Peanut Company CEO Refuses to Eat His Own Product and repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment.

[kpete]

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We've got competing CEOs on the all-Congress channel today, with the Peanut CEO in front of Commerce Committee and the Bank CEOs in front of Financial Services.

There will be some scuttlebutt from the Bank CEOs--as when a few of them admitted they've been raising credit card rates since they started sucking on the federal teat.

But the news coverage will open today with Stewart Parnell (CEO) and Sammy Lightsey (Plant Manager) of the Peanut Corporation of America.

Both of them came in, got sworn in, and repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment. Neither of these guys appear to be as bright as their Wall Street counterparts--I got the sense that Parnell, and especially Lightsey--were under very strict orders to say nothing beyond "On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer your question based on the protection afforded me under the US Constitution" Lightsey, in particular, was struggling with all the legalese.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/02/11/ceos-eating-their-own-toxic-products/

[baldguy]

1. Why am I thinking of Montgomery Burns & Blinky the fish?

[DUlover2909]

6. HA-HA. I thought the same thing.

:rofl:

[LiberalFighter]

2. Make them eat the peanuts!!!

[Michigan-Arizona]

7. For breakfast, lunch, dinner & a damn bedtime snack!

[dkofos]

3. He would be executed in china.

[slutticus]

8. No, they usually commit suicide before that.

[aquart]

11. I like that approach.

It's fair and biblical.

[TheEuclideanOne]

4. Funny how guilty they sound

When you plead the fifth to "Will you eat your own product?", it sure is hard not to come across as sounding guilty as sin. I did not even know you could plead the fifth to that type of question.

[DainBramaged]

5. I hope, from the lawsuits, they wind up living in cardboard boxes

until they go to prison, 10 years for every life lost, 1 year for every person made sick. All so that they could increase their profits. Stupid fucking Rethugs.

[Donnachaidh]

9. how about a peanut butter colonic applied with a high pressure fire hose?

Baldheaded redneck dirtbag. :grr:

[Ian David]

10. See, this is why Bush appointed him to The USDA Committee on Food Safety. n/t