CNN's Bill Hemmer endorses Greenspan as our economic savior

Cocoa

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Fri Mar-04-05 12:32 PM
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CNN's Bill Hemmer endorses Greenspan as our economic savior

this was an odd, non sequitur endorsement from Hemmer that even left Jack Cafferty scratching his head.

I'm SO GLAD that Harry Reid, later the same day, on the same network, brought some sanity to the discussion of Alan Greenspan.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/03/ltm.06.html

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CAFFERTY: �

What's the answer to the country's financial problems? A more mundane fellow named Alan Greenspan voiced some very strong concerns about economic stagnation if the clowns in Washington don't get their act together, which I ain't holding my breath.

Carol writes, "Our whole system needs to change, but people who are willing to do that can't get elected. We apparently have the kind of government we deserve until the people start to lead. And in the meantime, I'm not optimistic."

Cheryl in South Carolina writes, "Gee, Jack, you're asking me. I do OK, but I haven't balanced a checkbook in years. I rely on my husband and bankers for serious financial advice. And I did vote for John Kerry in the hope of seeing some progress and change."

And Mike in Flemington, New Jersey, "Two things can be done to reduce the deficit, and it only requires politicians with guts to do them: one, raise taxes, two end corporate welfare by slashing the defense budget. We can already kill everyone on the planet 20 times over. It will be OK if we can only kill them 10 times.

HEMMER: No. 3, keep Alan Greenspan in charge. He's doing OK still.

SERWER: That's not going to last forever, of course.

O'BRIEN: No, it can't.

HEMMER: Thank you, Jack.

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Skidmore

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Fri Mar-04-05 12:34 PM
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1. O'Brien, Cafferty, and Hemmer--

share one brain cell between them.

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CottonBear

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Fri Mar-04-05 12:36 PM
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2. Hemmer is an idiot.

Edited on Fri Mar-04-05 12:36 PM by CottonBear

I don't know if I hate watching him or Cafferty more. Maybe they'll send him back to Iraq. He was over there for quite a while at one point last year.

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Southsideirish

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Fri Mar-04-05 12:38 PM
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3. "One of the biggest political hacks in Washington!" God, I couldn't

believe a Democrat (other than Howard Dean) would EVER have the courage to speak so frankly. I'm starting to like this Harry Reid.

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kittenpants

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Fri Mar-04-05 12:39 PM
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4. Bill Hemmer is a huge tool. n/t

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indepat

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Fri Mar-04-05 01:07 PM
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5. Hemmer, the consumate media ho

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bigtree

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Fri Mar-04-05 01:30 PM
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6. Greenspan

For Clinton: The deficit is dangerous.

Later for Bush: Surpluses are dangerous, need the skewed tax break Bush is hawking.

Now: The deficit I helped engineer, the one I said was not significant a few years back into the Bush term, is dangerous.

Hack. republican hack.

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FlyByNight

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Fri Mar-04-05 01:34 PM
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7. We can now see why Bill only READS the news...

but doesn't COMPREHEND what's going on. Not to single him out unfairly but he's simply just another media whore.

Only now is Alan worrying over the tax-cut induced, record deficits? Wasn't Greenspan the one who, essentially, OK'ed the tax cuts in the first place because there was a danger in paying down the debt too quickly? Whatever the hell that means...

Greenspan's a hack, Bill. You may want to check out what Senator Reid said.

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Fri Mar-04-05 01:56 PM
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8. Even Anderson Cooper thinks Hemmer is a dork.

Made a joke about him on 360 last night re:no brains.

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Fri Mar-04-05 02:22 PM
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9. what did he say? nt

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