John King Cites Human Events Headline and Asks If Obama Is Trying to Brazenly Deceive the American People
By Heather Monday Mar 16, 2009 9:00am
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John King get his Fox on while interviewing Dick Cheney and cites a headline from Human Events to frame his question.
KING: You disagree with that. I want to show you one more newspaper headline in this segment. This is a newspaper many Americans might not recognize, but I read it and I know you read it.
CHENEY: Human Events.
KING: It's the conservative weekly Human Events. And in the lead article this week, they call it Obama's brazen deception to sell agenda. Essentially the point you just made, that they have, under the umbrella of an economic crisis, you must support us, there is urgency to act now, that they are putting, in this newspaper's view, a lot of items like health care, like the environment, other priorities and saying, we have to do this all now. Is the president of the United States trying to brazenly deceive the American people?
CHENEY: Well, I think they've taken liberties, if you will, with the arguments. Given the importance to the country and to all of us of having a healthy economy and getting the economy back on track, it seems to me an administration does have an obligation to set priorities and go after that first. It also occurs to me that one of the tools that is most important to doing that is tax policy, and cutting taxes, especially for those who invest and create wealth and create jobs. That's not what we're seeing.
We're seeing an argument made that we've got economic difficulties, therefore, we're going to have a cap and trade program with respect to carbon emissions. That's a huge energy tax that's going to be applied across the society.
Or that we're going to fundamentally change the health care system, we haven't had a debate is on the health care system, well, since '93. Perfectly fine to have a debate on it, but we're not having a debate on it.
I was concerned when the first stimulus program wasn't put together in the administration but, rather, was something they sort of chucked up on Capitol Hill and let the Congress write that legislation which says, to me, there really isn't a coherent approach at this point to try and improve the economy.
Well we all know where King gets some of his "news" now. Maybe next time he could quote some Freeper articles and ask Cheney if Obama is a secret Muslim as well.
For anyone who is not familiar with Human Events, here's the list of their authors. Wingnuts galore.
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if he'd simply blown Cheney on camera, that would have been unseemly.
these losers piss me off no end. Honest to frickin' Krist! What a bunch of adolescent idiots.
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form.sound....
if you want to know something you ask an expert. And who knows better than dick cheney how to use fear and manipulation to advance an agenda? And really who better to take liberties than the dick?
I'm not saying he's right but he's a good one to ask.
it's in the trash with Fox and ABC for me... Pretty soon I'll only be able to contemplate my navel and read books because I'm not interested in watching these fools make fools of themselves and try to make a fool out of me. Baaaaa... Enough already!!!
well...it's been awhile...I pretty much just watch MSNBC now...
and occasionally I tune into teh Faux...just to see what the enemy is yammerin on about.
... why not hold up some Rama-lama-ding-dong UFO journal and ask Cheney if Obama is secretly in cahoots with the Anunaki?
You're a disgrace to the concept of journalism, King. I mean, really.
"Do you think this headline from a conservative-biased publication suggesting Obama is lying means, in fact, that Obama is lying? I'm asking you, of course, as a conservative who reads this biased publication and agrees with it on most points."
john's puppeteers-- complicit agents in policy disambiguation w/cheney as a reliable dis-sembler. and yes, this isn't journalism, it's fact-scrubbing in service to ...
Nobody listens or believes the Reslug bullshit, talking points, through these sick, partisan hacks, and just plain liars on Faux Noise.
...regarding "deception."
So now a fucking asshole who spent most of his term in office at an "undisclosed location" and which made everything in his power to keep his records from the public... now the same asshole gets to criticise anyone regarding "deception."
And to prove their point, they cite what amounts to a periodical version of Mein Kampf as a credible source?
It is time to call a spade a spade, these assholes are no journalist, they are simple PR hacks.
it's downright mental, isn't it?! Totally defies all logic and reason... for the life of me, I just don't frickin' get it.
The elites think we're all idiots, and we've done nothing as a society to change that view.
and who are the elites?
do you suppose they are also Democrats? or are they not included in your definition of elite?
you're not one of them.
with the e sounding like ay!
I ask a serious, and revealing question, and you want to be jocular?
if you can't deal with it...
Everyone knows the answer. You anly asked it to be an ass.
