Okay, so when I got up this morning I was torn between watching the Congressional hearings on the peanut salmonella case and watching eight bank CEO’s get a good grilling by another Congressional committee. I turned to the Congressional committee hearing on the peanut case first, wanting to get my first look at Stewart Parnell, President of the Peanut Corporation of America.
What a pleasant surprise! Stewart Parnell, who was appearing under subpoena, was sitting beside another gentleman, Sammy Lightsey. Seems that Sammy was the manager of the Blakely plant that produced more salmonella for the nation than good quality peanut butter.
Anyway, I was damned lucky I tuned in when I did. Neither man had an opening statement. Both sat before the committee looking like bumps on a log… (a good old Georgia phrase).
Asked whether it was their intention to cite constitutional protection in refusing to answer all the questions posed by the committee, both men said it was.
It was the only question they answered; Parnell cited constitutional protection even when asked whether he had heard members of a previous panel testify.
Short and sweet! Sometimes you feel like a peanut… Sometimes you don’t.
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