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

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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.

[marmar]

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.

[Enrique]

2. what a touching tribute

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

[muriel_volestrangler]

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?

[NBachers]

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

[stevedeshazer]

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

What a fucking shitbag.

[Downwinder]

5. Payola.

[Tom Ripley]

12. +1,000,000

[Canuckistanian]

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

[Serve The Servants]

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.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

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

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.

[TahitiNut]

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.

[EC]

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?

[JI7]

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

want to be remembered for ?

[saras]

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

[liberal N proud]

14. ;(

[sinkingfeeling]

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