The Experts

You’ll be stunned to learn that “Frontline” … bought and paid for with your tax dollars … and soon your stimulus money … has reportedly put together a documentary on the economic collapse that will air tomorrow night on PBS. The kicker is the expert list. Only two Congress people were interviewed.

Mr. Dodd and Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts,are the only members of Congress interviewed in the piece, which is a weakness. Many voters hold Republicans and Democrats equally responsible for oversight failures. “Frontline” holds these politicians up as reliable, unbiased witnesses, but some viewers may feel they don’t deserve that trust.

These two people are experts all right. They blocked the regulations that the Bush administration proposed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, not to mention looked the other way as banks like Countrywide made billions in irresponsible mortgage loans to anything that moved, no questions ever asked. Thanks once again to Instapundit.

Here’s the video that PBS won’t air .. for fear of losing their funding.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgctSIL8Lhs

Posted in ,

Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

6 Comments

  1. Darlene on February 16, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    Not only will they not air this on the PBS special, but anywhere.  I just find the media bias so unbelievably infuriating and yet they believe there is a need for the "fairness doctrine?" 



  2. Dimsdale on February 16, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Darlene, if there was truly a need for a "fairness" doctrine, it would be to correct the rampant liberal bias in the majority of the media.  The fact that they practically own the media, and still have to attempt to crush the tiny percentage of opposition that exists simply proves that they are afraid of any of the truth getting out in any form, to any degree.



    • rush on February 23, 2009 at 1:08 pm

      Dimsdale.You nailed it again.



  3. Dimsdale on February 16, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    "Mr. Big Bad Wolf, could you comment on the mysterious demise of the three little pigs…."



  4. theignorantfisherman on February 17, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    Man.. I would at least like to get my moneys worth!



  5. Dom Rosa on February 18, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    The Feb. 17 Frontline broadcast is available at:
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/
    Several people raised questions about why Henry Paulson, formerly of Goldman Sachs, allowed Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs’ chief competitor, to go bankrupt. The Lehman bankruptcy led to the collapse of AIG and to the subsequent collapse of the international financial house of cards.?Paul Krugman’s interview is?at:
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/interviews/krugman.html#1?



The website's content and articles were migrated to a new framework in October 2023. You may see [shortcodes in brackets] that do not make any sense. Please ignore that stuff. We may fix it at some point, but we do not have the time now.

You'll also note comments migrated over may have misplaced question marks and missing spaces. All comments were migrated, but trackbacks may not show.

The site is not broken.