At CBS News, Ann Coulter is welcome -- but not Michael Moore
September 27, 2009 2:10 pm ET by Jamison Foser
So, let me get this straight: CBS Early Show host Harry Smith interviewed Ann Coulter after she called him "certifiably insane" -- but the morning show has allegedly cancelled a scheduled Michael Moore appearance out of fear that he will criticize CBS?
Moore explains, via Twitter: "Backlash Begins: CBS has cancelled me on its Mon. morning show. After I criticized ABC/Disney on GMA, they didn't want me to do same to CBS."
As usual, if you criticize the media, they'll hang on your every word -- as long as you are a conservative, particularly one who repeatedly fantasizes about killing journalists.
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You know, I think he's giving all his earnings away to feed the poor and/or give his employees a living wage.
So turn that :( upside down! :>
Speaking truth to/about progressives
Take a deep breath and read this.......
Because if you knew what Michael Moore's movie was actually about, you wouldn't go on like you do. I'm pretty sure he loves real capitalism much more than either you or any of your movement conservative ilk. But he doesn't like it's present incarnation.
And his movie doesn't spare any of the pols, Republican or Democrat.
http://www.capitalismalovestory.com/
Talk about overdoing it!!
The top 1% has all the money. That's not good. It's not good even if Moore has $1 million in the bank. It's not good even if Moore has $10 million in the bank. It's not good even if Moore puts syrup on his pancakes. It's not good even if Moore has webbed toes.
(By the way, the top 1% has all the money because it has been redistributed to them by the government.)
The top 1% has more money than the bottom 90%. That's not healthy for ANY society/economy, especially a consumer driven economy like ours.
And most of that redistributing happened over the past 8 years.
Come on POV, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.
I so love hearing from an extremely rich, skeletal-thin woman talk and laugh about killing journalists and Muslims.
Maybe mikey can be booked on "I demand you have a good morning, with fidel", in havana. He could sell his books to everyone there enjoying the high life, either awaiting imprisonment for free expression as a librarian, a chance to get in a life raft and make it to a free country or getting that sumptuous free health care. Hey mikey, maybe one will give that special exam for men in their 50's. Don't worry but they probably won't be using a glove, I'm sure they've been cut out of the world's latex market as a result of that evile capitalistic country just to the north where its true citizens still believe in individual freedom.
Or maybe CBS just saw how you tanked Leno's ratings when you showed up there!
Speaking truth to/about progressives
Speaking truth to/about progressives
Speak truth (slowly) to the radical left.
Now how about those queban 'rags to riches' stories? The list goes on and on......
Why not use someone like Warren Buffett?
He didn't start with nothing but; what he has he earned himself. Now he plans on giving 85% of his estate to the Gates foundation. Run by another up by the bootstrap kind of guy, Bill Gates. I don't even care for Gates, much, but; at least he is trying to do some good with his wealth.
Just what is Beck doing to make the world a better place? Get rid of everyone who doesn't think like him?
And those rags to riches stories are far and in between in this country. We have one of the most class rigid societies in the western world.
Speaking falsehoods and half truths to/about progressives
Settle down. My face is wet from all the spittle.
Cuber?
I don't suppose our embargo of Cuba has anything to do with it being dirt poor?
cuba, a true socialist paradise, cult like adoration for their glorious leader and blaming America for all of its ills. Hey that sounds a lot like leftists in this country too!!! Go figure.
Speaking truth to/about progressives
Mostly, consistently wrong but; at least you ar consistent
Freedom of expression is ok as long as M Moore is excluded?
What liberal causes has CBS championed in the last year or so?
Plowedcon, I've given you this valuable advice before, but try not to put the crazy in the first sentence if you'd like anybody besides other wingnuts to read your posts.
Slip in the really goofy stuff like "criticizing=hating" and "capitalism=freedom" in the middle somewhere, or at the end.
Capitalism is an individual acting on resources or talent available to him, and creating a product that others would want to share in or purchase. The free exchange of services creates wealth and the environment to continue to act freely.
Now do tell, how does that socialism thang refute my crazy talk. Splain how the Khmer Rogue, Fidel, Stalin or any other got the idea of freedom down with da peeps?
Snap out of it, PC. I never said anything about socialism. I won't bother explaining things that you're imagining.
The examples you mention are bastard versions of socialism or communism, just as our current system is a badly mangled breed of capitalism.
Some of us want to improve our system, if you've been trained to think that this can only mean adopting a warped version of another system, the brainwashing may be complete.
Still trying to figure out what PC is proud of, and speaking truth to a dining room table.
What is this fascination you wingnuts have with men's a$$es? Is that you, Rush?
It's all black and white on the fringes of the right. No acknowledgment of the vast ground in the middle where a number of societies have managed, more or less successfully, to marry social and ecological values to the dynamism and creativity of markets. No recognition that an ideology that worships the magical free market is as much a cult---and as much the province of fools---as an ideology based on the notion that a communist utopia is possible and desirable.
Liberalism promotes capitalism and free enterprise - for everyone, not just for mega-corporations that can buy legislation.
Holy crap proudconservative...
That sounds like a line that would make George Orwell proud!
No, that's what Batman said to me when he realized how a radical lefty had moved into the whitehouse.
Speaking truth to/about progressives
Tune in next week as 'privatepoultry and capinfoz' try to show that lefties love freedom.......Same conservative time, Same conservative channel.
So you are saying that liberals (lefties as you put it) don't love freedom? Including all the ones who have gone to war, fought, and died for this country?
Last time I looked, America was about inclusivity, not exclusivity.
