Shep Smith on Fox News Host Lou Dobbs: 'Blah Blah Blah'

Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:35 pm by Bob Cesca

No one deserves a “blah, blah, blah” more than Lou Dobbs, who claimed the stock market rallied on news of Scott Walker’s victory.

Adding… This clip also encapsulated the war against pensions. Yes, American voters are really smart. They won’t rest until they eliminate the pensions from the last remaining line of work that actually offers pensions to its employees.

Also, I’m sure that new Fox Business finance show hosted by Melissa Frances will be real a winner.

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  • JMAshby

    “please please please watch Fox Business, the ratings are terrible, please watch”

  • Lazarus Durden

    “If there’s no money in the till then what can you do?” This is the typical Republican obfuscation concerning taxes and revenue. What can you do? Have a sensible tax code? Tax people more who benefit more from society? I know it’s a novel concept but it seems to be working in Scandinavian countries.

    The GOP won’t be happy until everyone is left without a pension, and no social safety net. We’re already seeing the effects of it. Don’t rock the boat because you might lose that crummy part time job you have. Don’t complain about being overworked. Don’t complain about working longer hours for less money.

    The sad part of all this is that the GOP faithful buy into this crap. That somehow it’s public sector workers who are raiding the public trust. It’s not Wall Street who sucked trillions of dollars out of the real economy. Heavens no! It’s the government employee.

    You know maybe we should cut medicare. Maybe we should cut social security. Then the GOP base, the old white crazies will die off faster and progress will get here that much sooner.

    • D_C_Wilson

      Hell, let’s just shut down the entire federal government for one year.

      Announce that all of the federal agencies will close there doors for a year. No taxes will be collected, but no moneys will be disbursed to the states.

      Let them have one year of life under Lord of the Flies rules and then we can start over.

      • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

        Love that Lord of the Flies metaphor…it so perfectly applies to the world wing nuts want to live in. Or at least they think they would. Unfortunately they probably haven’t read Conrad’s book and don’t understand what horrible things happen to the vulnerable by the guys with the conch shell.

        • D_C_Wilson

          That’s the thing. Every teabagger and wingnut believes that they are the exceptional one who would rise to the top in such a world. They all think they’d be the gang leader in the Road Warrior and not one of the people he runs over.

          • Lazarus Durden

            Yup. I hear that shit over and over from the wingnuts I know. They ask me if I’m prepared when, not if, when society collapses. I tell them no I’m not.

            Wingnut: “I got five thousand rounds of ammo for my AK man. I got food and water. You’ll be dead while I’m livin’ up in the mountains.”

            Their smile usually disappears when I explain to them point by point just have bad things would get if society actually collapsed suddenly. I explain just how bad it would be if food couldn’t get into a major city and the electricity grid shut down. Then I tell them about disease, and plagues that would pop up within the first year from all the unburied dead and rotten food in cities. Or if they suffered a cut, or got an infection what would happen without access to medical care and antibiotics.

            By the time I finish they usually just stop talking. The sad part is they just don’t get how dependent they really are on other people, and how their quality of life is wrapped up in other people’s quality of life.

          • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

            You know what is a VERY good educational tool for these kinds of folks? Let them read the first couple of books of a series called the Emberverse by Stirling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series) The first book, Dies the Fire, covers the loss of 600 years of technology….it will blow their tiny little minds. The author researched it pretty well. Although not exactly the same as what would happen if we had no government, it would close enough to never mind. See these asswipes think that they can get into the mountains in time to be okay. But they don’t understand that in a major metropolitan area, say Phoenix, with 4 million valley residents, who is going to provide the power and without power w are screwed.. Those who are smart will have to leave within the first couple of hours and even they wouldn’t make it out. Within 24 to 48 hours complete lawlessness would be taking place, people killing each other for food, water and weapons. And if these idiots are in rural regions, they have no frigging idea how much time, energy, supplies and luck it takes to farm, by hand to support a family of 3 or 4. In fact in AZ one would have to travel over 3 to 4 hours in any direction to find any place with the kind of climate necessary to even grow plants, but everyone else will have the same idea. People will be killing each other over streams and lakeside areas up near Prescott, Flagstaff and Payson. And STILL the human body,in such circumstances will need many thousands of calories a day to do that kind of farming. Ever pulled a plow. There’s a reason people use oxen and horses for such thing. And crops take a LONG time to grow and get harvested. PLUS, they gotta have the right kinds of seeds an enough variety for their area, enough water…etc. PLUS a plow, plus an animal that can pull a plow, which needs to be trained. Oh, then you have to feed that ox or horse, so more energy expended for which you won’t end up having enough food for, etc, etc, etc. Very few people in this country are truly ready for such a breakdown in civilization….my ex was one of these yahoos and I laugh to think of his little pistol and his bags of beans and rice now. I’m not ready for such a disaster but at least I am humble enough to know that I’m not and smart enough to have a inkling of what it might take.

          • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

            I know, forewarned is forearmed. These folks are too delusional to understand that not everyone can be THE Road Warrior. Hell, all they need to do is look at any 3rd World lawless country to see that. There’s a whole lot of victims but only a few wealthy leaders…But that would be logical. I always like to say that Somalia is the Libertarian dream state. Everyone is VERY free, free to die that is.

      • Lazarus Durden

        No what’s really depressing is when you’re talking to a wingnut who has nine kids, is on food stamps and WIC, has had all his kids’ hospital bills paid thinks to TN Care and Medicaid, and works as a teacher for a living and still argues against universal healthcare, or social programs.

        Then there’s myself who doesn’t have any children, and when I was out of work I didn’t take unemployment out of misplaced pride (I was raised by a Goldwater Republican). And I’m progressive.

        It’s a trippy world holmes.

  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    I am thinking I can hardly stand to live in this country anymore. It’s just a damn tragedy what’s happened to it. Very depressing.

    • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

      I know what you mean. I have been disappointed and down about the ways things are going.

      • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

        I am so worried, IG. I don’t know if we can win anything after CU, and I sure don’t want this for my kid.

  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    Perhaps the Republicans have a point about this “envy” thing, but it’s their guys who are the ones who jealous. Of course the NASCAR dad who works 70 hours a week at some horrendous job is jealous that a postal worker or a teacher gets a pension.

    “If I don’t get a pension, they sure as hell ain’t gettin’ one!”

    One nation, indivisible.

  • muselet

    A joke from a couple of years ago went:

    A CEO, a Tea Party member and a union member go into a room. On a table in the middle of the room is a plate containing a dozen cookies. The CEO takes eleven of the cookies, then turns to the Tea Party member and says, “That union guy wants to take your cookie.”

    (I didn’t say it was a funny joke.)

    It’s depressing to live in a country filled with people so easily moved to resentment.

    –alopecia

    • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

      We does describe the situation perfectly. Mind if I use it?

      • muselet

        As far as I’m concerned, go ahead, but fair warning: it’s not my joke and I can’t remember where I read it.

        –alopecia

        • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

          Ok, I will google it and try to find a source….. :) Thanks!

          • muselet

            Yeah, good luck with that. :^)

            –alopecia

    • Lazarus Durden

      The one I like is about the whiny progressive who complains non-stop about Obama and threatens to vote for Ron Paul.

      “Obama didn’t cure cancer! This time I’m votin’ for cancer!”

      • muselet

        Sounds about right. (And your joke’s funnier than mine.)

        –alopecia