No wonder MSNBC buried Chris Hayes’ new show in in the absurdly early hours of the weekend TV ghetto. He should be hosting, at a minimum, NBC’s Meet the Press.
Had he been doing so for the last several years — rather than the clueless elitists who have been, along with their weekly parade of meaningless softballs served up to similarly clueless elitist guests and panelists — we likely wouldn’t be in this mess.
Yesterday’s compelling round-table discussion on UP with Chris Hayes, about so much that is actually at the heart of this nation’s problems, follows below. I hope you will watch it…
Several days ago we also flagged an appearance by Glenn Greenwald, discussing his new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
on another MSNBC show (Rachel Maddow’s), highlighting a similar topic, the one at the very heart of every Occupy protest in the nation today: Accountability.
Love this! Especially Greenwald, Hayes, and the woman on the left. The other two buy into our propaganda and rationalizations too much and thus act as defenders of our continuing great hypocrisies.
Where does Dickey get the notion that people “don’t identify with Michael Moore?”
OWS is more than Glenn’s description of disgust with the two-tiered system of justice, which is at the core of Glenn’s work.
OWS reflects a mass rejection of the status quo.
The revolutionary nature of “Occupy Wall Street” was sanctioned on July 4, 1776 in our own Declaration of Independence. Governments exist “to secure” the “inalienable Rights” to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”¦That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.”
A government which places greater value on corporate profits than the lives of some 45,000 citizens who die annually because they are too poor to afford healthcare insurance is a government that has become so destructive of the inalienable rights of its citizens.
OWS entails the great masses of people, both here, and abroad, who seek to assert the “Right…to alter or abolish” our existing socio-economic arrangement that has become the global corporate capitalist “new world order,” and to replace it with a genuine, egalitarian democracy.
Where, indeed!
Michael Moore has been far out in front of the media on just about everything. To this day, the media hasn’t shown the huge protest against George W. Bush when he had his limo driver put the pedal-to-the medal on Pennsylvania Avenue after the fraud which put him in office. Moore was years ahead of the New York Times in pointing out that retired war generals were all over the media touting an invasion of Iraq. He was decades ahead of the media on reporting the outsourcing of American jobs which didn’t even have the “outsourcing” name yet.
There are so many other examples of Moore’s intuitive genius.
Shame on Dickey!
I do watch Chris. So I agree that he would make things on any number of pundit blah shows much better.
He is not an expert in chaos theory, so our form of reality would get into the picture for a change.
I so happy Chris Hayes has his own show, but I hate that it’s on at oh-my-god-o’clock in the morning.