You know the absurd thing is that you think what you posted pongo points to some hyprocrisy. You some how think that it's absurd for someone with means to care about people not as well off...You just can't get YOUR head around that concept. You cons obsession with ACORN,while you ignore the billions given to Wall St.,(talk about running a scam on the government),this is how Andrew Serwer,managing editor of "Fortune" magazine described what is taking place with Wall St. and OUR money:
SERWER: I mean, it's amazing to me that as we recover, you know, come out of this financial crisis, you know, you'd expect a company like Goldman Sachs maybe things are improving, make a little money. But they have a record quarter. In other words, they made more money in this three month period than they ever had in any other--
SCARBOROUGH: [archly] But they just made some good guesses, right?
SERWER: Well, I don't know if it's okay or not, but I think what happened is that the government has telegraphed to Wall Street, not only Goldman Sachs but the other firms what it was doing, what was going on, what the program was, and so, essentially, it's like telling a Goldman Sachs, "Hey, put your money on 32 Black" at the casino, at the roulette wheel. And the thing spins and lo and behold, where does it end up, Joe?
SCARBOROUGH: 32 Black?
SERWER: 32 Black.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/andrew-serwer-ifortunei-e_n_287233.html
Casino capitalism,a risk free system of wealth accumulation,the article reports,the thing is their not playing with their money their using our tax dollars in a rigged game that benefits the wealthy stockholders, what you cons would call R-E-D-I-S-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N ! Oh, and this does not include as others have posted, the billions given to KBR,Halliburton,Xe(worked so well they had to change their name from Blackwater). Ummmmmmm...you fall for this and you call Michael Moore the "halfwit?"
Did Michael Moore give more money for the memorial than the gun and ammo companies whose products were involved, less money, or the same amount of money?
Have you seen Bowling for Columbine? In Particular, the part where Moore and two Columbine victims visit K-Mart's headquarters?
Regardless, you make this sound like making money is a bad thing. Why do you hate capitalism (i.e. freedom)?
Reagan cut taxes on the wealthy and raised them on everyone else and doubled the social security withholding.
Capitalism depends on free competition and full information. Would we have the banking collapse if those things were in place? Would we have price gouging or rampant lobbying for policies that exploit the poor?
Conservatives prevent competition and block information. They hate capitalism and want to keep it out of America.
http://www.capitalismalovestory.com/
He doesn't spare Democrats in this movie either.
I was at a stop light yesterday, when I glanced over at the guy to my right. You ever just see a person that just looks miserable, the type with that perma-scowl that you can spot from down the block?
That was the guy next to me. All hunched over the steering wheel, a 50 or 60 something fat white suburban cranky looking dude. He was driving a Ford Explorer, probably a few years old. He may have been just keeping a low profile, but I didn't peg him as being in the top 1% or 5% in income.
A block ahead, I had to get over to the right, and passed behind him. He had a sticker on his rear window that read;
HEY OBAMA ! REDISTRIBUTE THIS! (Picture of a hand flipping the bird)
This is about how deep most wingnuts want to go into policy. The odds are very good that the guy (like the majority of us) has had his taxes reduced, so unless he is angry that those making 100x his income aren't getting to keep as much of his money these days, I'd have to conclude he is very confused.
Capitalism doesn't need to be replaced. It needs to be implemented.
"people were being poisoned and killed by the free market" -- sounds like a lack of information.
"The outcome of pure unadulterated Capitalism is Monopoly" -- sounds like a lack of competition.
If the prerequisites of capitalism aren't operating, then it's not capitalism. If government is needed to maintain the prerequisites of capitalism, then that's what should be done.
I'm a former history teacher, I have a particular interest in labor history. What specifics would you like about my statement? Do you even know what the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was? Hundreds of Polish, Irish, Italian, and Jewish girls were locked into their factory on a Friday afternoon, so they couldn't escape early with their paychecks, when a fire started. There were 148 victims of the fire. The Factory had already been the seen of strikes and this caused a re-thinking of fire regulations and strengthened Unions. Upton Sinclair wrote the muckraking meat industry novel, "The Jungle" in 1906, which caused the Roosevelt Administration to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Or perhaps you have never read "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis? Then there is the whole move to break up the trusts and monopolies that sprang up in the late 1800s. You might want to look up the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Or perhaps you have never heard of the factory reports done in England in the 1830 about conditions in the textile mills. There was no regulation on Capitalism until the early 1900s when people started to see the results of it and unions rose and grew strong enough to fight for worker rights and safety. By the way, this rise in union power also coincides with a rise in the standard of living for the average worker, too. Capitalism only started to work for the average worker when it was regulated and labor was unionized. When unions started to weaken and regulations were removed, workers lost money and the corporations and a few investors became outrageously wealthy, but also, deficits exploded and so did the national debt. Is that enough information for you?
I think it's likely that they've stopped teaching history in public schools. I've been told about everything you mention in your post, but graduated high school in the '80s, and I have a feeling it was already quite watered down by then. My dad worked for a federal employee union, and I remember how angry he was when Reagan broke the PATCO strike.
steeve is perhaps unaware that the 40 hour work week and the child labor laws were things Americans had to fight and die for, rather than being the gift of the wealthy corporate owning elite.
Did you seriously go into full tirade mode because I wrote one sentence that had an unfavorable interpretation available? Jeez, my single post as a whole wasn't conservative, not to mention my hundreds of other posts.
Your comment? yeah. What the hell are you talking about?
http://hiphoprepublican.com/2006/08/top-racist-democrat-quotes_30.html
Compare that to the bad taste joke above from ProudConservative that unfairly attacks Barney Frank for the sexual preference he was born with.