Slow on the Uptake

In his new book, Alan Greenspan writes:

"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq
war is largely about oil."

60 Minutes managed to completely miss that. Instead of bringing it up, the producers opted to close their lead story with a peek at Alan the "geek," who still reads Dept of Labor reports over breakfast, a segment about as cute and hard-hitting a People magazine.

At least the Washington Post got it, but only after the Times of London.

Comments

[bethinCary]

02:05 PM on 09/17/2007

CBS is owned by GE that's why.

[OrangeSam]

05:04 PM on 09/17/2007

Actually, GE owns NBC, not CBS.

[indypete]

01:34 PM on 09/17/2007

The war is about OIL? No shit! All this time I thought it was because those Iraqis from Tehran bombed the Empire State Building.

[Podewumun]

04:44 PM on 09/17/2007

indypete yer my hero!

[indypete]

07:42 PM on 09/17/2007

Thank you... CDs are available in the gift shop, don't forget to tip your waitress.

[Ben Dixon]

01:21 PM on 09/17/2007

If the Iraq war was just about oil, then President Bush should be impeached for poor decision making for not choosing to invade Venezalua instead: 1, its closer. 2, we get more oil from them than from Iraq. 3, we wouldn't be paying money to Arabs. 4, it would have gotten rid of Chavez.

[snaggster]

06:34 AM on 09/18/2007

So, let's impeach him then.

[snaggster]

12:59 PM on 09/17/2007

What a waste of time talking to someone who never really answers a question. All they did was let him claim that everyone misinterpets his "comments". He didn't really mean that it was largely about oil. You've misunderstood.

[seawolf77]

02:02 PM on 09/17/2007

OK you know what he meant. Oh please enlighten the rest of us poor dumbasses. Please please oh wise one grace us with your illuminati like insight. Even when he says it, he did not say it. I undertand oh great one. OhMMMMM! OhMMMMMMM! Your wisdom is coming to me thru the monitor, Oh the joy of he wisdom...the joy of the knowledge. I am in ecstasy.

[snaggster]

10:25 PM on 09/17/2007

Pretty sure the point of my comment was that I never know WTF he means. He speaks in circles and jargon and then he lies about it later. Something like this:

Greenspan, who wrote in his memoir that “the Iraq War is largely about oil,” said in a Washington Post interview that while securing global oil supplies was “not the administration’s motive,” he had presented the White House before the 2003 invasion with the case for why removing the then-Iraqi leader was important for the global economy.

[Nommo]

12:58 PM on 09/17/2007

It is way past being "slow on the uptake". It is more like "dead in the water". Never have so many spent so much on so little. One might suggest a willful ignorance, but even that requires some degree of effort.
Cows being led off to slaughter have more fight in them than this populace.
Spears and Lohan have displayed more gumption in sheer publicity seeking than any elected official in pretending to give a fuck about the the electorate. The electorate gives less than a fuck. Maybe if OJ is finally put away, then the folk can get around to that little oil mess about 1/3 of a world away?

[Podewumun]

04:42 PM on 09/17/2007

I say, insteadof referring to them as the MSM, let's get real and call them the MHM, or the 'Meat Head Media'.

And a Meat Head, as any Archie Bunker devotee can tell you, means 'Dead From The Neck UP'.

[mommadona]

12:50 PM on 09/17/2007

Well, they don't call it the KoolAide splattered MSM for nuttin'.....

Here's how it goes:

News breaks.
PRODUCERS check with ADVERTISING MANAGERS
ADVERTISING MANAGERS tell PRODUCERS.."go with OJ"
PRODUCERS (with nary a protest) PRODUCE OJ

MEANWHILE - the REAL news story is just *click
dropped.

ADVERTISING MANAGER happy
PRODUCER happily still employed
PUBLIC - left out in the cold wiping the KoolAid off of everything in sight.

Yea - GREAT FOURTH COLUMN THERE, FOLKS.

[Plowboy]

12:32 PM on 09/17/2007

"I knew it was wrong but ..." Maybe it wasn't the wrong people profiting?