CBS whoring uses RW plant )CBS "does" Social Security privatization

[papau]

CBS "does" Social Security privatization
by Kevin Drum
Political Animal
December 10, 2004

<< MAN ON THE STREET?....NOT QUITE....CBS just can't seem to get anything right these days. Tonight they ran a segment on the evening news called "Social Security Changes" that featured an interview with a young man who could be "the poster child for Social Security reform." And indeed he could: 28 years old, 6 years of employment, planning to retire in 2042, and about to get married. "I don't expect to get anything from Social Security," said Tad DeHaven. "I don't consider it in terms of my long term planning. It's not going to be there." Needless to say, young Tad is all for private accounts.

Unfortunately, there's one crucial thing the segment doesn't mention: who Tad DeHaven is. A brief supertitle IDs him as a "National Taxpayers Union Employee," but that's it. Just an ordinary white collar working stiff like you and me, apparently.

Not quite. His website is here. It seems that DeHaven worked for the Heritage Foundation in 1998 and for Cato from 2001-2004 — both big supporters of Social Security privatization. For Cato he was a fiscal policy research assistant and was the author of "War Between the Generations: Federal Spending on the Elderly Set to Explode."

At NTU — also a supporter of Social Security privatization — DeHaven is an economic policy analyst who "uses his extensive experience to amplify our pro-taxpayer message to lawmakers and the public." Indeed he does!

So — just some random guy off the street? Not quite. More like a lobbyist for the very program the CBS segment was about. Don't they think their viewers might have appreciated that teensy weensy piece of information?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005295.php

[w4rma]

1. blatant. (nt)

[Gloria]

2. Sounds like the sort of "reporting" that John Stossel on ABC

would do.....

Christ, Rather isn't gone yet and the whole CBS thing seems to be crumbling....

Pelley and Roberts both possible replacements and suddenly both gone to the dogs....

[Sugarbleus]

3. This is another right wing group meeting w/ the prez on this issue

National Center for Policy Analysis

http://www.ncpa.org

John Goodman is the president of the org. He and Tom Saving, Sr. Fellow..along with Estelle James/Urban Institue gave a lengthy speech (on C-span yesterday) on the subject of "Social Security Reform". They are soooooooo full of shit.

Tom Saving has been meeting personally with Bush to formulate a "way" to privatize this hard won entitlement program. They, whether they realize it or not, are pure fascist in their ideals and motives.

I could NOT believe the gobbledy gook they spewed to the press. Estelle James used Chile as a model for social security "annuities" in this country. They all stopped just short of saying that it's everyman for himself--just skirting saying the government doesn't owe anything to the people :grr:...and...'Oh looky, how much fun we, the money makers, are all going to have with all that ss money going into investments'

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ these people HATE democracy and ANY sort of liberalism/free thought/individual human rights.

[Cocoa]

4. this is a scandal

one of the approx. ten zillion journalistic scandals that are worse than the stupid "Rathergate" but for which no one will be held accountable, no one will even notice.