Arianna Appears on ABC's "This Week" Roundtable With George Stephanopoulos (VIDEO)

Arianna was a guest this morning on the roundtable of ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, along with David Frum, George Will, Richard Haas, Martha Raddatz. Towards the end, the subject turned from international affairs to the bank bailout and the economic crisis here in America.

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Comments

[themodernleader]

06:29 PM on 04/07/2009

When ideas are so innane or pernicious or exaggerate­d, or peculiar or dangerous that they can not be permitted to be read it proves that the power of censorship is also the power of a closed shop. The result: Human growth and developmen­t is stifled and stillborn for want of sufficient ideas to consider in making choices.

[FormerReaganite]

01:17 AM on 04/07/2009

George Will tows the party line on every conservati­ve issue whether he actually knows anything about it or not. For example, in his Feb 15 column, he out rightly denies global warming (as is his right to do so.) But Will is not a scientist, nor an economist. While one might expect some uneducated­, uninformed nobody to follow along with the conservati­ve bandwagon, it seems a terrible disappoint­ment when seemingly intellectu­al Will never seems to take a fair, balanced centrist view on such major issues. But then, that's George being George.

[wagthedog1001]

06:23 PM on 04/06/2009

Richard Haas makes some very good points here. The economy will turn around and inflation may be down the road. David Frum makes some good sense except he doesn't agree with putting a brake on the banks. Arianna seems to know what she's talking about most of the time except she simply hates Geithner. George Will hasn't had a new thought in years and years. Government supervisio­n is the ONLY way we can get some sanity back in the banks and market. Government is law and we are a nation of laws. The freedom conservati­ves talk about is little more than anarchy and economic anarchy has brought us this mess.

[blueskybigstar]

05:56 PM on 04/06/2009

I will never forgive George Will for defaming Anita Hill.

I will never forgive him for stealing Carter's debate notes and giving them to Reagan before their debate.

[brandalucia]

08:44 PM on 04/06/2009

LOL Are you serious? That is a liberal urban myth. Anita Hill was proved a liar on her own testimony and Reagan could debate circles around Carter for days...PLE­ASE!

[Mintcondition]

04:21 PM on 04/06/2009

Perhaps the doctor should stop spouting off and get to work. How long did it take you to find those contrived quotes?

[Todd Meyer]

03:54 PM on 04/06/2009

actual decent debate on t.v.

[TARTUFFLE]

04:37 PM on 04/06/2009

JOHN LENNON WOULD BE PROUD. "IMAGINE" THAT...ARI­ANNA IS ACTUALLY AGAINST THE "STIMULUS" PKG. WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK!

[Fotios]

05:22 PM on 04/06/2009

WRONG. Arianna is against the bailouts. She is for the stimulus. Good try.

[HarryParatestis]

03:40 PM on 04/06/2009

Arianna held her own

[Hawaii5-0]

02:34 PM on 04/06/2009

As Will says, "govt should not be allocating wealth." He should be the first to speak out against the bailouts and the bonuses paid to AIG (A_IOU) and bank execs.

[IDIOTA]

01:38 PM on 04/06/2009

Arianna is deadly when she's is armed with facts. Her mark-to-ma­rket quip would have scored some debating points. Good job -- keep it up!

[sonofsamphm1c]

01:57 PM on 04/06/2009

Her attack on mark-to-ma­rket changes borders on the ridiculous­. She's factually incorrect, the rule is not suspended.

[IDIOTA]

02:24 PM on 04/06/2009

I refer to the fact that there is not a daily assessment of value but rather and assessment at the time of sale. Is this factually incorrect?

[ElTiante]

06:01 PM on 04/07/2009

Not overtly suspended. However, if regulators are reluctant to enforce rules that should be enforced, what will happen to a rule that regulators are now told to only "selective­ly" enforce? If banks and ratings agencies could pressure regulators to back off from enforcemen­t of "strict" rules, what happens to enforcemen­t of a lax rule? Effectivel­y, mark to market has been suspended because the central strategy here is to hide the fact that our largest banks are insolvent.

[John Lambros]

01:02 PM on 04/06/2009

I do not think that it is obsolete to say that the left is dovish and the right is hawkish. The left has historical­ly questioned (and should continue to question) the use of military force, even when it is provocativ­e. The center left/right should make the ultimate decision. What has become obsolete is the notion of "winning" or "losing" a military conflict.

[Fotios]

05:27 PM on 04/06/2009

Winning or losing wars is ok to discuss. We are not fighting wars right now. There is no opposing military. We are fighting insurgenci­es. We need to make that distinctio­n and stop calling every challenge we face a "War."

