Melissa Harris-Perry’s Excellent Rant: I’m Sick of the Idea That Being Wealthy Is Risky. |
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| By: demi Sunday September 2, 2012 6:51 pm | |
For anyone who has wondered why cable journalists Never call out BS to their guests of a certain ignorant ideology, it happens once in a Blue Moon. And, here’s a video of Melissa Harris-Perry “erupting” at what one guest said.
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You can scroll to about 8 minutes in, unless you want the build up.
I say, Amen, sister! Preach it!
Sometimes we just have to get emotional and slap that table.
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And, lift up the people who have lost so much due to Issac.
I watched it, her passion was admirable. But you can’t skip ahead until the video has loaded. At least I couldn’t.
That’s called grandstanding. Capitalist risk is total bullshit. She missed the mark completely – it’s not that the poor take more risk. Capitalist risk as justification for profit is an utter fraud.
Since Ms. Harris-Perry wrote an article saying all people who oppose Obama from the left must be racists, I find little value in anything she has to say.
Yes, I skimmed that article. Didn’t she say it was the racism of high expectations?
I’ve heard others accuse people who opposed Obama earlier on of the racism of low expectations.
And some fdl posters assert that, if you oppose Obama from the left, you are as racist as those who oppose him from the right.
Apparently, there is no way not to be racist, except to finally fall in love with Big Brother, as did Winston in 1984.
how about the anti-white racism of low accusations?
I’m not surprised she missed the mark.
When you’re paying $.50 /hour for labor in low wage countries and you have a virtual monopoly or patent on your product, there’s not a whole lot of risk involved. That’s all we get from a government who is contolled by corporations.
Ahh ….did she hurt your feelings?
I think she hit the mark and than some.
The same goes for your pal “nixonclinbushbama”
I thought it was just wonderful and I think she did hit the mark.
When rich people make a risky choice and they loose, they don’t loose the same way poor people risk their health, their children’s health and everyone’s lives.
Harris-Perry was pushing back against the Lies.
demi
That was profoundly moving to me.Just seeing the passion on her face
was so beautiful.What wasn’t so beautiful was the punky “bemused” expression on that long-haired b*%#@’s face.You could see in Melissa’s face that she was expecting her outburst to be agame-changer & it wasn’t.
We need more people out there raising sand as she did.
It was a moment that made me slap my desk and say Right On!
The Financial Chick with the long dark hair did look a little embarrassed aftern Ms. MHP got it off her chest, I thought.
yes
Yes.
Demi you are correct. Rich people loose money. Its just money assuming you have lots of money. It does effect the dignity of people with less money in a different manner. But go tell the Jersey Shore witch to go flip burgers after Bernie Made off with Daddy’s trust fund, she will croak
Yes money does make a huge difference when you go from high heals and Mercedes Benz to walking shoes, cracked heals and public transportation….
Someone tell me again that the lower class, the poor, if you will, are not at risk. I just need to hear it one more time. And while you’re at it tell me how freaking lazy they all are.
“Sometimes we just have to get emotional and slap that table.”
Sometimes we just need to slap some of the panel guests too.
I oppose Obomber from the Left, because he is a war criminal, as sure as Bush is, and he has not prosecuted the other war criminals and Bankster thieves. Also, he kills innocent people with drones, and persecutes those (Manning, Assange) who expose the truth of Amerikan war crimes.
If that makes me a racist, well then, I guess I’ll lay claim to that slur by people who blindly support that mediocre corporate POTUS who I WILL NOT be voting for again.
“financial chick” hahahahahahaha
i’ve heard about it but never saw it; holy shit! i thought she was gonna have a fucking stroke!
I believe that’s Monica Mehta, one of the many Indians who worship at the altar of Ayn Rand.
And unless you’ve got more $$$ than them, they don’t want to hear anything other than Randian philosophy…
The word is lose damnit, lose. Loose is the opposite of tight.
Ya, she’s Indian.
But that’s got absolutely nothing to do with it. Why don’t folks understand the simple truth:
THERE IS THE 1% AND THERE IS THE 99%.
The problem is that many of the 99 have sold their souls to the idea and now that it’s sold, there’s no refunds. So they’re in. All the way. They have no other choice. And subconsciously, or consciously, they know this.
