Grayson: "Politico Is Part Of A Permanent Government That Was Established Under Bush Administration"

[Turborama]

Run time: 04:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSUnn1rab8s   Posted on YouTube: August 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views on YouTube: 261   Posted on DU: August 14, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 4540

 
Tell it, Al!

"Politico is part of a permanent government that was established under the Bush administration. These are the same people, these ideologues, these right wing ideologues, who have been populating the government in the bureaucracy now for a decade... who met the political litmus test of the Bush administration. They are still there. They're in the think-tanks, they're in these house organs like Politico and they're in the bureaucracy. They are the permanent government and we have done nothing so far to clean them out."

Ed: Do you think they are a credible news source?

Grayson: No I don't. I think that they are a rag. We use them in my office to wrap fish.



(can't find the transcript yet, so just transcribed the key part)

From: Boys' night out: "The Politico guys," Rove's top disciple and how our press corps works

=snip=

...Martin wrote a widely-cited post at Politico vigorously -- even angrily -- defending John McCain from accusations that the McCain/Palin campaign has been exploiting racist resentment. Sounding like Rush Limbaugh (or Karl Rove), Martin railed against what he called the "outrage industry, ever on the lookout for any sign of racism and quick to pounce even when it's not there," and repeatedly lamented on McCain's behalf that he's in "in a no-win position." (Martin was among those who attended the cozy weekend at the McCain compound in Sedona in March and caused Megan McCain so memorably to gush: "It was really fun to kind of see big journalist figures like Holly Bailey swinging on the tire swing, and Jon Martin helping my dad grill ribs . . . The guys from the Politico brought (my mom, Cindy) flowers which I still think is the most adorable thing ever, so thank you, I thought it was like so cute that they decided to bring my mom flowers . . . ")

=snip=

Full piece: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/12/griffin

[Tx4obama]

1. Grayson talks TOO fast ... this is all I could type up for ya ;)

Alan Grayson: ".... well look you identified the problem perfectly - in the House we've passed over 300 bills that the Senate hasn't even taken up. And I took the trouble this week of looking to identify the bills that the Senate has acted on that the House hasn't taken up, there's only a couple of dozen of them they have to do mostly with renaming post offices. So, this is where we are, the House is getting its work done, the Senate is not getting its work done and why ? Because the Republicans in the Senate are acting as a block to prevent anybody from getting any work done. That's the problem from start to finish, the House could be back in session for every day from now until the end of time it doesn't make any difference if the republicans in the senate are blocking everything that they can. At this point if you put a cure for Cancer up in the Senate it would get filibustered."

[Turborama]

2. Thank-you for doing that!

You're right, it's because he goes for fitting as much as possible in within the short amount of time he's allocated, he's a genius at doing that.

That cure for cancer comment was another gem!

:hi:

[Ghost Dog]

6. That's what I don't get. Why don't you folks just

abolish, or at least neuter the Senate?

[AlbertCat]

36. abolish, or at least neuter the Senate?

Oh please! It's in the Constitution. It's a structural part of our government. It's the place where every state, regardless of size or population, gets equal representation. And it worked just fine until one party ignored the rules and protocol. And that party is the Republican party. Why don't we abolish the GOP instead?

[KakistocracyHater]

39. then what if a Bill gets passed by Dem Senators & it goes into effect in

those States only, is this a possible end-run around the GNOP? Even if it means blazing a new trail? Is this legally feasable?

[The Wizard]

3. Has Politico

reported on the Senate Republicans filibustering (99% in lockstep) every meaningful bill in that chamber?
Grayson is correct again, it's a rag.
Politico is greasing the skids for America going fascist and democracy's demise.

[sabrina 1]

4. I love Alan Grayson. I think he loves baiting the right.

He gets a kick out of getting them all riled up, unlike so many others who go out of their way not to upset them.

He should give lessons in Congress, especially the Senate on how to deal with the rabid right. They are scared of him. Sen. Byrd used to give classes on Senate Procedure. So some classes on Congressional Spine from Grayson should be started asap. He ENJOYS it :rofl:

Go Al!!

