There is a meme going around right-wing blogs that the mainstream media is being soft on Jon Corzine because he's a Democrat.
These critics are morons as far as I'm concerned. Jon Corzine is a GREAT progressive. If we was reelected in New Jersey, he would have been a great defender of teachers and the working poor. Unlike that loser Christie who pushed his weight around when trying to avoid paying parking tickets.
Just take a look at what some extreme right-wingers are saying about progressives' response to Jon Corzine and MF Global.
http://www.redstate.com/...
From a story at the Startribune, October 2, 2011, ‘MF Global woes ripple into heartland,’ Jim Spencer reports, “When MF Global declared bankruptcy, farmers like Magnuson and Dean Tofteland, who raises pigs and grows corn and soybeans in Luverne, Minn., thought they were safe. They had been told their money was held in “segregated” accounts to be invested only in their best interest.” What actually happened was a Democratic Party former senator and New Jersey governor, Jon Corzine ran a company that moved their money from these discrete accounts into shady European investments to shore up his interests. While we still don’t know how much money is missing, estimates are now in the 1.2 billion dollar range.
So what is Klobuchar’s reaction to this? “[Regulators] are still investigating if what [MF Global] did was illegal,” Klobuchar said in an interview after the hearing. “And it may well have been illegal. We don’t know that yet. But what we know is that the law is inadequate when it comes to disclosing transactions like they made … it is possible that they were able under existing law to hide those risky transactions.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/...
The second reason Jon Corzine is above the law is his political ideology. Jon Corzine is a liberal. Actually, he is a leftist, with views every bit as far left as Socialist Bernie Sanders. He is a “progressive,” which automatically carries with it the aura of being noble, virtuous, and caring. As with most leftists, results are irrelevant. Intentions are all that matters. More than one liberal columnist pointed out that Jon Corzine favors single-payer healthcare, gay marriage, abortion on demand, and cap-and-trade legislation. In other words, he is a saint. In the same way good deeds by conservatives are ignored simply because they are conservatives, all bad behavior by liberals can be washed away by simply being liberal.
http://www.campidiot.com/...
The 1% should be executed unless they are rich bankers. Then they should be appointed to obamas[sic] staff
If it were up to the likes of Redstate and the freepers, Jon Corzine would already be in jail without due process. We have a nation that believes in innocent until proven guilty. Whatever Corzine did was not corruption, because progressives are far less corrupt than racist conservatives. Especially those like Ron Paul:
http://www.realchange.org/...
"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be." - Ron Paul, 1992
"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." - Ron Paul, 1992
Ron Paul is a staunch advocate of shutting down the Federal Reserve and a conspiracy nut. His rants about imperialism are way out of the mainstream (and mostly driven by anti-semitism).
Jon Corzine has always been pro-choice and therefore he is a compassionate human being, and that we should not rush to judgment on his stewardship of MF Global. Let's support him as the vicious right wing continues to attack him in their witch hunt against him.