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‘That’s What Happens When You Criticize the Welfare State!’: Former Romney Adviser Smacked by Falling Set on Live TV

Dec. 12, 2012 1:58pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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Columbia University economist Glenn Hubbard was smacked by a falling set piece during a live CNBC appearance Wednesday morning.

The former economic adviser to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign was unfazed and had his wits about him enough to quip, “That’s what happens when you criticize the welfare state!”

Talking Points Memo has the clip below:

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chucksue351
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:00am
of course it fell, obama and the government built it

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BlessedONE333
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:44am
how come the ‘accidents’ only happen to the conservatives on PRAVDAnews?

it’s dangerous to speak the truth anymore

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ORACLE12389
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:27pm
Aw I was hoping it was something hard, it’s a damn poster. I was kinda hoping for something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJyATofWuJM

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- BlessedONE333
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:45am
  that is so fake! not even a good fake either
  
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- SlyBriFry
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Usually fakes annoy me, but that one was funny.
  
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BrianL
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:28pm
From Politifactbias:

Here’s the bottom line: Fiat plans to start building Jeeps in China. It doesn’t mean Jeep production will cease in the United States, but the Romney ad doesn’t claim otherwise. It does mean that the Chinese will assemble more than 25,000 Jeep vehicles per year (if sales trends do not shockingly reverse) that are currently shipped fully assembled overseas. That will affect American jobs.

These criticisms of the PolitiFact fact check are not new. They’ve appeared across the media from Forbes to the National and Policy Center and many places in between.

How does PolitiFact respond to the criticism? It ignores it and continues to publish stories that mislead about the Romney ad.

Ironic, isn’t it?

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:01pm
  You are selling yourself short! come on! you’re smarter than this! Care to explain to me why Romney would run a campaign ad in a bitter swing state weeks before an election about GM’s plans to build jeeps in china for chinese people. Its obvious the connotations of the ad. Though it is factually accurate it is incredibly misleading!
  Misleading definition: Giving the wrong idea or impression with intent to deceive.
  Lie definition: a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Yeah BrianL, real ironic. So ironic that the Chrysler CEO had to make a statement denying the falsehood Romney was spreading on the campaign trail which was that Chrysler was moving ALL jobs to China. So ironic that people, both in Ohio and nationwide, saw Romney’s campaign trail statement and his deceptive ad, saw this as the bottom of the barrel kind of politics. So ironic that Romney lost Ohio, partly because of this deceptive ad I’m sure.
  
  Ohioans are not stupid, and they resented being treated as stupid.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:43am
  You’re right on that one, Keaton.
  
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Flag-Man
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:00pm
Set made in America by union labor

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:14pm
  union labor= only labor still making things in America. you guys either need to stop helping the chinese government or stop calling democrats commies.. up to you
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:46pm
  Total BS Keaton
  
  Total BS!
  
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- kiwi1
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:48pm
  Sorry the cats out of the bag. Most of us know the Democrats are commies.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:15pm
  OLDSURFRAT… care to explain why its bs? or is it just something you don’t want to hear? Its simple really. right to work laws result in a loss of leverage from unions, Companies then can view the union contract as void and no longer have to live up to the standards set by the union, jobs, pay, etc etc. this allows corporations to seek much cheaper labor over seas. which they do. check out the correlation between the right to work acts and outsourcing since 1980.. Right to work is essentially a nail in the coffin to American manufacturing.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:17pm
  and KIWI… if you are going to continue to support right to work and thus continue to support the chinese economy.. do you really have any right in calling anyone a communist?
  
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- starman70
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:33pm
  @KEATON33:
  
  It is the right of Americans to either join a union or not to join. It is a basic Constitutional right, the right of Freedom Of Choice. For State, City or Federa Government to pass a law which requires a worker to join a Union just in order to have a job is nothing more than dictatorship. In Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China all workers were required to be union members. The unions were government instituted and aided the government to keep track of the workers. The workers had no right to strike, bargain for wage and healthcare benefits what so ever.
  
  While in the USA, at present, unions can bargain but how long before the central planners in Washington tell the workers how many hours they will work and what pay they will receive?
  
  Forced unionization is totolianism!!! Freedom of choice is the American way!!!
  
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- Zach2orJack
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:43pm
  Keaton you are sadly mistaken. Unions are not the only manufacturing jobs left in America. If that was true then I guess the employees that work for my company don’t exist. What about Mercedes? Kia? Hyundai? Honda? Toyota? I guess they aren’t manufacturing anything either. All these companies have highly sought after jobs in RTW states. The south has become the new Detroit. Unions have run their course. We now have laws to protect us. Keep drinking the kool aid but don’t tell me that union companies are the only ones manufacturing any more. That is one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve read today.
  
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- pulpiteer
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:16pm
  Keaton your young and dont know what you are talking about. Most everyone is moving to Texas. We are right to work. Business isnt strangled here like the Union states. So, we have jobs. The pay is lower but the cost of living is extremely lower. All right to work does is allow employers to hire anyone they want, and it allows me to quit anytime I want..negotiating for pay or madical etc. Is up to me and how valuable I personally am.. If I dont like it, I can start my own company and compete against them. If that is out of reach due to money or ability wherewithal etc. I can always start my own company in another field I can afford or compete in. I refuse to give dues to anyone like the Unions I see.
  
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curmudgeon60
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:18pm
“When Bad Things Happen to GOOD People”!! Those of you that enjoy watching something hurtful happening to one you don’t agree with, would be better served to read that book. Calling others names really does not help either.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:10pm
Accident???

Just sayin

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B-Neil
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:02pm
What am I not understanding about Brown Shirts and a Civilian Army?? Does history really repeat itself?? Is part of life staying alert at all times?? There are dues to be paid for Freedom. I hope yopu yunguns are paying attenchen to that. Merry Christmas and God bless you all

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Keatonc33
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:59pm
BIG NEWS out of the Romney camp! Romney has just been honored with Politifact’s “LIE OF THE YEAR” http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-earns-politifact-lie-jeeps-made-china-143057560–election.html

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:18pm
  Even BIGGER NEWS!! Betty Sue Frippingham wins baking contest in Lincoln, Nebraska!!! News, details, and, Live Action at 11!!!
  
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- White Devil
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:29pm
  But the BIGGEST news OF ALL is NOBODY CARES!!!!
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:16pm
  Id care! 47% of voters casted a vote for politifact’s years biggest liar!
  
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- BrianL
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:22pm
  This just in. Keatonc33 just went upstairs from his Mom’s basement, where he lives, to nosh on some Tostino pizza rolls and to see if his blogging check from George Soros has hit the mail box yet.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:23pm
  @Keatonc33 and Keatonc333,
  
  You sure post a lot for having nothing at all to say…..
  
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- BrianL
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:24pm
  From Politicatbias:
  Here’s the bottom line: Fiat plans to start building Jeeps in China. It doesn’t mean Jeep production will cease in the United States, but the Romney ad doesn’t claim otherwise. It does mean that the Chinese will assemble more than 25,000 Jeep vehicles per year (if sales trends do not shockingly reverse) that are currently shipped fully assembled overseas. That will affect American jobs.
  
  These criticisms of the PolitiFact fact check are not new. They’ve appeared across the media from Forbes to the National and Policy Center and many places in between.
  
  How does PolitiFact respond to the criticism? It ignores it and continues to publish stories that mislead about the Romney ad.
  
  Ironic, isn’t it?
  
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- eltreo
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:56pm
  That’s interesting because Politifact just won the biggest liar and least accurate award for political fact checking of everything Republican on NewGnome. That’s appropriate. So Romney gets a liar award on an extremely questionable interpretation of the Jeep ad award by Politicfact and Politifact gets the worst fact-checker and liar award. Even Steven.
  
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- Ramv36
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Jeep China has been a very successful business unit for Chrysler since the late 80′s. It’s a secret being kept from you by those spooks at google. Perhaps you should check it out?
  
  http://jalopnik.com/5748973/the-chinese-are-still-building-the-80s-jeep-cherokee
  
  (or)
  
  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jeeps+in+china+since+the+80s
  
  You, educated!
  
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- MMSands
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:06pm
  All 18 readers of Politifact voted? Wow!
  
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- pulpiteer
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:18pm
  Politifact is liberal garbage
  
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nesmond
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:48pm
‘Tis always darkest before the dawn, trolls.

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jmm124567
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:42pm
Under Obama we have seen the fall of personal responsibility!

