Scattershot Fox Interview Turns Chaotic: "Would You Call Yourself A Socialist?!"

[ProSense]

Run time: 03:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lvVuj_rakU   Posted on YouTube: September 27, 2010 By YouTube Member: tpmtv Views on YouTube: 310   Posted on DU: September 28, 2010 By DU Member: ProSense Views on DU: 2414

 

[baldguy]

1. The biggest RW lie of the last 50 yrs: people who make more money work harder than people who don't.

[GreenTea]

15. The biggest republican lie has been that republicans aren't big spenders & want smaller government!

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power--and usually all three. Over the last one hundred years, of the six presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases. five were Republicans. Include regulations and foreign policy, as well as budgets approved by a Republican Congress, and a picture begins to emerge of the Republican Party as a reliable engine of government growth.

Republican Herbert Hoover
Increased federal spending 38 percent

Republican Dwight Eisenhower
Increased federal spending 30 percent

Republican Richard Nixon
Increased federal spending 70 percent

Republican Ronald Reagan
Increased federal spending 53 percent

Republican George H W Bush
Increased federal spending 26 percent

Republican George W Bush
Increased federal spending 94%
(More than doubling the national deb,t spending and adding nearly six trillion dollars more to the debt). Spending trillions on wars, tax cuts for the rich and hundreds of new subsidies for the corporations - NONE of which were ever paid for - Like ALL republicans Bush just spent & spent!

Republicans always say they want smaller government - But always been a lie....Republicans Nixon, Reagan, Bush & W all increased our taxes and all created more subsidy programs for corporations (corporate welfare). - The ONLY thing republicans programs don't spend OUR tax dollars on is the poor, the workers, the middle-class and small businesses.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

2. He should count himself lucky once we have President Hartmann and we roll back the Reagan tax cuts..

it will be 90%. OK that'll take a lot of work, but untill that time they get off lightly. In the year 2010 very wealthy CEOs bankrupted the world it's the only way back to realign the budget.

[underpants]

3. There are no tax loopholes?

LIAR!!!

[safeinOhio]

7. Warren Buffett admits that his

income is in dividends and he only pays 15%. YOU LIE!

The Professors should have asked if he works for a fascist organization.

[pezDispenser]

4. here's what so insulting

What about the person who wakes up at 4 am and takes personal responsability for his or her family by working 2 jobs? One at Walmart and the other delivering pizzas. Do they deserve to make $8 an hour for 12 or 14 hours a day?

I'm so sick of these assholes claiming that Paris Hilton works harder than anyone I know.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. It will come to a time that........

nobody will go on faux noise , their "my slant or else" schtick is
so pre school.

[husky92]

6. Windbag Personified

I can't stand this guy. I see him on TV occasionally and hear him on the radio as well and he's a know-it-all windbag. I like the way he opened by calling her a lefty because she is in academics. Big deal. Why is it that all right wingers label anyone in the education field on the college level lefties. What difference does that make. Is that something bad? If she was a right winger he would have been smooching her ass. She was right on tax loopholes for the rich. They all have them; they hire the best accountants and take advantage of every loophole they can. Why would these people ever go on Fox anyway. It's a lose, lose, You're going to shouted down and everything you say will be called totally wrong. I give her credit for going on.

[ThePhilosopher04]

8. She should have challenged...

the asshat to release his tax records to demonstrate whether in fact he is really paying 50% of his income in taxes, and should have asked him what exactly it is he does all day that constitutes hard work...I bet he's never broken a sweat in his life...piece of no good shit motherfucker!!!

[The Wizard]

9. There is no reason for Pox News

to exist. The wealthy have more than enough to live comfortably forever. How many Pox News talking heads are living in the upper echelons because they push propaganda for the wealthy elites?
That entire network needs to be taken down, and its owners stripped of their citizenship and sent to Elba.

[florida08]

10. Socialist? Fake news making up their own facts again

WASHINGTON – The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession.

The top-earning 20 percent of Americans — those making more than $100,000 each year — received 49.4 percent of all income generated in the U.S., compared with the 3.4 percent earned by those below the poverty line, according to newly released census figures. That ratio of 14.5-to-1 was an increase from 13.6 in 2008 and nearly double a low of 7.69 in 1968.

A different measure, the international Gini index, found U.S. income inequality at its highest level since the Census Bureau began tracking household income in 1967. The U.S. also has the greatest disparity among Western industrialized nations.

Lower-skilled adults ages 18 to 34 had the largest jumps in poverty last year as employers kept or hired older workers for the dwindling jobs available, Smeeding said. The declining economic fortunes have caused many unemployed young Americans to double-up in housing with parents, friends and loved ones, with potential problems for the labor market if they don't get needed training for future jobs, he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100928/ap_on_bi_ge/us_cens...

[dotymed]

11. Socialist is a "bad word" in America.

The corporations have been so successful manipulating the public that most have no idea what Socialism actually means.
Workers owning the means of manufacturing = co-ops= Socialism.
That is a good thing.
Should individuals be allowed to receive (not earn) thousands of times more pay than the people who actually produce the goods? That is more along the lines of Feudalism = Capitalism.
During FDR's presidency, America, for once, was on the right track. The road to worker equality.
Everyone knows that the average worker works much harder than the average CEO and is paid about 4000 times less.
If a country is to survive, then it has to progressively improve the condition of it's citizenry. Not the lives of a few chosen elites.

Since the repeal of The Fairness Doctrine under Reagan, Americans are fed a continuous diet of propaganda.

[HelenWheels]

12. Condescending

asshole. His smirking, grimacing and body language all says, "Aren't you a cute little fluff head." I don't know too many millionaires who get up at 6 AM and work hard all day. And did you get the smirk when she said she knew people who work 2 and 3 jobs?

[garthranzz]

13. Stopped it halfway through

She should never have gone on. The jerk never let her answer the question. She looked lost. She's used to civil conversations or giving lectures.

The man - with his British accent!!! - is a jerk - substitute your own word for the euphemism.

[ut oh]

14. Couldn't even stand to listen to the whole thing...

It's typical Fox tactics... Make a declaration, ask the guest, then spend the rest of the time yelling over the top of them... BS

[wxgeek7]

16. In God We Trust...hmmm?

I pull out my wallet, and read on the back of a dollar bill, "In God We Trust". I check out a quarter, and again, it reads, "In God We Trust". Hmmm? Seems logical to me that we should do what God would want us to do, which is give back to those less fortunate. And if that means giving half your earnings, after say, $350,000, then so be it.

[herbm]

17. Do you think its moral for the rich to let people starve? We fight your stupid wars, do your dirty

work, over pay for housing you own/built, drive dirty crap cars so your blue chips stocks stay "up". You get to take RESPONSIBILTY and PAY for it, assh*le.

[dem mba]

18. he would have a point

if we lived in a true meritocracy. where a bright kid from an impoverished neighborhood can get a great education, network with the 'right' people, and interview at the best companies.

but we don't live in that world. white children from affluent families have it so much easier than minorities from impoverished neighborhoods. if we don't cap income above $250K that gulf will forever widen. there simply is no other way to close the income gap than to have the government redistribute income in this manner.

the host never stops to contemplate the morality of a ever-widening income gap between the rich and poor. we already had a Gilded Age in this country, we don't need another.

[L. Coyote]

19. Dude the rich get out of bed after the workers!

[bigmonkey]

20. "Sure, if you pay me ten bucks!"

Sorry, irresistable joke.