Matalin Blames The Media For Americans’ Economic Insecurity
Matalin Blames The Media For Americans’ Economic Insecurity
Today on NBC’s Meet the Press, host Tim Russert pointed to a new CNBC poll showing that 83 percent of the American public rates the U.S. economy as only fair/poor. Right-wing strategist Mary Matalin tried to brush off that number, stating that most Americans are nevertheless happy about their personal finances.
When liberal strategist Bob Shrum pointed out that her statement is false, Matalin switched to the well-worn tactic of blaming the media for the problem:
MATALIN: Well, there’s an element of cognitive dissonance there, because if you ask them how their own personal finances are going, those numbers completely switch. Yes — he’s looking around. Those numbers are completely true. They absolutely switch on their own personal finances.
SHRUM: I think most people are getting very insecure about their personal finances.
MATALIN: That’s because they’re berated with these numbers.
Watch it:
Matalin is echoing a popular right-wing talking point. On Feb. 11, former White House adviser Karl Rove claimed that the “media has been beating the drum for years and years and years that the economy stinks. And after a while, that begins to color people’s attitudes.” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) also recently tried to blame it all on the American people by saying that it’s just “psychological.”
Matalin’s baseless assertion was quickly rebutted by her husband, liberal strategist James Carville:
This is not something created by the media. These mortgages, these high energy costs, these pathetic employment numbers, the health care costs, food costs — they’re just killing people out there. They’re not just being told that things are terrible. They’re feeling this every day.
As Shrum pointed out, most Americans are insecure about their own finances. A recent Pew poll found that 53 percent rate their personal finances as only fair/poor, up from 49 percent in January. Additionally, 58 percent believe that their personal income is “falling behind” compared to their cost of living, up from 44 percent in January.
Transcript:
RUSSERT: Let me ask you about the economy, Mary Matalin. CNBC has a new poll coming out tomorrow — Wealth in America. They ask one question — the current state of the economy. Excellent or good, 16 [percent]. Fair or poor, 83.
In an election where the economy is central to people. And the Republicans are actually asking for a third term in the White House. What do those numbers mean to you?
MATALIN: Well, there’s an element of cognitive dissonance there, because if you ask them how their own personal finances are going, those numbers completely switch. Yes — he’s looking around. Those numbers are completely true. They absolutely switch on their own personal finances.
SHRUM: I think most people are getting very insecure about their personal finances.
MATALIN: That’s because they’re berated with these numbers. However, we haven’t had the contrast yet. People do not want, as a furtherance of economic policy, the kind of centralization Obama and Hillary are proposing, they don’t want more regulations, they don’t want higher taxes, they don’t want less trade. Maybe there’s a way to help the transition in Ohio and Pennsylvania, those manufacturing states.
But when you start contrasting liberal liberal liberal — redistributionist policies with limited government policies — the limited government conservative policies, economics win every time.
RUSSERT: Is it the economy, stupid?
CARVILLE: Of course it is, and people are feeling it. This is not something created by the media. These mortgages, these high energy costs, these pathetic employment numbers, the health care costs, food costs — they’re just killing people out there. They’re not just being told that things are terrible. They’re feeling this every day.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pmThese people don’t know a damn thing about the economy (they do, however, understand how to profit from criminality), if they did, we wouldn’t be where we are now.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 pmi get confused these days. republicans are so inconsistent?
how is it that a female republican can be:
a) employed
b) outside of the house and not at her children’s school or shopping
c) expressing an opinion
it would be so much easier if these people would actually stick to their script.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pmUnbelievable, if anything, the media has done just the opposite by not reporting the TRUE state of the economy…
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pmAnd what was all that ‘Are we in a recesssion’ garbage?
Let’s see if we move the indicators around no one will notice.
