Which Cable News Net Dares To Compare Wisconsin To Cairo?
- Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:25pm by
Mike Opelka
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Less than one day after hosts Ed Schultz and Cenk Uygur went apoplectic (see clips attached below) because Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan compared the action on the streets to what happened in Cairo, their own network is hosting interviews with a Democrat Congressman making the same comparison and in greater detail.
Just before noon (EST) today, MSNBC host Chris Jansing spent considerable time with Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) talking about the amazing similarities between the protests on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin and the protests that recently toppled the government of Egypt. Just 1:32 into this segment, Congressman Lewis clearly states:
“There is an unbelievable parallel and a real connection that I can readily identify with the people in the streets of Cairo and Madison, Wisconsin.”
Additionally, Allan Lichtman (the other guest in the lower right hand box) joined in the discussion, tying Wisconsin to Egypt by saying both were about the unfair distribution of wealth.
There is is, MSNBC connecting the dots between Wisconsin and Egypt. So why why why do some of the channel’s other hosts think that comparison is a horrific insult to the people on the streets of Madison? Let’s review. First Cenk piece weighs in:
It should be clarified that MSNBC did take some creative license when they pulled such a small portion of Congressman Ryan’s appearance on Morning Joe, here is a more objective clip;
Ed Schultz was on the scene in Madison and also could not resist the opportunity to take a shot at Congressman Ryan, saying;
“For Paul Ryan to go on national television and make that comment and comparison between Cairo and Madison is an insult to these people and an insult to democracy.”
The video of this rant is offered as irrefutable proof.
One wonders if Paul Ryan will be receiving at least two apologies today (Schultz and Uygur are you paying attention?) or if Congressman Lewis will be raked over the coals on tonight’s program?
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Comments (86)
markgl
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:17pmThat‘s insulting to say Egypt’s protests equate to union workers crying about not being able to gouge Wisconsin anymore.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:51amLOL! You’re so right.
Its just as insulting as equating the Afircan American civil rights struggle to Hispanic illegal immigrants’ struggle.
Its like comparing apples and roof shingles….
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:07pmAfrican*
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:11pmIn the city’s melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden as the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burning constantly at stake
As we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
-Bob Dylan
Report Post »ohru12
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:27pmThe 13th degenerateAmerican can at least cut and paste. What a bright person
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:59pmIn this particular instance it the taxpayers of WI that are luckless and forsaked. Whi is looking out for the interests if the beleagured private sector taxpayers in this dispute ? Lots of folks have had to endure layoffs, home forclosures, go without food in order to feed the ever increasing tax load to supprt public pensions that are by all accounts fat, bloated and well above the avergae Joe and what he can get for the same skilled work. A small contribution towards the cost of the cadillac health plans these Union members enjoy is a far cry from having to pay 100% of the premium in the private sector…if you get covverage at all….No one expects Union members to pay 100% of the privatre sector workers health plan…why should the taxpayer have to pay 100% of the Unions plan ? Asking for a 15% contribution in light of the current fiscal woes facing many states is not worth burning down the house for…maybe the Union would rather have 25% of the workforce let go instead ? The gravy train has run out of track…it had to end sometime. The Union should be ashamed of the greed they bitterly accuse private companies of. Since when has progit ever been a sin ? Are you people freaking crazy ? How do you think America could function if it‘s private sector was taxed within an inch of it’s existence ? That’s right it wouldn;t function very well at all.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:00pmHow many times have you watched “The Crying Game” today, 13th??
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:11pmHere is another verse for you 13THGENERATION AMERICAN: ““Truth forever on the scaffold,
Report Post »Wrong forever on the throne, -
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
keeping watch above his own.”
