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I'm watching Real Time with Bill Maher. One of his guests is Naomi Klein who wrote The Shock Doctrine. To bottom line their points:
The lead up to this crisis has been spectacularly profitable to Bush's friends and that's why it has been allowed to happen. Wall Street handed out 33 billion in bonuses last year. Wall Street is happy today because it's Christmas morning and all their debt has been removed. If McCain becomes president, he will use this crisis to say, we can't afford Social Security or health care and it must be privatized. He will promote even further deregulation "to speed recover." This bailout will severely handicap programs that assist Americans in need. Deregulation will breed corruption because there is no rules to stop it.
Shouldn't I be hearing these perspectives on the news and not a comedy show??
The lead up to this crisis has been spectacularly profitable to Bush's friends and that's why it has been allowed to happen. Wall Street handed out 33 billion in bonuses last year. Wall Street is happy today because it's Christmas morning and all their debt has been removed. If McCain becomes president, he will use this crisis to say, we can't afford Social Security or health care and it must be privatized. He will promote even further deregulation "to speed recover." This bailout will severely handicap programs that assist Americans in need. Deregulation will breed corruption because there is no rules to stop it.
Shouldn't I be hearing these perspectives on the news and not a comedy show??
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Infuriating isn't it? I feel this way every time I watch the Daily Show. John's always downplaying the show because it's on Comedy Central, but hell you find out more through his sketches than through the actual news media.
How many people don't even realize McCain was using a reworded version of Shrub's acceptance speech at the RNC? I showed the Daily Show's comparison of the two speeches to some co-workers and they about died.
Edit: Has anyone but John mentioned on air about what's her face charging women for their rape kits? I figured CNN would be all over it, but never saw anything.
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I missed that about the similarites between the speeches of Bush and McCain. I guess I'll have to put The Daily Show on a season pass, too. I just get tired of the penis jokes. But I suppose if I can put up with Maher I can put up with that.
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I embeded the clip in my lj a few days ago.
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I wish there was a good hard-hitting journalist left in the popular media.
Schmooze her up a bit, make her feel like she's talking to Faux News again and then wham! "So, tell all the women here why it is you feel if they are raped they should be made to literally pay for it."
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BTW, if you want to be completely scared, read her previous book, NoLogo.
I find it completely scary that the people who have to elect such an important position have no idea about what's really going on. Not that you would have much in your hands to do, but you'd be informed!
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