Elizabeth Hasselbeck Like Many Miss The Point...

[rsmith6621]

She pointed to this picture on THE VIEW this morning.




The point they miss is that corporations are involved in every aspect of our lives unlike 30 years ago.

So now I will hit the post message and the data will go through Comcast to get to the DU.

[valerief]

1. She's a useless shill for billionaires. Don't watch her show. nt

[RebelOne]

28. Yes, but her show includes Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, who are liberals. n/t

[valerief]

31. Right, but Hasslebeck and flat-earth Sherri are still there, so it's not worth watching. nt

[RebelOne]

37. Actually, I rarely watch The View, but I do like Whoppi and Joy.

I quite often watch Joy Behar's show.

[liberal N proud]

2. Lizbeth only sees the right wing point.

[Scuba]

3. Who? What? More santorum?

[closeupready]

4. She's an idiot.

Nuff said.

[DenverDad]

34. Definitely.

Her comments frustrated the hell out of me, today. A total lack of understanding regarding this movement.

[Richardo]

5. The point is that they're not paying their share, not that they're corporations.

What a bunch of fucking numbskulls.

[bigwillq]

6. Good post.

:thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Ding!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. +1

bunch of dumbasses.

[dana_b]

12. yep! and either she knows this and is

deliberately ignoring that to suit her agenda OR, as you say, she is a fucking numbskull.

[Blue_Tires]

13. It was never about them 'getting the point'

Their job is to deliberately mock, belittle and distort the movement...

The 1% probably had their PR fixers and political garbagemen working all weekend to plot a counter-offensive, and it's only going to get worse from here...

[DirkGently]

21. Tada.

[Johonny]

26. pretty much

the rally isn't anti-company. It is just placing corporation in the proper place as institution in society not members of that society. It is possible to own an Iphone and want apple to create American jobs and pay American taxes.

[progressoid]

9. Elizabeth Misses The Point...Again.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Only because she wants to.

Thanks for the thread, rsmith.

[booley]

11. Yeah that's a straw man

The issue isn't that corporations make stuff.

OSW is not about going back to some 17th century mythical luddite paradise.

But the actual argument OSW is making is hard for the right to deal with so a straw man works wonderfully.

[gratuitous]

14. Jesus called it

When he asked his disciples who John the Baptist was, and why did people go out in the desert to see him? They thought John was a prophet, but nobody wanted to hear his message about reordering society. The proffered excuse was because John was just too extreme, living in the desert, eating honey and locusts, and wearing a hair shirt. So Jesus comes along, observing a much less rigorous personal ethic, eating and drinking, but preaching the same message about reordering society. The folks in charge didn't want to hear the message from him, either, denouncing Jesus as a glutton and a drunkard.

There's always an excuse from the defenders of the status quo. People advocating for change are always too pure, or not pure enough, or some other reason why the few fucking over the many is just the way it is and has to be. Elisabeth Hasselbeck is doing just fine with things the way they are, and quit talking about change, because her privileged position might be jeopardized. There will always be a reason to oppose any change to the system that's benefited her so handsomely for doing nothing.

[JuniperLea]

15. Yeah, that's exactly right!

All those people paid far too much for all that shit... and paid too much taxes on the income from whence the meager leavings came that bought these overpriced items.

[lpbk2713]

16. She gets her TP's from Hannity.

They are in frequent contact with one another. Seriously.
It has been verified here before.

They are both ignorant assholes.

[Quantess]

17. Would they prefer the protesters be naked?

Or wear potato sacks? Yeah, that would go over really well wouldn't it.

[Lionessa]

18. I don't think that's the point either, it's not that they are in our lives, it's that

they are corrupting our banking system, our political system, our health system, our insurance system, our education system... it's the corruption, not the existence of them in our lives.

[DenverDad]

33. and our media.

Agree, Lionessa, THAT is exactly the point!

:fistbump:

[Lionessa]

35. Yep, hence the "..." because I knew the list was longer, just sort of petered out listing.

[madamesilverspurs]

19. Pssst, Elizabeth ---

Don't mean to burst your little bubble further, but a lot of those products can be purchased at Goodwill or other thrift shops. Amazing what things can be found there. Designer clothing is no rarity in such stores. Hell, in the last twenty years the only thing I've bought new is underwear (always) and shoes(sometimes). Get a grip, Liz; you donate your discards and get a tax deduction for doing so, and people like me buy the stuff AND PAY SALES TAXES when we do. So kindly find something else to bitch about, okay?

[Kalidurga]

20. Thanks for the reminder Elizabeth...

just another reminder of how corporations make stuff and pay those people that make it slave wages and then complain that they pay too much in taxes....

[Lost-in-FL]

22. Funny. All that merchandise comes from outsourced labor thus proving OWS point

That hardly anything comes from the United States anymore and people are tired of being unemployed while threatened to pay higher taxes to pay for Wall Street's carelessness and send more jobs overseas.

[jpljr77]

23. There's already a great visual reply to that image:

Pretty blunt.

[Missy Vixen]

24. Anyone who listens to any of Elisabeth Hasselbeck's opinions

and believes there is any factual basis at all in her ramblings needs to think twice.

Hasselbeck has previously shown she's unable to come up with an opinion on anything on her own. She's fed talking points daily via RNC BlastFAX and, evidently, Hannity.

It's possible she's even more stupid than Caribou Barbie, and that's quite an achievement.

[customerserviceguy]

25. I'm going to guess that you're under 40?

Thirty years ago, big-ass corporations were indeed involved in our lives. I think you'd find it difficult to come up with a time in the last hundred, maybe hundred-fifty years ago when they weren't.

Perhaps the better argument is that banksters are not the same as the large corporations that honestly try to provide jobs, products and services that people really want, and seek at least a little eco-friendliness while they're doing it. It was not Sony, Clairol, Gillette, Gap, etc. that did stupid-ass things that collapsed the economy.

[farmbo]

27. They SUPPORT businesses that MAKE THINGS... just not the Wall Street casino!

EOM

[Jankyn]

29. Yes, this is troubling...

Even those of us who try to shop and eat locally are still in thrall of the corporations. For example, we do our banking through a credit union. But in order to have Internet access and telephones, we must patronize corporations (who gather incredible amounts of information on us).

We ride local public transit and bicycles, but those things are, in whole or in part, produced by corporations. Even our clothing is very difficult to buy (or at least afford) unless its mass-produced by a corporation (at least we make a point of buying American).

That's the real problem. "Economies of scale" are one thing, but these--seriously--octopus-like tentacles into every part of our lives? That's got to stop.

[DURHAM D]

30. Elizabeth receives a one hour briefing from Fox News just before show time.

Source - Rosie O'Donnell.

[JI7]

32. the protestors aren't demanding an end to corporations fucking dumb fuck, is Warren Buffet

asking for his business to be illegal ? no, he is asking for fairness in the tax system and other regulations.

fucking dumb fuck.

[Enrique]

36. she's paid to miss the point n/t