Paul Ryan has defined himself...forever...good!!

[Stuart G]

His comment," -- Some inner city men suffer from a culture that does not value hard work", defines him. Like the 47 percent comment of Romney. The story about the boy and "lunch" further defines him. It defines him and his fellow selfish assholes.
But this is out there for all to see, clear and focused, exactly what he stands for.

Good...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like Christy with the steel from the twin towers. These selfish assholes make it clear exactly who they are for all to see.

The emperor really has no clothes......for all to see....
Good..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..

[Cha]

1. Who the fuck does that asshole think he is that he knows

fuck all about anything except where his next brainwashed $$$ is coming from?

[Stuart G]

3. You are correct, all he cares about is indeed.."his next brainwashed $$$$"

How aptly put..
He hasn't got a clue, and more important, doesn't give a shit about a clue..

[marew]

17. You hit the nail right on the head!

His callousness toward the poor is disgusting! And he is Catholic! Wonder what he thinks of Francis' messages of love, kindness, and compassion? Obviously not much!

[Mass]

2. I wished it was so. The problem is that Ryan is familiar of such comments

(he used and overused Makers and Takers during the 2012 campaign a lot more than Romney did) and people forgot he did.

Frankly, these comments do not surprise me, but this is an example of how the media find him so lovely. They have bought his concerns about poverty without even questioning them. Guess what, he is just like every other gospel of wealth Republicans, full of social darwinism.

[BlueCaliDem]

18. Then it's up to the people - and media - to unmask that charlatan for being the racist

and bigot that he is, because he was clearly referring to black men with that "inner city" comment. It's code and a subtle dog whistle for his closeted racist supporters. By exposing him for his prejudice, people will shame his supporters by exposing their racism, too.

[JHB]

4. The emperor may have no clothes, but when his audience thrives on hallucinations...

...they will see clothes of the finest silk spun from the finest thread because that's what they want to see. And they'll see even fancier embroidery the more lowly, disgusting lllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiberrrrrrralllllllls point their lying fingers and that the emperor is naked. The Vulpine Town Crier Compangie will spread gossip across the kingdom: "Didn't they miss the part where they were told that fools couldn't see the fabric! Just proves that liberals are fools and unusually stupid."

[Enrique]

5. he cited Charles Murray

we already knew of Ayn Rand's influence on him, now add Charles Murray to that.

[Glitterati]

6. Racist, White Supremicist too.

Murray's book project proposal for Losing Ground made clear its race-baiting purpose: "a huge number of well-meaning whites fear that they are closet racists, and this book tells them they are not. It's going to make them feel better about things they already think but do not know how to say."

Murray's most famous — and notorious — book, The Bell Curve (1994), co-authored with Richard Herrnstein, promoted racial eugenics theories claiming that whites and Asians are genetically superior in intelligence to blacks and Latinos. Like his previous book, The Bell Curve was also made possible by the generous support of ultra-rightwing foundations, including the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation which dished out $100,000 per year as he worked on his book at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Murray's home since the early 1990s.

http://shameproject.com/profile/charles-murray/

[starroute]

22. The Bell Curve drew on explicitly racist sources

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/Charles-Murray

Many criticisms of The Bell Curve, most notably Charles Lane’s thorough takedown in The New York Review of Books, have pointed out that Murray’s attempts to link social inequality to genes are based on the work of explicitly racist scientists. In an afterward to the book, Murray rejects criticisms that rest on the fact that “we cite thirteen scholars who have received funding from the Pioneer Fund, founded and run ({Lane} alleged) by men who were Nazi sympathizers, eugenicists, and advocates of white racial superiority.” Murray contends that the racist pseudo-scientists he cites “are some of the most respected psychologists of our time” and that “the relationship between the founder of the Pioneer Fund and today’s Pioneer Fund is roughly analogous to that between Henry Ford and today’s Ford Foundation.”

In fact, the Pioneer Fund’s ties to eugenics and white supremacy are not nearly as historically remote as Murray would have his readers believe. The president of the Pioneer Fund at the time The Bell Curve was written was Harry Weyher, who was a personal friend of the Fund’s founder, Wickliffe Draper, and shared his supposedly archaic views on race; just two months after the initial publication of The Bell Curve, Weyher gave an interview in which he argued, among other things, that desegregation had “wreck[ed] the school system.” Another of the Pioneer Fund’s board members at the time Murray was writing, John Trevor Jr., was also an officer of Coalition of Patriotic Societies, which, during his membership, was indicted for sedition over “pro-Nazi activities” and called for the release of all Nazi war criminals. Despite Murray’s claims, the Pioneer Fund continues to support “research” into race differences conducted by outright white supremacists.

