What the GD hell is he talking about? On MTP, Steven Pearlstein of the WP..

[truth2power]

Tom Brokaw remarked about all the CEOs walking away with millions of $$ and Pearlstein minimizing it...saying trillions lost in all and we shouldn't be blaming and not talking about criminality because these people (poor babies) made a "mistake". Didn't know what they were doing. I don't know. I'd need a transcript, but what a crock of sh*t! This makes me soooo angry!

Who is this Pearlstein guy? One of the thugs, I'd say. There's never, never, never, never any blame. They just walk away with OUR money. We're doomed!

[Solly Mack]

1. "mistakes were made" 3 words that have brought a nation to its knees

[madokie]

2. Yes mistakes were made

and they be not the mistakes they want us to think they are, either

[Solly Mack]

4. Since Bush/Cheney were placed in office it's been the mantra for

everything..."mistakes were made" (911, Iraq, spying, the economy, etc..)

[chimpymustgo]

5. Steve Leisman: Wall Street will never be the same again.

Perlstein: Regional banks coming next.

[madokie]

7. neither will we

and I'm getting more pissed as time goes on.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Mistakes? This was done a-purpose.

[Solly Mack]

8. I'm not the one calling it a mistake

the guy on the tube did

I brought up the fact that 3 words "mistakes were made "have been used over and over again to explain away criminality and those 3 words have brought a nation to its knees

and if anyone remembers, "mistakes were made" is a favorite mantra of the Bush admin.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Understood.

We both know where the blame rests.

[deminks]

3. Pearlstein actually said "we should look forward, not backward"

at the pile we just stepped in. Reminds me of Congress taking impeachment off the table. Pearlstein wants future criminal charges off the table.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

9. Yeah - they always want to look forward past their mistakes and

fogetaboudit! If they want us to sacrifice, they need to sacrifice too. New rule: From now on, when we are told to look forward, it is with the understanding that we will will look forward to seeing these crooks getting theirs.

[Solly Mack]

11. the guilty like to promote that kind of thinking

[kcass1954]

13. We let the telecoms off the hook -

we might as well let Wall Street and the bankers off as well. It's only fair. :sarcasm:

[Vinca]

12. This entire bailout scheme is beginning to piss me off big time.

Average Americans are allowed to lose their homes, veterans are homeless in the streets, the uninsured go bankrupt or die, but what happens when the first private jet is in peril? A gigantic, socialistic scheme to make sure the fucking megawealthy don't lose a dime. Profit is private, loss is shared. The world must look at us with astonishment. No socialized medicine for the masses, but the government is right there with socialized bailouts for billionaires. I can't decide whether to laugh or cry.

[PsN2Wind]

14. Is that the same prick that said

they had already been punished as they had lost their wealth? If Brokaw was a serious journalist he would have asked for an example of even one of these executives of these mismanaged financials that had "lost their wealth".

[tannybogus]

15. I almost broke my teevee when he said that.

Why do they think people will try this shit? I know some would do it anyway,

but knowing they will not be punished doesn't help.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Because that didn't fit with the blame the victim mentality.

I never heard any corporate media pundit or their guests mention the ratio of CEO pay going from 26x their average employee's salary to over 400xs since 1989 as being a contributing factor.

I also didn't catch any corporate media pundit or guest acknowledge the devastating effect on the overall economy created by our dysfunctional addiction to fossil fuel energy and the explosion in those costs.

Do these people honestly believe the price of gasoline can rise 15% a year for eight years while wages remain stagnant and this not have an adverse effect on Main Street and in turn Wall Street!?

How many people lost their homes and businesses because the price of transportation and it's negative domino effect went through the roof putting savings, spending or investing on the back burner because increasing numbers of people were just trying to get by from pay check to pay check? How many people fell behind on their obligations because more of their hard earned money went in to their gas tanks?

The government should have been encouraging the switchover to more efficient and environmentally sound means of energy years ago, for the sake of the environment and national security reasons as they've become intertwined.

Now that Cheney/Bush's corporate masters have made and are making a killing on the people to the breaking point of the economy, the corporate media which enabled these corrupt incompetents to power in the first place want to play the blame the victim game and screw the people even more.

Thanks for the thread, truth2power.

[BrainStorm]

17. "Made a mistake" must be a focus group tested phrase

Everyone can "make a mistake" so we are all guilty of something, right?