AMERICAblog: Why is the corporate media refusing to write stories about McCain's sleazy Keating Five banking scandal?
Lolis
· 1 year ago
The press only seems to cover stories these days if the campaigns push the issue. The exception being Palin and Obama because they were "new." I think the press gets bored with Washington insiders like McCain, Clinton, and Biden.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I would really like to know the answer to that question. It is applicable, now more than ever and NOT one word in the MSM and very little in the blogosphere. I see comments from time to time mentioning the Keating 5 scandal but no explanation of what it was or McCain's involvement. There are many, many too young to know what this scandal was and what was involved. I would go further and say many don't bother to click the links provided in the comments.
So it isn't just the main stream media not reporting on it. It goes deeper. Believe me, if the bog community pushed the issue it would become news.
scooter in brooklyn
· 1 year ago
probably for the same reason they wont write about his gay chief of staff, Mark Buse. I guess you see things like this all the time John, but really, the hypocrisy is off the charts.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Why? It requires research. The middle school interns who populate today's newsrooms download their stories from approved on-line sources. Nobody said anything about research or writing. That's not part of the curriculum. Developing appropriate computer skills is the whole program.
BTW, when we tire of going after CEOs and bankers and even newsbots, university presidents with "innovative" post-literate educational programs are fair game.
WJBaker
· 1 year ago
After the reported conference call, where McCain's camp was complaining about fairness and bias, maybe this should be a response. If the media is so unfair, how many times have they mentioned this?
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
The very name of the scandal is the Keating 5 Scandal, if it weren't for McCain, it would be the Keating 4 Scandal. It's not like he was some peripheral character in it.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
McCain's campaign is trying desperately to tie Obama to this mess by invoking Rezko yet McCain who was admonished by the Senate for his Keating involvement is a true and proven fact. No one has to play word games or use vocal inflection to infer guilt, McCain was publicly admonished.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
At least Rich brought it up in his column yesterday, briefly. The editorial board consensus: it's ancient history, it's all too complicated for a 30-second ad, and McCain just reprimanded for poor judgment, nothing more. And a brave war hero and POW should be forgiven all his past booboos. He took his licks, earned his demerits, beat his breast with mea culpas, "led" reform, and so the slate wiped clean, just like whenever he fucked up at the Naval Academy.
kirkaracha
· 1 year ago
His POW experience was 40 years ago and has nothing to do with being president. If that's not "ancient history" then his involvement 20 years ago in a scandal that's directly relevant should be fair game.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
is this a trick question?
CORPORATE Media is in favor of CORPORATE McCain.
Wild_Weasel
· 1 year ago
In many ways, the 2008 Wall Street Crash is far worse than the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
Unfortunately, the Wall Street crooks of 2008 do not have the integrity, juevos or character of their predecessors.
Right about now, many of them should be jumping out of windows on Wall Street.
shanobama
· 1 year ago
Could it be because Alan Greenspan was involved too?
He signed off on Lincoln Savings and Loan, saying it was 'sound' right before it failed. Shocking that all the main political players in the S&L crisis LEARNED NOTHING FROM THAT EXPERIENCE.
They got a do-over and they blew it even worse.
Stevens
· 1 year ago
Keating 5? Why cover that old news? At least that's what Bill O'Reilly said on the radio one day when a caller asked him why he didn't mention it and McCain's affairs. It's so long ago O'Reilly opined...no one cares about that.
It's time McCain's part in the Keating 5 was brought up in the media...especially light of the recent banking news. People at his rallys and town hall meetings need to stand up and ask him about it. The reporters need to ask him about it. The columnists need to write about it.
Now that McCain is running TV ads about Obama's "associations" with the Chicago Machine (how interesting it is that I saw this ad air the same day O'Reilly is airing his Obama "associations" hit piece on The O'Reilly Factor tonight: The Obama Chronicles), Obama needs to hit back with an ad about McCain's Keating 5 associations, etc. If you were to listen to the media, it's almost as if the Keating 5 scandal never even happened.......
munjoyfan
· 1 year ago
Sugestion: write a short---one paragraph--history of the event, encourage people to email it like a news release to everyone in their address books. Let''s create our own news bureau and sindicated system for disseminating the news.
TheRealGrendel
· 1 year ago
Perhaps because they can fuse Google to find Wikipedia and read
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".
That little bit in there "cleared of having acted improperly"
And if exercised "poor judgment" prevents one from being president then Obama better quit right now.
All Comments
So it isn't just the main stream media not reporting on it. It goes deeper. Believe me, if the bog community pushed the issue it would become news.
BTW, when we tire of going after CEOs and bankers and even newsbots, university presidents with "innovative" post-literate educational programs are fair game.
CORPORATE Media is in favor of CORPORATE McCain.
Unfortunately, the Wall Street crooks of 2008 do not have the integrity, juevos or character of their predecessors.
Right about now, many of them should be jumping out of windows on Wall Street.
He signed off on Lincoln Savings and Loan, saying it was 'sound' right before it failed. Shocking that all the main political players in the S&L crisis LEARNED NOTHING FROM THAT EXPERIENCE.
They got a do-over and they blew it even worse.
It's time McCain's part in the Keating 5 was brought up in the media...especially light of the recent banking news. People at his rallys and town hall meetings need to stand up and ask him about it. The reporters need to ask him about it. The columnists need to write about it.
Now that McCain is running TV ads about Obama's "associations" with the Chicago Machine (how interesting it is that I saw this ad air the same day O'Reilly is airing his Obama "associations" hit piece on The O'Reilly Factor tonight: The Obama Chronicles), Obama needs to hit back with an ad about McCain's Keating 5 associations, etc. If you were to listen to the media, it's almost as if the Keating 5 scandal never even happened.......
After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".
That little bit in there "cleared of having acted improperly"
And if exercised "poor judgment" prevents one from being president then Obama better quit right now.