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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:12 PM

alp227 (20,488 posts)

GOP lawmaker: Dick Clark should be remembered as model of free enterprise

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Source: The Hill

House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) said Wednesday evening that famed TV producer and American Bandstand host Dick Clark, who died Wednesday at the age of 82, should also be remembered as an inspirational participant in the free-enterprise system.

Dreier came to the House floor just a few hours after Clark's death was reported, and said an ongoing Republican speech about the need to foster small businesses reminded him of the discussions he had with Clark over the years about taxes and free enterprise.

"I just want to say that as I listen to your discussion, I was reminded of how he regularly said everyone should pay their fair share of taxes," Dreier said of Clark. "He said that not too long ago to me.

"I said I appreciate that, because he knew he was paying my salary," Dreier said, adding that he had dinner with Clark just two weeks ago.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/222389-gop-lawmaker-says-dick-clark-should-be-remembered-as-model-of-free-enterprise-system

WashingtonPost.com also has the story as "House honors Dick Clark as a 'proud taxpayer'"

Hmm. First time Dick Clark's political leanings have been aired in public? I can't find any evidence of campaign contributions on NewsMeat.com for Clark. And I wonder if Clark's supposed remark about taxes is to be interpreted with the Obama or the Romney tone.

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GOP lawmaker: Dick Clark should be remembered as model of free enterprise (Original post)	alp227	Apr 2012	OP
Good lord......The free marketeers doth squawk too loudly.	marmar	Apr 2012	#1
what a touching tribute	Enrique	Apr 2012	#2
Is a GOP attempt to get themselves publicity from a death 'LBN'?	muriel_volestrangler	Apr 2012	#3
You know what? I'm not going to "Politics 2012 or something." I'm glad I read it here	NBachers	Apr 2012	#15
The guy has barely assumed room temperature, and the GOP is taking credit.	stevedeshazer	Apr 2012	#4
Payola.	Downwinder	Apr 2012	#5
+1,000,000	Tom Ripley	Apr 2012	#12
Oh, yeah	Canuckistanian	Apr 2012	#13
Oh, for the sake of Fuck...	Serve The Servants	Apr 2012	#6
Dick Clark (GOP style): "As we wait for the New Year's ball to drop,	LastLiberal in PalmSprings	Apr 2012	#10
Reliable necroconservative Dreier ... let no death go unexploited.	TahitiNut	Apr 2012	#7
So is Drier saying that	EC	Apr 2012	#8
even if Dick Clark had conservative views on taxes, you think THAT'S what he would	JI7	Apr 2012	#9
Not to mention the incredible corruption of the business Clark was in...	saras	Apr 2012	#11
;(	liberal N proud	Apr 2012	#14
I think I'll remember him as 'America's oldest teenager' and the TV shows instead.	sinkingfeeling	Apr 2012	#16

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:21 PM

marmar (60,905 posts)

1. Good lord......The free marketeers doth squawk too loudly.

....... Perhaps they can sense that the end of the Randian philosophy is extremely f**king nigh.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:24 PM

Enrique (22,646 posts)

2. what a touching tribute

if I die I would love to have someone use me to make some cheap point about taxes.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:24 PM

muriel_volestrangler (65,357 posts)

3. Is a GOP attempt to get themselves publicity from a death 'LBN'?

Shouldn't this be in 'Politics 2012' or something? Or just a reply in the Dick Clark LBN thread?

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 12:40 AM

NBachers (3,697 posts)

15. You know what? I'm not going to "Politics 2012 or something." I'm glad I read it here

I've got time for the Home Page, and sometimes most of Latest Threads.

I am thankful that this thread is here.

I guess you're not, though

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:25 PM

stevedeshazer (21,653 posts)

4. The guy has barely assumed room temperature, and the GOP is taking credit.

What a fucking shitbag.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:28 PM

Downwinder (7,130 posts)

5. Payola.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:42 PM

Tom Ripley (2,646 posts)

12. +1,000,000

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:53 PM

Canuckistanian (42,204 posts)

13. Oh, yeah

Dick Clark's early career was nearly derailed by a payola scandal, but he avoided trouble by selling his stake in a record company and cooperating with authorities. Attempts were made to link all payola with rock and roll music.

The amount of money involved is largely unpublished; however, one deejay, Phil Lind of WAIT in Chicago disclosed in Congressional hearings that he had taken $22,000 to play a record.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:30 PM

Serve The Servants (320 posts)

6. Oh, for the sake of Fuck...

"I just want to say that as I listen to your discussion, I was reminded of how he regularly said everyone should pay their fair share of taxes."

I don't know how any Republican politician can say shit like this and not immediately burst into a puff of smoke afterwords.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 09:23 PM

LastLiberal in PalmSprings (4,395 posts)

10. Dick Clark (GOP style): "As we wait for the New Year's ball to drop,

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I'd like to say that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes."

"Before we play the Number One song on the Top 40 list, I think everyone should pay their fair share of taxes."

"As I stand at the urinal taking a piss, I can't help but think that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes."

Ah, my all time favorite Dick Clark quotes. Good times.

Can't these assholes let anything happen without trying to score political points?

RIP, DC, and thanks for all the good things you did.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:36 PM

TahitiNut (71,568 posts)

7. Reliable necroconservative Dreier ... let no death go unexploited.

He'd still be sucking on Reagan's penis if Nancy would let him at it.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:36 PM

EC (11,422 posts)

8. So is Drier saying that

he dismissed what Dick Clark said about taxes but told him what he wanted to hear because he was paying Drier's salary?

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 08:41 PM

JI7 (40,106 posts)

9. even if Dick Clark had conservative views on taxes, you think THAT'S what he would

want to be remembered for ?

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:28 PM

saras (6,670 posts)

11. Not to mention the incredible corruption of the business Clark was in...

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:58 PM

liberal N proud (43,758 posts)

14. ;(

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 11:58 AM

sinkingfeeling (27,867 posts)

16. I think I'll remember him as 'America's oldest teenager' and the TV shows instead.

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