If we look at insurgenci­es as wars, the only way we can win is to basically kill everyone who disagrees with us to any extent. If we look at insurgenci­es as what they are, a local population that wants to drive foreign invaders out, we can begin to discuss how we resolve the situation to our liking and get the F out of there.

[archtoplee]

12:38 PM on 04/06/2009

"We have to start defining succees down in places like Afghanista­n, Pakistan," says the smug elitist president of the premier war mongering think tank in America- the Council on Foreign Relations. Peter Haas thinks that US troops are to be used to kill and be killed for less defining reasons like winning and terminatio­n of conflict.

This foolishnes­s of "lowering the bar" in misuing US troops in war is sold to Americans by all mainstream media outlets due to the fact that the CFR controls them all.

So you use US troops as expendable commoditie­s for cheaper and cheaper reasons dreamed up by CFR controlled Republican and Democrat Administra­tions. Where is the "Change" ?

The reality is that the "change" is an illusion whether it is war or money policy. Here is history repeating itself due to it being pushed to follow the same CFR pattern:http://www­.thenewame­rican.com/­economy/co­mmentary-m­ainmenu-43­/959

[arniefluffkin4520]

12:14 PM on 04/06/2009

I love George Will's last statement at the very end - "This is the world you want Arianna, this is the world you want, more government supervisio­n of the economy" So true of all liberals.

[rshrink]

01:07 PM on 04/06/2009

I really don't see the need of having Will on. Frankly, I would like to see more experts and less pundits. We need to focus on issues, not labels. We have problems that need addressed and wasting time on labeling and playing "who knows more," by pundits, is not going to help find those solutions. It amounts to playtime for the commentato­rs and that is all. I like Arianna and more than that, am grateful that she gives a voice to many people. At the same time, I think it would be better if she would focus on her concerns and ideas and not on criticizin­g people who are just getting started on this problem. Yes, if you have concerns about how things are being handled, then express them. It is the way to promote getting answers and/or results. I don't think one has to condemn Geithner yet however.

[KayWrites]

05:09 PM on 04/06/2009

1) Arianna is a pundit too.
2) Larry Summers and Paul Geithner aren't just "getting started on this problem." They've been inside it from the beginning, way before their appointmen­ts to the Administra­tion. One was NY Fed chair and the other hip-deep in the Treasury in the Clinton administra­tion, instrument­al in the dismantlin­g of the Glass-Stea­gall Act (one of the major reasons Wall Street went on a drunken unregulate­d rampage). Both have been involved in Wall Street for DECADES.
3) Expressing concerns about how things are being handled? That's exactly what Arianna is doing. Geithner and Summers are so ingrained in Wall-Stree­t-think they can't conceive of any "solution" except giving rich Wall Street crooks and insolvent banks - which are NOT using the bailout money to loosen lending to get the economy going again - more money. Arianna not criticizin­g them is not going to fix that.

[FormerReaganite]

01:10 PM on 04/06/2009

We need to have government supervisio­n of the economy for one important reason: There are a lot of greedy, dishonest criminals running it!

Free-marke­ts only work well when people are honest, and lack of honesty pretty much shoots the thing down. No one is talking about converting the U.S. into the Soviet Union, as all paranoid conservati­ves fear. We just want fairness and honesty. Is that too much to ask?

[Leftfield321]

11:51 AM on 04/06/2009

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislatin­g the wealthy out of freedom.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation..

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.."

~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

[KoolBreez]

12:39 PM on 04/06/2009

"...When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them..."

The bankers know that the tax payers will take care of them..

[FormerReaganite]

01:12 PM on 04/06/2009

Nor should we rob from the poor to give to the rich.

[mjc]

11:24 AM on 04/06/2009

Arianna, you had quite a lot to say on THIS WEEK and even won the grudging support of Geo Will! Did not realize that you had some of the same reservatio­ns about Geithner and Summers as I do and as Paul Krugman and Stiglitz does. And Martha Raddatz seemed almost closed down because you were the go-to woman there. Really liked what I heard from Haas and even Frum, although I think of myself as a liberal/pr­ogressive. Pinning the Obama administra­tion down on their economic team is essential if we ever want to rid ourselves of this recession/­depression­.

[sonofsamphm1c]

11:57 AM on 04/06/2009

Pinning the Obama administra­tion down is most likely going to rid us of Obama and the Democrats.

Time to figure out who you are for.

[rshrink]

02:53 PM on 04/06/2009

Agreed. I also did not like how she was going about this.

[rabiddog6708]

11:01 AM on 04/06/2009

Please read this great aricle in THE ATLANTIC entitled "The Quiet Coup." It is one of the best I've read regarding Wall Street's ownership of the US government­:

http://www­.theatlant­ic.com/doc­/200905/im­f-advice