Wait a minute, Sam Zell (owner of the Chicago Tribune and the LaTimes) just told us Clinton and Obama(http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=119119) were the cause of all this economic bad news. Now I am confused, I thiought eight years of Republican approval and spending got us to this state. But now I find they are all wrong, it really was the media.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:32 pmWhen the bank begins foreclosure on your property, just tell them to go talk to the media. That’ll fix it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:36 pmSorry about that link in my post about the Sam Zell quote. Hope this one works.
http://newsbusters.org/media-topics/cable-television/cnbc/squawk-box
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:38 pmSo, If I read the Frightwing magamazines and Noisepapers, then the price at the pump will go down. Yeah, that’ll do it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm“But when you start contrasting liberal liberal liberal — redistributionist policies with limited government policies — the limited government conservative policies, economics win every time.”
Conservatives can no longer make the case that they believe in “limited government,” nor object to “redistibutionist” policies, after eight years of rubberstamping every big Bush government expansion that came down the pike, so good luck convincing voters you deserve another term at the helm, after showing them out out of touch you guys really are.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pmMATALIN: That’s because they’re berated with these numbers.
No Ms. Matlin, that’s because at the end of the month many Americans find that more money went out than came in. This has to do with the fact that they haven’t had a raise in three years and the cost of gasoline and consumer goods has risen dramatically.
What a tool this woman is. How can James Carville stand sleeping with her?
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pmWould that be the same media that broadcasts this hags propaganda as well?
A∞Ω
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm“That’s because they’re berated with these numbers.”
She’s talking about the vast number of stupids in America
The stupids are the Reich-wing’s only hope for control of America.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pmI’m so glad I know now why my home heating bills have doubled in the last couple of years! I had no idea it was the media’s fault.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 pmIt’s a good thing for the left when Matalin-types blame the voter for having a wrong opinion, especially when it comes to voters’ assessments of the economy. People just don’t like being told they don’t know what they’re talking about.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pmThe Muppets Carville speak again and we are all no better for it.
Hey what’s with that “do” she’s sporting, I think she stole it from Billy Ray?
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/ap_Cyrus_080212_ms.jpg
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pmTake pity on her — she, and all those repugnicans who live in their ivory towers – they just can’t see us down here on the ground.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmUp there in the clouds, life is just rosy for them and their rich friends — the rest of us are practically invisible on the pavement far below.
Is there a “less honest” Ms Matalin could aspire to? I don’t think so.
Unless it’s Dubbie, for sitting down (and standing up, holding hands with and kissing) with the terrorist royalty of saudi arabia while saudi arabia continues to be the fountainhead of terrorists and terrorist finanacing.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pmNews flash–who cares what she says or what her husband says either.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pmWhat a tool this woman is. How can James Carville stand sleeping with her?
Comment by bilbobaggins — March 2, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pmGod only knows. Somehow, against all expectation, she must be AMAZING. That or he’s just one sick phuk.
Talking heads = bores.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm“berated with these numbers.”??? When you’re a frantic liar, apparently words have no meaning.
Basic English is beyond the goobers, I’m not surprised economics is too.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 pmLIES / LIES / LIES …there going to get you. LIES / LIES / LIES …there going to get you…..NOVEMBER .
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pmHow can James Carville stand sleeping with her? @ #11
Without her make-up and wig, she looks just like Carville; Jimmy’s always been a bit of a narcissist.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 pmWhat a tool this woman is. How can James Carville stand sleeping with her?
Comment by bilbobaggins — March 2, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
None of these political consultants believe in anything. They have no core values. They all think is just a big game. Carville is a whore. Matalin is a whore. Kristol is Rove is a whore. Penn is a whore. They’re all political whores.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 pmJust how stupid do these people think the public is. If the media just keeps repeating it, it makes it true?
I thought that only worked with Republican talking points, not real facts….
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 pmNewest GOP issued talking points.
The economy is fine, it is the media that is scaring people into thinking things are bad.
George W. Bush is the greatest president since Abe Lincoln.
Remember Bush said you have to repeat the message in order to ‘catapult the propaganda’.
Bush and the GOP want to create a new reality via repetitious talking points.
The media will help them all along.
-GSD
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 pmUmm…. I guess Matalin hasn’t purchased gasoline or food lately.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm“Umm…. I guess Matalin hasn’t purchased gasoline or food lately.”
