Comments on: Man With A Microphone https://barelyablog.com/man-with-a-microphone/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/man-with-a-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-7157 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:10:51 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=14304#comment-7157 The Time piece was very well written, albeit cynical and condescending. $23 million / year for ranting – I’m definitely in the wrong racket!

Certainly anger and paranoia seem to sell better than some low key philosophy these days.

Concerning the movie NETWORK – the prophetic Paddy Chayefsky
was on the mark not only about TV news being a bastard child of real news (“mad as hell…”) but that terrorism is fundamentally about ratings (The Mao Zedong hour). Think if “Abdul” killed 8 people:
(a) as a drunk driver, (b) with a suicide vest in a McDonalds in Omaha, (c) in Union Station Washington with a poison-gas bomb – same 8 victims – but which gets the headlines??

]]> By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/man-with-a-microphone/comment-page-1/#comment-7155 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:24 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=14304#comment-7155 “If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, many of them greedy racists.” Time Magazine

Greedy? Surely this is a 180 degree reversal since how can one wanting to keep one’s own property be called “greedy”? “Selfish” maybe but “greedy”, no.

But there is truth here too, unfortunately. America has become a nation of looters since 1913. On one side we have the well known socialists who loot via taxes on the more affluent. And we resent them. But not so fast! The well-to-do loot via the government backed banking cartel which besides stealing purchasing from all dollar holders, including the poor, for the benefit of banks and borrowers also wrecks the economy recurrently.

So, in the US today, “greedy” refers to those who loot too much. It is a given that looting is normal. How sad!

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