CNBC's Erin Burnett Questions Need For Extended Unemployment Benefits...

[babylonsister]

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/erin-burnett-questions-unemployment-benefits


Erin Burnett Questions Need For Extended Unemployment Benefits; Compares U.S. System to China as Model
By Heather Saturday Mar 14, 2009 10:00am

Video at link~


Erin Burnett hides behind a viewer email to question whether or not the United States should be extending unemployment benefits for workers that have lost their jobs since so many people are "asking about it". I guess in Burnett's world our country would be better off if we were more like China from her comments.

I'd like to know when Burnett ever questioned whether one of these overpaid Wall Street a-holes she sucks up to every day deserves the golden parachutes they're walking away with after destroying our economy? How about that for a random thought to come out of that head of yours?

And of course Scar can't help himself with trying to one up her for the days biggest "compassionate conservative" and manages to get a shot in at single mothers before the segment is over. These people have no souls.

Adam Green wrote Burnett an open letter over at the HuffPo. As he noted you can let her know how you feel about this at: [email protected].

Green's letter here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-green/cnbcs-erin-burnett-wants_b_174369.html

[billyoc]

1. CNBC is a jewel of consistency.

:eyes:

[Turbineguy]

2. Erin Burnett thinks

people lose their jobs because they like fresh air.

[tularetom]

3. Time for Jon Stewart to do a number on Burnett

She may be a bit tougher nut to crack than Cramer because she is more of a true believer. But I have faith that Stewart can reduce her to whimpering and whning before the show is over.

[babylonsister]

4. Ha! Not a chance she'd accept. I think they've learned their lesson. nt

[stopbush]

5. It's easy to rail against a nameless, faceless group of people like "the unemployed."

Naming names would be just as difficult for Burnett were it a particular unemployed person or a particular Wall Street a-hole. That she chooses demonize those who can't or won't be named is informative.

She's a biased and compromised jelly spine, just like 99% of the people one sees on TV "news" programs.

[spanone]

6. i'll bet erin never cashed an unemployment check......

[stopbush]

7. Agreed. Does she even know that UI usually provides only 25-33% of a person's normal wages?

I wouldn't be surprised if she thought UI constituted a pay raise for most people.

[jbnow]

27. And unless law changed unemployment is taxable income.

You go from a regular income to tiny unemployment that doesn't even cover daily needs...sp you deplete your savings trying to keep home, utilities, food and COBRA...and then do your taxes
and you owe.

[jpak]

9. ...and she's prolly never dated anyone who did...like the high rollers she pals around with...

n/t

[stopbush]

12. Back in the 1990s, I worked for a huge international corporation in NYC.

The company hired a new CEO to shake things up in my division, and of course, he brought in "his team" of sycophants.

At one of our first meetings with him, he announced that, "my team and I are here to learn everything we can from you old-timers. That doesn't mean that you're invited to get in the shower with us."

Later that year, many of the old-timers were given pink slips the day before the office Xmas party. At the party, Mr Wonderful was called upon by his head sycophant to say a few words to the gathered employees and the soon-to-not-be-employees. "I look forward to next year," said Mr. W, "and to those of you who are about to leave us, I bid you a fond 'ta-ta.' "

Priceless, ain't it?

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. list of ways for men to impress her

Erin once wrote in Men's health Magazine a list of ways for men to impress her. All involved spending lots of money on her, such as paying for a private yoga instructor in her home, paying for a world class Chef to cook for her at home, paying for her parents to go on a trip, etc. She later said it was done "tongue in cheek". I thought it was more like "hand in wallet". But I'm not saying she's a gold digger. I'm just saying it's a fair question to ask.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01072008/gossip/pagesix/she_loves_money__honey_479580.htm

[last_texas_dem]

10. That's because Burnett is so very in touch with the needs and concerns

of ordinary people.

http://msn.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy.wisdom&category=career.money&conitem=5d4f6063304d6110VgnVCM10000013281eac____&page=0

[madrchsod]

11. but she`s a Maxim covergirl....

how can you say anything bad about this



and how can you pick on a cheerleader?









:rofl:

[Mari333]

15. ignorant, AND a slut. nt

[marew]

13. This is nothing new for her.

I remember catching her on some program a good while back and thinking, wow, something's not quite right here. This idea that you are not successful unless you are incredibly wealthy is the worst and most shallow of human motivations, primitive ideas at best. These people can't help themselves, they don't get it and never will. It would be like trying to teach me advanced quantum physics. No way, just no way. We can gain nothing from listening to her and her cohorts. They truly live in their own self-centered universe!

[KoKo]

23. Erin Burnett and Mark Haines were the only voices of "reason" on CNBC...I'm amazed

at all the attention to Erin lately when Michele Caruso-Cabera, and the others that Josh Marshall calls "The Sweater Girls" (Harvard MBA's and former Goldman-Sachs Employees are given a pass by the Bologosphere.

All of CNBC is Kudlow advocates...but Mark and Erin in the past were the lone voices of "reason" on that site.

[OHdem10]

14. Erin, it is quite simple ask Alan Blinder( ex-Treasury ) Larry Sommers

B. Rubin. They will explain that when markets overseas look as
if they may be in trouble--Wall Street's first concern--Does this
country have a safety net.