Comment by LibertyLover — March 2, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
Of course she hasn’t. She sucks the life blood from the innocents and when she needs to get anywhere she turns into a bat and flies there. ;)
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 pmSometimes she borrows Mann Coulter’s broom… :0
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pmGee Mary, good luck with pushing that piece of crap!
The economy has sucked for years under Bush. We’ve had a whole economy based on bleeding every last cent out of the middle class. The middle class is now broke. The MSM can no longer ignore how bad it’s gotten, but it’s been obvious to the rest of us for a couple of years.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pmOf course, nothing ado with the housing crisis, the credit card crisis, the fiasco of Iraq, the bravado of Bush against the other countries of the world and former good allies…
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pmCorporate fascist lies from Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Dana Perino and the happily goose-stepping corporatist media have mostly worked for the last seven years, but finally folks are beginning to catch on… I read yesterday that some 46% or 48% of the people are now getting most of their news from the Internet, so maybe that is allowing them to think and understand how many lies that they have been force-fed by said corporatist media. The right wing and McWalkingCane will be crushed in the November elections and the mainstream media may decide to be more open to liberal (gasp) and progressive (gasp, gasp) viewpoints…
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pmRemember when GHW Bush was astonished at the price of a gallon of milk?
That kind of elitist disconnect is probably behind Mary’s mistake. She doesn’t understand what the rest of us face at the checkout line (and gas pumps and doctor’s offices, etc…)
http://newsprism.wordpress.com
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 pmAn incomplete history of Bush’s grasp of economics (and English):
Sept. 18, 2000– “A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.” –George W. Bush, The Edge wth Paula Zahn.
December 5, 2000— “Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work.” –George W. Bush, 60 minutes II, CBS.
“I’m confident we can work with Congress to come up with an economic stimulus package that will send a clear signal to the risk takers and capital formators of our country.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2001
Feb. 24, 2001—”My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire.” —George W. Bush, radio address.
Oct. 4, 2001—”We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.
Sept. 23, 2002—”We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.” —George W. Bush, Trenton, N.J.
Oct. 4, 2002—”Let me tell you my thoughts about tax relief. When your economy is kind of ooching along, it’s important to let people have more of their own money.” —George W. Bush, Boston.
Dec. 15, 2003—”See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn’t have been the commiserate — not ‘commiserate’ — the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.
Feb. 9, 2004—”The march to war affected the people’s confidence. It’s hard to make investment. See, if you’re a small business owner or a large business owner and you’re thinking about investing, you’ve got to be optimistic when you invest. Except when you’re marching to war, it’s not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it’s the opposite of optimistic when you’re thinking you’re going to war.” –George W. Bush, Springfield, Mo.
Feb. 19, 2004—”Recession means that people’s incomes, at the employer level, are going down, basically, relative to costs, people are getting laid off.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.
Feb. 8, 2004—”The recession started upon my arrival. It could have been — some say February, some say March, some speculate maybe earlier it started — but nevertheless, it happened as we showed up here. The attacks on our country affected our economy. Corporate scandals affected the confidence of people and therefore affected the economy. My decision on Iraq, this kind of march to war, affected the economy.” –George W. Bush, Meet the Press.
Mar. 11, 2004—”The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens — she calls me, ‘George W.’ — ‘George W.’ I call her, ‘First Lady.’ No, anyway — she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.” –George W. Bush, Bay Shore, New York.
Jan. 16, 2007— “And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life’s moving on, that they’re able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.” –George W. Bush, interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pmAnd this is the money quote, an ocassion when Bsuh accidentally spoke the truth:
“Corporate scandals affected the confidence of people and therefore affected the economy. My decision on Iraq, this kind of march to war, affected the economy.†–George W. Bush, Meet the Press.
It;s not just coprorate scandals now but INDUSTRY scandals, WHOLE MARKET SECTORS and of course the ‘war” continues.
Why is Mary Matalin calling Bush a liar?
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pmGood post 5th Estate and all, I heard the last one loud and clear about putting more money on the table, wondered when I heard his jumbled word’s if it was the same table Palosi took impeachment off of….
Since this bunch of greedy basterd’s took over in 2000 I keep thinking I am in a badly scripted SCI-FI movie that get’s worse every day….When it end’s and they are removed the world will be a much better place….I hope they all go to jail forever…….Blessings
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm#11
What a tool this woman is. How can James Carville stand sleeping with her?
I think it’s an S&M thing. Their safety word is “MONEY!”
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 pmgood links here:
Mike’s Blog Roundup
By: Mike Finnigan @ 8:00 AM – PST
The Bonddad Blog: People are abandoning mortgages as prices drop, municipal bond rates are shooting through the roof, and the markets are falling. But Bubble Boy insists everything is copacetic.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pmMatalin is a disgusting woman.
I’d call her a whore, but I don’t want to insult any whores doing an honest night’s work.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm# 36…
Money on the table = sorting out your pennies (that cost 40% more to make than their face value).
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pmWell, Matalin is a longtime mouthpiece for the GOP — so really, it’s by no means a surprise that she thinks the majority of Americans are stupid and sheeplike enough to be manipulated by something as simple as a few news reports into thinking that they’re suffering financially. The American people as a whole may be wantonly ignorant and unbelievably gullible in many respects but they’re not that stupid — they don’t think that they’re struggling financially simply because someone else tells they they are. Tell the people who are using the Wal-Mart gift cards which they received for Christmas to buy food and other necessities (something which has been happening enough to get attention in the press) that they’re not struggling financially. Try telling that to people who are watching food as well as gasoline prices rising — and don’t even bother trying to claim that the two aren’t related, since nearly all the food on American tables (even most of the fresh produce) traveled a considerable distance by truck to get there.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pmSHORTER MATALIN: Americans hate facts.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm.
I can no longer watch the Sunday morning shows.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pmThis morning I tried but Matalin, Matthews, Russert and the rest……I can tolerate about 2 seconds of them before turning them off.
A couple years ago I would hit hit the Sunday morning shows to try to keep up with what’s going on.
Over the last couple of years it is clear that they are dishonest, irrelevant
and spew meaningless drivel, distortions and outright lies and propaganda.
My guess is the evolution I’ve had is widespread and accelerating.
The day these no talent hacks no longer have an audience cannot come soon enough for me.
Just the thought of this shrill harridan and the skeletor like Carville in a bedroom makes me want to run like hell.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pmMatalins cure: stick head in sand and ignore the obvious.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm“… the bravado of Bush against the other countries of the world and former good allies…
Comment by Evil Spaniard — March 2, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
Or the falling dollar, the rise in oil prices, the trade deficit, the Federal deficit, the very real slowdown in durable goods orders and consumer spending in general, the exporting of jobs overseas… did I miss anything?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:17 pmOh, forgot rising inflation and increasing unemployment claims…
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pmThese guys insult us all, and sadly a lot of us live down to their expectations.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pmPeople dont need the media to tell them filling up their SUV is costing them 100 bucks+ or that inflation is on the rise. Wall street knows it, investors know it, everyone knows it and putting on rose colored glasses isnt going to fix it. And the higher the price of fuel and essentials the less they are able to consume.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pmhttp://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/29/exclusive_the_three_trillion_dollar_war
Stiglitz/Bilmes interview Real Audio/Video/Mp3
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pmMatalin has no problem lying to “the base”, the 17% of suckers who are braindead and in lockstep with each other. That, after all, is who she’s addressing. She certainly isn’t talking to those of us who can read our electric and oil bills.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:40 pmSo Matalin says Americans don’t know what the hell is going on in their own lives and are morons for believing the economic news that is coming from this administration and being reported by the media???
Nice.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pmMatalin has been seen and heard quite a bit lately and it aint’ pretty.
She seems truly insensitive and uncaring – like a card carrying member of the GOP.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm“Matalins cure: stick head in sand and ignore the obvious.”
Comment by Xisithrus
Until march 1, ‘09.
Then, it will be a revisionist history of current events, that squarely places blame on the “do-nothing democratically-controlled congress,” for all the country’s ills.
When this toxic sack finally expires, the’ll plant her deep in the ground with a pile-driver, lest she accidently resurface.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm“It’s all bullshit. And it’s bad for ya.”
