What will said is just crap! Will is just another fucking over paid lying sob!
roger ailes what a pile of shit. faux news the worst thing to happen to America since slavery.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!

They are misinformed and no one knows that better than the head of FAUX bullcrap news.

When are we going to acknowledge the fact that better than 40% of this nation's adult population is functionally illiterate!?!?!

The vast majority of the adults with whom I interact have not a clue who is Krugman, nor do they care. Just don't interrupt their fave tv program to broadcast some special bulletin--that REALLY gets their panties in a wad!

...the sooner the better. He, and his stinkpile propaganda machine, are pulling this country backward. And for that fat, stogey ass hole to sit there and dispute it is the height of blatant disrespect to the intelligence of this country.

When are we going to pull our heads out of our collective asses and call a propaganda network for what it is?

"And you know, you can say, well, they can read the New York Times, which will tell them what they need to know, but you know, most people don't. They don't read it thoroughly"

Say what?

Problem is supposedly there have been studies that demonstrated that the average American only scans the headlines, and what articles they do read, they only read about 2/3rd's of the way through.

Ailes goes and repeates a false republican talking point. Clip shows Sen. Franken countering Sen. Thune when he claimed health care benefits do not kick in for 3 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n2P0QsTe8c

Then there are always the statements that sound right and can be convincing but have no relavence to fact. E.g. “they didn't need 2,000 pages of lawyers to hide things”

Rich People dominating the televised discourse of this nation for entertainment purposes, as well as giving them a way to continue to promote themselves via substantial exposure isn't a good sign either.

It's a sad truth that most Americans vote based on emotion, not information. Maybe it's the functional illiteracy? But arguing facts will never work for the majority.
There are several books on this subject but we Progressives just won't learn. Here's a short BBC article on the subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm

The right wing media needs a liberal they can step on. Is Colmes available for next week?

"Why ABC News thought bringing in the CEO of a rival network as a pundit was a good idea is beyond me"

Keep your friends close...

George Will clutches his pearls over the Alito thing saying Obama attacked the "prestigious" Supreme Court.

No Mr. Will, the Supreme Court was a prestigious institution till Bush v Gore and it has been a conservative activist court ever since. Just another institution the Republicans have been successful in tarnishing through politicization.

The man's Dick Cheney. Underhanded, calculating, misleading, deceitful and quick to play the terror card. Somebody do a DNA test they must be brothers.

Now we all know, at FOX the fish stinks from the head.

Paul Krugman seemed to do the impossible.
He tore Roger Ailes, an accomplished asshole, a NEw asshole.

Arianna and Krugman take FOX apart as Will polishes Ailes's apple.
(last video clip)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/roge...

Wow, Ailes is as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside.

He looks and sounds like an old, decrepit, 'nigra'-hating Southern cracker.

It's very telling that both Roger Ailes and George Will began shifting in their seats as soon as Paul Krugman spoke about "deliberate misinformation".

Also note that they began demonstrating their discomfort BEFORE he mentioned Fox News.

Wow, they had Barbara Walters as part of the panel? I thought she was relegated to "The View" and doing the occasional celebrity suck up interview.

Ailes: The American people aren't stupid.

Really? The American people are stupid and you're banking on it. If it wasn't for the stupidity of us you wouldn't exist.

Drop Dead soon!

Hey Mr. Tea Party Patriot, Why You Are So Mad!

Hey you. You there in the Glenn Beck T-shirt headed off to the Tea Party Patriot rally.

Stop shouting for a moment, please, I want to explain to you why you're so very angry.

You should be angry. You're getting screwed.

I think you know that. But you don't seem to know that it doesn't have to be that way. You can stop it. You can stop it easily because the system that's screwing you over can only keep screwing you over if you keep demanding that it do so.

So stop demanding that. Stop helping the system screw you over.

Look, you can go back to yelling at me in a minute, but just read this first.

1. Get out your pay stub.

Or, if you have direct deposit -- you really should get direct deposit, it saves a lot of time and money (I point this out because, honestly, I'm trying to help you here, even though you don't make that easy Mr. Angry Screamy Guy) -- then take out that little paper receipt they give you when your pay gets directly deposited.

2. Notice that your net pay is lower than your gross pay. This is because some of your wages are withheld every pay period.

3. Notice that only some of this money that was withheld went to pay taxes. (I know, I know -- yeearrrgh! me hates taxes! -- but just try to stick with me for just a second here.)

4. Notice that some of the money that was withheld didn't go to taxes, but to your health insurance company.

5. Now go get a pay stub from last year around this time, from January of 2009.

6. Notice that the amount of your pay withheld for taxes in your current paycheck is less than the amount that was withheld a year ago.

That's because of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, which included more than $200 billion in tax cuts, including the one you're holding right there in your hand, the tax cut that's now staring you in the face. Republicans all voted against that tax cut. And then they told you to get angry about the stimulus plan. They didn't explain, however, why you were supposed to get angry about getting a tax cut. Why would you be? Wouldn't it make more sense to get angry at the people who voted against that Obama tax cut?

But taxes aren't the really important thing here. The really important thing starts with the next point.

7. Notice that the amount of your pay withheld to pay for your health insurance is more than it was last year.

8. Notice that the amount of your pay withheld to pay for your health insurance is a lot more than it was last year.

I won't ask you to dig up old paychecks from 2008 and 2007, but this has been going on for a long time. Every year, the amount of your paycheck withheld to pay for your health insurance goes up. A lot.

9. Notice the one figure there on your two pay stubs that hasn't changed: Your wage. The raise you didn't get this year went to pay for that big increase in the cost of your health insurance.

10. Here's where I need you to start doing a better job of putting two and two together. If you didn't get a raise last year because the cost of your health insurance went up by a lot, and the cost of your health insurance is going to go up by a lot again this year, what do you think that means for any chance you might have of getting a raise this year?

11. Did you figure it out? That's right. The increasing cost of health insurance means you won't get a raise this year. Or next year. Or the year after that. The increasing cost of health insurance means you will never get a raise again.

That's what I meant when I said you really should be angry. That's what I meant when I said you're getting screwed.

OK, we're almost done. Just a few more points, I promise.

12. The only hope you have of ever seeing another pay raise is if Congress passes health care reform. Without health care reform, the increasing cost of your health insurance will swallow this year's raise. And next year's raise. And pretty soon it won't stop with just your raise. Without health care reform, the increasing cost of your health insurance will start making your pay go down.

13. I wish I could tell you that this was just a worst-case scenario, that this was only something that might, maybe happen, but that wouldn't be true. Without health care reform, this is what will happen. We know this because this is what is happening now. It has been happening for the past 10 years. In 2008, employers spent on average 25 percent more per employee than they did in 2001, but wages on average did not increase during those years. The price of milk went up. The price of gas went up. But wages did not. All of the money that would have gone to higher wages went to pay the higher and higher and higher cost of health insurance. And unless Congress passes health care reform, that will not change.

Well, it will change in the sense that it will keep getting worse, but it won't get better. Unless the problem gets fixed, the problem won't be fixed. That's kind of what "problem" and "fixed" mean.

14. Sadly for any chance you have of ever seeing a raise again, it looks like Congress may not pass health care reform. It looks like they won't do that because they're scared of angry voters who are demanding that they oppose health care reform, angry voters who demand that Congress not do anything that would keep the cost of health insurance from going up and up and up. Angry voters like you.

15. Do you see the point here? You are angrily, loudly demanding that Congress make sure that you never, ever get another pay raise as long as you live. Because of you and because of your angry demands, you and your family and your kids are going to have to get by with less this year than last year. And next year you're going to have to get by with even less. And if you keep angrily demanding that no one must ever fix this problem, then you're going to have to figure out how to get by on less and less every year for the rest of your life.

16. So please, for your own sake, for your family's sake and the sake of your children, stop. Stop demanding that problems not get fixed. Stop demanding that you keep getting screwed. Stay angry -- you should be angry -- but start directing that anger toward the system that's screwing you over and taking money out of your pocket. Start directing that anger toward fixing problems instead of toward making sure they never get fixed. Instead of demanding that Congress oppose health care reform so that you never, ever, get another pay raise, start demanding that they pass health care reform, as soon as possible. Because until they do, you're just going to keep on getting screwed.

And it's going to be that much worse knowing that you brought this on yourself -- that you demanded it.

Thanks for your time.

P.S. -- I didn't mention this because I'm trying here to be as patient with you as I can, but you might also want to keep in mind that in addition to screwing over yourself and screwing over your family and screwing over your own children by demanding that Congress oppose health care reform so that you will never, ever see another pay raise, by doing that you're also demanding that I never, ever see another pay raise, which means that you're also screwing over me, and my family, and my children. Not to mention the millions of poor and uninsured and uninsureable people I didn't even mention above because they don't seem to matter at all to you. And for that, let me just say the only appropriate thing that can be said to someone so determined to do direct, tangible harm to the welfare of my family: Why do you hate Americans?