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A Further Perspective
Mantra Raves
MSNBC’s tag teams of redistributionists.
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Then O’Donnell takes over and says “the rich” are falsely accusing Democrats of playing “class warfare.”
It’s like those fake wrestling shows where a tag team take turns bashing an opponent’s face against the ring’s turnbuckles.
What the crew at MSNBC doesn’t mention when they talk about “fair” are the latest IRS reports, for calendar year 2009, that show the top 1 percent of income earners receiving 16.9 percent of the nation’s adjusted gross income and paying 36.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes, or that the top 5 percent of the nation’s income earners paid a larger share of total federal income taxes than the bottom 95 percent of income earners combined.
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Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 12.3.12 @ 6:15AM
MSNBC never lets the facts get in the way of liberal myth.
TLP| 12.3.12 @ 1:12PM
Let's not forget the Firefighter who were Killed in a Forest Fire, out West, some Years ago, because Bill Clinton wouldn't let them take Water from a nearbye Stream, because there were Fish in it.
TLP| 12.3.12 @ 1:16PM
FirefighterS.
Appleby| 12.3.12 @ 6:41AM
Does anybody actually watch MSNBC?
Frank Drackman| 12.3.12 @ 7:22AM
I used to, I find Rachel Madcow attractive, (google "Rachel Maddow Highschool") its that whole Lesbian Challenge thang, ditto with Joan Walsh, who's not a Lesbian, but actually sent me an e-mail before she banned me from "Salon". Seemed my subtle rapists wit didnt fit in....
and Chris Matthewson is funnier than the late Chris Farley, and instead of buying lottery tickets, I just check daily to see if he's still alive, seriously, if there's a Jehovah, howcome He smites Breitbart with his mighty Heart Attack Sword, but gives Chrissie and Sharpton a pass??? Enough to make me turn A-theist..
Frank
Cobalt| 12.3.12 @ 7:37AM
Perhaps Breitbart wasn't smited by Jehovah, but was murdered by man.
Rachel Maddow resembles Eric Roberts, Julia Robert's brother.
Jim Adcox| 12.3.12 @ 11:30AM
I always thought RM looks like Skippy Reagan. Has anyone ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time?
spike59| 12.5.12 @ 6:19AM
I think rache looks more like eddie deezen
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.3.12 @ 7:52AM
Following up with your question and your Farley comparison, Doctor, perhaps (before smiting them) first the Almighty wants Matthews and Sharpton living in a van down by the river.
spike59| 12.4.12 @ 5:44AM
i'd pay good money to watch those two fecal nuggets fighting over a can of ravioli...
SUBVET| 12.3.12 @ 12:27PM
Frank.......what's wrong with being a lesbian and what challenge would it be...........
TLP.....said he thought you were one traped in a man's body.
TLP| 12.3.12 @ 1:18PM
I said that I was a Lesbian, trapped in a Man's Body.
Joellen| 12.3.12 @ 8:24AM
NO, no one watches MSNBC - which really means, "Madeup sh..t now being conveyed" because as Bill above states they can not report the facts, it just gets in their way.
Tom Kyba| 12.3.12 @ 12:07PM
Yes. Their names are Purp, John786, Kingofhisowncrotch etc.
Cobalt| 12.3.12 @ 7:24AM
"Does anybody actually watch MSNBC?"
Good question, and why do companies buy advertising on MSNBC?
MSNBC is a bad joke.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.3.12 @ 7:48AM
Since MSNBC is a subsidiary of NBC, of which Comcast (I believe) is currently a majority owner, I imagine that MSNBC is helped by a bundling discount.
pogybait| 12.3.12 @ 9:37AM
These media entourages come to regard consultations with the extreme left as vital components of their own governance. For now they enjoy the formal prerogative of establishing the fantasy direction of policies to the public while the network, at this time can afford them...it's all about renvenue, renvenue.....
TLP| 12.3.12 @ 1:28PM
And, remember just who it is that Advertises there: Shopping Cart Companies, Vibrator Companies, Trojan, Sex Change Doctors, Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens, Same Sex Chapels, Hand Lotion Companies, as well as Tissue Companies.
The NAACP, the AARP, and NAMBLA.
Methadone Clinics, Abortion Clinics, the Companies that Supply all of The Free Needles, and The people behind the Gay Pride Parade.
So much for BOYCOTTS.
Tomper| 12.3.12 @ 8:30AM
I just dropped Comcast as internet/phone/TVprovider.
