WTF of the morning: CNBC banner reading "War on Wealth"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Featuring Grover "drown the government in the bathwater/bipartisanship is date rape" Norquist talking about the Rangel AMT proposal.

War on Wealth? Are these jokers serious? And yet these are the first guys to claim liberals perpetuate class warfare. Un-fricken-believable.

[HughBeaumont]

1. "War on Wealth"

Is it that one where the poor/middle classes and their collective pea shooters battle the "Betters" and their 1 million + nuclear warheads?

Please, Muppet Norquist. Save it for the remaining rubes you have LEFT.

[C_U_L8R]

2. How about a War on Idiocy

especially the republican variety

[PA Democrat]

3. Yeah, people in the top 1% are really hurting, aren't they?

And there is positively NO ONE in Washington D.C. representing their interests, is there? I especially feel badly for the CEOs of big pharma and defense companies. How WILL they manage?

:eyes:

And this too....

:puke:

[durablend]

They're paying 99% of the taxes don'tcha know!

You know you Dems have SOME NERVE telling those CEOs that they just might have to sell off that Lear Jet they have set aside for Sunday's church trip!

:sarcasm:

[durablend]

4. Only "class warfare" when Dems do it

A-OK when the Republiscum do it.

Can we flush Oscar The Grouch Norquist down the toilet already?

[annabanana]

5. It's SOP for this crowd, remember? Accuse the adversary of

YOUR crime. It has worked well for them. When righteous calls of "eat the rich" rise up from people who are being squashed. . they will point to this and cry and cry and cry.

[tanyev]

6. Oh, Grover. You sure you want to go there?

Whenever there is a real war on wealth, the wealthy usually don't fare too well.

[Red Zelda]

7. Right!

War on wealth? You wanna see a real war on wealth????

[davekriss]

8. It's a rhetorical question, but...

...why are the intellectually vacuous like Norquist still trotted out on cable news as if they have something meaningful to say? The answer: P R O P A G A N D A, meant to quell the rascal multitude and serve the wealthy class. It is war, Norquist (you worm), class war, successfully waged by the owning class on the rest of us since Reagan blustered his way into office.

A functioning police state needs no police.
-- William S. Burroughs

Such is the nature of the propaganda program. A Norquist is one part of a multiheaded arsenal that would have Joe Sixpack internalize values and ideas that serve the interests of the owning class. It's a hard job, catapulting the propaganda, but there is a professional class that is well funded and very active and does so 24/7 over the major media. Such is life in a neo-fascist state.

[KharmaTrain]

10. It's Called The "Mighty Wurlitzer"

Give the Repugnicans credit...for years they worked in creating their own alternative universe inside the beltway that now dominates both the "conventional wisdom" and our corporate media. They created think tanks and foundations and other dog and pony shows that would work hard in getting their message and messangers on the teevee...and Norquist was one of the leaders in this movement. Be it the Heritage Foundation or AEI or any number of other GOOP sham organizations, whatever the issue, they have some spinner (or several) who can "address the issue" and are glad to find their ways to the nearest camera. It's cheap and lazy reporting.

[davekriss]

11. Used to be called the Rovian Wurlitzer

Yes, but I do have a quibble: It's not a matter of cheap and lazy reporting. The near-monopolization of major media has narrowed the permissible agenda in newsreading, pushed the "center" way to the right. The battles against the Fairness Doctrine and Rule of Sevens back in the Reagan days and continuing through today are another part, an enabling part, of conscious class war.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Call It Dumbing Down

I remember Mike Malloy talking about this in the mid 90's. And it's the end-result of this effort to inundate the "conventional media" and bully it to the right. Media consolidation has a lot to do with this along with the advent of the 24/7 news world. When MSNBC and Faux came along to compete with CNN, the game changed as hours of programming had to be filled and personality overtook information as the major product. It gave podiums to the Hannitys and Coulters and Carlsons...all primed for this new age.

Combine that with the collapsing of the old networks...news divisions were stripped down, news bureaus were closed and more and more of the "news" came from what was being said in and around the beltway. Instead of a report from the ground in Iraq, you get a report from some bobblehead in the Pentagon. Instead of having an investigative unit working on how this country was lied into a war, it's catching old horny guys chatting online with teens. The cheaper and more sensational the possible...and with it came the right wing narratives that lent well to this new world.

When you listen to some of these "journalists" you can see how detached they are from reality...that's what's given rise to blogs and other alternative media. Things have changed and will continue...the right wing has been proven to be a total fraud and people now are wising up to it. Better late than never.

Cheers...

[KharmaTrain]

9. Who Do You Think Is Watching?

The very people who are gonna get hit with the tax. I don't know many people without stocks who even know what CNBC is.

Remember, these are the same "exploited" class that's wanted to eliminate capital gains taxes and even after their top tax rates were cut still think they're paying too much. They also happen to write the big checks to the Repugnican party, too.

How ironic, it's the rise of incomes (due to inflation) that has created this mess. Yep, it's sure the end of the world that a fund manager who earned $50 million last year is gonna have to fork over another 200k in taxes. Life's a bitch ain't it.