[lillypaddle]

5. Love this guy, too

Go,Alan!

[ProgressOnTheMove]

7. Yeah I thought I smelt something fishy with Politico.

[bulloney]

8. Is Politico any different than any other "news" media?

Wonder why the MSM news coverage on our invasion of Iraq was such a joke? Look at who sponsors the newscasts. They include defense contractors like GE and other corporations that have an interest in escalating military spending.

Wonder why farm policy is such a joke and why you never hear the downside of the so-called free-trade agreements? Look at newscast sponsors such as ADM, Monsanto and the like.

Wonder why we introduce drugs on the market that create deadly side effects a few years later? You can't listen to anything on TV for 15 minutes without seeing one of those stupid drug commercials that give you some vague idea of what it treats for 15 seconds, followed by a 45-second disclaimer on the side effects.

You can make the same case on the horrible coverage on Wall Street corporations' responsibility for our market meltdowns, for oil companies' irresponsible policies when accidents happen, and on and on.

This has been going on long before there was a Politico.

[bbgrunt]

16. yes, this is nothing new...more corporate media.

[Uncle Joe]

24. I believe the difference is in projected psychological public perception.

The traditional, Republican brown nosing corporate media; have known for well over a decade, that they screwed the pooch in regards to the American People's trust of them and that as the Internet's power and influence waxed, their's would wane.

Their solution was to place them selves in the Internet under a camouflaged appearance, this way the televised corporate media could call on "Politico" as being representative of the Internet during their traditional corporate media broadcasts, thereby distorting the will, intent, and message of the overall more progressive Internet to the more 20th century based, television news reliant public.

Basically Politico is a stop/gap method to buy the traditional corporate media more time to neuter/fix and/or take control of the Internet.

[Turborama]

40. You explained it perfectly, Uncle Joe!

Thank you!

[BetterThanNoSN]

9. Politicoincidence

You think it's by chance that Scarborough uses Politico as his Washington inside news source? Always reliable softballs to be tossed back for Moanin Joe to hit outta the park!

[NYMdaveNYI]

22. I don’t understand how msnbc lets this guy.....

spew his ignorance all around for three hours every morning.

[leveymg]

10. Politico published by the Texas bankers that gave Bush Sr. a job after he was fired as CIA Director

Politico is owned by the Allbriton family. Father Joe Allbriton owned BCCI-connected Riggs Bank, closed down after 9/11 as a conduit for Saudi terrorist financing. The Allbritons also own WJLA, the DC affiliate of ABC-TV. Joe previously owned First International Bancshares that employed Poppy Bush as Director of its Luxembourg branch right after Carter fired him from the CIA. Poppy went on to turn First American into a CIA-affiliate of BCCI.

Politico is the tool of a group of Texas bankers and Saudi-controlled covert operators that bankrolled the 9/11 attack. This is the same group that also took over First American Bankshares, which set off another spook-related major bank looting scandal.

Rep. Grayson is right. But, he should have added "secret permanent government" to that description.

From History Commons:

1978-1982: Criminal BCCI Secretly Buys CIA’s Main US Bank; Even as CIA Uses Bank for Covert Operations
Edit event

Kamal Adham.Kamal Adham. Beginning in 1978, a group of foreign investors attempt to buy First American Bankshares, the biggest bank in the Washington, D.C., area. This group is fronted by Kamal Adham, the longtime Saudi intelligence minister until 1979. In 1981, the Federal Reserve asks the CIA for information about the investors, but the CIA holds back everything they know, including the obvious fact that Adham was intelligence minister. As a result, the sale goes through in 1982. It turns outs that Adham and his group were secretly acting on behalf of the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and BCCI takes over the bank. Time magazine will later report that “the CIA kept some accounts in First American Bank, BCCI’s Washington arm.” But additionally, “Government investigators now have proof that First American had long been the CIA’s principal banker. Some of the more than 50 agency accounts uncovered at the bank date back to the 1950s. BCCI owned the CIA’s bank for a decade.” The CIA soon learns that BCCI secretly controls the bank, if the CIA didn’t already know this from the very beginning. By 1985, the CIA will secretly inform the Treasury Department on the bank’s control by BCCI, which would be illegal. But no action is taken then or later, until BCCI is shut down. Sen. John Kerry’s BCCI investigation will later conclude, “even when the CIA knew that BCCI was as an institution a fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it used both BCCI and First American, BCCI’s secretly held US subsidiary, for CIA operations. In the latter case, some First American officials actually knew of this use.”

