Limbaugh Hacks Supreme
By on Jun 1st, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Limbaugh Hacks Supreme
Rush Limbaugh has truly made an art form of spinning Supreme Court rulings.
From his website, check out the subheads:
“Too Late Now for Vindicated Arthur Andersen”?
Alas, poor global accounting firm, you hapless victim of fate. Though you pocketed $27 million for signing off on Enron’s cooked books, and though your so-called vindication was due only to a “legal technicality,” you’ll always be innocent in Rush’s eyes.
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Where is the CIA with their poisonous, exploding cigars when you need them?
June 1st, 2005 at 2:29 pmAhh Rush. Right wing spin with a chaser of enough painkiller to overdose a horse.
June 1st, 2005 at 3:16 pmThat’s the world Rush lives in… whereas any fig leaf is good enough for him… he doesn’t realize how ridiculous he looks and how naked he truly is! Pocketing money, lying, instructing its staff and its customer (ENRON) to shred incriminating evidence hours before the feds’ indictment, is OK…. simply because the jurors got incomplete instructions and Anderson was acquitted on a technicality!
I wonder if Rush and the other right-wing attack dogs would’ve had the same response if, say, Starr wasn’t able to pursue his persecution of Clinton on a techicality….
I guess Rush also holds Oliver North in high esteem…. (another technically innocent law breaker)
What a bunch of intellectually dishonest cons….
June 1st, 2005 at 3:38 pm(didn’t mean to consider those talking heads like Rush intellectuals of any kind… just the opposite)
“Don’t cry for me, Arthur Andersen.
For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of legal attention
Unless we all are–I think we all are
So share my needle, so share my coffin
So share my lies, so share my coffin
CHE
June 1st, 2005 at 5:04 pmIt’s our funeral too”
I am no Rush fan, but seriously, liberals are not excused from knowing something about the case, too, before they mouth off about it. Andersen was not charged with anything substantive regarding the Enron scandal. Nor was it charged with shredding incriminating documents. It was charged with adhering to its own document retention policy regarding drafts and workpapers–the only problem was timing–and timing was not “hours” before indictment. Timing was MONTHS before receiving a subpoena from the SEC.
Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be a liberal. Please get your facts straight.
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:45 pmUm, as someone who worked for Arthur Andersen, I can say this is not a great big help for the thousands of regular people who lost their livelihoods because some fat cat partners couldn’t pull their head out of their own asses long enough to realize they were risking the entire firm Perhaps they, and not the secretaries, office workers and other regular folks such as myself were the one who should have suffered. Oh and how are those Enron execs doing? Are they in jail yet? So do you think indicting an entire company was still a good idea?
June 2nd, 2005 at 1:02 pmStephanie, you’re right, Arthur Anderson was not charged with anything substantive. Neither were the actual people who committed fraud. That is exactly the point. The AG thought he could whitewash this whole thing with a show trial that doesn’t really hold anyone accountable, and costs thousands of jobs in the process.
You are not excused from knowing something about the biggest case of fraud in American history before mouthing off about it.
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:45 amSometimes it’s embarrassing to be a liberal. Please get your facts straight.
Stephanie
Republicans are never embarassed by anything they do. They a constant source of embarassment to the rest of us Americans.
June 3rd, 2005 at 7:09 pmStephanie:
I agree. Let’s get our facts straight. AA not only signed off on Enron’s books, they also enabled some of Enron’s nonsense.
So, let’s say that AA did NOTHING ILLEGAL.
No problem. I’m loving it. Repeat after me: the government did NOT cause AA’s failure.
Simple undeniable business logic. The government did not tell AA’s corporate clients to switch to other accounting firms.
That is, did not. Not could the government. Those former clients, based on what they saw of AA’s methods, chose to no longer work w/ AA.
As is their right in our society under a market system.
The government has no responsibility to secure clients/business for AA, or for any other firm.
Likewise, just because I can incorporate myself–@$500 in DE–this does not mean that I should be immune from bankruptcy, or that if I fail the government should have to bail me out.
AA knew what they were doing–and took the risks. Disgrace and bankruptcy was a possibility that became reality.
The clients who left AA also knew what they were doing–and took their own risks.
That’s how it should work. No exceptions, not even for big corporations.
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