Fox host asks if Warren Buffett is ‘completely a socialist’

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Replay
By Andrew Jones

In Eric Bolling’s mind, Warren Buffett may be a socialist now.

That skepticism was shared by the Fox Business News host after the renowned billionaire again stated in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the rich needed to pay more in taxes. In a heated debate with Columbia professor Marc Lamont Hill, Boiling was steadfast in slamming Buffet’s opinion and President Obama’s “socialist handbook.”

“What is this, is he completely a socialist and he’s playing into Mr. Obama’s hands of “Tax anyone who makes money’ and give it to people who don’t work,” Bolling asked.

Hill replied: “So basically anyone who disagrees with you is a socialist? Now Warren Buffett, one of the greatest profit makers in human history, is a socialist? I mean, come on. He’s simply saying people need to pay their fair share.”

That didn’t stop Bolling continue to display the usual conservative outrage on the idea of tax increases on the rich. After his guest compared Obama’s economic options to a revolver, Bolling added to the analogy.

“All of these bullets guys are in ‘the socialist handbook.’”

(Watch: Video from Fox Business Network, from August 15, 2011)

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/fox-host-asks-if-warren-buffett-is-completely-a-socialist/

[KansDem]

1. Oh, no!!! Throwing the "S" word around!

:eyes:

[Raksha]

2. Does anyone actually care at this point?

It's great to see Faux News doing its bit to rehabilitate the word "socialist."

[CarmanK]

3. REAGAN repeat: demonize the poor, satanize the generous!

did you notice the man said take the money from the working wealthy and give it to the lazy POOR who just don't want to work!! This record really is broken. With 25 mn children in poverty, they are not worthless, they are the future of this nation and it is our duty as a country, as a civilized society to take care of our children, our sick, our disabled and returning vets who are losing their homes because their military pay does not pay as well as private sector jobs.

[DesertFlower]

4. i recently had a phone conversation

with an old friend i hadn't seen in 41 years. i mentioned that i was a "socialist democrat". he said "so you want to give more away to everyone". he (a former union member) said unions are bad for the country. needless to say that friendship is not being pursued.

[Johonny]

5. Something you just never hear

hey did you hear what they said on "Fox Business News".

The answer to this is no. No one watches or has ever watched Fox Business News.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Oh God Damn it, Eric Bolling is a Prick who Needs Airhammered in the Balls!!!

How bad is it when you go to Fox because you feel CNBC is too liberal? :eyes: :eyes:

This prick FUCK. Watch his exchange with Alan Grayson to get a glimpse on what a waste of useless, talking-point barfing garbage he is.

[provis99]

7. Eric Bolling has never produced anything in his life.

Yet he bloviates about other people not contributing their fair share. typical Freudian projectionism and Republican hypocrisy.

[Ilsa]

10. I'm quite certain at some point he produced flatus and then shit. :-) nt

[EC]

8. So now according to them

all of us who make little money, "don't work"? How about lowering the taxes on the average wage earner and increasing it on those that actually don't work, like unearned income...hedge funds, etc. They are the ones that "don't work".

[newfie11]

9. Heck I am beginning to think I maybe too

I am all for the type of socialism of Denmark/Netherlands. Bring it on.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Warren Buffett a socialist?...

I guess that is why this was the first year in 3 that our company gave out raises, and they were 2.5%. Oh, I am living in the workers' paradise :sarcasm: