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Mira

(22,380 posts) Sun Jan 8, 2012, 09:23 PM Jan 2012

Pity the Billionaire - Video of Chris Hayes' interview with the author Thomas Frank

Pity the Billionaire - Video of Chris Hayes' interview with the author Thomas Frank

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45910366#45910366

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Pity the Billionaire - Video of Chris Hayes' interview with the author Thomas Frank (Original Post) Mira Jan 2012 OP

Saw this yesterday. Definitely worthy of a Rec! Bozita Jan 2012 #1

Why did the right succeed in capitalizing on populist anger over the bailouts? Cowpunk Jan 2012 #2

RWers always sing in unison from the same songbook. Frank Luntz is the chorusmaster. Bozita Jan 2012 #3

Bozita

(26,955 posts)

1. Saw this yesterday. Definitely worthy of a Rec!

Reply to Mira (Original post)

Sun Jan 8, 2012, 09:35 PM

Jan 2012

Cowpunk

(719 posts)

2. Why did the right succeed in capitalizing on populist anger over the bailouts?

Reply to Bozita (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 9, 2012, 12:21 AM

Jan 2012

Because for 1 1/2 years after the financial crisis, these geniuses of the "professional left" failed to produce any kind of coherent narrative regarding what happened in the crisis and who was to blame. Most of them still can't explain it with any kind of clarity. The right wingers had their story, the same story, out there literally everywhere within a couple weeks.

Update edit: I meant this to be a reply to the OP, not the post above it.

Bozita

(26,955 posts)

3. RWers always sing in unison from the same songbook. Frank Luntz is the chorusmaster.

Reply to Cowpunk (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 9, 2012, 01:41 AM

Jan 2012

... And the 1% pretty much own the mainstream media.

A leftwinger will own a thesaurus. A rightwinger will never deviate from his Luntz-approved vocabulary talking point list.

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