I was going to post this earlier, but I got caught up.

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If you need a good laugh (or cry) please watch a full 30 minutes of the Fox Business Network.

I got up this morning and turned on the TV and was going to flip to CSPAN for WJ. I hit the wrong number on the remote and it instead changed to FBN.

A (slightly paraphrased) excerpt from this morning - (Keep in mind this was supposed to be a financial news show, not op/ed a la O'Reilly.)


Host 1: (Screaming) I don't even recognize my country anymore. I live in middle New Jersey, I take the train into work, and I pay my mortgage payment. Why should my tax dollars pay other people's mortgages?


Host 2: Calm down.


Economic Expert: It is necessary to maintain property values. It is beneficial for the social welfare.


Host 1: And look at the root of that word. Social. This is socialism.

(Cut to commercial)



And CNBC wasn't much better. Tonight, per their advertisement, Jim Cramer is going to tell us which stocks are "Obama-proof."


I see assholes. Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're assholes.

[alsame]

1. What I would say to Host #1:

I have no children. I pay my property taxes, which include school taxes. Why should my tax dollars pay to help educate your children?

[valerief]

3. Then you'd be using reason. Their heads explode when you do that. nt

[tavalon]

5. Host #1 would probably agree with you, proving once and for all,

that he/she is as irony impaired as social contract impaired.

[NYC_SKP]

2. After decades of corporate welfare and preferential treatment they don't know...

...what to do now that the tables are turned.

They are freaking out.

It's almost worth going to FNN or CNBC just to revel in their misery.

Are you SURE that's not what you were doing there? :P

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4. Exactly.

And I was just watching by accident. :P

However, it was far more entertaining than WJ. The screaming, the hollering, the shear insanity.

FBN has definitely done to financial reporting what Fox News has done to the news.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Everybody, and I mean damned near everybody...

Democrats and Republicans in office, defined a strong economy by the wrong metrics, such as the Dow, IMO.

The rich got richer, the middle class disappeared, we gave away our manufacturing base, we sold out and sold our souls for short term positive numbers.

The motherfucking chickens of Reaganomics and Clinton/Bush global economics have come the fuck home to roost.

:patriot:

[tavalon]

6. A very pertinent question mentioned in The Top 10 this week:

Can one overdose on schadenfreude? I'm going to need to push away from the table soon. This has been so satisfying and yet, I'm mighty full.

[spanone]

8. i'll take your word for it and not soil my large screen teevee

[treestar]

9. This cartoon says it

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10. That is great

Thanks for posting it!

[ErinBerin84]

11. yeah

I'd only watched Cramer a couple times before (though I see him a lot on the other cable shows), and today it was all about "Hmmm, not sure, I'll have to see if that stock is Obama proof" and "The Nancy Pelosi stimulus" and Obama "soaking up the rich like a loofa" and punishing the people who make jobs. And then he picked up the mao zedong picture prop and made some weird remark about "moo shoo chicken".

edit: media matters has a compilation of all these red scare buzzwords he's been using lately.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903040026?f=h_latest

"In the past month, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer has repeatedly characterized President Obama and congressional Democrats as Russian communists intent on "rampant wealth destruction." Specifically, Cramer has referred to Obama as a "Bolshevik" and said he is "taking cues from Lenin." Cramer has also used terms such as "Marx," "comrades," "Soviet," "Winter Palace," and "Politburo" in reference to Democrats and questioned whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the "general secretary of the Communist Party."

[WeDidIt]

12. IF you want to know how to invest, watch Cramer

and invest the opposite way.

Cramer is an idiot.

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13. +10³