"All the Occupy movements start with the premise that we all owe them everything. They take over a public park they didn't pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn't pay for, to beg for food from places they don't want to pay for, to instruct those who are going to work to paying their taxes to sustain the bathrooms and sustain the park, so they can self-righteously explain that they are the paragons of virtue to which we owe everything. Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something as simple as: 'Go get a job, right after you take a bath.'"- Newt Gingrich, at last night's Republican candidate
If you were watching the debate, you could tell that Gingrich was chomping at the bit, waiting for the right time to drop this scripted line. This isn't the first time that he has stood on the side of the wealthiest of wealthy. He has a history of railing against the unemployed and disenchanted.
Not only were his comments dead wrong about the Occupy movement, but nothing more than a soundbite he knew would make Fox News the next day. As one website put it, "The second and longest sentence in that graf is meaningless -- it's just strung together, invective-flavored words".
Meanwhile, at Fox, the network is having a field day with recent developments in New York City...
Take a look at the way MSNBC covers Occupy Wall Street, compared to that of Fox News. At the very end: A breaking story from Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
Then again, Republicans believe that getting the HPV vaccine makes you mentally retarded.
1 comments:
Oh yeah, no class warfare there. At all.
/sarcasm
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