Erin Burnett's antics (and contempt for the working class) is being noticed

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/10/05/erin-burnett-is-vapid-occupy-wall-street-matters/

"I was out to dinner in Hanover, NH, last night with a friend and our waiter told us he was a graduate of the Vermont Law School. He can’t get a law job. He told us, “you wouldn’t believe the number of unemployed or underemployed people from my class… one guy’s working as an administrative assistant in a doctor’s office.”

When I read the Occupy Wall Street “We are the 99%” ideas, they seem to reflect fundamental problems in our economic and political system today."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-erin-burnett_n_998494.html

"No one craves access to poor people! So they remain in the background, where they can be easily abused. You see this play out when those who are allowed to be newsmakers depict the unemployed as lazy, shiftless and living off government largesse. You need only spend ten minutes on Google to uncover enough material fact to obliterate this notion so utterly that you can objectively state these charges are wrong with a clear journalistic conscience. But you have to be nominally invested in ordinary human beings to do that. It's the desire to serve ordinary Americans with the truth that pushes you onto that task. Without it, the "unemployed are lazy" lie becomes just one more interesting point of view."

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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-05/entertainment/bal-cnn-erin-burnett-smug-insensitive-superficial-20111005_1_erin-burnett-cnn-anderson-cooper

"After filmmaker Michael Moore expressed his dismay at her Monday-night report, she tried to make light of him during her Tuesday show, putting on goofy glasses, essentially laughing it off and telling him to lighten up. And then she dangled the big carrot: He should come on her mighty show and talk about it -- as if Moore is going to be co-opted by being on a cable news show that barely draws half a million viewers. (Maybe less by the time I post this Wednesday night.)

I don't often find myself agreeing with Michael Moore, but he has a seriousness, a sense of purpose and even an integrity about what he does that are the very opposite of what Burnett seemed to embody in her first three shows."

Erin Burnett: Apologist for Wall Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWPj5hTkio&feature=player_embedded

[WingDinger]

1. It helped David Gregory shlep his way to the top!

[Enrique]

2. ouch

I don't often find myself agreeing with Michael Moore, but he has a seriousness, a sense of purpose and even an integrity about what he does that are the very opposite of what Burnett seemed to embody in her first three shows.

:toast:

[Dawson Leery]

3. Bill Maher gives Ms. Burnett a "smackdown".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8EGzEv21dw

[deutsey]

8. I loved how Maher punctured her sophistry with the real-world example

of someone who used to eat three meals a day is now only able to eat two meals.

[Whisp]

10. she is quite the lightweight, isn't she?

it's that spoiled brat syndrome where she is mighty and powerful if no one else is allowed to speak.

hardly know her, hate her stinkin' guts already

[Kurovski]

9. Thanks for that. 2009. (nt)

[stellanoir]

4. For the short time I watched her show the tone of her voice

and her elitism echoed a disingenuousness that hurt my ears.

[Whisp]

11. I agree. First time I heard her, I wasn't facing the TV

and got this sarcastic little brat tone to her voice. mocking and snarling all the way believing she is so bloody clever and witty. ugh

[KoKo]

12. She's also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations ...that's how

she got those great travel gigs to Dubai and other places while she was on CNBC. And, she started out at CNN...and we know about how they were great at hiring tools for the CIA. Now it's Council on Foreign Relations.

[Supersedeas]

13. like the shrill sound of precious metal across a chalk board

[AngryOldDem]

14. I've seen like maybe two seconds of her show...

...while I was channel surfing to something else. And she disgusts me. Always has. That CNN would hire her away from CNBC does not speak well for CNN, IMHO.

She was literally mocking OWS the other night, implying that all the protesters were stupid and stoned.

[HughBeaumont]

5. When you're raised having everything handed to you and everything merely falling into place . . .

. . . how did anyone think she was going to behave?

Did anyone believe she'd have a shred of empathy and understanding as to the reasons OWS is out there?

An icy, shrill former Goldman Sachs alum and CNBC corporate shill is not giving one crap about anyone making less than $500,000 a year. They don't register on her give-a-shit-ometer at all.

[hfojvt]

6. Why do people keep going to law school

I remembe hearing, way back in the 1980s, that our country had far more lawyers than it needed. Yet now we certainly have far, far more.

I wonder if all those lawyers are not running around making work for themselves, creating more and more lawsuits.

Law school graduates are probably not the best examples of the 99%, although it may be a symptom of a larger college problem. I have a useless BA and MA, and I remember reading about college graduates who were taking jobs at Ford plants in the 1970s. The middle class has been sold on college degrees as a way to a fulfilling and prosperous career, one that will pay enough to allow you to send your kids to college. But the dirty little secret is that there are not enough jobs that require college degrees to give one to every college graduate.

But the high priests of college have an answer to that - more college. If you find yourself with one worthless degree, which I did in 1986, then the answer must surely be to spend time and money getting another one, which I did in 1987. Goto Law school. Goto graduate school.

It's kinda like buying an expensive house with a crumbling foundation. After putting a bunch of momey into it, you sorta have to put even more money into it to have any hope of a return on your original investment.

Either that or I just read too much Ted Rall (I was just skimming through "Revenge of the Latchkey kids" Chapter 5: College is for sucksers)

[Dawson Leery]

7. kick

[Luminous Animal]

15. And add G. Greenwald and FAIR to that list...

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/05/erin_burnett_voice_of_the_people/singleton/
Erin Burnett: Voice of the People

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4408

CNN's Factcheck Failure on Occupy Wall Street