... then stop sounding like a broken record. We heard you the first 100 times, dude.
It is almost like clockwork: someone pointing out the degenerate nature of the GOP. And boom, almost instantaneously we have our concern troll d'jour trying to derail the conversation from discussing the GOP shit, and make it a Dem issue.
Attack the same way every single time....
Predictable.
Obama is brazenly deceiving the American people.
Afterall, Obama has adopted the Cheney/Addington view of the office of the Presidency.
So what are you going to do about it?
Face it, getting mad doesn't mean you're not a passenger on this express train to hell.
if Obama is just like Cheney and other repugs, then why is he driving them batshit crazy? Your "they're all the same" argument simply doesn't foot with readily observable phenomena.
Bullcrap.
Tell me a meaningful policy of BushCo that Obama hasn't adopted or just tweaked?
I can list and CITE dozens and dozens of instances where Obama has done EXACTLY that.
done
those taxes are on the upper middle class.
the 1% that owns the most will be unscathed. They have been on the receiving end of these bailouts and billions and billions to their banks right? they've already skimmed the cream.
... if the policy was meaningful, then doesn't that mean it actually works and achieves something?
I thought your premise was that Obama isn't changing any of the Bush policies that people have issues with, such as torture, Guantanamo, warrantless surveillance, etc.
perhaps I should have narrowed it to the list you mentioned, predominantly foreign policy and presidential powers.
If you can't even state your premise correctly, why the hell would I think you've got anything else useful in the drawer?
as in the other thread....*yaaaaaawns*
Wonder what dennis is up to....
lifting the embargo on family planning funds to countries who offer abortion counseling, extending UEI, which I'm sure Bush would not have done, and I'm not through my first cuppa. Sure he's done shit you don't like, but you are just looking for it.
Was Purrrrrrrrr-fect! :-)
I notice there was no rebuttal forthcoming...
:)
the easiest solution to the problem is usually the most straight forward, then not only are they upset over losing the election, they are batshit crazy, and they lie and project as well. That is some kind of trifecta for Occums razor.
more like the perfect storm of incompetence, greed, and wanton malice.
... as most concern trolls usually don't show up until noonish.
I guess they are giving you guys earlier shifts. Maybe the economy is picking up after all?
The economy would be picking up, but I think most trolls telecommute. So, the extra shift doesn't really help out any lunch counters or cheetos trucks.
i see it more that people deceive themselves if they thought obama was going to govern from the left.
obama's comments and actions in the run up to the '08 election should have dispelled the illusion that he was going to be an advocate of lefty wants. such as his comment that he is a "free" market type of guy, his economic advisors (jason furman [see, wal mart]) and his allies in congress (rahm).
(although, i do want to hear more about this rumor [although denied by obama admin] that he is considering taxing healthcare benefits. that would be BLATANT deception if the rumor was true.)
i was not deceived... he is a centrist.
..how much King got for that shameless plug of HE?
Dick promised that he'd put it all the way in this time.
didn't you notice King's perma-smile while interviewing Cheney?
Just like a 15 yr old girl en route to a Jonas Brothers concert.
I thought there weren't any over 11
Not counting Truth B. Told.
Until just now...I've never heard of that paper...
Now, I can say though...I will NEVER read it.
not familiar with HE, never had to suffer the abuse of watching terry jeffrey on TV? good, your health and your sanity thank you. and, btw, you have missed nothing.
can attest...I am a glutton for punishment...so maybe I SHOULD pick up a copy, lol!
Cheney is somehow an authority on good economic policy or good government?
To paraphrase Bill Maher, why don't you sit this one out, Nostradamus.
Did King give him anything but softballs?
Imagine, the Obama administration "let the Congress write (the stimulus) legislation..." Can you believe that, Dick? The executive branch let the legislature write the legislation.
Cheney thinks we live in Pakistan, I guess.
No...
Cheney IS AN AUTHORITY on the real power structure of the US government.
Afterall, he helped shape it and he helped empower it with radical new powers.
The elites/establishment agenda is so far removed from the what the voting masses think and believe.
So what do you suggest we do, Mr. Naked Lunch?
Start blowing up railway bridges?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjU7ul0uoII&fe...
Unless you accept his premise 100%.
Until then, it's only more negativity with no ideas other than Obama=Bush.
