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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:49 AM Jan 2012

Oh, the poor Morning Joe crew! Busted by real New Hampshire voters!

After Joe bloviated and Mika nodded, that ordinary folks don't like to see capitalism torn down, guess what? Willy Geist asked a New Hampshire couple in the coffee shop who they voted for. They both voted for Huntsman but the husband squarely disputed what the panel was saying about capitalism. They clearly thought the predatory capitalism WAS a real issue.

The "ordinary folks" straightened Joe and Mika out right on their own program!

Wonderful. I hope the video of that brief interview is made available.

So much for "Morning Spin."

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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
6. I emailed the show and said just that!
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:18 AM
Jan 2012

They always brag that they do. But then something like this happens and it shows that even if they are getting out they have to LISTEN as well...

Clearly, they were spinning what the repub machine told them to spin...it was pretty plain and pretty awful...

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
2. "Ordinary folks" don't like being prey for out-of-control capitalist ventures.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:59 AM
Jan 2012

Glad the "Morning Joe" crew learned a lesson today.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
4. I hope so! Joe likes to talk about how he and Mika go out and talk to "the people" who
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:07 AM
Jan 2012

come to their book signings and how they all agree with him and her...what a load! They take a group of people who "self selected" taking the time to go to a book signing as evidence of how ordinary people are thinking. That is laughable.

Today it was clear they were trying to spin a new narrative to the benefit of Mitt Romney. The TV got snapped off when they announced that John Sununu was their next guest...another snarling Republican, just what the American people want to see (and hear)...

monmouth

(21,078 posts)
3. I really don't think people "resent" people making a truckload of money, it's "HOW"
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:02 AM
Jan 2012

they make it and who suffers. That is what the discussion should be. If you make a load of money, as Elizabeth Warren stated, "God Bless" but who was hurt?

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
7. Yeah, it was fun!
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:20 AM
Jan 2012

It shut Willie up.

I think they were afraid to go too far with that line of questioning. They just might get to the question of Romney vs. Obama in the General and might hear something they don't wanna...

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
8. Last night Tom Brokaw defended Mitt by saying his company went after "failing" companies
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:32 AM
Jan 2012

that were in trouble of going under. That's not what Bain does. They go after companies that they think should be doing better, not companies that are near failure. You are going to hear a lot in the near future that will prop Mitt up that what he did was what any business does. The lies will come like the running of the bulls in Pamplona. The bottom line is that many people lost their jobs while at the same time Bain lined their pockets with millions of dollars.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
9. I'm hoping our spokespersons on the Left will straighten them out!
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:51 AM
Jan 2012

Brokaw is an idiot. If anybody has shit for brains it's Brokaw...

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
11. Dont foget Gregory,and then along comes Todd
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:01 AM
Jan 2012

These guys are_________________...At the thought of Romney being the nominee..pathetic

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
12. The mask dropped from David Gregory's smiling face recently when Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:05 AM
Jan 2012

refuted some political statement that he had just made. She said it forcefully but not nastily. It wiped the smile off of his face fast! He glared at her as if she had her NERVE to dispute any bloviation out of his mouth!

tibbiit

(1,601 posts)
10. the dems just need to post the picture of
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:58 AM
Jan 2012

Younger Romney at Bain with his pals and lots of cash stuffed in their pockets. That one picture speaks louder than all the words.


tib

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
14. Wow. You have to wonder about a person who would pose for a picture like that.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:13 AM
Jan 2012

Even if you had no political aspirations, anyone with a brain and an ounce of human empathy would realize that gloating and celebrating finacial gain at the expense of people's livlihoods is sick.

liberalhistorian

(20,818 posts)
18. No kidding. Hopefully, if the Mittster is
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:17 PM
Jan 2012

the nominee, Obama's team is already on this, having this picture ready to roll. Someone should post this on Facebook. I wish I knew where it came from and had the tech skills to do that.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
16. And the questions that photo just screams to be asked . . .
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:12 PM
Jan 2012

So, what were you seven titans of industry producing in exchange for all that lovely, lovely money? At the end of the day, what had been made that could be sold in the market? How many people went home from their jobs having earned a fair day's wage for their work, and how much of what they had done hadn't made it into the pockets of those workers? What, really, were you doing other than interposing yourselves into the stream of capital created by other people's labor, and siphoning that money into your own pockets?

liberalhistorian

(20,818 posts)
17. Wow! Holy shit, that is a disgusting and
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:15 PM
Jan 2012

quite telling picture. I knew Romney was bad, but not this bad. Of course, his "firing" statement a few days ago goes right along with this as well.

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