By Tim Redmond
Check out Nancy Pelosi on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. SHe looks pretty bad, has no sense of humor, etc, etc, but here’s the fun part:
At one point, Pelosi says that “newspapers” have been calling her, asking for federal TARP bailout money.
Now, I wonder which “newspapers” that might be.
We know Hearst — in the person of Phil Bronstein — has met with Pelosi, and that Pelosi has talked about relaxing antitrust rules for newspapers. Did Bronstein or someone else at Hearst also ask for federal money to support the ailing Chron?
I dunno — Pelosi’s press office hasn’t called me back to say whether she will identify the “newspapers” that have contacted her. I haven’t heard back from Bronstein, either.
I suppose it’s not out of the question — if the taxpayers can bail out AIG and General Motors, why not the San Francisco Chronicle? But would Obama then want to fire the publisher?