Entity Tags: US Federal Reserve, First American Bankshares, Central Intelligence Agency, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Kamal Adham, US Department of the Treasury

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline
Bookmark and Share

[MikeMc]

13. Thanks to you, and Turbo

They always looked like B.S. repugs to me, but I never had good solid facts like the ones you both posted.

[leveymg]

15. This is just part of the sordid tale of illicit influence-peddling and bank rip-offs. See:

http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/the-cover-ups-1.html

[wordpix]

17. one big clusterfuck---thanks & whatever happened to Riggs? One of the biggest banks in DC went pfft

:shrug:

Very well established local bank disappears from the scene. Strange.

[leveymg]

19. Taken over by PNC. Riggs founded 1836, but Jonathan Bush and Prince Bandar destroyed it

Not the first bank the Bush, Allbritton, Baker and al-Faud families have together taken over and looted. See my post above.

Allbriton also killed the 130 year-old Washington Star newspaper, which he bought in 1975. Allbriton bought the Star after the South African apartheid regime failed in its takeover bid. See, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/2893479361/

In 1973, the Star was targeted for clandestine purchase by interests close to the South African Apartheid government in its propaganda war. The Star, whose editorial policy had always been conservative, was seen as favorable to South Africa at the time.

In early 1975, the owning families sold their interests in the paper to Joseph L. Allbritton, a Texas multimillionaire who was known as a corporate turnaround artist. Allbritton, who also owned Riggs Bank, then the most prestigious bank in the capital, planned to use profits from WMAL-AM-FM-TV to shore up the newspaper's finances. The Federal Communications Commission stymied him with rules on media cross-ownership, however; WMAL-AM-FM was sold off in 1977, and the TV station was renamed WJLA-TV.

The Star finally folded in 1981 after Allbritton sold it off to Time. Immediately, The Washington Times, owned by the Rev. Moon, sprung up to replace it as DC's Right-wing newspaper. A sizable number of staff also went over to Post-Newsweek, and pretty much took over the "liberal" DC paper and its captive weekly.

Many of the people who worked for the Star went to work for the newly formed Washington Times which began operations shortly after the Star went out of business.

Writers who worked at the Star in its last days included Nick Adde (Army Times), Michael Isikoff (Newsweek), Howard Kurtz (Washington Post), Fred Hiatt (Washington Post) Sheilah Kast (ABC News), Jane Mayer (The New Yorker), Chris Hanson (Columbia Journalism Review), Jeremiah O'Leary (Washington Times), Chuck Conconni (Washingtonian), Crispin Sartwell (Creators Syndicate), Maureen Dowd (New York Times), Michael DeMond Davis, Jules Witcover (Baltimore Sun), Jack Germond (Baltimore Sun), Judy Bachrach

[MikeMc]

42. More Riggs Bank , 9/11, Watergate from Cooperative Research

From the 911truth.org site complete timeline (cooperative research):

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm

Published on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 by the Prince George's Journal (Maryland)
Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United
by Margie Burns

George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.
The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." ...

The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there. The White House has not responded to various requests for comment.
Speaking of the Watergate, Riggs National Bank, where Saudi Princess Al-Faisal had her ``Saudi money trail" bank account, has as one of its executives Jonathan Bush, an uncle of the president. The public has not learned whether Riggs - which services 95 percent of Washington's foreign embassies - will be turning over records relating to Saudi finance. ...


