Chris Matthews Blames 'Robots' at CVS, MSNBC for Poverty in America
On the September 14 edition of MSNBC's "Hardball," host Chris Matthews admitted to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that it "sounds Marxist" but he truly believes that automation in the economy has killed jobs by replacing human clerks in CVS and camera operators at MSNBC with "robots" [video follows page break; click here for MP3 audio]:
I don't want to skip to your left on this but.... [W]hen I see automation, when I go to a CVS that used to employ a lot of people just above the poverty level, above the minimum wage. And you walk in there now, it's all machines. Now it's very convenient for the customer, it's all machines. There's a check-out machine, by the way, that talks to you and says 'Don't forget to put your CVS card in."
And by the way, I used to have about seven or eight cameramen. I don't have them anymore. It's all automated, it's all robots.
Everywhere we go is robots!
You used to go to a gas station, you'd have somebody would check your tires, check your oil. There ain't anybody there, there's nobody working at a gas station!
What would Matthews have us do, turn back the clock to the 1950s or '60s? What's more, this is the same guy who bashes Republicans as being "anti-science" and who blasted Republican presidential candidates in a tweet at last week's Reagan Library debate as "ludites" [sic]:
Good for Huntsman, standing up for science and against the ludites. #reagandebate
Chris obviously meant Luddite, but perhaps he's just anti-spelling, not to mention irony-deficient. Here's a dictionary.com definition of the term Luddite:
one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change
Sounds a lot like Matthews.
Although, who knows, maybe the "Hardball" host will be willing to go to his bosses at MSNBC and offer to take a pay cut so that the network can hire back some non-robot cameramen for his show.
FLASHBACK: In August, Matthews groused about "robots" helping to bring about the demise of the U.S. House of Representatives page program.
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however....
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:06pm.
That robot will not come under the government's obamacare mandates and a whole host of other government mandated work rules and conditions to say nothing of the legal sharks swimming around every employer just waiting for a chance to 'defend' an employee for real or imagined injustices.
and robots never go on break or join unions.
Just wait til AI development
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:30pm.
Just wait til AI development gets into high gear.
I actually watched this episode...
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:11pm.
Spittles went on about science, i.e. Darwin's science vs. creationism... ala Perry hit piece. Not an issue for me. If Christine could cite a scientific study nailing down the missing link, I'd listen. Note: Olbermann does not qualify.
Wait. It gets better.
Not long after the previous bit, Ms Matthews brought up the meme that Rs were blocking progress to more federal spending as a way to heal all that ails.
What's the fall back for his argument? Republican President Herbert Clark Hoover.
Advocate of wage / price controls, public works projects, fed $'s propping up failing ventures and increasing fed spending on DC's federal reserve credit card.
If Chris was honest...lol... and would address history accurately, he'd bemoan that Hoover didn't spend more.
I turned the tv off when Eugene came on.
Maybe ...
Submitted by Fredy on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:04pm.
MSNBC could replace Mathews with a robot as well! Just have a rubber mask hanging there and some voice reading off of his teleprompter.
He makes thesame stupid claims no matter who he is talking to so being interactive is simply not relevant.
I bet it would not bother the 3 guys, and the people here at newsbusters, that are watching his 'show'.
Look at Matthews picture again . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:08pm.
. . . It's dawned on me that he's a Muppet. Fozzy Bear? If MSNBC is filling a host seat with a Muppet instead of a human being, then that's just plain wrong.
that's just plain wrong.
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:14pm.
But it does explain a lot?
A la Max Headroom? Works for
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:18am.
Fredy, A la Max Headroom? Works for me!!
All you robots get off my lawn!
Submitted by kata on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:07pm.
he... gets a salary for this show?
Are you ready? Is your physician nearby?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:07pm.
...Drum roll please.....................$5 million dollars a year! Ta da. Pretty unbelievable doncha think?
http://gawker.com/5180045/chris-matthews-settles-for-less-than-olbermann
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/business/media/23matthews.html
Matthews is an o'bama-naut...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:29pm.
And needs to be deprogrammed and scrapped. MSDNC would save a fortune on his depends undergarment expense account... An o'bama-naut is a talking head, blind-faithed liberal robot 2.0.
Other obama-naut robots.... Olbermann. Uighur. Rick Maddow. Sgt. ED Shultzie. Larry the O'donnell. Martin, the Bashir. Sharpton is just a useful robot idiot tool soon to be replaced by the white interloper ron gay-gun.
News headline to Matthews, who claims to be Catholic. True Catholics do not believe in evolution, as the fraudsters are presenting it. Catholics are taught intelligent design, the intelligence being God. Liberals like Matthews believe that the government is god. True Catholics do not support the death penalty, including the war on the unborn which is the sacrament of abortion to the left like him. Matthews may have evolved from an ape as the rest of his liberal brain definitely contains flawed genetic material. If only we can find the fossil record to prove it...
