Oil-Goguery: Gibson Touts Windfall-Profits Tax, Caps on Exec Compensation

GMA/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[caver]

"The whole talking head business should be outsourced. Why pay an airhead like Katie 17 million when you could get some educated Indian lady for 50 grand a year?"


Oh gosh, wouldn't that be funny, some Indian lady with bad pronunciation trying to read the news. And we could only understand about every third word.

[mysterio]

The tax will just be passed on to consumers. It's a stupid idea. Find evidence of collusion, or shut up and let us build a damned refinery.

[yankeedame]

...Stated another way, "How high would gas prices be if Al Gore were an oil industry CEO?"

Assuming, of course, that there was any to be had at the pumps.

[Louis Foxwell]

Charlie also ignored my question about the windfall profits of local, state and federal government: double the profits of oil companies with none of the overhead.

[FlyVet]

Mulva: "We've tried that, countries have tried it. It doesn't work. You put in price controls it holds down the price but increases consumption which is not good. Windfall profits tax takes away from the ability of the companies to reinvest, to grow and add to capacity."

And how could a smart guy like Gibson not know that historically, price controls don't work? (Answer: because he doesn't care. He's too busy portraying himself as Great Protector of the Publik).

I hadn't watched GMA in a long time. Their level of political correctness is even more sickening than Today's. Concerning the Bonds home run chase, they just couldn't help themselves. "Someone should point out that it's Hank Aaron that owns the record, not Ruth." Uh, yeah, Robin, but it's Ruth's mark that Barry's approaching right now, not Aaron's. The message seemed to be, "All you stupid racist little peons out there are focusing on the wrong guy, but don't worry, we the intelligent and enlightened ones will straighten you out."

[hotshu]

GLGB,

Never forget that Gibson is related via marriage of offspring to a Clintonista (I forget which one). IIRC, the "Toon" himself attended some of the wedding festivities.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Didn't know that - thanks for passing along.

[AmericaUnite]

Good Grief!! Are they going to cap rock stars earnings?

So right. We'd be less of a spectator nation as well without them. We'd be making our own music once again at home.

[hotshu]

It's better than I remember, his daughter actually worked for Billy Blythe and married Robert Rosen.

"Charlie Gibson’s daughter, Jessica, worked as a special assistant to the Director for Legislative Affairs in the Clinton White House at the very same time that her father was covering Clinton policies as co-host Good Morning America, a program which broadcast live from the White House one morning during her tenure.

But no one knew about the connection, at least I never heard anything about it, until Jessica Gibson’s career highlights made the weddings page of Sunday’s New York Times, a revelation highlighted on Wednesday by Rush Limbaugh after Charles Gibson mentioned it on GMA.
The item about “Jessica Gibson and Robert Rosen” appeared on page 9 of the August 18 New York Times “Sunday Styles” section (with a photo of the couple). It noted that “Jessica Law Gibson, a daughter of Arlene J. Gibson and Charles D. Gibson of New York, was married yesterday at her parents' vacation home in Park City, Utah, to Robert Alexander Rosen, the son of Andrea and Michael I. Rosen, also of New York. Virginia Hill Worden, a Universal Life minister, performed a nondenominational ceremony.”
Charles Gibson
ABC showed Charles Gibson at his daughter's wedding. Jessica Gibson worked for Bill Clinton while her father co-hosted Good Morning America

The item confirmed that “her father is a host of Good Morning America and Prime Time on ABC. Her mother is the head of the Spence School, the private girls' school in New York.”

The Times announcement recounted how the couple met while both were part of the Clinton presidential team: “The bride and bridegroom met in March 1999 in Guatemala, where they were working on an advance mission for a visit by President Bill Clinton. Ms. Gibson was then a special assistant to the director for legislative affairs at the White House, and Mr. Rosen was the director of the office of advance and a special assistant to the President.”


http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020822.asp

Tangled webs - gotta love it!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

On the one hand, I don't see it, technically, as a conflict of interest. Gibon's GMA job shouldn't bar his daughter from taking a political job, and vice versa. Even so, I think it strongly suggests that he had reasons, above and beyond his intrinsic liberal leanings. to look kindly on the Clinton administration.