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MSNBC Tries to Explain Concept of Debt Ceiling with Human Prop
- Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:20pm by
Meredith Jessup
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I’m not sure why putting a guy with “spending” written on his shirt underneath a fake ceiling would help people to better understand the country’s growing debt, but I sure hope they are paying this guy well.
One word, MSNBC: chalkboard.
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Comments (57)
mcFirst
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:34amthis guy must be state educated. Does he really think americans are that stupid.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:34amI am afraid that only now do allot of people have even a glimmer of understanding what is involved in raising the debt ceiling. I hear allot of condemnation of how stupid the report was and just how stupid they must think some of the American people are. My fear is that MSNBC knows just how stupid many of their viewers are, and considering some of the things I hear some of our politicians and others saying I think they are right.
Report Post »What is wrong with the whole “it will be disastrous if we don’t raise the debt ceiling” mantra is that those who are saying are acting as though it is a given that we are going to keep spending more money then what we have coming in. The whole concept of non deficit spending is just a fairy tale as far as they are concerned.
Whole Nine Yards
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:27amIS this band of IDIOTS still around?
Report Post »RefoundHonor
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:23amI love Glenn Beck and what he does for this county, and I’m total libertarian from the toes up.
This is something Glenn would do on his show totally, and you guys would find it awsome. He does things like this all the time. Just because MSNBC did it, you guys are mocking it. The left-wing isn’t the only guilty party of the double standard. Cmon guys.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:21amThank you, MSNBC, for demonstrating why creditors (not people) increase credit limits not cardholders, and why GOVERNMENT shouldn’t be allowed to increase its own credit limit, either.
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:57amSorry but if you raise the debt ceiling twice in one calendar year then you have BIG PROBLEMS. Maybe if we didn‘t spend over a trillion dollars a year on bs government programs and bureacracies that do absolutely nothing then we wouldn’t have to raise the debt ceiling, but getting someone in DC to actually cut something is impossible.
Report Post »arjundawg
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:51amWelfare, foreign aid, wasteful spending, department of education, unions, environmental profiteers, the UN…. all standing with their with hand out
Report Post »Wouldn’t it be terible to default on them?
muncher
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:41amThat’s about the most retarded reporting possible. Hokie props, weak story, and what’s with the follow up questions? She cares more about the visuals than what he’s communicating (perhaps because its void of substance). She may have well asked how’s the weather there or did you have a nice Christmas. Maybe if spending dude spent more time on digging into a credible story and less time with his craft paste and crayons we’d have a decent story to watch.
Report Post »murphytavern
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:28amhave a question are we still at war? why cut defence while we are at war try cutting health care,and other pork projects.give business a tax break and get th h33 out of tring to create jobs
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:24amMaybe they should find a human prop to illustrate their shrinking viewership. Good luck finding someone that small.
Report Post »ozzie
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:06amI thought it was a great depiction, but it still does not explain the stupidity. I‘m sure I’m missing something, and I think I know what it is- but- why not just stop spending right friggin now? Because Dems will not approve and pass it before the SHTF? Evil bastards if that’s the case.
I do agree that the progressives want chaos and would actually welcome the change- their bought-off politicians would let it happen.
Transition has to be subtle, which is what I know conservatives have to learn- but how long can we get bent over before we say enough- I can see that pushing us to the edge is a strategy- so maybe playing their game is in our interest for the time being. Media needs to catch up fast. Must be why GB is pushing hard on that front- but it seems more like they’re preparing for a recovery mission than a rescue mission.
On a side note: When the hell will they fix the slowness of the scrolling on this site? That is the only reason I avoid it- No other site moves so slowly in scrolling- Too many scripts or something. Keep It Simple Stupid! And No, I don’t need notifications on the site, I’m here intentionally, I will check the home page myself- I don’t need a reminder or another incentive to check more links- the only incentive would be to let me browse in peace.
Report Post »dustytrail
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:01amCut the spending, cut the Chinese, Saudi’s. Cut the left and the progressive agenda. I am in favor of getting back to basics. America used to live in its means over a hundred years ago. This would be a good time to find out exactly what the Fed reserve had been up to all this time. Of course we may never find out.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:37amNBC is history, they have 100% NO credibility
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:11amIt goes to show what MSNBC thinks about the intelligence of their own audience. If I was a watcher I wouldn’t be one any longer after this insult.
Report Post »BruceB
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:16amWhat makes you think that they are smart enough to be insulted?
