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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Fri Jan 6, 2012, 08:47 AM Jan 2012

Pity the Poor Billionaire:The psychology of public opinion(Maddow w/guest Thomas Frank) Graphic incl

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#45894214

Rachel and guest Thomas Frank, Harper's contributor and author of Pity the Poor Billionaire discuss the phenomenon that Republicans are able to make successful arguments for demonstrably failed policies.

Laissez-faire, de-regulation, tax cuts for the wealthy and conservatism itself have all been pronounced dead, but in Frank's words "I wouldn't write these guys off".

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Pity the Poor Billionaire:The psychology of public opinion(Maddow w/guest Thomas Frank) Graphic incl (Original Post) Scuba Jan 2012 OP

Why should they worry? After all . . . HughBeaumont Jan 2012 #1

I was searching for the right word... xchrom Jan 2012 #2

. Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #3

I've been a fan of Thomas Frank for a while deutsey Jan 2012 #4

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

1. Why should they worry? After all . . .

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 09:01 AM

Jan 2012

. . . they have their other, 1%-friendlier NBC-affiliated station (CNBC) to go to, where the toothy braying Fascist lapdog Joe Kernen will let them have a full uninterrupted hour or two to spray the arch-rightist agitprop.