There's some more good info in Ms. Burns article.

I'm not sure if Uncle Jonathan is the one who was caught lobbying for the Yakuza, and refused to return the money once caught. It might have been Uncle Prescott.

On an issue that is semi-related to the Politico info you provided, NY Times reported today (8/16/10 on page B 1) about an IPO from Hulu. For a while this spring, Hulu was filtering video content on Buzzflash, essentially acting as an interfering middleman in posted video clips from shows like Colbert and Stewart. The Times reports the three year old Hulu is a joint venture of News Corp., Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, and the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. So Fox, Disney, and GE were using their financial muscle to get a hold of progressive content.
This reminded me of your info on Politico's finances. Like Politico, Hulu was annoying and smelled bad, but nothing you could put your finger on.

[wisteria]

11. I didn't know Politico was "in bed" with the Republicans, but it is obvious the site leans very

right and most commentary and polling goes extreme right. A Democrat or a Democratic idea is always shot down.
I think we have to face the fact that the RW controls most of the media and it is mostly their messages getting air play. It really is frightening to think how they have been able to bamboozle the American public into thinking there is a controlling Liberal media, and they are the underdogs representing the hard working middle class.

[defendandprotect]

12. Go Grayson . . . !!! Wow, if we had a couple of dozen Grayson's in Dem Party!!

[Roy Rolling]

14. wrap fish?

That's an insult to fish everywhere.

[raouldukelives]

18. k&r for Grayson!

[ihavenobias]

20. # 25. n/t

[DimplesinMI]

21. K&R for the truth!!!

Thanks Alan Grayson!!

[mother earth]

23. Like rats, you never get rid of them until you go full force & clean

house, they just rear their ugly heads in another shape or form, the corruption just thrives in one sector to the next. Exactly the reason we should have made an example of Bush/Cheney, it would have spoke volumes to their ilk.

Grayson is incredible, we need MORE Grayson!

[Moxie226]

25. Have we all forgiven him or has he earned his forgiveness for

voting to defund Acorn?

[sabrina 1]

30. I love him and was very disappointed when I found his name

on the shameful list of Democrats who cast that ignominious vote against ACORN.

He has not explained it as far as I know. However, he DID redeem himself by speaking out, ironically, about the Bill joining Jerry Nadler who was the first as far as I know, and who did not vote for it, to remind everyone that such a bill was not Constitutional. Grayson spoke out loudly about it and pointed out that if they were going to single out ACORN they would have to go after almost all Defense Contractors. He even, in his theatrical way, asked people to collect and post the names of Corps that needed be be defunded under the same bill.

He probably got more attention for that aspect of what Congress had done than anyone. Still, he did not reveal that he had voted for it nor has he apologized to my knowledge.

Considering the public position he took on the defunding bill I was pretty shocked when I looked at the list of Dems who voted for it and found his.

I would really love to hear him address this ...

[mother earth]

41. I would too, as I had not known about this, thanks.

[DeSwiss]

26. K&R!!! n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

27. The pubs use the Nazi Propagandist's playbook.

"To manage the human herd"

[unapatriciated]

28. i know it would be time consuming.

For every bill the R's filibuster that would help main street, the D's should take to the airwaves and shout it loud and clear why things are not being done. Not just a few like Grayson but all and that includes the President.

[butterfly77]

29. Kicked&Recommended!

:kick:

[Honeycombe8]

31. Interesting. I didn't know that. One of the few Dems who says it like it is. nt

[Enthusiast]

32. K&R!

Fucking beautiful!

[flamingdem]

33. No pussy footin' around with Grayson! nt

[unblock]

34. they wrap fish in grayson's office?

ewww.

[Divine Discontent]

35. great job by both... very good vid! wrap fish with it... that's what they should do with all GOP

think tank releases and "news outlet" releases.

[libodem]

37. .

:patriot:

[eleny]

38. Rec'd