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pmGeorge Carlin
Well if the economy is doing so well why then is the FDIC looking to bring back at least 25 retired employees who went through the closing of 1,000 financial institutions that failed during the savings-and-loan crisis.
The FDIC has also revised the number of banking failures from 65 to 100 in the next 12 to 24 months.
http://www.gata.org/node/6031
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pmALL IS WELL!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pmALL IS WELL!!!
http://www.thisinstead.info/images/ALLISWELL.jpg
I was talking with some other posters last night, trying to figure out WHY the right is doing what they are doing. Why are they intentionally ruining this country? There is no benefit that I could see. It’s a bad situation for almost everyone involved from business down to average Americans. What is the point?
The consensus (of three :-) )seemed to be that this is economical warfare to create two classes; to eradicate the middle class completely and to transfer the wealth of this country to the few and the rest get nothing.
We now have one in 10 Americans in prison. I read a very powerful interview with a woman who wrote the book Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival. She was in the Bloods in South-Central LA, and she got out. She is the only one, of all the people she knew, that got out. Almost everyone else is either dead or in prison (btw, I highly recommend this interview – sorry, I don’t know how to do that ref thing): http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20080229_a_girl_gangsters_story_of_survival/ , (and make sure to read the one comment) but this one passage really drove something home.
Everyone was disappearing into jails. And it wasn’t just because of drugs. That’s a misconception. One homeboy, 17 years old, had been a foster kid. He had no priors; no nothing. What he did have was two homies staying at his house. He finally told them they’d have to leave and offered to help them move. The car broke down and they said they would go get another, meaning steal one. He didn’t want anything to do with that. He left on foot and they went and got another car. They ended up pulling around and told him to get in. He was in a Crip neighborhood and scared, so he got in. The police pulled them over two blocks later, and he’s got a life sentence in prison because he was deemed to have been an accomplice to a carjacking, which is seen as a “gang-related crime†and is thus sentenced under “gang enhancement†statutes. And that was it, even though the lady said in court that he hadn’t been there when they took the car. His life was over. Here’s a foster kid who worked his entire way through high school, tried hard, got a full scholarship to college and it all got taken away because he got into the car. Was that the best judgment in the world on his part? No. Did it deserve the kind of outcome he received? Hell no. In white communities I think they call that joy riding. And they certainly don’t hand out life sentences for it.
This gave me a little more insight into why we are building all those prisons (along with the number of people currently incarcerated), the severe poor, the blacks, the underclass are being shifted off into prisons, and the middle class is becoming the new poor.
I still have a hard time accepting this concept of their glee in ruining our nation – but I also had such a major case of cognitive dissonance over us invading Iraq for their oil that it took me more than two years to accept it.
Look at what is happening here. How many parallels are we seeing that lead up to the Great Depression?
Honestly, the right can say whatever they want. The fact that Bush didn’t know gas was approaching $4.00 a gallon (and the look on his face when he found out was a look of pleasure, not of horror) is but one more indicator that he is out of touch. But it’s really much worse than that; he doesn’t care. The people know what it is taking to get by. Now that equity has been tapped out and the home ATM is no longer functioning, people have turned to credit cards to survive. What’s going to happen when the credit markets implode like the subprime did, I don’t know. But I seriously fear finding out.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pmDid I have too much beer one night and miss the election where we elected the media to run the country? Is the media in control of Congress? Do I say President Media now? What an incredibly stupid woman. She must be incredible in bed because I cannot think of any other reason why James Carville would want to be married to her.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pmthis is economical warfare to create two classes; to eradicate the middle class completely and to transfer the wealth of this country to the few and the rest get nothing. Comment by Ms_Joanne — March 2, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
I couldn’t agree more. My fear is that we have gone beyond a ression. We are headed straight for a depression. Look at the number of people who are losing their homes or are about to lose their homes.
The City of Vallejo, CA is looking at filing bankruptcy. An entire city contemplating bankruptcy.
The sub-prime mortgages started the whole ball rolling. Credit cards are next. The news of people who are behind on credit card payments is huge. According to CardTrak.com, credit card delinquency rates are up 100 basis points in the past 12 months alone.
