Pelosi aide: '60 Minutes' report a 'right-wing smear'

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/14/11 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

[SmithL]

Washington -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office accused the news program "60 Minutes" of omitting key information from its report Sunday on how members of Congress use privileged information to profit from stock trades.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill also called the report "a right-wing smear" based on a new book by conservative author Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University. The book is titled: "Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Jail."

Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, was highlighted in the report with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Financial Services chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., among others.

In an interview Monday, Schweizer said the "most egregious" allegations of insider trading concerned Bachus. At the height of the 2008 financial panic, Bachus participated in private briefings by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warning that the financial system was about to collapse.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Yeah, Polousie, all truths are smears for your kind.

[DManA]

Right wing smear by a left wing media outfit. Your slip is showing nan.

[Pearls Before Swine]

That’s the very first time I’ve heard anyone lump 60 Minutes in with the VWRC.

[justlurking]

I thought all the other Congressmen named in the report were Republicans?

If so, how's that a "right"-wing smear? The "right" got smeared more than the left.

[PGalt]

Yeah, Polousie, all truths are smears for your kind.

Very well-stated. I was just going to call her a 3-faced (crony) fascist. Thanks TP2U

[Pikachu_Dad]

That is a good thing...

[FormerACLUmember]

CBS is a right wing media?

[jazusamo]

LOL!

Well Nan, if this is a right wing smear by 60 minutes it’s a first!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Did you, or did you not, purchase IPOs of companies that were subject to legislation that you presided over, Nancy?

It's not a difficult question.

I understand that the answer is difficult. For you.

[COBOL2Java]

That's "vast right-wing conspiracy, Nancy! Get your phrases straight!"

[Col Frank Slade]

60 Minutes a right wing smear.

LOL

[ronnie raygun]

THE PRINCESS feels she should not be asked these questions how dare you, do you not know who I am? This snooty bitch should be taken to task. I want to antagonize her so much that she cracks on national tv. Now thats entertainment.

[scooby321]

Nancy, I heard the author say today that 60 minutes show highlighted 4 GOP and 1 Democrat.

The book shows that insider trading was 70% Democratic.

[NonValueAdded]

Oh yeah, those "right wingers" at See BS. Nancy, you are a caricature of yourself. And just because you are exempt from insider trading laws, I don't think your hubby is too. Duck and cover. Hmm, how do you spell qui tam?

[whitedog57]

Exactly. 70% Democrats.

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[ChildOfThe60s]

If ever anyone deserved this, Miss Nancy does.............

[scooby321]

I can't believe using Congressional letterhead for fundraiser is illegal. But as Rep. Spencer (r) can short the market after hearing Hank Paulson say the market will go down 20% in the next three days is legal.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yes, Nan. CBS is so notoriously right-wing. And apparently the author is writing a hatchet job for no other reason than that he is conservative. So what would you call the media attacks on the Palin family, Nan? In Nan’s apartheid world, Saddam Hussein had it right.