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Hammering Home the Keating Five Message
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I went on Fox News on Monday to discuss the financial meltdown. After taking a sober look at the bipartisan nature of Wall Street deregulation, I forced the discussion to focus on John McCain's Keating Five past. It was actually a pretty incredible debate. Both the Fox News anchor and the GOP spokesman basically freaked out in a desperate attempt to hide the undebatable fact that McCain was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for intimidating regulators on behalf of one of his biggest campaign donors, Charles Keating. Just for historical reference, here is the CBS News on 3/23/08: ...
David Sirota: Hammering Home the Keating Five Message
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I went on Fox News on Monday to discuss the financial meltdown. After taking a sober look at the bipartisan nature of Wall Street deregulation, I forced the discussion to focus on John McCain's Keating Five past. It was actually a pretty incredible debate. Both the Fox News anchor and the GOP spokesman basically freaked out and offered up the "nothing to see here, move along" deflection. They want to hide the undebatable fact that McCain was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee for intimidating regulators on behalf of one of his biggest campaign donors, Charles Keating.
Just for historical reference, ...
Helping Obama Echo the Keating Five Message
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For the last few weeks, I've been publishing newspaper columns, making television appearances and writing blog posts pointing out that John McCain's formative economic experience was intimidating federal regulators on behalf of banking executive Charles Keating, during the eponymous Keating Five scandal. Many others have been doing the same and now - finally - the Obama campaign is following suit:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the "Keating Five" savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain's public image and ...
