Cavuto Says Poor People are "the Worse Half"

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You Could Be Next: Cavuto Says Poor People are "the Worse Half"

In keeping with the "business news" theme of his show, Neil Cavuto opened Your World w/Neil Cavuto today (June 6, 2005) with three segments about the Alabama student, Natalee Holloway, missing in Aruba. (Later he found time for two segments on the "Jacko" trial and an interview with Miss Universe, but apparently he didn't want to stray too far from "business news" ;). He didn't have time for the Downing Street memo or the ruling in the Washington state governor's race.)

Justin McNaull, a spokesperson for AAA was a guest for one of the Aruba segments. The stated topic of the segment was whether or not Aruba's tourism industry will "take a hit" as a result of Holloway's disappearance, while the actual tone of the discussion had more to do with the scary, scary world that lies beyond the safe, orderly and civilized confines of the U.S. border.

During their discussion Cavuto indicated that not only is there a lot to worry about out there, but apparently poor people are especially dangerous. Here's what he said:

"Should you be leery of countries where there might be extreme poverty, where you have one side of the island, for example, that might be very industrious and commercial and there might be a great deal of interest in tourism, and the other side that shows, certainly, how the worse half lives and that somehow this is very close to where, you know, vacationers congregate"?

Comment: "The worse half"? Because you're poor you're "the worse half"? Boy, if that isn't a neo-con way of thinking, I don't know what is.
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up yours Cavuto

[sniffa]

1. i can't beLieve that pedophiLe stiLL has a job!!

[Sparkle]

4. Pedophile? Tell us more!

[sniffa]

9. can't say

[Sparkle]

12. Okay!

[SemperEadem]

13. then why mention it at all?

[sniffa]

14. to piss you off

[SemperEadem]

15. honey, it takes *way* more than an anonymous post

on a public message board to piss me off. You wrongly assumed that I was pissed. Poor you.

[sniffa]

16. yes, poor me

i hope i can sLeep at night. :cry:

[kliljedahl]

2. I can't stand that guy

How can you watch him?


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[rkc3]

3. People wouldn't be poor if they led good Christian lives.

Their state of poverty is the result of being poor in spirit which reduces one's ability to be productive in society.

And we wonder why we can't stand these fuckers.

[Clark2008]

6. Such hypocricy

Especially since Jesus Christ was VERY VERY VERY poor.

[rkc3]

11. And that his whole message was to treat others as you wished to be

treated.

[tabasco]

5. The French Revolution seems very understandable.

When pigs like Cavuto spout their hate.

The guillotine cures all that hatred of the poor.

[SteppingRazor]

7. Yeah, the problem is...

That after "curing" all those aristocrats, the guillotine then cured a lot of the middle class, a bunch of poor people, Revolutionaries who weren't "revolutionary" enough, and so on...

Love the French Revolution. History's greatesst example of great intentions going horribly, terribly awry. It'd make an excellent movie.

[Mich Otter]

8. The rich never commit crimes. They are the salt of the earth.

The Mafia is nothing but a bunch of poor schmucks.
We don't have to worry about some rich guys arranging wars to increase their profits.
It is all the fault of those poor people who the gods obviously do not love.

[paula777]

10. Half? 90% of the world is 'poor'. Guess he meant the worst 7/8ths

or whatever, I'm bad at math