I think that those of us that have been paying attention know
exactly what that nasty fuck did. Please don't paint everyone with your broad brush. I never voted for those worthless fucks and I knew when GWB announced that he was going to run for and then steal the presidency that he would ruin the country, all you had to do was take a look at his history in Texas and his business history, which screamed "LOSER."
well then you are exempted from the critique.
but don't think for a moment that the republicans were just gonna hand over a corrupted government and Obama by the power of his Leftness was going to uncorrupt it.
Is it OBAMA that's perpetuating the corrupt system, or is it that the Republicans left such a mess that it can't be untangled?
He is perpetuating.
Look at all his Wall Street dominated appointments.
Look at all of his CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderburg appointments.
Compare those with Bush's CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderburg appointments.
He sourced his appointees from the same places that Bush sourced his from.
Exactly! The people of Texas were warning us, but not enough people listened.
... what's your solution?
Seriously, you can't say 'don't play the game,' because that's not a choice.
Refuse to vote? How does that impact a corrupt system inordinately influenced by corporations?
Third party? What principles or safeguards exist to prevent a third party from becoming just as corrupt and beholden to corporate masters? I mean, really, if we can't believe Obama talking about change, why should I believe anyone else?
Get mad and throw a tantrum? This is going to impress the corporations so much they're going to bow, exit the stage and let you run things?
how narrow your options are.
there are always other choices.
You could always threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue.
John King and Cheney, fuck you, if you will.
Waddya call using an unrelated national tragedy like 9-11 to declare war on another country, and pull a power grab from the legislative branch to the executive branch
And basically rewriting civil rights and torture?
and what do you call it when Obama buys into this paradigm?
you think he's just that ignorant and naive?
I think, that you think that he's ignorant and naive.
I, for one, have never spouted anything like that, nor, I doubt have many here.
Sure, he's had 50 days. He should have reversed just about everything by now. What an ignorant, naive putz he is for not fixing everything before the Senate will even confirm all his treasury appointments.
I smell troll! STFU and go read something enlightening for you from the Human Events paper to fill your head and heart with crap...
maybe you'd like to call Glen Greenwald a troll then.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/0...
just you!
... demonstrates a knowledge of the subject material and routinely presents alternatives.
You just sit here and whine and expect to be praised.
How is that different from any player in the corrupt political game you detest so much?
and it doesn't change the fact that you--TBT--are a troll...
Greenwald's words:
Rational people are capable of seeing more than these two options: Obama should not yet be criticized and Obama is the equivalent of Bush. These are just basic logical principles that shouldn't need to be stated.
So if you agree with Glenn, you won't be posting your infamous "Obama = Bush" drivel anymore.
Eeeeeasy with the logic....
TBT's empty little noggin may just explode with all that science you just dropped in there...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35kKyC1cqg
I guess, on the good side, at least with Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney as their PR guys, they won't be winning any converts.
Was it Michael Steele who thought Mr. 13% might be a good point man?
Let's see how pompous Dickless Cheney is when he's brought up on War Crimes?
John King is trapped in his little bubble and all he needs is a pin prick. Just exactly who is deceiving who, Johnny boy? You deceitful frigging bastage.
is how he got the interview, I'll wager...
"Essentially the point you just made, that they have, under the umbrella of an economic crisis, you must support us, there is urgency to act now, that they are putting, in this newspaper's view, a lot of items like health care, like the environment, other priorities and saying, we have to do this all now."
well, yeah, because everyone, EVERYONE, knows that healthcare and the environment happen 'outside' the economy, and have ZERO effect on the economy.
How much longer are we going to be bombarded by this constant stream of stupidity and outright lies? Maybe our national average intelligence has dropped so low that this is no less than we deserve. From Washington to Wall Street to Main Street, we have become a nation of morons who have forgotten how to think for ourselves.
Present company excluded, of course.
I resemble that remark.
You've nailed it, SR. We will readily swallow the pablum we are fed. There's simply no other explanation for the popularity of Glenn Beck.
Wingnut welfare on Rupert's dime?
I figure Beck is kind of like a pseudo-competing brand. You know, like how Ford owns part of Mazda but they compete against each other - so the company wins either way.
You see, the Republicans were starting to lose the crazy, "illegal mexicans are going to take my guns and make me confront my latent homosexuality" segment; so, they rolled out a new product line.
