Crossposted from Flopping Aces

Mark Dziubek of Southington Conn. steps off a bus in Fairfield Conn. on Saturday March 21, 2009 as members of the media wait outside at a AIG executive’s home. A busload of activists outnumbered 2-to-1 by reporters and photographers are paying visits to the homes of American International Group Inc. executives in Connecticut to protest tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the company.

Today we learn that the group which organized and paid for the bus tour is nothing but a front for ACORN, the infamous voter fraud group whose most famous “community organizer” is none other than President Obama.

There are 294 Google News hits for this charade in Connecticut. Tens of thousands of Americans have risen these past few weeks in Tea Party Protests in large and small cities and towns all over this nation and they rate a paltry 492 Google News hits. Proof positive that a rent-a-mob with a bus can garner nearly the same mainstream media attention as that of spontaneous nationwide movement.

I searched the same news photo resource which carried several of ACORN protest photos looking for photos from any of the tea parties. Not a one was listed. In the news business, if you don’t have a picture it’s like it never happened.

Tired of being ignored? Make some noise!

Blogs and You Tube postings are spreading the message that the Tea Parties are a huge phenomenon. But unless or until that story gets reported on the front pages of your local newspaper and headlined on television the average American will likely never know that a groundswell of opposition is out there waiting for them to join.

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Jim Cramer and CNBC Flip-Flops….Government Control Of Private Business Is Now A Good Thing

Remarkable what a change in attitude occurs when the unannounced spokesperson of the Democrat party, Jon Stewart, belittles you and the network you work at hires Howard Dean as a contributor. Here is Jim Cramer on Feb. 2nd:

Cramer, appearing on MSNBC’s Feb. 2 “Morning Joe,” drew comparisons between remarks between the first head of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, and Obama. Obama criticized Wall Street’s moneymaking on Jan. 30, when he said there would be a time “for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now’s not that time. And that’s a message that I intend to send directly to them.”

Cramer said that was similar to Lenin’s writings. “Let me tell you something, we heard Lenin,” Cramer said. “There was a little snippet last week that was, ‘Now is not the time for profits.’ Look – in Lenin’s book, ‘What Is to Be Done?’ is simple text of what I always though was for the communists, it was remarkable to hear very similar language from ‘What Is to Be Done?’ which is we have no place for profits.”

According to Cramer, China, which is the United States’ largest debt holder – about $682 billion – is currently faring better with capitalism, even though that government has operated communism for the last half century.

“Thank heavens for the Chinese communists, deeply rooted in a profit government,” Cramer said. “Because we have decided that profits have no place in the system.”

And now?

In a tone similar to the apologetic one he had earlier this month on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” he complimented President Barack Obama’s rhetoric toward high executive compensation.

“We have to put the shareholders somewhere in the equation,” Cramer said. “When these CEOs make so much money, it hurts the shareholders. We have to be pro-shareholder. The president has become pro-shareholder.”

And here is Erin Burnett, another host on CNBC:

“We haven’t moved past it,” Burnett said to host Lester Holt. “It is important. There was a shift now that maybe we’ll take a deep breath and maybe try to find a way to reform it because there are needed reforms. Executive compensation in this country is much higher relative to average workers than it is in any other country. But, it is still a big question and they probably do need to stand up and say, ‘Give us some rules on how it’s going to work to increase the confidence in the system.’”

“It’s out of control!” Cramer added.

My my….how shocking.

And now they get to keep their jobs. Isn’t that special.

Supposed capitalists working for a network dedicated to the stockmarket telling us all that what a private company does with its money is now the governments business. Not the shareholder, not the company owners, not the employees of the company. No….the government knows best.

It’s getting very scary.

UPDATE

Glenn Harlen Reynolds:

An honest politician, as an old saw has it, is one who stays bought. If this is true, then we have the most dishonest bunch of officeholders ever, and it may lead Wall Street to reconsider its donations in the future.

AIG, for example, was a huge donor to politicians, as CNS News reports:

“Some of the AIG donations to lawmakers include Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., $103,100; then-Sen., now President Barack Obama, D-Ill., $101,332; then-Sen., now Vice President Joe Biden, D-Del., $19,975; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., $59,499; former Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., $35,965; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., $11,000; and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., $24,750.”

And it wasn’t just AIG: Wall Street in general gave profligately to Barack Obama, and to Democrats generally, in 2008. Yet now, when the polls shift, all of those politicians who were so happy to take the cash are suddenly pretending they have never even heard of Wall Street. Instead they’re getting behind punitive taxes, protesters steered to executives’ homes and what both the Financial Times and the New York Daily News have called a “witch hunt” against bankers and brokers.

As Joseph Nocera wrote in the New York Times, “Congress, with its howls of rage, its chaotic, episodic reaction to the crisis, and its shameless playing to the crowds, is out of control. This week, the body politic ran off the rails.” They probably acted nicer when they were asking for money just a few months ago.