28 Mar 2003

  
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Halliburton will $ave us...

George "I'll bring dignity back to the White House" Bush gave the billion dollar contract to cap oil fires after the war to Halliburton, the company vice-president Cheney ran, before "winning" (ahem...) the election.
That'll buy a lot of dignity.

So let's see where that ethical boundary lies: Clintons blowjobs, "travelgate" and failed real estate ventures are bad, but egregious conflicts-of-interest that line your own pocket are just fine and dandy.

"Liberal Media" my ass! No one has said Boo! about this. The media continue to act as shills for the chimp-in-chief.


 
 
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The Daily Show weighs in. (8.4 MB QT)


This clip is also available over at Comedy Central, but it's a Real file, and Real sucks.

andrew 28 Mar 2003

"Liberal Media" my ass! No one has said Boo! about this. The media continue to act as shills for the chimp-in-chief.

Actually, I've been hearing about this story for well-over a month (no pun intended). I specifically remember Dr. J on Fox News in the Morning mentioning it weeks ago. Even if the Army was completely impartial in its choice of companies, I would agree that, at least as a PR descision, it's a really stupid move on behalf of the administration. But in their defense, there cannot possibly be that many companies that specialize in oil well firefighting and Halliburton has experience from the last Gulf War

And as for media bias: As a good little republican soldier, I used to believe in liberal media bias. Over the years I've drifted away from this position (as have many in the neo-conservative pundantry such as Bill Kristol). At worst I believe there's a center-left bias (center-right in the case of FoxNews) in major broadcast media. I've begun to observe that the extreme-wings of politics always seem to accuse the media of being against them. By family connection, I am the unfortunate daily recepient of Lumpen Media's e-mail rants in which there are constant cries of right wing media bias. Such assertions, both on the left and right, make the false assumption that "If only my message is heard, everyone else would agree with it." They fail to recognize that their opinions are marginalized and generally not apealling to middle-of-the-road America.

Enought ranting from me, I've got to get back to cleaning my gun, counting my coporate pay-off cash, and raising the glass ceiling

Robert Gomez 28 Mar 2003

Well said, Gomez. While not being a liberal or a conservative, generally I'm more afraid of the right than the left but there's plenty of both types of idiocy to go around.

jpeg 28 Mar 2003

The devil's also in the details, here. Halliburton is naturally the name everyone is going to boo and hiss at, but there are several subsidiaries doing the dirty work. Also, given their track record in '91, I don't think anyone would begrudge these guys going back in and kickin' ass on the oil fires. Setting them, in my book, is reason enough to shove a Tomahawk up Saddam's arse.



Having said that, I think the real "odor" here (as my conservative/libertarian father described it, and proudly supports and voted for this administration) is the continued link between Bush/Cheney and their good ol' boy network. Is Halliburton the right company for the job? Most likely. It is the nature by which this sort of business is handled that pisses people off, and is by no means a process the Republicans have a patent on. Gawd Bless Umuricah!

andrew 28 Mar 2003

More about Boots & Coots.

andrew 28 Mar 2003