In a similar vein, Murray whitewashes the individual people who provided the intellectual foundation for The Bell Curve. To take only one example, Murray and Herrnstein described Richard Lynn, whose work they relied on more than any other individual, as “a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences.” In his many subsequent defenses of Lynn, Murray neglected to mention the many serious methodological criticisms of Lynn’s work, or his contributions to white supremacist publications including VDARE.com, American Renaissance and Mankind Quarterly, the last of which Lynn also serves on the editorial staff of.

[wryter2000]

45. Best book on the subject of race and IQ (and one of the best non-fiction books ever written)

[link:http://www.amazon.com/Mismeasure-Man-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B007Q6XN2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394731215&sr=8-1&keywords=mismeasure+of+man|

Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man. The title is intentionally sexist to emphasize the moral bankruptcy of the IQ measurement movement in the US.

http://www.amazon.com/Mismeasure-Man-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B007Q6XN2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394731215&sr=8-1&keywords=mismeasure+of+man

[wryter2000]

43. Holy shit!

I knew about The Bell Curve, but I'd never heard this.

[Stuart G]

9. I am glad you mentioned Ayn Rand..

These attitudes about the poor, are directly from her. They (the poor) are weak and lazy, they are there, cause they don't want to move up. .........

Total denial of the loss of millions of jobs to cheap overseas labor, and poor educational systems that really give the rich an extra step up over everyone else....

Ayn Rand didn't give a shit, neither does Paul Ryan. He defines himself ..good. Selfish Asshole...!!!!!!!

[watoos]

12. Yes, his hero Ayn Rand

who railed against the government interfering with the tobacco industry, she smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day. She also railed against Social Security and Medicare but at the end of her life, which came about from lung cancer, she realized she couldn't pay her hospital bills from her book income. So she had a friend enroll her in Social Security and Medicare on the sly. That is what is so sick about libertarians, they spout their pull yourselves up by your boot straps philosophy until it affects them.

[wryter2000]

44. It predates her

Its' social Darwinism (which has almost nothing to do with Darwin or the theory of evolution). It's been around since England relocated "the criminal classes" to their colonies.

[QuestForSense]

41. Ah, yes. Charles Murray, that rings a bell...

Charles Murray is one of the most influential right-wing ideological architects of the post-Reagan era. His career began in a secret Pentagon counterinsurgency operation in rural Thailand during the Vietnam War, a program whose stated purpose included applying counter-insurgency strategies tested in rural Thailand to America’s own restive inner cities and minority populations. By the late 1970s, Charles Murray was drawing up plans for the US Justice Department that called for massively increasing incarceration rates. In the 1980s, backed by an unprecedented marketing campaign, Murray suddenly emerged as the nation’s most powerful advocate for abolishing welfare programs for single mothers. Since then, Murray revived discredited racist eugenics theories “proving” that blacks and Latinos are genetically inferior to whites, and today argues that the lower classes are inferior to the upper classes due to breeding differences.

Source: https://shameproject.com/profile/charles-murray/

[Rex]

7. Clearly he thinks certain children should starve to death.

But HEY...at least they died with dignity!

[jsr]

8. From a career politician who has been living off taxpayers all his adult life

[BlueCaliDem]

19. Yes, but he believes he's privileged because of the color of his skin.

And corporate media is mum.

Living off of taxpayers is a right exclusively available to the White rich men in this country. He and the majority of Republicans believe that those who fall outside of that Aryan-race guideline should suffer and yet be grateful that they can give everything they work hard for to those very same White rich men - men like Ryan.

If a Democrat said something like this, corporate media would be all over it, excoriating him. But because Paul is a Republican, he gets a pass.

If our media returned to their role as our Fourth Estate, Republicans would never hold power in any government again.

[Prophet 451]

10. The problem is that plenty of people agree with him

We get this "undeserving poor" bullshit here (UK) as well and sadly, many people believe it.

[SunSeeker]

14. Yes, I think hatred of the poor came to America with the Pilgrims.

We could end poverty in America, but we don't want to. America sees poverty as a moral failing, and that the poor should be punished...by being poor. It is horrifically unchristian, and yet American Christians seem to hold this belief above all else, to their great detriment.

[unionthug777]

37. pilgrims brought more than that, sadly

imho.

[Helen Borg]

11. Perhaps, when you have nothing left to lose...

Valuing hard work does not make much sense.

[mountain grammy]

13. Paul Ryan speaks from his platform of white privilege

and has no clue about any culture other than his own white, rich privileged world.

Shame on America for electing and promoting this liar and his lying stinking party.

[handmade34]

16. well said!!

&quot he) has no clue about any culture other than his own white, rich privileged world"

no words for the disgust I feel for him and his friends

[mopinko]

15. i really feel like they cannot hide any more.

but i saw through them all several presidents ago, so….

[Augiedog]

20. Machiavellianism

Anyone who thinks Paul Ryan and his ilk are Ayn Randians just exercising capitalist principles had best read Machiavelli's "The Prince". These people see themselves as more than just privileged due to their birthright whiteness...they see themselves in the Machiavellian light of Princes. This by Machiavellian definition means they will use any and all means to attain their desired goals, including the usurpation of American Constitutional authority in benefit to corporate and 1% autarchist rule. Our very existence as defined by our constitution is being threatened by these latter day wanna be Princes. And as Princes like to do, they are willing to sacrifice any and all in pursuit of power and gold. They see the common man as nothing more than the walking dead, and the sooner dead the better.

[Enthusiast]

24. That seems to be a common condition in the nation today.

Most of the big money dilberts are so afflicted.

[packman]

32. Indeed Princes of the Realm

BUT- I disagree that they want the common man dead. They want to keep that man in a constant state of servitude. Who would they have as cannon fodder for their wars? WHo would they have to park their cars, build their houses, take out their garbage and support them in the style they are accustomed to having?
No, they need the common man. They just want to make sure they know their place and stay in it. If a nail comes out of the woodwork of their lives, they want to make sure they have the means to hammer it back down thru their repressive laws, taxation and spread of hatred toward one another be it the dreaded liberals, the hippies (saw a bumper sticker still referring to them the other day),the Blacks, the Hispanics, the Gays, etc., etc.

[vlakitti]

21. I really hope you're right

But I suspect nobody else will pick up on it and it will quickly go away.

The corporate media is very forgiving of right wing bullies and has no memory.

[Enthusiast]

23. I agree. He should be finished as a national candidate for office.

But his proposal to privatize Medicare should have destroyed him even earlier.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

25. Are you shitting me?!

He's now the GOP front runner!!

Remember that hateful behavior that normal people would find repulsive is like catnip to a Republican.

[Enthusiast]

26. Still, he should be finished as a national candidate.

[Iliyah]

27. Unfortunately many GOPers feel the exact same way

He's speaking to the GOP constituents and this type of rhetoric onslaught will continue until after 2014 because fear is the only weapon they have. GOPers blame to the poor, women and minorities. The not so funny part is that a huge population of GOP constituents are at or below poverty line. This only confirms how brainwashed they are.

[kelliekat44]

31. And see all that Ryan stands for as badge of honor. They do not fear any repercussions,

they have their guns holstered in ignorance and they are fine with themselves.

[sulphurdunn]

28. Ryan knows if he keeps doing

what he's doing he'll keep being reelected and continue to feed higher up the republican food chain. The only thing that might make his career sputter would be for someone to discover he was gay or to keep his face and his name off the television every goddamn day.

[SmittynMo]

29. I wonder how he'd feel if

all his overseas funds collapsed, he lost his job and benefits, the stock market crashed, and he was left with nothing.

[packman]

33. He'd get hired

by Fox

[JBoy]

30. Paul Ryan is all about definition..

?6

[TxVietVet]

34. Lyin' Paul Ryan has been a leech off the government since his father died.

Ryan probably thinks Manual Labor is the President of Mexico. WTF?! I hope he keeps making comments like this. He and the rest of the conservanazis have nothing but contempt for working Americans, no matter what color they are. They HATE poor and working folks, black, white or brown. Never forget that. They assume workers are in this country to be exploited. I think it's going to get like back in the 1930's when people had enough and started organizing.
I also know that Ryan views veterans' benefits with a weird idea. IN a letter to me, he explained to me that the only ones who deserve veterans' benefits were veterans that had been in ACTUAL combat in an ACTUAL war that could be verified, then they could receive some help. Knowing how conservanazis operate, their idea of help ain' much.
Let them spew their bu$hit. It only reinforces the fact that they are nothing more than a greedy bunch of heartless bastards.

[Stuart G]

35. Ryan said this morning, "Of Course It Wasn't About Race"

view the quote here at talking points memo. It is the lead story:


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

[libodem]

40. Does he not understand

What silent dog whistle means?

[QuestForSense]

36. He's from a small town; he's probably even afraid to drive in the big city.

His comments are those of a typical pussy, which he is. I always think about him drinking that $300 bottle of wine AT LUNCH WITH LOBBYISTS and, when caught red-handed, denying he knew it was that expensive. He knew. Hard work that.

[Atman]

38. "Some 1% men suffer from a culture that does not value hard work"

Unless you define "hard work" as reading the returns of your latest investments.

[toby jo]

39. Life inside the bubble - see how it works in the mainstream, paulie

[Stuart G]

42. Now the asshole says.. : when I said "inner city", I meant "rural"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024657071

link to op by Enrique

that was posted at 11:35 CT.. this morning

so...he doesn't know the difference????
well........he knows the difference... He is an asshole

[Gothmog]

46. Ryan is trying to walk this back

I do not think that he will be successful