Megyn Kelly Notices Something Is Amiss At Fox: "You Democrats On This Panel Do Not Sound Like Democrats"
January 25, 2012 2:59 pm ET
From the January 25 edition of Fox News' America Live:
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Alas...
actually the 1% were hit as well. not that they are hurting as much as the 99% but it has and still affects everyone.
I don't want to be insulting because I think you are genuinely unaware of what's really going on, but once you get out from under that comfortable Fox news veil, you'll see why so many middle class people in this country are angry at the elite capitalist and investor class. These same people keep breaking the system and getting bailed out. Each time they get richer and richer, while we get poorer and our financial future becomes less secure.
Do a little research and you will see that those in the top one percent, especially the top .01%, have been steadily increasing their wealth as the middle class shrinks and drifts into more and more economic uncertainty.
I'm not talking about some vague Illuminati, this is all happening right in plain sight while we argue about birth certificates and second and third wives.
This isn't about "socialism", "punishing success", "wealth envy", "class warfare" or any of the other terms they create to distract Americans from the real processes at work. I don't care if you are a conservative or libertarian and I'm a liberal or progressive. This is about a system that has been taken over and gamed by a small group of greedy, and quite frankly, unpatriotic individuals.
Don't take my word for it, start by looking for some hard stats from independent sources. You are free to defend those top 1%, that's your right of course, but maybe when you realize what they're getting away with, and who pays for it, you might change your tune.
A stubbed toe may hurt like hell for a short time but causes nothing like the difficulty of losing both lower limbs and being denied the assistance to cope with the loss.
Maybe she finally wants out of her deal with the devil.
I know she's supposedly a smart woman with a law degree, but today she is Captain obvious.
I'm going to imagine it was carbn dating, because anything else would be disgusting. I'm fairly certain that Rush's ideology would date to somewhere around the sixth century B.C.E..
Wow, that is really astute, Megyn. What perspicacity.
This goes back to the constant "class warfare" cries from Faux. Why is it that "punishing" millionaires for success is warfare, but calling the unemployed, "unwashed lazy bums" and trying to take away their benefits, isn't?
This millionaire may, in the words of Bill Oreilly) just pack it in. It's just not worth it to be a millionaire.....only $822,000 for a years work....its just not worth it anymore. I'm going to pack it in and move to Bora Bora and take up painting flowers.
If this was true, our current tax code is punishing everyone who makes over $8700/y because the first $8701st dollar is taxed at 15% instead of 10%.
I do not think anybody feels penalized for making more than $8700/yr nor are they dissuaded to do so.
To say that people would not want to become millionaires because of a marginal 3% increase is just plain stupid.
Rupert Murdoch and his wealthy friends abusing the public airwaves to pay less in taxes.
And let's start with "Democrat" Doug Schoen who co-authored an op-ed asking Obama not to run in 2012.
Jesus, "let's get the rich!"
Luckily millions saw what he actually said last night while few will see this segment or the joke that was Daniels last night.
"Douglas Schoen is an American political analyst, pollster, author, and commentator. He is a political analyst for Fox News. He partnered with political strategist Mark Penn and Michael Berland in the firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland. He believes that lower taxes would be a successful Democratic strategy, opposed President Obama's Affordable Care Act, warned the Democratic Party to reject the Occupy Wall Street protest, and recommended that President Obama not run for reelection in 2012."
Schoen is a Democrat? In what universe?
Just like the republicans have a few sane and reasonable people still hanging around the margins of their tent, we democrats need a few complete clownish corporate tools to round things out for us.
Idiocracy (copyright Fox Entertainment)
Gosh, I wonder why that movie was only released in 7 cities for a total of 130 theaters and was never screened for critics? It's like Fox didn't want anyone to watch it. Must've hit too close to home.
What about Newt Gingrich? He's a small business owner, with his own little Mom and Pop consulting/historian business on K Street, and while his salary that he gets from his S corporation is only $252,000/year, his profits run to about $2.5 million because he works so damned hard at growing that business and creating jobs for hard-working flacks from all over K Street, all the way up and down that boulevard of American dreams.
How about him and Callista, huh? Do you want to demonize those two salt of the earth kids by raising their taxes a nickel?
Well, I say no.
No.
I say HELL NO.
Let's get some dough from those lazy deadbeats who haven't had the work ethic to get paid enough to attract taxes under the law today. That will give them the incentive to work harder in order to get into lower tax brackets, and soon everybody will have so much in capital gains that we'll all be as rich as Croesus. Or maybe even Mitt Romney.
And it needn't be that large. They come cheap.
But Fox is such a morally upright and principled News Organisation, I don't think that they would put out a scripted & rehearsed production as if it were a spontaneous question and answer session with pure-full-blooded Democrats and pure-full-blooded Republicans.
Naaaaaaa, they would not do that.
Which explains why they debuted this focus group panel of these Half Republican, Half Democrat chimeras that Roger Ailes created out on that Island of Dr. Ablow's .
But, Kelly sure is great at the whole make-up and wardrobe portion of theater production, ain't she? She was a bit off her game today though---black was a bad choice for this production--she just blended right in with all the other black plastics that inhabit The Fox Noise Circuit & Freakshow. She looked like one of the cameras topped off with a cheap blonde wig.
She does need to work with the camera crew more often though--her legs & those 6 inch stripper heels are not getting enough camera action.
Well you are a good conservaTARD because you sound like an ignorant pathetic moron
Sorry, point---> panzy.
The juxtaposition of Obama and Daniels' lines is revealing. In text I thought Daniels was referring to race and regulations, or some such nonsense.
I'm obviously too stupid to know the dog whistle "efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating other." talk about a strawman argument.
The FauxNoise folks are pre-scripted, but only some of them seem to have memorized their lines (the sign of future GOP success.)
The FauxNoise crew wants people to ignore Mitt paying 15% while I'm paying 31% even though I'm one of the founders of my company and helped invent our patented technology!
Listen to all those buzzwords, "Evil rich people" "pits one class of people against another", "thrives on division," "penalize you for being wealthy". Wow! Frank Luntz has been busy.
I especially like the silence when Megyn prompts about making $1M a year. Doug Shoen is looking pretty sheepish. What a tool!
It's more interesting when there's at least the illusion of a competition going on.
I hope there were some management and coaching shake-ups during those 40 years.
More imitation krab, please!