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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 06:08 PM Jan 2016

'You'd Rather Fearmonger': Ana Kasparian Uses Facts To Take Down CNN's Tea Party Pundit

Ana Kasparian, host of The Young Turks, schooled conservative CNN guest Scottie Nell Hughes on Sunday for suggesting that Muslims were a bigger problem for Americans than income inequality.

CNN host Brian Stelter posited on Reliable Sources that the media were "deaf" to the frustrations of Americans because they did not understand what it was like to be poor or what it was like to live in rural area.

Kasparian hinted that CNN was not blameless, observing that both the "establishment media" and politicians had been corrupted by the same forces.

"So it's really difficult for mainstream -- let's say, cable outlets -- to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues," she explained.

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/youd-rather-fearmonger-ana-kasparian-uses

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'You'd Rather Fearmonger': Ana Kasparian Uses Facts To Take Down CNN's Tea Party Pundit (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2016 OP
"Islam is more dangerous to us than income inequality." Hortensis Jan 2016 #1
Of course... TreasonousBastard Jan 2016 #2
Well SHE isn't going to be invited back underpants Jan 2016 #3

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. "Islam is more dangerous to us than income inequality."
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 06:11 PM
Jan 2016

Expect to see this theme hit again and again again. Be very afraid, all right -- not of Islam, but that the pickpockets will distract so many with fear that they'll be able to keep helping themselves to our wallets.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. Of course...
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 06:21 PM
Jan 2016

For most of our lives we've needed an enemy. Ever since we solidly kicked ass in WWII, we looked for another Hitler or Hirohito to slay. The Soviets were a great one for years, but without them we've been swimming in circles.

Saddam lasted a while, but now we've got ISIS and other radical muslims to scare the crap out of us.

God forbid we take all this energy and look inside to see where our real problems are-- the best enemies are furriners.

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