Comments on: John Stossel “Trouble with Lawyers”

By: Turk

Turk — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:19:27 +0000

CCR’s use is why some people never joke.

Maybe you’re not funny?

By: John Stossel

John Stossel — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:36:11 +0000

It was I, actually. CCR’s use is why some people never joke.

By: John Fembup

John Fembup — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:02:13 +0000

. . . or maybe George Zimmerman.

By: John Fembup

John Fembup — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:01:49 +0000

Are you sure that’s actually John Stossel on the recording?

I think it sounds more like Trayvon Martin.

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:29:24 +0000

No, hookers sunk the Governor. They would have sunk any governor. No one had a real problem with the hypocrisy.

I think Spitzer should have resigned. And I think it is okay that he is coming back. And I think it is okay that people are substantively attacking him.

Everyone can carry on as they were.

By: Farside

Farside — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:47:22 +0000

Here’s a recording of the famous “can of peas” statement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOvxIXhiKlM

Kind Regards
Farside

By: Turk

Turk — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:00:46 +0000

I don’t mind batting things around with people I disagree with– you and I have done that from time to time. It’s hypocrisy that I dislike, which is what makes Stosselmsuch an inviting target.

Hypocrisy is, of course, what sunk Spitzer while Governor, not hookers.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:34:50 +0000

Yes, that sounds like a version CCR would retail. I have heard Stossel give his “can of peas” line in a speech and it was not worded at all that way (which of course doesn’t rule out the possibility that he has given it differently at different times).

By: Turk

Turk — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:24:12 +0000

My all time favorite Stossel anecdote:

In 1996 when he was giving a speech to the Federalist Society someone asked him why he had abandoned consumer reporting to bash government and trial lawyers. According to the Corporate Crime Reporter, Stossel replied, “I got sick of it. I also now make so much money I just lost interest in saving a buck on a can of peas.”