The MSM plays "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader"

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Wed Jul-30-08 10:53 AM
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The MSM plays "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader"

Edited on Wed Jul-30-08 10:55 AM by grantcart

JF: "Welcome back I am Jeff Foxworthy and we are near the end of an exciting night with Main Stream Media. MSM you have answered 9 questions and used all but 1 of your 'cheats'. If you answer this question you will be at the $ 500,000, if you lose then you will go home with only $ 25,000 or you could leave now and take $ 300,000."

MSM: "Ready to go John, these first 8 questions were tough but I didn't come here to win $ 250,000, besides I still have 2 'cheats'

JF: " . . . . Oh my. . . "

JF: "Let't just get right to the question - it's a 5th grade math question, its a case study of applied math.

JF: "If Andrew McCain joins the board of Silver State Bancorp on April 1 and resigns in the middle of the night on a weekend 116 days later and the value of the share on April 1 is $ 8.6 and on July 26 its $ 1.08 how much have the shareholders, and there are 15.14 million shares, have the shareholders lost in capitalization of this company, and you can use this calculator."

MSM: "Well its a loss of $ 7.52 shares timed 15.14 so the shareholders got hosed for a total of $ 113,852,800 for the total 116 days that Andrew was on the board and chariman of the audit commitee. My God! that amounts $ 981,489 wiped of the books every single day and $ 40,089 per hour. WOW that is one hell of a bath - gonna be some unhappy campers at that stockholders meeting."

JF: "You know, MSM, you are the only contestant we have ever had whose IQ goes up 50 points if we just but a $ in the question".

MSM: "Well thank you John."

JF: "Let me try something - here is my name written out '$Jeff'".

MSM: " got it Jeff won't make that mistake again."

JF: "Do you want to go home now with $ 500,000 or continue to play for $ 1,000,000, you have one'cheat' left.

MSM: "OK Jeff my choice is to go home with the $ 500,000 and come back real quick and play for the $ 1,000,000."

JF: "You can't do that".

MSM: "Its no problem I only live 6 blocks from here."

JF: "Its against the rules, are you going to play or quit."

MSM: "Play Jeff".

JF: "Its a 6th grade civics question: If it is discovered that in the middle of a Presidential campaign the second oldest son is on the board of a bank and that during the time he is on that board the bank loses a total of $ 113,852,800 for the total 116 days that he was on the board and chariman of the audit commitee. Or $ 981,489 wiped of the books every single day and $ 40,089 per hour that he is on the board - should that be a question that Main Stream Media should look at?"

MSM: "Easy Jeff - no it shouldn't and the reason is that if we did that then we would have to investigate how the Obama kids spend their lunch money."

JF: "OK lets look at the answer. The answer is "It shouldn't be under normal circumstances but in a campaign that examines issues like what grade school Obama went to, what his minister thinks, what were the politics of a casual friend 40 years ago, if he does wear a flag pin, does he stand at attention or hold his hand over his heart during the national anthem, then this would be a much more substantive question as it goes to the question of how the elites in this country continue to evade responsibility and culpability even as they plunder the country and the companies that they oversee."

MSM: "Wow I wasn't even close".

JF: "No but you have one more cheat - its the 'Mystery Cheat' let me open the envelope, here is what it states

IN THE CASE OF THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA, NO MATTER HOW POORLY THEY PERFORM THEY GET PAID.

THEY TRIVIALIZED VP GORE, WHO THE ENTIRE WORLD NOW ADMIRES AS A COURAGEOUS BRILLIANT LEADER.

THE THREW AWAY ALL OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS AND HISTORICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN QUESTIONING WHAT WAS ADMITTEDLY AN 'UNNECESSARY WAR'.

THEY HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS TO THE INCREASING LEVELS OF POVERTY AMONG AMERICAN RURAL AND URBAN CHILDREN. THEY HAVE . . . OH JUST SKIP IT AND GIVE THE MAN HIS MONEY JEFF BECAUSE UNLIKE A LAWYER OR DOCTOR WHO CAN BE SUED, OR A POLITICIAN WHO FACES AN ELECTION OR ANYOTHER PROFESSIONAL, THEY GET PAID NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY FUCK IT UP. IT IS COMPLETELY INVERSE TO EVERY OTHER PROFESSION IN AMERICA.

THEY GET PAID NOT BY HOW ACCURATE OR DEEP OR COURAGEOUS THEIR WORK IS BUT BY HOW MANY EYES BLINK ON THEIR IMAGES WHEN TRANSMITTED ON THE TV.

Well I am sorry for that folks obviously our rules judge has had a bit of a meltdown or maybe even a religious epiphany."

MSM: "Those are the kind of 'cheats' I love."

JF: "OK MSM I have your check but you know what you have to do"

MSM: "No problem Jeff, what camera do I look into? OK America I am the MSM and I am not smarter than a 5th grader - but then neither are you".

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