Tina B| 12.3.12 @ 8:52AM
I think Toonces the Driving Cat could get a news gig at MSNBC. Probably do a good job too. Take either Chris or Rachel's spot (Toonces is kinda like Pat was, on SNL, gender dual or neutral-maybe even neutered) and do just fine. Just like he/she drives. I'd watch Toonces before any of the regs.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.3.12 @ 9:19AM
Don't forget to give appropriate credit to Bob Grant (before he goes around singing old Richie Valens songs with updated lyrics, and tries to claim them as his own idea).
TLP| 12.3.12 @ 1:30PM
I think you're confusing Bob Grant, with Colonel mike 3/505.
mike 3/505| 12.3.12 @ 5:34PM
Ricardo Valensuela....Yepper....I remember well. Let's go little darlin'
Tina B| 12.5.12 @ 7:26AM
No was to Alberto, one of my heroes, yes to you Mikey, watch those old videos on YouTube and slow dance with me later. You too, Bob G, I still have a couple of slots on my dance card. Timmie hasn't asked me yet, but I'm saving a space for him anyway. On my dance card, I mean.
Tina B| 12.5.12 @ 7:23AM
Noooooooooooo. Not that!
Occam's Tool| 12.3.12 @ 12:02PM
"Toonces, the cat who could drive a car!"
Cat Shot| 12.3.12 @ 11:40AM
Can we be serious for a minute? Whether it's 0-Bama in a debate or Crazy Joe addressing first graders they're always "asking" the rich to pay a "little" more. Aren't they advocating the IRS demanding the rich fork over under pain of fines or imprisonment? And is 4% of, say, a million dollars a "little"? WTF?
C. Vernon Crisler | 12.3.12 @ 12:54PM
I think rich people like Chris Matthews should pay more, say about 99 percent of their income. In fact all rich people who voted for Obama should be forced to pay this much.
Petronius| 12.3.12 @ 12:03PM
Remember what "fair share" means to the lowlife bottom feeders. Nobody will be allowed to have more or live better than them except the Hollywood trash and the jocks they admire. Oh, forgot the $1,4000,000,000 wasted on the Obamabudget. They love that too.
Occam's Tool| 12.3.12 @ 12:03PM
I want the middle class to pay more, too. I think they're rich, too. I look forward to my nurses screaming over higher taxes, and me explaining to them that they are rich by the standards of the middle class in France.
JFGalt| 12.3.12 @ 12:35PM
Something I find fascinating about liberal entertainers and their ilk is how little they actually contribute financially to society. Yes, they give their time. They talk about things and they'll sing a song or two but they cash stays put in their Caymen Is accounts. I wonder if they deduct that time with a dollar value off of their taxes. I'm sure they do after all its not illegal. But their money stays put or is spent on their luxuries. The perks for entertainers is out of control and out of synch for the value they bring. If America were serious about getting its house in order then there's the first place to start. The cost of entertaining us is insane. Stop buying music or going to the movies for a month and see what happens. I think you'll find the liberal whining amusing.
Cuffs| 12.3.12 @ 1:49PM
Oh, please! These goof balls know exactly
what they are saying. They follow the line
every night because they go to the bank
every Friday. It is all about money and
the style of life they want. They are
political prostitutes.
Cpm| 12.3.12 @ 3:29PM
The blue hardhat is what Rachel Madcow wears to the lesbian bar to pick up chicks.
Drunken Sailor| 12.3.12 @ 3:41PM
Does she also glue on a mustache and sing Village People songs?
Marc Jeric| 12.3.12 @ 4:21PM
CLASS WARFARE - the primary war tool of the communists, socialists, eco-nazis, and other left-wing criminals.
Tafuna| 12.3.12 @ 7:35PM
Mr. Reiland, I'm glad that you watch MSNBC to tell the rest of us what is going on there. Frankly, no one could pay me enough to have to watch that network.
spike59| 12.4.12 @ 3:51PM
when Americans are surveyed about tax rates, inevitably they think 'the rich should pay more', and these results are trumpeted by the MSM and the Leftist blogosphere...yet, when people are asked WHAT the rate for 'the rich' should be, they inevitably pick a number LOWER than the percentage the top earners currently pay; and THESE results are quickly and quietly swept under the rug
Marc Jeric| 12.6.12 @ 12:34AM
There is no convincing our marxist masses and our red-ripe Mass Stream Media - they do want a communist machine to prevail. They believe that our rich are rich because they stole all that money that used to belong to the poor.