From the American Center for Progress: “The lending industry that no longer aggressively issues subprime mortgages continues to aggressively market credit cards, especially credit cards with subprime-like lending terms, such as a variety of higher fees that are poorly disclosed.”
All I can say is that I don’t see things getting any better. I’m planning for the worst and hoping for the best.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:43 pmShouldn’t that be; Mary Matalin, Republican Sock Puppet?
Wake up Mary, the country is in the shitter, thanks to your beloved Republics.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 pmOne of the problems with this administration is that they seem to truly believe that economics is a matter of public perception. Thus, they do nothing as the value of the dollar plummets, as all our American jobs (even in national defense) are shifted overseas, as our real estate and consumer credit markets collapse.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmMy gas is going through the roof McCain. It’s psychological alright. It affects my bottom line on everything and you whine about the media. Only rich people can talk like Matty and McCain. That’s why Obama will be president because he appears to really care about the folks who are hurt by this media run conspiracy to hike gas prices.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 pmMatalin is a horse faced liar.
If she did her tv appearances with a paper bag over her head they would be more tolerable.
It’s a good thing her and Carville have no kids……..I shudder to think what kind of genetically mutated offspring those two would produce.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 pmBy the way, my post above from Comment by Ms_Joanne — March 2, 2008 @ 6:15 pm should have said 1 in every 100 Americans, not 1 in 10. Sorry!! Here’s the link to the original story.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_1_in_every_100_Americans_0228.html
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 pmMaty’s answer to the economic meltdown…less coverage and more bull sh*t.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pmWell now there’s a winning strategy.
They’re trying to sell us something – everything’s okay, really – don’t worry, be happy, go shopping and shop til you drop.
We the People know what’s going on. And instinctively we are remembering. 2009 will remind us of 1929. When all the numbers are clearly calculated and outed – we are all screwed! Thanks GOP – you came to fu(k us and you succeeded!!
The Neocons attempt to suggest that government is BAD – and then they go to work to prove it – by screwing up anything that ever worked. Hold on, the coming ride will be bumpy indeed!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 amMatalin was part of the inside group called the “Iraq Group” who operating inside the white house prior to the invasion of Iraq. Their mission was to help “Sell” the war to the American public. Notice the word “Sell” because they knew Americans would not understand invading a country that had not attacked us, posed not threat to us and had nothing to do with 9-11.
Matalin, Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle and others had to come up with a scenario that would scare the American public into supporting the invasion of a soverign country. That’s when they hit on the brain storm of WMD’s and mushroom clouds.
I pray one day this group will be tried for war crimes against humanity. Because of their actions millions of Americans and Iraqis have been maimed or have been killed. If the true story ever comes to light this crime will dwarf the killing fields and the holocaust.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 amthat damn libural media!!!
sarc
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 amAnother BUSHCO CRIME FAMILY member blaming the MSM on the economy.These reich wingers have nothing to worry about because they have raped and pillaged this country for this war and their own GREED AND POWER.These people are so greedy that they have more $$$$ than they know what to do with,they have no worries about the high cost of gas,utilities ,housing and transportation.They have no worries about their jobs because most reich wingers like M.M. because she is a stratgist for the crooks.The BUSCHCO CRIMEE FAMILY has more $$$$ than the rest of this put together, it goes to show that “crime does pay”.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 amShe is absolutely correct! If the media did not let me know that Oil is $100 a barrel and I cannot afford to put gas in my car..I would be more optimistic therefore the high prices of things and the fact that the dollar has tanked would not be an issue! And then we ALL could have ponies!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pmMatlin is part of the group that uses “food insecurity” in lieu of starvation. They refuse to acknowledge that anyone is actually suffering under the conservative agenda. They refuse to admit we have homeless people, poor people, or even sick people who didn’t cause it themselves, and if they dare go hypothetical and say there may be this kind of problem in some alternate universe created and sold by the liberal media, then they deserve it for being weak and/or stupid. I would love to see her spend the night in a homeless shelter.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmThis comming from Mann Coulter`s older sister!!!!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm