STOSSEL: " Private Businesses Ought To Get To DISCRIMINATE "

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Another cheesehead comes out of the closet to lend RAND a helping hand of support at hate.



From the May 20 edition of Fox News' America Live:

excerpt:


STOSSEL: Totally. I'm in total agreement with Rand Paul. You can call it public accommodation, and it is, but it's a private business. And if a private business wants to say, "We don't want any blond anchorwomen or mustached guys," it ought to be their right. Are we going to say to the black students' association they have to take white people, or the gay softball association they have to take straight people? We should have freedom of association in America.



KELLY: But that's not what Rand Paul said. Rand Paul agreed that if it's run by the government, yes intervention is fine. He took issue with the public accommodations, with private businesses being forced to pony up under the discrimination laws.



STOSSEL: And I would go further than he was willing to go, as he just issued the statement, and say it's time now to repeal that part of the law



KELLY: What?



STOSSEL: because private businesses ought to get to discriminate. And I won't won't ever go to a place that's racist and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.



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[hatrack]

1. You know, sometimes it's best just to let You Tube do the talking . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ

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3. LOLOL. What, just two shots?

[yellowcanine]

2. Does that include taxis, bus companies, and airlines?

Do tell, Johnnie. Let's be consistent here.

[el_bryanto]

6. Not to mention housing developments, apartment complexes and the like n/t

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8. Of course, and if all airlines decide they don't want black people

well they can always take the bus. :eyes:

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4. If we ditch Title VII John will be able to hit on you, Kelly

and you'll have to put up with it. You 'kay with that?

[joeybee12]

5. What a phucked up POS...a "right" to discriminate...how [hucking phucking

ridiculous...it's the corporatst metality at work, that business have rights and those trump any rights people have.

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. Stossel's a tool

and has been for a long time.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. "And I won't won't ever go to a place that's racist... " Sure, John, sure.

You'd make an exception the moment it became an inconvenience. If there's one open restaurant for miles and miles and they don't serve black people, you'll go in 'just this once.'


(corrected for typo)

[Ian David]

10. No, give *ME* a break. n/t

[KamaAina]

11. Stossel is not a cheesehead! He's an FIB!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel#Early_life_and_career

John Stossel was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the second of two boys to a Jewish family, and graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.

I think you mean "Another shithead comes out of the closet..." :P

[CanonRay]

14. Rich, white, North shore boy

Probaby had a 'Vette daddy bought him in high school. I'm from Chi, and I know the type. My mother cleaned houses in Winnetka.

[Hosnon]

12. This argument used to make sense to me...somehow...

Back in my "the free market can solve everything" days.

But now I understand that it's just as senseless to say that an individual should be free to murder someone else, as long as they are willing to accept the consequences. Or that the safety of a drug should be determined by the market (i.e., the consumers), not by regulators on the front-end.

The freedom argument only goes so far. And proponents such as Stossel know that on some level because they always follow their statements by stating that they would never patronize an establishment that exercised said freedom.

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16. Murder is an expression of free speech.

Everything is, actually. Don't tread on me!

[bluestateguy]

13. A coffee shop or a supermarket is for all intents and purposes a public place

that happens to be privately owned. This has already been established by the courts.

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15. We should be accommodating racists...why again?

The $1 million question that none of these buffoons wants to answer.

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17. Where is a bi-polar Pro Wrestler when you need one?

I want to see his mustache catch on fire, and the socialist fire dept. turn the hose on his face!

[gratuitous]

18. I think this is a form of mental illness

You see the Westboro Baptist folks, who seem to suffer the same sort of dysfunction. These "Libertarian" folks run everything through their peculiar filter and are slavishly devoted to it. Sure, they say, some folks might be inconvenienced in the short term, or even permanently, but it's far more important to remain ideologically pure. Ask them about whether or not restaurants should be subject to public health laws. It's awfully fun to watch their mental gyrations as they struggle between "no government regulation ever anywhere" and the plain fact that going out to dinner might entail a trip to the emergency room (if you're lucky and just need your stomach pumped) or the morgue (if you're not so lucky). The free market will sort it all out, and if a few people get poisoned, well, that's just one of their metrics of freedom!