Report Post »Mandalore
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:42amMSNBC is a human prop for the statists.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:24amLeave it to the drive by media to try to put out a simplified answer so all us unwashed masses can understand it. They must think the public is made up of a bunch of 5 year olds.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 5:45amJust their viewers … with IQ’s of 5 year olds.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:25amThe Debt Ceiling is a double edge sword but we need to take the pain now rather then later or else the next 50 yrs will be a mess. Its better short term to raise it but at what cost. 15 Trillion is not going to make much difference as these Ponies will still spend our money unwisely.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:37amMaybe if they showed a SPENDING shirt on a heroin addict going through withdrawl cold turkey?
Report Post »Not. Their viewers would want a heroin stamp program.
home_of_the_brave
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:15amGreat idea so if I call up my bank and say “you need to raise my credit limit or I’m not going to be able make my credit card payments” what do you think they’ll do?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:47amHow does 30% interest sound?
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:06amI’m sorry but does anyone think the word “Debt Celling” sounds Greek? To me it sounds pretty self explanatory. But hey make the people feel stupid so they’ll let the government to “fix” this little problem.
Report Post »rattler1958
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:23amThey think we are all “HOMER SIMPSONS” family. Schools have been “growing” this family for years. VA has text books that are WRONG. IMHO, I think they have been “BREEDING” a class/group of people that will just be “lemings” and follow whatever “THEY” say. They have breed the person out of people. Who says thank you/ holds the door/ etc. and gets no reply or the door not held form the one that you did? I saw a guy run down in a stripmall parking lot. She speed off(large, major grocer, 10-15 stores). Guy was banged up but not hurt. The girl came back and call the cops whe she realised her window was broke. She drives? Educate in the schools. NO SCHOOL UNIONS!!!!!!. Why try when you WIN anyway?
Report Post »TALONTSx
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:51am… and they continue to mock Glenn and his stage props. I like when he says “we built this” … so it took more than one person to engineer that awsome prop. Looks like they really are leaning forward, too bad there’s a cliff in front of them.
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:36amit’s like stossel…but…no, stossel is good
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:32amthese guys are idiots
stop the freakin spending and you wont have to worry about the debt ceiling ……………..duh
Report Post »Scramblin
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:26amThe Real Truth About Money
Report Post »A much better place to get a real explanation of our Federal Reserve fractional banking scheme.
http://www.trtam.com/
Margaret Thatcher
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:44amLink doesn’t work.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 2:18amSomeone took the link down – darn, I was really interesting is watching it. http://wp.me/pYLB7-uT
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:53amDefense cuts. This means that our soldiers will have to pay for their healthcare and there will be fewer soldiers (stressing an already stressed force). Glen said they would try and take the military and here it is folks.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:25amWhat? No Republicans in Nazi uniforms? No Glenn Beck as Hitler? How do they expect their bed wetting audience to understand economics?
Report Post »Cherished Emblems
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:50amThis country is morally bankrupt!
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:22amThis along with lots of pictures in crayon may get through to their audience but I am not optimistic.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:23amNICKDERINGER, now that’s funny! You made me laugh, in fact i am still laughing!
Report Post »mzmaj7
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:43amHeadline rewrite: MSNBC Treats Viewers Like Middle Schoolers
(again)
Report Post »rattler1958
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 1:59amSorry to say but most people live in so small a “Bubble” in life. Its ALL, ME , MINE , NOW . They don‘t care because they don’t know or want to know what this means. Its the bottom up at its finest. Has been going on at least since I was in school in the 60s. 1-4 in a private school. 5 in public and I was so ahead of everyone that the teacher “Had MY BACK”. (best teacher I ever had). I had people in 10-12 who could not read at a 5th grade level. They graduated. How can you expect a person that was grown to not understand, to understand? They were groomed to the “Public Dole” and really have no way out except fast $$$, Drug dealing, theft, ETC. How do WE educate? How can WE make them understand that in a new war, they are “Cannon Fodder”?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 4:31amWas a decent explanation, too bad no one saw it…Well, maybe the camera crew was watching…
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 6:13amThis demonstration is an insult to the intelligence of an average human being. File it under “lazy journalism”.
Report Post »Big Bob
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:02amlooks to me like they need a shorter guy
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:10amDING!!! Big Bob has the solution to the growing spending, STOP THE SPENDING, ie, smaller guy.
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:25amThose who need this demonstration don’t watch Fox.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:11amI used to think MSNBC stood for Main Stream National Broadcasters of Communism but now I realize its just news for dummies.
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