(American Poet James Russell Lowell, The Present Crisis, 1844.” Remember America also stands on that scaffold right now. Are you with us or do you wish the replacement of our democratic society?
numbers
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:04pmWhy are they upset about the comparison of Wisconsin/Ohio to Egypt when the message I get from the President and the DNC is that they WANT an Egypt situation here. Obama’s Organizing for America group and the DNC are helping to bus protesters into the Wis. capital and perhaps to otherwise whoop up the crowd. Of course, if the Egyptians are fighting for American Revolution-style freedom, which I doubt, then, there can be no comparison with these Union people who are enjoying luxurious benefits at the expense of their less-fortunate private sector, taxpaying, brethren in Wisconsin/Ohio and the expense of their state economy. Further, collective bargaining is not a right nor should it be. It‘s time we broke the Unions’ power.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:04pmHow much longer is COMCAST going to put up with these clowns and the low ratings that they generate? Losers yapping and yelping about about everything and anything. They go on the air bellowing their opinions that most people care little if anything about.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:01pmI OPPOSE TORTURE… sorry, no JOE for me.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:56pmand borscht
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:55pmCenk Uygur should state the disclaimer before any of his comments and say, Cenk Uygur is a Turkish Muslim.
Report Post »BRAVEHEART
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:33pmUygur is basically a large rodent masqurading as a news anchor on msnbc. Nothing these liars do or say has semblence of honor of integrity attached to it, but mental illness is a constant companion of these demagogues.
Report Post »Brontefan
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:51pmAre you kidding? There is no parallel between people being oppressed and living on virtually nothing and the Wisconsin unions & teachers who make upwards of $50K a year and don’t want to tighten up just a little to help their state out of the mire and dept. It is high time we start tightening our belts and making some hard choices… which obviously some are unwilling to do. Of course, while fat cat union bosses get richer and have tons of money to donate to political campaigns–which is why BO is onboard with them in Wisconsin–it is difficult to understand how we got here. Not every situation was caused by George Bush–sorry, you can’t blame him for the last two years. If ObamaCare doesn’t break your state–the new educational agenda will fix everything.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:13pmTeachers wouldn‘t have to tighten their belts all that much if they weren’t paying their union fees. They should think about the effects of having that money in their pocket instead of sending it to political organization that is ruining America.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:51pm@FlatFoot
Report Post »I have an out-of-work, union, brother-in-law, who is living with me, right now, who would, if I hadn’t blocked it out with the TV. When I get up to go to work, he is on the couch, and when I come home, he is still there. I nick-named him “meat-head.”
ctate970
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:49pmI wish this was here in WA State. I will be the first in line when they start hiring scabs.
Report Post »RobR
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:49pmIt’s funny how MSNBC, honestly believes the spirit of bi – partisanship is covered because Jansing had one black & one white left wing, racist, bomb thrower as her guests in today‘s corrupt Wisconsin teacher’s union debate.
Report Post »Pointman308
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:46pmAmazing times we are living in. How do so many people find themselves void of intellectual honesty these days.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:46pmProtest by liberals in the US has no parallel to Cairo nor any other place on earth. US left wingers are crying about the trivial things compared to the real down trodden peoples of the world. Being asked to pay for part of your government benefits does not compare to poverty and food shortages. Boo hoo hoo, they are making me talk responsibility for myself.
Greed is just eating these people alive. ME ME ME MINE MINE MINE, Better get use to it folks, the good times are over. Hope you like beans and taters. Hope you can find a few beans and taters to eat. News flash lefty, we’re broke. We can’t pamper your ass any longer.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:02pmI wish I had beans and taters to eat….I’m not kidding.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:50pmAaaaaamen!!!!
Report Post »wrs840
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:03pmCairo? Please. That these chubby potheads fancy themselves “oppressed” is a real knee-slapper…
Liberals in the US are only oppressed by covetousness. …It made the Top Ten for good reason.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:44pmOne just has to read the the story-line to know.
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:43pmM oonbats
S pouting
N othing
B ut
C rap
Honestly, who but the ilk of appeasement, defeat, and unborn baby murder would ever even watch that subversive self-loathing America hating network?
Report Post »hey ohms
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:43pmMSNBC more stupid news being covered!
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:42pmOnly in Glenn Beck’s world do Unions have all the power and Multinational corporations are the oppressed minority.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:00pmand the glasses you wear have crystal clear unbiased lenses……….your nic is apropos I must say
Report Post »Miami
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 5:13pmYes, it’s not like a union could bring a government to a grinding stop. Oh wait they did…MORON
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:42pmHe seems very concerned about grooming. I’d bet he is one of those metro-sexuals.