One of the many Indians? What about the many Americans? What about the many British? What about the many … [insert nationality here].
She’s a sellout. So is O. And he’s half-black. Sociopath 1%ers don’t care about your skin color anymore. They only care about the money and power.
Ya India’s got em. So does every other country.
I’m not defending anyone, she’s a sociopath. But I am making a clear distinction between the true distinction. You’re either with the 99%, or you are not. It’s that simple.
BTW, Harris-Perry is a broken clock who was correct for once. And she’s a die-hard O supporter. Youtube her MSNBC interviews and weep. She also didn’t like what West had to say.
Words are just words. West and Smiley actually walk it. Harris-Perry is a Dem loyalist and she will make sure O gets elected. Her “outrage” is pure fabrication. I bet her and Metha had a cocktail after an laughed and laughed. Because they both work for the 1%.
Accusing two people and about whom you know nothing, even their race, of being racist.
As I said, the racism of low accusations.
Accusing two people and about whom you know absolutely nothing, even their race, of being racist.
As I said, the racism of low accusations.
Don’t loose your temper over it.
Petrocelli and Beerfartliberal!
Two of my favorite people. So nice to see you guys.
We’ll keep on keeping on, and Rant when we must. :)
Sorry about that, chief.
Her lisp is pretty adorable.
I agree with you. I was offended by the article Perry wrote in the Nation. I still like the Nation and still read it, but not Perry’s articles. And I haven’t bothered to watch her TV show either.
The whole goal of the one-percenters is to never have to spend money, ever again, but to sit on their (mostly inherited) piles and live off the interest. For every self-made Richard Branson or Warren Buffett type who takes bold yet calculated risks, there are a bunch of trustafarians who inherited their daddies’ seats on corporate boards along with the stocks and bonds and ready cash.
So your standard is 100% agreement on every public statement someone has made? Great! Would you care to name someone who meets that standard?
PW
They can sit on their hemorrhoids (or piles) for all I care, I just wish they’d get out of the way and let others climb upward.
The whole thing is that by sitting on their piles of money, they take it out of circulation and keep it from doing any good.
There are two object lessons of what happens to a country when the piles of great wealth that its tiny noble class sits on are suddenly injected into the nation’s economy: Russia and China. In both cases, the nation went from being a middling backwater state (and in China’s case, the prey of Western would-be colonizers) to a global superpower in the space of two decades. But they didn’t let the people who did the work have any say over who got the fruits thereof — they just swapped out nobles for commissars and the like — and so their nations stayed within the capitalist framework and suffered the same shocks as did other capitalist nations; furthermore, business interests sought a return to the days of the czars and emperors, and so pushed to have the social safety nets cut away even as new crops of oligarchic billionaires sprung up in both countries.
You’re right.
Sitting on it doesn’t help anyone.
I’ve heard You can’t take it with you.
Strange how people think $ make you a better person.
It’s what you DO with what you have, I heard it say.
And, with that, I’m saying Happy Trails, ’cause we’re just about ready to head to the beach for some camping.
Not big bucks. But, it’s Rich, Rich, Rich, I tell you.
Thanks PW, and all Commenters for the conversation.
I am hopeful.
I disagree with her on the solution to addressing poverty(electing Obama) but it is nice to see the premise that poor people aren’t necessarily poor because of bad habits or anything in particular that they’ve done. Many of them are poor because there isn’t a sufficient social safety net for them like there is for the Bush family or the Palin family or any other number of more prominent and well off families. When a person born into poverty gets caught up in a teen pregnancy or caught engaging in less than legal behavior like underage drinking they don’t have the safety net of a well off family to bail them out. What results is less of a likelihood of escaping the hole that they were born into.
I agree with you 100% and won’t vote for him again. But, I STILL don’t know what the alternative is. +I’ve heard the whole, “abandon national politics and let’s re-boot this thing from the ground up”, thing but I have 2 main issues:
1)I don’t think we have the luxury of time. It will take generations, save for open rebellion in the streets, which I think we’d lose hideously against the multi trillion dollar security/military apparatus of the current state, to undue the wrongs of our times.
And
2) Where do I go to sign up? Places such as this that not only take a stand but actually do something about it are few and far between, are pitifully underfunded and are, at best, poorly coordinated.
Seriously, how is this going to happen?