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 CNBC: Where the GOP can always get a pat on the back

March 25, 2009 2:25 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

It's like they're handing out training wheels over there.

Today Rep. Paul Ryan appeared on CNBC to discuss Obama's proposed budget and to hype the (unseen) Republican alternative:

We’re going to go in a completely different direction, and show the American people how we would do things much, much differently to restore growth and confidence to our economy, keep the American economy growing, and not switch over to a Europeanized type of economy.

The reaction from the CNBC's guest co-host, Fred Malek, founder of Thayer Capital Partners?

Paul, that gives me a lot of confidence, what you said. I think you're absolutely going in the right direction.

 And CNBC corporate boss Jeff Zucker wonders why the channel remains a prime target for criticism?

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    • Author by mk3872 (March 25, 2009 3:08 pm ET)
         
      Just playing the role of big wealthy investor class advocates, I see. What was Ryan's proposed tax rate on the weathiest 5%? Something like 25%?
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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 25, 2009 6:16 pm ET)
         

      I just wanted to say that I'm a big fan of the screen shots or captures, that appear frozen on the media player, inviting us to play the imbedded video clip.

      I'd love to be the one who chooses those shots (truly), because it's a great opportunity to laugh, and keep the day and the job light: and it's nothing but fact and truth, as it's simply a well-chosen photograph of the person in question (who themselves made that face, as they stood before or stared into the camera).

      And the one above, of Rep. Ryan (R-WI) is maybe the best I've seen yet!

      I'd say it looks like an audition tape for a Colbert or Stewart segment, but Rep. Ryan's comical expression is even too over the top for those satirists to use!

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    • Author by DAWUSS (March 25, 2009 7:15 pm ET)
         
      CNBC = Conservative NBC
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    • Author by bobgr (March 27, 2009 12:54 pm ET)
         

      As someone who watches CNBC all day, I hope you will monitor not just the evening talk shows but the 9-5 "news" coverage that is skewed.  Typical tactis include:

      1. Constant right-wing opinion offered by so-called journalists/anchors.

      2. Booking far more conservative guests than progressive ones.

      3. Often hyping "debates" that are no more than one right-winger talking to another.

      4. Softball questions to conservatives and hardball ones to progressives.

      5.  Shouting down opinions they don't like -- a typical Larry Kudlow technique.

      They are a mess.

      www.commonwealthcommonsense.com

       

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