Chris Dodd

I did a photoshop of Chris "Friend of Angelo" Dodd a couple days ago I haven't posted. It's up below. As for the real Dodd, I find it terrifically sad. My perception is that he embodies the very worst of our politics - get your money for nothing and your credibility for free in a system every day more designed to re-elect incumbents.

Too add to that in Dodd's case, regardless of corruption, seemingly grossly un-ethical behavior, malfeasance in office and poor practical judgment on banking and finance issues, the media continues to hold him up as if above reproach. Maybe they do it because he's nice to them, or they like him - or because he simply looks the part of a good Senator and he's white - unlike Rangle, where they are at least starting to smell blood.

Meanwhile he's sold himself perennially as someone of Presidential timber, fighting the good fight for the average citizen. The clash between image and reality is revolting given his position, influence and power in the Senate.

Glenn has been all over it. See here for the latest. At least some in old media are starting to pay attention, so there's "hope." But it's mostly local for now. Also see here for several links, many that display the media's lack of attention to serious questions of impropriety.

Chris "Friend of Angelo" Dodd:

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

Maybe one of Bush's USAs should get on this - or should have gotten on it 5 months ago. Remind me again, what crime did Dodd commit? Funny how the bloggers freely fling mud as they claim wrongdoing, but never actually seem to catch a Democrat in a criminal act.

And since when have US officials ever been required to disclose information? I think there's a laundry list of Bush Advisers who spent the last year laughing off full blown subpoenas (Miers, Bolton, and Rove, just to name a few).

Also funny how when a Democrat does get exposed as a crook, he gets barely a mention. Some folks are too busy conducting witch hunts to burn any real witches.

[steveaz]

One reason for the media to front for Dodd is, if he falls, a cognitive log-jam will break, and the unholy alliance between liberal media, foreign interests and the Real-Estate/Title industries will be unmasked.

Dodd's ethical logjam makes Blogo's look trivial.

RE Dodd's favorable mortgage deal: The Fannie Mac Affair's ripples haven't washed up on the RE brokering and insurance "beaches" yet. Along with the media, old "respected" brokerage houses and global title companies frittered promiscuously within the murky confines of the U.S. real-estate bubble. This association with the politicians who primed the siphon may be another reason for the media soliticousness to Dodd's lapse.

Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Bill Clinton et al have managed to turn America into one big "White Water" RE scheme, but the figurative axe hasn't been applied to any of their necks yet.

I'd like to know why.

[HatlessHessian]

We have such an uncurious news media. Hint: No News does not sell newspapers. Hint(2): News manages to find itself onto the Internet. Hint(3): Americans can tell the difference between no-news-newspapers and Internet-news-with-substance (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081224183017.jxmbrdyb&show_article=1 per Drudge).

Seriously, why not lay off every reporter and editor out there if they're not going to cover anything that might involve a Democrat. Since they own the whole damn ranch now, there's not going to be anything to do for at least four years according to those rules.

[lonetown]

As a Connecticut resident it seems to me that politicians in Connecticut have an air of arrogance I don't see everywhere. I can't blame Democrats because I remember Lowell Weicker, as arrogant a prick as there ever was, and originally a Republican (of the Rockefeller ilk (need I say more)).

[Fred Beloit]

Llamette has a close encounter of a logic kind.

Statement one: "...bloggers freely fling mud as they claim wrongdoing, but never actually seem to catch a Democrat in a criminal act."
Statement two: "...when a Democrat does get exposed as a crook, he gets barely a mention."

These two statements are mutually exclusionary. Try again, Moe.

"Remind me again, what crime did Dodd commit?" I'll try, Moe. Dodd is accused of taking a bribe, in the form of a low interest mortgage (same as a cash bribe) from an organization he is supposed to oversee and is now hiding evidence of this crime.

[Gringo]

Chris Doddd: just like his father, the late Senator Tom.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Our enitre government has gone to the dogs. There is more crimnal crap going on that we could ever imagine and no one seems to care. It is a party thing. Dems claim to be angels as they point fingers at republicans all the time while shoving all the skeletons in the closets and throwing away the key.
They can do no wrong. Let one republican do something and the are all over it.
This country is getting much like Putans Russia. Crooks, liars and thieves.
And it the dems have their way it want be long before the oil companies are run by the goverenment. Ask Maxine Waters what she thinks about that. LOL
Our society coming up these days remind me of a bunch of hippies. It is not all thier fault, the damn school books they are being taught from are written by a bunch of liberal idiots. What a shame.