Anyone see Paul O'Niell on 60 Minutes last night?

[bif]

He's gotta be on Shrubbie's Shit List now, eh?

[matcom]

1. sure did

and the "news" is even talking about it! :bounce:

BOUTFUCKINGTIME if you ask me

[underpants]

3. Oh yes they are

Second story (Suskind interview IN the studio) on Today

and

The Fox morning show was trying to explain this away this morning. Their call in question was "Money Man Mouths off : "Treasury"-chest of knowledge or sellout?

Gues which one the Fox viewers chose. The standard line is that O'Neill didn't have access to info on WMD which of course is not true as he SAT ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL and received every memo as he was the Sec. of the freakin' Treasury. Oooops.

[fishguy]

8. O'Neill took no money for the book. Sellout?!

[private_ryan]

12. he's worth over $100 million and retired

he cited that when he said that there isn't much that they can do to him.

[populistmom]

2. Yup

I was even stirred by it enough to make GD posts about it :wow: .

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Beat the drum.

Over and Over and Over again.

"A Blind Man in A Room Full of Deaf Men".

Just the thing to put on an endless tape loop on out Mighty Wurlitzer.

[jpgray]

5. I was busy. Did Wonk get it, by any chance? (nt)

[lovedems]

6. Not only did I see the O'Neill interview, did anybody find the following

story about the outsourcing of jobs to India interesting? "When you call about your credit card information, chances are you will be talking to somebody in India" and they show you how they are teaching English as part of the job and they are ACTUALLY being taught the definition of the phrase "quit yanking my chain". And that they all have given themselves "american names". I thought the O'Neill clip was great, followed up by the outsourcing of jobs, even better. I thought of it as a "double whammy".

[BiggJawn]

11. I recognized some of those voices.

MCI and my "local" phone company must be using Indian call centers now.

[bearfan454]

7. I hope this guy doesn't commit suicude

It could happen with the BFEE.

[fishguy]

9. O'Neill said he is old and has money, so he does not care

[glarius]

10. Their line is "he was not taken seriously or listened to by anyone"..

Remember little weasel David Frum, the former Bush speech writer?...He's a Canadian who lives in Washington and appears on our TV up here periodically to inform us how we should be treating the Bush regime....Sure enough, he was on CTV bright and early this morning saying...."Nobody in the White House listened to O'Neill." He said that O'Neill was a successful businessman who came to Washington and thought people would defer to him and found out nobody was interested in his ideas...so he's bitter...He said O'Neill said nothing but wacky things....This is going to be how they try to kill the effect of O'Neill's book....Of course Frum forgot to mention that O'Neill worked for the Nixon and Ford White House too....He also said our New Prime Minister Paul Martin should be ready to "make up" with Bush...Uuugghh..:puke:

[BiggJawn]

13. That's the "astroturf" down here, too. Started yesterday.

O'Neil is a "disgruntled ex-employee" with an ax to grind...."Nobody listened to his crazy ideas"..."Not a 'Team Player'..."

I think the former Secretary of the Treasury deserves a little more than to be brushed off like the mouthy guy from the mail room...

[underpants]

14. Problem is he was on the Nat.Security council and has copies of everything

Whooops!