Well since I have an econ
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:24pm.
Well since I have an econ degree looks like I'll have to give a brief explanation to Tingles...
Automation is progress and although we might lose a job behind the check-out counter, three or four are created to engineer, produce, and maintain the automation. It makes our lives easier and improves efficiency and in the long run lowers costs for producer and consumer. It is why we drive cars instead of walking long distances, and why we fly instead of going on horseback like our ancestors did.
Now do you understand Chrissy? Now be a good boy and shut the h*ll up. Stupid.
Been going on for two centuries...
Submitted by Rover on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:29pm.
Automation has been putting blue-collar workers out of jobs since the start of the industrial revolution. Nothing new here.
The difference now it that before, the newly-unemployed were expected to find something else to do, usually meaning acquiring new skills making them MORE competitive in the workplace, providing more for their families, and becoming more productive in the nation's economy. Now, though, they're told that they're entitled to unemployment for life, and can sit on the couch and watch TV all day, only getting up when they need to go vote for more liberal politicians.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:29pm.
Looney tunes.......
but wait--
Submitted by michiganruth on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:30pm.
that's not even the funniest thing he said tonite. (sorry I have to paraphrase, didn't write it down.)
while describing how Bachmann went after Perry in the debate about the HPV vaccine, Matthews concluded that "it showed once again that the Republicans are the anti-science party."
so let me make sure I have this: one candidate is for the anti-cervical cancer vaccine, and one candidate is not, and they argued about it. and that makes the GOP the anti-science party.
do any of Chrissy's 24 viewers even believe what he says anymore?
That's a good one to send to
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:28pm.
That's a good one to send to Obama's attack watch.
My Fault
Submitted by IrateNate on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:32pm.
Sorry, but I watched for a few minutes the other night. Please don't count me in that 24...
Tinglesbot v.2
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:34pm.
Robot technology must be getting pretty good: Robots are now attacking one another just like Leftists.
Remember the movie "Network"?
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:35pm.
Chrissie's on-air crack-up is imminent.....can't wait!!!!
Watch out for flying spittle....
Maybe that's why LSDNBC did away with cameramen?
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:53pm.
It's a health issue, what with Chrissy's flying spittle? Who wants to get contaminated with whatever he's got, it's bound to be fatal at some point.
Put Catepillar out of business...
Submitted by dasher on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:36pm.
It is companies like Catepillar that have put shovel ready jobs out of business. Just think how many jobs would be "created" if only that heavy equipment weren't there to excavate ground for buildings or level land for new roads. All work that could be done with shovel leaners. Now just one of those excavators can do in one day what a shovel would take weeks or even months to do. We most go back to the 1800's to create more jobs. /sarc
I think about all the jobs
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:39pm.
I think about all the jobs created when the trans continental railroad was built. Maybe we need to use this type of resources to build Obama's high speed rail. This could last for say 50 years. Too bad there is not any buffalo left to feed those building the railroad. The railroad created a lot of support jobs for buffalo hunters, gamblers, ladies of the evening, bar tenders, horse and mule traders, wagon builders, etc.
Think of all the new unions. Blasters, bed preparation (shovel leaners) , tie layers, track layers, besides increasing the teamsters.
Even msnbc won't hire
Submitted by jkwtrading on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:36pm.
Even msnbc won't hire liberals, so they now have robots.
robots are labor saving tools
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:45pm.
and even liberals that have liberal "news" shows have to economize due to all the regulatory and high taxes overhead.
Two minutes and forty five seconds....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:51pm.
...was all I could stand, listening to these morons made my head start to hurt. I would like someone to do a documentary on the people in Vermont who voted for Bernie Saunders. Even though half his voting base is made up of dead people, the other half would be a real hoot to see.
Ok.......
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:54pm.
I would bet a nickel that neither Pap (Smears) Matthews and Bernie "Our Favorite Openly Socialist from Vermont" Sanders have a clue as to operate one of these machines, or to even stand behind a cash register and ring up orders for people. So I guess they are gonna start blaming ATM's for the economy soon? Oh, Obama did that already.
I think they already have
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:17am.
I seem to recall an earlier NB article addressing Matthews' blame on ATMs for eliminating jobs for bank tellers.
Matthews
Submitted by Curly on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:18pm.
If he is paid $1 for this show it is too much! He is madder than a March hare!
Oh, my aching head!
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:22pm.
