Faux Sees Shopping Brawls as Sign of Good Economy

[UTUSN]

The holiday replacement for Shit HUME set up his panel discussion with clips of mindless shoppers bursting out of their pent-up-family-hells into the STORES yesterday. He and the Charles KRAUTHAMMER(sp) dude yukked it up, saying that a new index for the economy was how many fistfights broke out, indicating how EAGER and what DISPOSIBLE INCOME the mindless materialists possess, meaning that the economy is GOOD. Juan WILLIAMS had one little raindrop on their heads, saying that actually the stores were hyper-advertising to get people to SPEND NOW just in case the economy tanks anytime soon.

The whole scene was disgusting----the videos of the shoppers, the condescension and paternalism of the wingnuts.

[trotsky]

1. It is completely the opposite.

So many families with so little money, their best hope to give their kids and family a good Christmas is to literally fight for the deals at the local big box store.

It's terribly sad, and an indicator of just how poorly this economy is treating all of us who aren't part of *'s elite base.

[efhmc]

11. I agree with you 100%.

[lonestarnot]

2. Just more warmonger reporting. Any particular reason that you go there?

Do you like to aggravate yourself?

[salin]

3. er... disposable income??? Doesn't it instead point to how tight folks

budgets are - that they are going for the advertised cheapest of the cheapest and are willing to put themselves in physical harms way to stretch their DECLINING incomes as far as they can during the holidays?

[havocmom]

4. Roman dictators had their circuses for the masses

We have shopping.

Delusional citizens are great, for poor leaders.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Maybe the frenzies at Wal-Mart occurred because they were offering

stuff at deep discounts and the shoppers wanted a nice Christmas for their kids and so were desperately trying to buy some things they couldn't usually afford because they have crappy jobs because the economy sucks?

[C_U_L8R]

6. it's more like a desperate economy...

or at least signs of a consumer base that's
been squeezed over the edge of reason

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. It is truly sad as to what we have let ourselves become.

No wonder the rest of the civilized world is slowly partitioning us off.

[BanzaiBonnie]

10. Merry Christmas and happy holidaze

Just as most of those idiotic reality shows are designed to bring out the WORST in human behavior; an example of the * administration and the worst consumer economy since the Depression.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

13. And the same to you.

I started a practice some years ago where during the month of December I trying to pay particular attention to how I treat others as I go about my daily business. You know just small things like letting someone in line who has less items than I do go in front of me and letting the person trying to get into traffic have a space where they can merge in.

And while it is just a small thing it is still an improvement over a lot of my behavior toward others during the rest of the year. I find it conflicting that in a country where we are allegedly suppose to be a christian nation in where its main authority, the bible, says, "love thy neighbor," it appears to be interpreted as love thy neighbor, unless of course they get in between you and a great bargain. At which point one should resoundingly trounce them.

FFC

[Deja Q]

8. In Jan 2006, once gas and electricity kill us, the economy won't be good.

And by the time November comes around, it'll be gone.

So much the better. I'm tired of their games. Let it collapse now. That is what they want.


((Gas & electricity costs, but only a freeper wouldn't be able to figure it out without this clarification.))

[norml]

9. When a repub is in charge Faux sees everything as Sign of Good Economy,

no matter how absurd.

They are fairly mindless about this, especially on their so called "Business Block".

[area51]

12. Faux: "Shopping Brawls as Sign of Good Economy"

As several other posters have commented, it shows just the opposite -- that money is so extremely tight in Bush's 2nd Great Depression that people feel they have to duke it out in order to give their kids toys.

Faux "news": where the spin never stops.

[booley]

14. isn't Hume the same guy who saw the London bombings

and said it's a good time to BUY on the stock market?

or was that some one else on Faux?

But really, why should this be any kind of surprise? They do this al the time.

If people were devouring live babies, Faux would be reporting that both malnutrition and the orphan problem had been solved.