I've seen the same false premise in numerous "news" articles:
"Is Obama trying to tackle too many other problems when the economy is the #1 problem he should be fixing?"
But the only people who would ask that question are the useless eaters - the corporate crowd - who live parasitically off the work of others. To them the only question is how much a return they get on their "investments".
They are BLIND to the FACT that HealthCare, Employment, Housing, Wasteful Military Spending, ETC - ALL affect the Economy.
"The Economy" is NOT a separate problem.
be considered the A-#1 authority on the USofA on Brazen Deception!! Afterall, he's been practicing it for his entire career in politics....DICK is aptly named.!!
I used to get unsolicited emails from Human Events. It is exemplary of everything that is wrong with the conservative movement. Vapid, racist, fundamentalist, incurious, and ideologically cocksure pap.
What do those fucks know of humanity?
Since the internet has made studying media deception easy, I found the 'About Us' sections of conservative sources to be quite amusing. Usually they're shortish, with a certain amount of braggadocio, but these guys are pimping their subscription throughout their 'About Us' section. And their racism. I have not seen that in the past. I have taken out over half of their hyperbolic bragging, it was all good too. Sorry if this is long:
"HUMAN EVENTS is the news source President Reagan called his "favorite newspaper" and we still hold high the Reaganesque principles of free enterprise, limited government and, above all, a staunch, unwavering defense of American freedom.
HUMAN EVENTS gives voice to the great conservative thinkers of our era -- Robert Novak, Michelle Malkin, L. Brent Bozell, Terence Jeffrey, Bruce Bartlett, Thomas Sowell, David Limbaugh, Oliver North, Pat Buchanan and many more.
HUMAN EVENTS is the periodical in which the peerless Ann Coulter, author of the smash bestseller, Godless, drives multicultural defeatists up the wall. (Recent sample: "Baby formula doesn't kill people. Islamic fascists kill people.")
HUMAN EVENTS is the home of Jihad Watch - the fearless watchdog column that alerts you to the true intentions and deadly plots of the greatest threat to world peace since the fall of the Soviet Union. Hillary Watch, another exclusive service, keeps you fully informed of the ongoing schemes, intrigues and Clintonian machinations hatched in the name of the woman (and loving hubby) who want to return to the White House in 2008.
In every issue, you will savor that rare moment in journalism when the thick fog of liberal bias is blown away to reveal... THE NAKED, BEDROCK TRUTH!
Indeed, at HUMAN EVENTS we plead "guilty" to compulsively digging up and revealing facts that mainstream reporters go to extraordinary lengths to keep you from ever learning about. Below is a quick sampling.
Keep in mind, all of these revelations appeared in HUMAN EVENTS, but were virtually ignored by the regular media:
Big corporations give more money to liberals. Surprised? Blue-chip companies now give far more money to the Left - although Democrats still cry "poor" and the media still call the GOP "the party of big business."
45% of British Muslims believe the U.S. and Israel planned the 9/11 attacks. This clearly does not square with the media view of Islam as a gentle, rational faith...
Since 9/11, Islamic jihadists have perpetrated not 500, not 2,500, but more than 5,000 terror attacks. Liberals hush-up this number, claiming the truth would provoke "reprisals" by "violent" Americans against "peaceful" Muslims.
Now, does all this make you feel as if the real "endangered species" these days are truth and common sense?
Good! That means HUMAN EVENTS will be a welcome breath of fresh air for you. You will find yourself eagerly looking forward to some of the most eye-opening reporting to be found in any media today. A few more intriguing samples...
Our report on immigrants. How America-hating multi-culturalists who encourage immigrants and their children to retain their native cultures are destroying the "Melting Pot," stripping us of a common language and Balkanizing the nation.
Evolutionists haven't won - yet. HUMAN EVENTS reveals that even liberal polls show only 10% of Americans believe in evolution as taught in schools, despite massive public school indoctrination over many decades.
Get the feeling that HUMAN EVENTS does not back down? That it's Bold? Aggressive? Outspoken? You would be CORRECT."
Truly disgusting !!
castigating Kyoto, California and Ahnold's environmental concerns, evolution, you name the crazy nutbag bullshit 'conservative' pos policy and they MORE than back it...
