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Hutzpa

(11,461 posts)
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:30 PM Oct 2012

THIS IS NOT A GAME!

To those low down dirty pundits running around screaming about game changer, my message to you is;
THIS IS NOT A GAME.

There are 47% of Americans struggling with no jobs because their jobs have been shipped overseas;

There are 47% of Americans who can't afford health care;

There are 47% of Americans that have lost their homes in a bad economy presided over by republicans;

There are 47% of Americans that have been written off by the republicans;

There are 47% of Americans that have lost everything they own during hurricane and tornado and are trying to put their lives back together;

There are also 30% of Americans who have been told you don't count when it comes to welfare.

To these Americans, This is not a game this is about their livelihood, it is about whom can get these Americans back on their feet.


For once, be a JOURNALIST.

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THIS IS NOT A GAME! (Original Post) Hutzpa Oct 2012 OP
. n/t porphyrian Oct 2012 #1
Yes it is a game. It is a game of life and death rustydog Oct 2012 #2
The Hunger Games. nt Comrade_McKenzie Oct 2012 #3
By definition, a pundit is not a journalist and does not have to follow a journalistic code rustydog Oct 2012 #4
That may be the definition Hutzpa Oct 2012 #5
It's no game...."To be insulted by these fascists it's so degrading" Taverner Oct 2012 #6
Love that David Bowie Hutzpa Oct 2012 #7

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
2. Yes it is a game. It is a game of life and death
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:35 PM
Oct 2012

Thousands of children in America go hungry every night. Mitt Romney is outraged that these kids and their parents hold onto the STUPID notion that they are ENTITLED TO FOOD!

This is a game, a very serious game.

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
4. By definition, a pundit is not a journalist and does not have to follow a journalistic code
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:38 PM
Oct 2012

They have an agenda to push forward and the truth, facts, or human lives be damned.

Hutzpa

(11,461 posts)
5. That may be the definition
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:50 PM
Oct 2012

but there are pundits passing as journalist and journalist passing as pundits, they're all influential within their own minds, they carry the same disdain toward the 47% which is predominantly the middle class.

 

Taverner

(55,476 posts)
6. It's no game...."To be insulted by these fascists it's so degrading"
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:53 PM
Oct 2012



I think this song is in order:

Silhouettes and shadows
watch the revolution
No more free steps to heaven
It's no game

I am bored from the event
I really don't understand the situation
And it's no game

Documentaries on refugees
Couples 'gainst the target
You throw a rock against the road
And it breaks into pieces
Draw the blinds on yesterday,
and it's all so much scarier
Put a bullet in my brain,
and it makes all the papers

So where's the moral
when people have their fingers broken
To be insulted by these fascists
it's so degrading
And it's no game
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