As they explained to congress in 06, we do not hear of many grassroots
rumblings in EU countries--These countries have strong safety net.

WALL Street likes STABILITY. Our country could become unstable.
There is much much pent up anger. Erin of all people should
understand economics enough to know what happens when people have
been shafted. Check out Mexico. The Elites will not pay taxes
and support the improvement of society---In move the Drug Cartels.
People will do what they have to do to put food on the table.

During the great Depression, social unrest in this country.

[SoCalDem]

16. More of the "some people are saying "bullshit

I wonder how Miss Cutie-Pie would feel if she suddenly lost HER job, and had to live on unemployment.. Oh wait!!.. I forgot..she's a cutie-pie, and would not go all that long without being hired by SOMEONE...offices do love their eye-candy:)

[ihavenobias]

17. I question the need for Erin Burnett...

[SoCalDem]

18. Love this letter: starts with ..Dear Erin, ... You're hot!..

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I just sent Erin my email:

Dear Erin:

You're hot.

Now stop being a shill and do the job of a business journalist instead of a big business hoo-er. If you can't figure out what that is or how to do it, stay on screen, just don't say anything. Your silence will be a little signal, just between us.

You stay classy, CNBC-er.

My Name (and phone number!) Here.

[babylonsister]

19. "Hoo-er"

:rofl: And, ...(and phone number!)... :spray:

[Bozita]

21. She's just another cheerleading woo-hoo-er

[justinaforjustice]

20. CNBC: Fire Erin!

Write to [email protected] and tell them to fire Erin. She needs to learn about the importance of unemployment insurance.

[KoKo]

24. Erin is the only female on CNBC who EVER QUESTIONED ANYTHING!

Here's the list of CNBC Females...look:

http://www.gogomag.com/talkingheads/msnbc_cnbc_f.php

I've watched CNBC since before it was CNBC...when it was FNN out of California. I've watched the "crew" moph for years and watched who stayed and was let go. I even remember when Neil Cavuto joined MSCNBC as a kid..when Roger Ailes ran the place and then moved him over to FOX.

All this hullabaloo over Erin should be directed to Larry Kudlow and his "Gals of CNBC" ...the ones who really do the dirty work like the Cuban Michelle Caruso-Cabrerra who constantly trashes Obama along with that idiot-bot Dennis Kneale.

You'd have to watch the damned thing all the time for 20 something years to know the morphing cast of characters...but believe me Erin is one of the Good Gals and that's why I wonder why so many here on the blogosphere have picked her when the cast of "Sweater Girls" (Johsh Marshall's name for the female anchors of CNBC) are much more paid for shills than Erin who in being attacked as "not one of them" may be being forced to go to the RIGHT just like all our Dem Congress and Senate Critters.

Erin is NOT the one to be fired. Check out Caruso-Cabrerra who trashes Obama every chance she has and the rest of them...that bitch Melissa Francis who chortles and laughs as Cabrera trashes Obama. But, Francis is graduate of HARVARD...she can bitch and chortle all she wants.

Erin is a graduate of Williams College...Low down on that totem pole...isn't she?

http://www.gogomag.com/talkingheads/msnbc_cnbc_f.php

[Ichingcarpenter]

25. Garbage.... she said the $18 million bonuses given with taxpayers $ was justified

If she's one the 'good' ones you have a warped reality. Let alone her statement on
Unemployment compensation vs. China.


Her "embed" status was on full display when Claire McCaskill's comments about Wall Street bonuses came up. Notice how dismissive Burnett is of populism (aka, politicians speaking to the will of the people -- that quaint and silly notion):

SEN. CLAIRE McCASKILL (D-MO): They don't get it. These people are idiots. You can't use taxpayer money to pay out $18 billion in bonuses. What planet are these people on?
(End videotape)

MR. GREGORY: Fair question, Erin?

MS. BURNETT: I understand the outrage, and you understand the populism. There are, though--well, how should we say this? The taxpayer money is not being used to pay the bonuses. I think people could understand if you work for a company--right? If the three us worked for a company, your guests, and I lost $10 billion but Steve over there, he made a billion dollars. So overall the company actually loses money, but Steve went and did his very darndest for that company and he made money. So should he be paid for his work? That's essentially what we're talking about here. And reasonable people could argue about this, but many reasonable people would conclude, yes, he should be paid for that. And I think, David, you've raised a fair point, which is maybe it's the whole use of the word "bonus."

MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-green/nbc-has-an-erin-burnett-p_b_163022.html

[Kahuna]

22. When I heard her say that crap on Morning Ho, I whipped off a nastygram.

She needs to ask those business people who are suggesting that how many jobs they are eliminating and when do they plan to add jobs. Bitch!

[checks-n-balances]

26. Morning Ho, indeed! Good one - lol

:rofl:
or even more specifically, Moaning Ho!

Sorry, I'm easily distracted & thanks for the laugh. But I actually am outraged by Burnett's inane question. She wanted emails, so I see that she got them on HuffPo, and also from viewers like you. Good work.