Figuring out the culprit here is not very difficult. Just asks who hates labor, and the answer is obvious: vulture capitalists and the party that they own, the Republicans. Then ask who represents the Republican Party most, and the answer is equally obvious, Faux Noise. John Oliver did a number on them, big time!
If anyone was not already acquainted with the standard fare offered up on Fox every Saturday during their so-called "business block" where they spend week after week trashing unions, the poor and the working class in general, they got a pretty good dose of what watching those shows on a regular basis is like if they caught John Oliver's opening segment on The Daily Show this Thursday.
Oliver started things off by showing the viewers some of the coverage of the ongoing strikes and protests by fast food workers who are demanding a living wage and asked "how can these fast food workers even be sure their company can afford to give them raises?" After showing a clip where they talked about the fact that McDonald's made $5.5 billion in profits last year, Oliver responded…
…After pointing out that raising the minimum wage would be good news for everybody, including the businesses that raised the wages themselves since it puts more money into the economy, Oliver asked what the argument against raising it is.
Cue the haters over at Faux "News."…
Inserted from <Crooks and Liars>
Here’s the video. Enjoy!
I do think Arthur Treacher’s should be sued for promoting Neil Cavuto so far above his merit. Oliver did a magnificent job of ridiculing just how absurd the Republican policy on food stamps is, and how hateful the goose-steppers at the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda are while trying to dupe Faux Noise sheeple into believing it.
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OMFG……..Faux Noose anchors…..make me puke!!!!!
Not on MY SCREEN!!!! AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! 😈
I do like John Oliver, I liked him when he was on 'Mock the Week' on the BBC a few years ago (it is still going strong – he just moved over the pond) – that was very a good expose of the Faux News attitudes. Tracy Burns really is a good mimic of Mr Burns, with her conviction that if she or someone similar is paid $240,000 a year that is near poverty, but if a fast food worker is paid peanuts (perhaps $6,000 a year) that that is riches, isn't she? YEUGH!!
And Pat, that's such a typical 1% perspective.
Oliver said "I would like to do the fast food workers a favor right now, You see these faces next to me, all these people have been saying terrible things about you. So I want you to remember these faces. And if they happen to come into your restaurant, I'm not saying you should give them the special sauce or anything".
I'm not EVEN going to ask what's in the sauce!
I just about fell off my chair when Tracy Burns had the temerity to say that $250,000/year is virtually a poverty level wage! And Neil Cavuto going on about his job at $2/hr in 1974 and working up the ladder. He only served to prove that minimum wage needs to be increased — I wonder if he has figured out yet that he supported workers in their quest for an increased minimum wage? He certainly isn't bright and makes me wonder how DID he get those promotions? — sleeping with the boss?
John Oliver was very good, . . . and funny!
Minimum wage does seem kile a lotr of money to a kid whose parents are paying all their needs, becvause it's all fluff money. It only becomnes tiny when you have to live on it.
Which wing of the Republican Party is most powerful?
Corporacon Wing-nuts
All the Above. * check (wink)
Wait till the 16th. 🙂
Anyone whom actually watches and let alone even believes 10% of what they watch on Faux Noise needs a reality check. Don't they realize the wealthy have truned the middle-class against one another especially where unions are involved? Perhaps a quick lesson on Union History should folilow: when people finally became fed up with the rich getting ritcher on their backs while they eeked out a paulty living and worked 18 hour days, 6.5 days a week, no benefits, no time off and sub-slavery wages, they decided to rise up and protest against the wealthy. They unionized in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and, during WW1 taxes were taken from the wealthy for funding primarily the American late arrival to the war. Just a sketch of the history and why people and workers unionized.
The corporations began a smear campaign against the unions and divided the middle-class. It worked because they also promoted the dumbing down of society. Thus, people are unlikely to read, listen, watch and think critically about much of anything and will follow blindly whatever these neo-cons tell them to think and believe.
Time to bring back critical thinking in schools. It is shocking to see how little students really know about world issues; they would much rather watch tv and play video games. Now school boards are promoting BYOD in schools. BYOD=bring your own device for learning purposes supposedly. Students can no longer read nor write using cursive writing. Computers have made this a lost art and something that is actually necessary for use in one's working career.
Time for people to STOP believing what the neo-cons want us to think because they are against unions. Let's believe what we truly believe in our own gut. Stop the neo-cons trying to demolish unions so they can make bigger profits and rule over the masses. Go to hell big corp!
Nancy, I agree with you 100%. I could not add anything to your statement. Thanks
Amen to all, Nancy. The mose common conmment on the news Faux Noise viewers have is: B-A-A-A-A-A!
Thanks, TC, loved the video. I made $1.00 per hour in 1963, while going to school. I worked 18 hours a week, cleared $16.08. That was my money to buy toilet articles, paper, pens, etc. Bread was 23 cents a loaf in those days. I think I paid 69 cents for hair spray. Go to the grocery now, you are lucky if you buy only the basics and leave the store for less than a hundred bucks. Never mind the price of cat food, lol.
I fail to understand the mentality of anyone who listens to Faux news and believes them. I also belong to Unions 4 America, and post their things on my Facebook page every day, trying to remind my friends that had it not been for the unions, none of us would be where we are today.
YVW Edir. See my reply to Lynn.
Amen!
The John Oliver piece was brilliant. I watched it this AM.
It sure was, patty. 🙂
What gets me the most about fox and the GOP is their suppose to be the "Christian Party". But helpng their neighbor or fellow man is disgusting to them. I know quiet a few of them and I don't even try to set them straight as their brains are fried from listening to fox. And their all pretty greedy. I donate to more people and groups then I can keep track of. I grew up cold and hungry and can't bare to see someone go without especially if I can help in anyway. Maybe I'm being played the fool but I believe my heart is in the right place, more than I can say for the so called christians who give all their money to their church so their pastor can drive a fancy car and wear a lot of expensive jewlery! I think their going to be in for a wide awakening when they do come face to face with their God.
You reemind me of Jesus' parable compating the woman who gave two pence gave more than the Pharisees and Sadducees, brcause she gave all she had. The Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are the Pharisees and Sadducees of today.