01-04-2009, 10:59 AM
Peter Presland Wrote:I've had a pretty good look around here since joining and haven't found a link to this video yet. Apologies if it's already been posted but it's such a classic it deserves another look anyway.
It's a demolition job on the CNBC network by Jon Stewart at Comedy Central prompted by an outburst from a well known 'analyst/commentator' - one Rick Santelli at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange early last month. It addresses many of the issues raised in this article and, whilst comedy might seem a bit out of place considering the epoch-defining seriousness of it all, in this case it does one of the best demolition jobs I've seen on the shills, shysters, crooks and banksters at the heart of the mess. It certainly gave me one of the best sustained bouts of hilarious laughter I've enjoyed for a long time.
Note especially: "I have to say I find ...... cheap populism ... oddly arousing" and
"If only I'd followed CNBC advice I'd have a million Dollars today ..... provided I'd started with a hundred million"
Be sure to watch to the end too because the Alan Stanford 'killer question' bit is something of a Coup-de-grace. It should have you spluttering coffee everywhere if you just happen to have taken a sip and are not quite ready for it.
Brutal but utterly hilarious
Well Peter, consider your 'yearly due' to the Forum paid for posting that! Sometimes comedy is the best or only way for most people to catch on. Remember the W Bush 'roast' in front of him in D.C., for example. I's suggest all send the url of to all they know and all sites they know of. I think I'll watch that again.....don't get many laughs watchig the Planet fall apart before one's eyes and hardly anyone doing anything about it!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass