Saturday, March 01, 2008

Saturday Stuff

"The Pap Attack" connects the dots and explains why Bain Capital (and its newest acquisition, Clear Channel) is doing all it can to prevent the Sirius/XM satelllite radio merger...



...the Onion News Network has ideas on how to make war more eco-friendly (as usual, tap dancing on that razor's edge between satire and reality under Bushco)...


In The Know: How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly?

..."The Hillbilly Report" gives us the sordid lowdown on The Foundation For The Defense of Democracies (pardon me while I gag)...



...and this isn't going to make me automatically vote for Hillary in April (if she's still around), but damn, ya' gotta love Jack for this.

2 comments:

libhom said...

The irony is that the Serius/XM merger is bad for consumers and is completely illegal under antitrust laws. Bain is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

It is a sad state of affairs when we have to depend on corporations to get our antitrust laws enforced. This is a terrible legacy of the Bush/Clinton years.

doomsy said...

As Papantonio pointed out, though, it's incredibly two-faced on the part of Kevin Martin's FCC to overturn the 32-year-old ban on media companies owning newspapers in the same market while, at Bain's behest, opposing the Sirius/XM merger.

And you could argue that Poppy, Clinton and Dubya have been similar on antitrust issues, but Clinton did sign on to try and help the states in the Microsoft case, though (as a Reuters article from last month noted) Dubya came along and not only settled the case but excluded the Clinton people who had worked on it in the process.

Also, In October last year, Hillary co-sponsored a Senate bill to undo a Supreme Court decision that tossed out a 96-year-old law barring manufacturers from dictating minimum prices -- a practice that hurts discounters. So, though she would hardly be as anti-trust as, say, John Edwards, she would at least represent a step in the right direction.

Thanks for the comment.