rating agency spanned all of them. let s face it, this is the only one that downgraded the u.s. neil: why the only one? congratulations, s&p. you finally came out and said what even says knew. you were targeted. you embarrassed the administration. the triple-a thing, they can never get it back. stain on obama s record. don t you think they deserve to investigated? neil: then investigate them all. i say investigate them all. hardly a defender of the guys. i remember how they gave pristine rating to questionable debt. they were not the only one doing it. what is good for the goose should be good for all the gander. it s not. i was not a conspiracy theorist on this note. i live my life if that world. given what we have seen out of the administration, just in the last year, doesn t it make you question everything that the administration does? whether you are talking about the justice department going after fox news james rosen, you talk about the i.r.s.
neil: all right. after the downgrading, the retaliating, you got to wonder, standard & poor s ripping the justice department $5 billion fraud lawsuit is nothing more than a very, very pricy tit-for-tat saying it s being punished for having the nerve to knock america s triple-a credit rating down. charlie, what do you make of that? moody s and fitch invesors were not knocked down. i have done a lot of all righting on this. the behavior was despicable, but so was moody s. in the bottoms, problematic e-mails on the s&p. neil: i m not dismissing that. only one of the firms downgraded u.s. they look at e-mails and they come one bad stuff. if you have to make a case, you need evidence of intentionally were keeping the mortgage bond ratings high. that said, you can t make a whole case on e-mails. the egregious behavior of the
i absolutely find it extremely odd this is the one they went after. as you say, you cannot lift a finger against obama without worry about getting sued. neil: adam, what do you make of that? as ben likes to say with all due respect, this is outrageously silly thesis to suggest the president of the united states or secretary of the treasury would say to the attorney general, hey, let s go sue these guys. ben, why them? it s s&p. c mon, ben. neil: c mon, adam. there are other big rating agencies. it s s&p. what is the difference between s&p and moody niece they all screwed up. why aren t they being sued? we don t know they haven t investigated moody s and fitch. we know they sued s&p. the only thing i would say is this, the evidence of an s&p is pretty bad. fine. it s there. it s there. i did not see the evidence. okay. what do you make. in the end, how far does it go? i think it ends. really?
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scandal. jamie dimond. everything. but now neil: that is the guy that had a disney fast pass to the oval office and he started criticizing them. you have to hold you nose with this one. neil: benstein, you don t have to be in the black helicopter crowd to connect some dots here. texas, dare start a voter i.d. law. then a quick lawsuit. arizona, you know, says it s tired of the fed incompetent illegal immigrant crackdown. crackdown on their own and they get a lawsuit. it seems to be a pattern. to the administration and eric holder who i think of, as the minister of fear, the lawsuit is the punch in the brass knuckles and the shiv of what the chicago mafia would have done. if they don t do anything they don t like, wham, they hit them with the lawsuit. the government has lawyers, a lot of time on their hands. and wham, they hit them with a lawsuit. a lawsuit is a nightmare. and yes, i absolutely believe all the rating agencies screwed up.