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:41pmOh Ed S. – that’ real bad – your mother home said the oppisite of what you said. Didn’t you get the memo – gee – maybe they forgot about you – who are you again? What’s your ratings. Maybe you should go protest on the streets – leave your job now – quit
Report Post »Pretty please with sugar on top
As Bugs would say “What a maroooooon”
cheezwhiz
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:40pm“There is an unbelievable parallel and a real connection that I can readily identify with the people in the streets of Cairo and Madison, Wisconsin.”
Report Post »———————-
Right. They both are being worked into a frenzy by marxists
ExpertShot
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 5:28pmExactly what I was going to say cheezewhiz
Report Post »wrs840
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:40pmPublic Sector Unions should be illegal because the taxpayers don’t have a seat at the negotiations.
Report Post »tomx1138
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:00pmThanks this never made sense to me … unions negotiate salaries and benefits with politicians so the the heart of the independent hard working middle class not only supports the useless and poor through welfare but pays the retirement benefits for the organized lazy and now the unmotivated and pampered are unhappy to redistribute there wealth for the betterment of there state and there children future. They voted for O bummer to redistribute wealth and from my $30,000 a year perspective they are the rich also.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:07pmGreat position! I agree.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:40pmJohn Lewis is as bright as a small appliance light bulb.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:57pmYou are being generous methinks
Report Post »vic138
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:19pmAnd the on/off switch got stuck in the off position.
Report Post »GdaddyTejas
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:36pmIf not yams, then Yaks, this is the opportunity the Muslim Brotherhood (SIEU) has been waiting for, to move in around the world and influence the takover of governments. We definitely live in interesting times.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:06pmThey have been working on this for years. It’s all coming to a head. They are in their back room laughing their heads off at us.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:35pmHey hawt you look just like danglin bags. Wonder why that is?
Report Post »Paul Thompson
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:35pmUnions need to be fighting for worker rights in China, etc. America is in a global economy, it‘s time that the Unions wake up to this fact and stop acting like it’s 1950..
Report Post »encinom
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:46pmWhy, Herr Walker is following the China model when it comes to worker rights.
Dale
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:05pm@encinom, is that because he asks overpaid workers to partially fund their retirement?
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:57pmGosh, ENCINOM, don‘t you wish for the good ’ol days when you could sqawk about the Tea Party protests being soooooooooo violent, disruptive, and disrespectful to elected officials??? Those were the days……
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:21pm@Encinom
Report Post »Don’t you just loive it when people call you a Progressive?
Miami
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 5:04pmUnion Bosses are Marxist and are pushing to bankrupt the states the same way they destroyed US manufacturing. There might be a doubt if we did not have a history to look back on…
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 5:08pmENCINOM, you are as dumb as the protesters if you think money grows on trees for the union pension funds to go pick. Grow up, get a job and try to start thinking like an adult with a brain. You sound like a 12 year old broken record.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 7:44pm“tying Wisconsin to Egypt by saying both were about the unfair distribution of wealth.”
Report Post »Yes, I have a job and pay lots of taxes, the democrats/ progressives take said taxes and re-distribute it to those that pay no taxes, don’t work, demand more and more, and have done this for generations. I still have a hard time understanding how you can not pay any taxes, file a return with the IRS, and get MONEY from the government in the form of a TAX RETURN. How is this possible? Yes, this is unfair re-distribution of the wealth, from my calloused hands to others.
mcfinch
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 8:13pmMSNBC=Bunch of Idiots
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Video Website
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 9:15pmHey Encincom, you are an idiot. You think it’s cute to call the popularly-elected governor of the State of Wisconsin “Herr Walker”? Try growing up… The obvious parallel with the ignorant signs waved by demonstrators—probably teachers out “sick”—waving “Walker=Hitler” signs is simply infantile. Maybe a serious debate on the issues would be a good idea? Wait, they can‘t do that because all of Wisconsin’s Democrat Senators ran away to Illinois…
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 18, 2011 at 11:10pmUnions are being run by crooks and anti-American thugs. I have no beef with the hard working people in the Unions, they are just trying to feed their families. But I do have a huge problem with the Union leadership. They have become nothing more that an arm of the DNC, and right now the DNC wants the USA to collapse. I would like to see someone prove me wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
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