Thanks suffering through it so we didn't have to. Now go re-run your anti-virus program...
Human Events is like the faux news of print media...wow...I wouldn't use that to line a bird cage.
I already did and my bird can only say "Tax cuts" now.
Another bird brained conservative was born.
The one that pisses me off most of all is James Delingpole. I was always proud of the fact that America's extreme fearmongering ideology hadn't touched the shores of Great Britain, until I read his articles. Of course he's much less experienced than some of the long-standing American writers on Human Events, so his arguments tend to be much more juvenile and full of gaping holes and flat-out lies.
For example, he compared the current government to Margaret Thatcher claiming "Margaret Thatcher wouldn't export Salman Rushdie to Muslim extremist states". Spot the problem with this argument. Look! It's a game!
The Rude Pundit's rant today is about King and the Dick.
Warning, salty language ahead...
http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
What a tool. King should pressed him on the little assasination squad he had while vice prez.
CNN gives "talent" like John King,Anderson Cooper,Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs a stage to push whatever messages CNN/TIME WARNER deems to be profitable or what will be useful in creation of CNN "brand name".
Sunday AM hardly needed another vapid "news show" with a Ken doll cut out like John King providing the dumb as wood ingredient.
CNN peddles the propaganda of American myth,militarism and two party politics with the tilt to the right not hard to detect well enough.
Of all the CNN "stars" Jack Cafferty perhaps is the one who may have been able to make this new CNN 'State of the Union' Sunday AM show something other than another MTP clone where the cloning of the dumbing down element is far too complete.
1:48 MSNBC Headline: CAN OBAMA LEARN FROM REAGAN?
brought to you by Republican ****, Andrea Mitchell.
God-damned Libural media!
You should have heard the clip Thom Hartman played this morning on his show. It was about Alan Greenspan (Mr. Andrea Mitchell) saying how regulators shouldn't be concerned with AIG's CDS's because they are such "sophisticated market instruments" that regulators wouldn't understand them, and the market would take care of them because all the sophisticated and knowledgable people at AIG, Lehman, Bear-Stearns, and Merril Lynch know exactly what they are doing.
It almost made me rip the radio out of my car and throw it in the river.
I guess we know that all those executives are knowledgeable and sophisticated by the size of their compensation packages. Fucking tools.
Yeah, STEALING.
That was the moment I turned my tv off. When I saw that, I just shook my head and gave up.
I don't know what you expect from CNN and John King. These are people interested in two things: Ratings and Ad revenue. If the last 8 years proved anything, it's that they don't do their job at all.
All the cable news networks follow the same formula: Slick graphics, serious music, followed by a 30 second overview and then hand it off to the pundit "experts" who scream at each other. Then the one on one interviews are mostly softball questions with skewed information.
Someone needs to start a network where the reporters just read the news.Oh and instead of anchors, call 'em "readers".
... his hair is perfect!
helmet like. I wonder how much that hair cut cost...not
That Mr. King is horrible in bed too! I mean look at him...his every move is calculated. The man needs to get in touch with his inner freak and fly that flag. I was angered by the interview, but not surprised.
They should give him the Magic Wall again. He really liked playing with that map. At least he doesn't have a tagline, like Cooper does: We're keeping 'em honest! Riiiight.
$150 - $200.
musters a new type of courage as he boldly charges forth after only 8 years to ask easy questions.
where everyone has gone before...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gty9tLOXpwk
Can't they give it up already?
These bastards should be bombarded with complaints and cease and desist Rethug talking points. Enough is enough of them ruining the planet!
King is asking Cheney if Obama tried to deceive the American people? Fuck you King.
once again we see the repubes taking a play from the Rove playbook....accuse your oppostiion of doing exactly what you yourself do or have done for years and put on some fake outrage or disbelief as if the very thought of such an action is beyond your moral comprehension.
It has probably already been said but why in the hell did John King quote some semi obscure right wing rag "newspaper" that most people have never heard of instead of just quoting Sean Hannity and dick Morris and G. Gordon Liddy and Rick Santelli and Anne Coulter?
from my lengthy-ish post above (this is from THEIR site):
He is quoting those you mention and MORE!
I'll go read your post now. Thanks. And funny.
