldmangovernment sachs, feels exactly the same...wanna depress yourselves? check out kevin phillips' must-read "wealth and democracy", and let the depression and anger flow. america, being the dominant economic power today, 'financialized' its economy, which follows a startling pattern of previous econ powerhouses (spain, holland, britain) doing the same... right before they collapsed and another nation-state took over as the econ leader.
...into the discussion for colorization.
You know, I just thought about something that happened about 35 years ago. Does anyone remember Richard Nixon freezing all wages? I do.
So, if the President then could freeze wages, why can't the President now put a stop to the bonuses with our money? Just askin'??
I don't know, maybe I'm missin' sumpin'.
They need to start slapping people like that Black Chamber of Commerce spokesman for big oil, and that idiot prat of a doctor with Contempt of Congress charges.
The guy's accusation is as eye-rollingly stupid as when condi tried to pull the feminist card.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LfZypqW2to
(in Butthead's voice)
Huh, huh, uh, huh huh huh huh,
Barbara called Condi barren.
jesus... she fucked up something pretty simple, nice job barbra boxer...
it could have been an easy job to undercut this oil-whore's credibility without having to bring in the naacp or any racial topics. it is simple: exxon pays the nbcc and the nbcc shills for exxon. we have seen it time and time again with exxon hush-money, from scientists to politicians to special interest groups. but boxer had to fuck it up. nice job barbra.
National Black Chamber of Commerce has received $275,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report
2003
$40,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report
2004
$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report
2005
$60,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report
2007
$75,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2007 Worldwide Giving Report
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet...
where she fucked up. The guy himself made it a racial issue. She was trying to make the point that Exxon Mobile contributed to BCC and the results he supported were Exxon Mobiles.
By siting the NAACP to butress her point she gave that Micheal Steele with a gas nozzle stuck up his ass dude an out.
Citing.
Isn't this exciting?
Samson, I have some links in a comment further down. Boxer did point out that the report Alford was citing was funded by Exxon - the Wonk Room video clips that somewhat. Alford claims, hostilely, that he has "no idea of that," which is almost certainly BS.
I agree Boxer could have played this better, and started with the Exxon stuff - including the stats you mention.
thanks for the correction/information
is clearly full of crap. If you read the substance of the quote Alford has a very good point. Clearly Boxer was trying to trump Alford's Black Chamber of Commerce group with the NAACP's position. If race wasn't relevant why did she use the NAACP? Are they the definitive authority on energy and climate legislation? The clear implication of Boxer's comments was to suggest that the NAACP's position is the authorative Black position. Whether you agree with the position or not is irrelevant. Boxer's tactic here was to use race as Alford observed. He did not call her a racist.
See my comment further down, and follow the links. Alford is an oil company shill who was there specifically to talk about the impact of proposed climate change legislation on minority-owned small businesses. From his testimony:
Boxer didn't play this well, but if Alford is going to claim special insight into the minority business owner perspective, it's absolutely relevant to point out that other minority business owners (not paid by oil companies) don't share his view.
certainly disagree with Alford's perspective on the legislation but he makes no bones about the interests he represents which is, in fact, minority owned businesses, specifically black owned businesses. His concerns are legitimate. The legislation should be crafted to achieve the stated goals while minimizing adverse consequences in so far as that is possible. The NAACP has completely different goals and I fail to see its' relevance to the matter at hand. Wonk Room was wrong to suggest that Alford called Boxer a racist. It was Boxer who introduced the racial motif when she pointlessly brought the NAACP into the discussion imho.
The "interests" Alford represents are the oil companies, while claiming to represent minority business owners. I'll presume he speaks for some of them, but Boxer's point was that he doesn't speak for all. The NAACP obviously cares about its members' economic success, so it doesn't have completely different goals. It was hardly pointless.
No one disagrees on the adverse consequences part, but the question is the best policy. I'd add that Alford is not that credible, given his funding and his extraordinary claim - more of a denial - that Exxon funded the report he cited.
Again, I think Boxer was clumsy, but given Alford's claims, what she said was relevant. Alford didn't use the specific word "racist," but he said "being racial" repeatedly.
I agree with you that Alford touches on some legitimate points - I just think he himself is mostly full of crap. I think Boxer's mistake was giving him any cause to bluster, and let him distract from the record, that suggests he's a shill. I'd have pushed him on his claim that he didn't know who funded the study, since it means either he's a liar or he doesn't do his homework. I still want to see a longer clip, but Alford was hostile before even the Wonk Room clip, too.
But I would like to point out that one of the editor's picks is Thomas Friedman and The World is Flat 3.0 which is purest undiluted bullshit.
you should be thankful to have such an accurate yardstick with which you can gage all other fresh excreta.
You are right Friedman does provide an exceptionally stable reference sample.
Academic Earth looks cool.
On Alford, I'd recommend two links. Isaiah Poole has a good piece on the incident, and what a shill Alford is. If you read Alford's testimony and see more of the video, you'll see he's there specifically to talk about the impact of proposed climate change legislation on minority owners. I'd like to find an even longer clip, but the Wonk Room clip doesn't show that Alford gets hostile with Boxer before this exchange.
Boxer's mention of Exxon funding the study Alford endorses is a bit clipped in the shorter Wonk Room video:
Boxer could have played this better – most of all by starting with the Exxon stuff, and citing Alford's testimony on minority owners before going to the NAACP and 100 Man statements (although she preceded those with the Pew report), because those would be more direct rebuttals of his claims (or have a member of one of those groups there).
Still, Alford is heavily funded by the oil industry, the idea that he didn't know that the study was funded by them strains all credulity (she could have pushed on that), and this looks like feigned outrage by him.
I'd still like to find a longer clip and a transcript of the hearings, though.
was trying a hostile takeover of Farmer's Insurance, Farmer's tried to label BATUS as supportive of the South African Apartheid regime.
BATUS made Kool and was the largest corporate contributor to the Congressional Black Caucus and the United Negro College Fund. Turns out Farmer's not only redlined by zipcode, they had a computer program that excluded black diver's by targeting people with Presidential last names. Or so I remember the fight.
This Alford is a store-bought stooge who bills himself as speaking for the black community. His org's membership is secret, he's owned and operated by Big Oil, and he has the nerve to cry 'race' when Boxer points out that the NAACP disgarees with him on the issue? Puuuleeze...
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