JFK was somewhat conservative, he believed more in responsibility not living off the government and he hated FDR’s New Deal programs. He wrote in his diary:
“Mr. Roosevelt has contributed to the end of capitalism in our own country, although he would probably argue the point at some length. He has done this not through the laws which he sponsored or were passed during his presidency, but rather through the emphasis he put on rights rather than responsibilities.”

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Diane TX
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:31pm
It’s dangerous to even go near the far left wackos.

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The-Monk
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:21pm
Someone bumped it and it fell over sideways.

At first I thought I was going to see something falling from the ceiling.

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Brasil2520
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:18pm
He actually nailed it, that is what happens

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SendTheMeteors
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:17pm
Romney did it! He won the coveted Lie of the Year award from Politifact:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/12/lie-year-2012-Romney-Jeeps-China/

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- Deliverance_from_the_left_now
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:44pm
  As if Obama’s whole life isn’t a lie!!!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:58pm
  SendTheMeteors
  
  Really don’t care. After the Obama add on Romney supposedly killing a man’s life. This is nothing. That & all the Unemployment numbers have been revised down. they only have do it for 2 months. if there are further revisions than you have to wait for the yearly revision.
  
  Besides Chrysler was sold to FiAT., The add has more truth in it than anything Obama ever said.
  
  Rush went over the union pecking order. He covered those that have a seat at the table & those that don’t. All animals are equal except those that are more equal. How many people lost a good portion if their savings when Obma rewarded his UAW backers & get rid of the bondholders. Many of those bond holders were teachers unions. Obama saved GM by savaging other institutional investors like CalPers, teacher unions & others? Obama you hero that you pine for constantly wrecked contract law & awarded other people’s money to the UAW his backers. He saved no car company.
  
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- BrianL
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:25pm
  From Politifactsbias:
  
  Here’s the bottom line: Fiat plans to start building Jeeps in China. It doesn’t mean Jeep production will cease in the United States, but the Romney ad doesn’t claim otherwise. It does mean that the Chinese will assemble more than 25,000 Jeep vehicles per year (if sales trends do not shockingly reverse) that are currently shipped fully assembled overseas. That will affect American jobs.
  
  These criticisms of the PolitiFact fact check are not new. They’ve appeared across the media from Forbes to the National and Policy Center and many places in between.
  
  How does PolitiFact respond to the criticism? It ignores it and continues to publish stories that mislead about the Romney ad.
  
  Ironic, isn’t it?
  
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Landon410
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:17pm
good work cnbc, your sets are falling apart…. you must feel like that detroit council woman, when is barry going to start kicking back some monies?

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TROLLMONGER
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:14pm
LMAO!…nothing is going the way of the right wingers. I love it!

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:42pm
  Only through your eyes. You are so consumed by hate, you probably need to re-evaluate your life.
  Have a Merry Christmas!
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Yes puffer but will you still be laughing when your welfare cheese is cut off? No more cheese for the rats,guess you’ll have to start eating your own. Start with Mike Moore,that worthless POS could feed a family of three for a week.
  
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- jmm124567
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:12pm
  @progressiveslayer Michael Moore is a huge hypocrite! He acts like a populist but he barely gives any of his money away. He’s got some of it invested in wall street who he constantly bashes.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:23pm
  @trollmonger,
  
  Guess who didn’t shoot up a mall in Oregon and kill people?
  
  It wasn’t an old white male Beck supporter. It was someone your age….
  
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- BrianL
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:27pm
  I have to admit, the Marxists are winning the day. Unfortunately we have fallen asleep and a cultural shift of entitlement, worthlessness, dependency and a distain for those who have worked and succeeded has taken root. Congratulations comrade!
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:12pm
Yep, they attack you!

When you have nothing good to back your claims, attack, attack, attack!

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:11pm
Yes in transformed Amerika you can’t criticize the welfare state because if you do a union pig will drop some metal on you.

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- TROLLMONGER
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:56pm
  Speaking of thugs. You comments are typical of a right wing capitalist pig.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:17pm
  Hey puffer capitalism will end communism every time and communism will be rejected here you tool.
  
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- jmm124567
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:20pm
  @Trollmonger Speaking of thugs did you hear about that liberal union thug who assaulted the conservative? You liberals are a bunch of violent thugs. Go rape some more people at your protests and dump some feces and urine all over the place.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:25pm
  @trollmonger,
  
  Guess who didn’t shoot up a mall in Oregon and kill people?
  
  It wasn’t an old white male Beck supporter. It was someone your age……
  
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