Well thanks for that Miss Kitty. Thank you for doing the research. This organization is much worse than I thought possible. I am truly amazed that King would quote it. Really amazed.
I know the other slobs, but who the hell is David Limbaugh?
name before the surgery.
Ah, so David was the author of:
Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department
Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christians
and
Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party
All by Regnery Publishing (in case you had any doubt.)
Two things I'd note:
1 - Amazingly predictable projection, straight from Karl Rove's playbook. Who exactly is the puppet-master who is writing the script for all these yahoos?
2 - Are all Regnery titles in the form of "BLAH: the blah, blah, blah"? Isn't that getting a little tired? Coming soon: Exhausted: Regnery Publishing has run out of ideas.
It is really getting to be almost a parady. EVERYBODY (except maybe 8%) hates Cheney. They know he is a lying conniving piece of shit and everything he says is self serving. When somebody like John King has Cheney on (I wonder if Cheney has even worn out his welcome on Fox) all it does is show where John King is coming from and ruins King's credibility. I now know (I actually knew before) that King is a raving right wing tool and will never take him seriously. I think there are a shit load of other people who didn't know it before but know it now and won't watch him anymore when there is
David GregoryChris WallaceorBritney HumeorGeorge Stepo..Stpheno...Srepto...Stephonopolis(sp?) Bob Schiefer to watch at the same time.John King is pathetic ! I am surprised he wasn't sitting on DICK's knee during this interview ! So the only way to stimulate the economy is to keep giving rich people money so they will create jobs ? Well , DICK isn't that what you and CURIOUS GEORGE did for eight long years ? Where did it get us buddy ? Oh , well it did create jobs for your buddies at Blackwater , Halliburton , Kellogg , Brown and Root etc. The only trickle-down effect was to trickle profits out of the U.S.A. and into Swiss and off-shore bank accounts ! Fighting a war in Iraq and Afghanistan while you cut taxes for the wealthy ? Show me the money !
... we didn't see what was going on under the table. Maybe Uncle Dick was petting Little Johnny's knee or something. Playing footsie.
Maybe Lynne was doing her patriotic part ...
I'm sorry, but I'm just so sick of these fuckers.
Especially, when I ain't gettin' any.
Is this the repug solution to the banking crises?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMgQ-eyZiTg&fe...
I always wondered why it was that John King's reporting was so ridiculously biased, and frankly well, DUMB. I chalked it up to him being your standard hairdo/corporate tool putting career uber alles, but now we know it's because he gets his new from a wingnut rag like Human Events.
Perfect.
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.....Cheney on the TeeVee being blown, I mean interviewed last night. I told my wife to switch channels immediately lest we turn to stone. God I hate that fucker, and I'm not a person that hates much of anything, but when I see that beast my blood pressure goes sky high and I have to go do a couple one hitters.
if it ever occurred to John King that Cheney picked his show as a venue for his comeback interview.
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that you're a fucking shill who gets owned daily by retarded talking points, and has never taken one step to make it clear that you're not gonna let them fly, right?
As Lara Logan said, if the only "news" she had access to were the 'Murkin media, she'd slit her wrists.
If that were the only "news" we all had access to, it might be a pretty damn good solution to the problem.
You want to slit her wrists?
John King is one of the GOP's bitches and could give lessons in arrogance. If Mr. King, or anyone else for that matter, was worried about a President of The United States "brazenly deceiving the American People" where was his ass during the Bush years?? I usually have CNN on my boob tube most of the day. Except when he's talking and most definitely during his Sunday show. If he is on, the channel is immediately changed to MSNBC until the coast is clear. I do the same thing with Lou Dobbs, who I used to like and pretty much agreed with until he started to lose his mind.
Re: It also occurs to me that one of the tools that is most important to doing that is tax policy, and cutting taxes, especially for those who invest and create wealth and create jobs. That's not what we're seeing.
I'd like for Cheney to tell us just exactly in which sectors we need to be providing tax cuts. The largest employer in my town, Eastman Chemical, which employs about 7000, just recently announced another round of layoffs...up to 300, the most of which will be here locally. They are also cutting employee's base pay by 5%, cutting another $100 million in expenses, cutting non-critical maintenance spending and logistics costs, & plan to continue reducing discretionary spending. In December, they announced they would be eliminating wage and salary increases for the year, as well as overtime wherever possible. They also decreased their use of part-time labor and contractors, cut their management staff, and implemented a permanent change in their U.S. vacation policy by reducing the maximum vacation carry-over amount.
Reading over several newspaper articles about their economic problems, this pro-Republican company (I hear they broadcast Fox News on all the TV monitors throughout the plant) never once mentioned the desire for more tax cuts. Why? Because tax cuts won't save them if there is a downturn in the market for their products, which is why they are having to make the above cuts in the first place.
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9012295
your time of governing was through, you had to shut up! Why is CNN even giving these asshats a microphone.
after Obama was sworn in? I thought he announced as such?
John, you might as well hold up a Bible next to the Communist Manifesto and ask Cheney which one the Republicans believe in and which one Obama believes in.
Of course, a conservative newspaper is going to piss all over ANYTHING Obama says or does. It's your job to examine the veracity of the claims, not to jump on the propaganda bandwagon.
Jesus Christ, have you no respect for your chosen career?
The guy drove the country off a cliff, jumping out to safety with his own golden parachute.
To continue the very appropriate analogy, now he's floated to the bottom of the cliff to heckle the Search and Rescue Crew as they try to save any survivors.
He ought to be beaten, not interviewed.
Since the number of journalists who do their job in the US could be counted on one hand, I would ask the following questions.
1. Why do they still have jobs? Seriously, if most agree they are just a mouthpiece, then why aren't they replaced?
2. How did they get their job in the first place?
3. Is their a way to promote an actual substitute?
I feel ashamed comparing CNN to BBC and any US newspaper to the Financial Times. Do people in the US only want fluff?
But the exact opposite. They're hired for their willingness to shill for their paymasters.
PUBLIC Television and Radio are woefully under-supported in the U.S. The news on PBS and NPR is much better, but as it's more of an "indy" or "elite" source, most people don't pay attention (unlike BBC or ABC in Australia, which many people watch).
And corporate conglomerates are woefully under-regulated. That allows an extreme consolidation of power, to the point where the media has vested interests in military conflict (GE, for example, owns NBC and has billions on military contracts), and journalists are multi-millionaires themselves, so they have no connection to their audience.
Also, there's an unwritten "scratch my back" corporate policy that--if there were any investigative journalists left in newsrooms--the media can't investigate the very interests that pay its bills with advertising. It works out well, financially. The public gets shafted. Which seems to be a big trend in America.
I refuse to watch this fool. He and David Gregory cut their teeth with the RNC and both cannot let go of the republican talking points. 1. Why would he have Dick Cheney on his show instead of the Vice President who is in office? 2. Why is he using a republican rag for talking points? 3. Why isn't he asking Cheney about the crimes that he is guilty of? 4 Why didn't he ask Cheney why the Bush Crime Family failed in so many areas while he was in office?
Cheney would never do the interview. Then he's SOL for ratings.
Is CNN specifically john king and blitzer trying to brazenly deceive the American people?
Answer, yep, just like the way they mislead the people into Iraq and the economic disaster we have now.
Way to go boys, as gw would say, "Mission Accomplished", you've shown yourself to be traitors to American values.
There's really only two honest tv pundits, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. There are some others that are watchable but still sell outs to the elite. John King is one of the worst of the deceivers, up there with Gregory and Faux Noise. I've always known this. Americans need to wake up to the corporate media and how it manipulates public opinion relentlessly every day. Blogs are fun but we must tell our families and friends and put a stop to this.
Where was his questions about the president trying to deceive Americans into war in 2003? What a fuckin tosser. I cannot believe this country takes tools like this wanker seriously.
John King should be fired. He is a loathsome no talent republican plant. You had Dick fucking Cheney and all you do is lobe butterfly kisses at him? Nice audition for Fox News. I’ve seen this interview done a thousand times by Hannity. The first sign of a journalistic nobody is setting up a question with a straw man argument and using “some people say” line. Which really translates and means, “I read on the Drudge report or I heard on the Limbaugh show.
His hair speaks volumes.
When he opens his mouth I feel the need to go outside and breathe.
I really don't think I can take another round of this.
Um, Dick Cheney is no longer in any way, shape or form our puppet master or vice-prez...er..RIGHT??
Did I miss something?
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