Oh, my aching head! First I'm told that it's degrading, inhuman even, to hire people to perform menial, repetitive, minimal-wage earning, service related "jobs" like check-out clerks and the like, and, now that we've reached the point where those types of positions are no longer needed, thanks to automation, I'm being told that, the horror!, we're putting people out of (good?) menial, repetitive, minimal-wage earning service-related jobs! Hay, Liberals, make up your mind already! Are these jobs demeaning and degrading or not? Do we want people spending their lives doing them or not? When will you EVER be happy?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
ahhhh.... ummmm.... ahhhh....
Submitted by wizardjr on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:31pm.
aw crap, I was going to post something really kewl but the massive stupidity of it all has just left me bereft of fitting words
and these assclowns get paid gazillions to spew this nonsense..!! good grief
Personally, on Chris Matthews . .
Submitted by Gary Hall on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:40pm.
. . I'd prefer that they hire a robot to host his show.
(;~/ gary
Just think...
Submitted by Fenwick on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:02pm.
... about the hundreds of thousands of ice company workers around the country whose jobs were eliminated by the refrigerator! In today's society we could probably create over a million ice-related jobs if only Congress would make refrigerators and freezers illegal to own. Oh, and it would likely reduce our national carbon footprint as well. Progress is so overrated!
Why buy volts then?...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:25pm.
When we can bring back the horse and buggy? If the horses are robots, would that count? Outlaw lightbulbs too, especially the environmentally threatening mercury filled curly Q ones! Bring back the wax and wick industries!
What is the carbon footprint of MSDNC? Has it been lowered by the lack of carbon based life forms working there?
My grandpa, had a union painter story....
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:31pm.
The painter unions went on strike and refused to use that newfangled invention called the Paint Roller.
You Didn't Build That.
ice-related jobs??????
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:47am.
I'm pretty sure Tingly wants to go all the way back to before SALT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_salt
roflmao
Liberal policies helped bring this along, Chris.
Submitted by Kitsapbass on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:36pm.
When you keep raising the minimum wage, businesses that aren't making money tend to let go of people. Didn't you know that - after all, it's basic MATH.
3 robots just held up a package store...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:19pm.
With the help of 4 ATM's.... Damn those robots. Damn them all. Especially the illegal ones holding up the package stores American people cannot be bothered robbing! Get your damn dirty robot paws of me....
Time for strict robot control laws you liberal idiots.... If robots are outlawed, the only outlaws would be robotic....
Get your damn dirty robot
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 12:49am.
Get your damn dirty robot paws of me...
Were you thinking of Planet of the Apes?
I guess Tingley. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:32pm.
. . .wants us to reopen buggy whip factories and ice box factories. Hey, we might ought to get rid of the dairy departments in grocery stores so all those milk men can have their jobs back. One more thing, we HAVE to get rid of phones with dials so we can hire back those thousands of operators who were put out of work when the rotary dial phones took off.
Maybe he can be replaced by a robot!
All you need to replace Matthews is ...
Submitted by HelloDare on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:03pm.
All you need to replace Matthews is one sh#t slinging chimp.
Or a goldfish
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 1:32am.
Preferably a big one, with bulging eyes and floaty fins.
And a big mouth that flaps incessantly open and closed.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Replace?????????
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:37am.
the chimp would be a improvement
roflmmfao
What of the jobs they do create?
Submitted by BTW Biological ... on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:35pm.
Machines create many knew jobs such as maintenance and development. Sadly, low income people are not skilled or educated. There are jobs, but employers need skilled workers and not unskilled.
Wouldn't it be great if public school eliminated a grade like 7th grade and made senior year 2 years. One year to focus on education on a trade be it in science or construction. The final year to work as an apprentice. Then college if they choose. What do you think?
Priceless shot...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 1:14am.
That priceless shot of Tingles the Clown's face won't be coming to a Newsweek cover, unfortunately. I think it should be used on NB in every post about Tingles, however. It captures his insanity and inanity perfectly.
wow
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:34am.
what a slope headed Neanderthal ...I'm pretty sure Chrissy's pappy was railing against Henry Ford for putting all those buggy whip, carriage, saddle makers and blacksmiths outta business. Of course even then The Matthew's argument was self serving. Pop's was really only trying to save his job as chief street pooper scooper.
roflmao
This should be the always
Submitted by tombaker on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:39am.
This should be the always used picture for Jimmy Carter's speech writer.
Good old Chrissy; he never heard of Milton Friedman did he?
Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:07am.
...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124355131075164361.html " rel="nofollow">Milton (Friedman) recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program." To which Milton replied: "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."
Maybe Obama should refer to "spoon ready" projects.
Dennis Prager
Spoons
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:13pm.
LOL
Please don't give the moron any ideas. Vishnu Obama is destroying America fast enough.
prissy christine from phila
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:38am.
man they should have had MIKA on to. Then you would have seen
the modern day version of THE THREE STOGES..
I love that picture of Tingles.
Submitted by virginia republican on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:53am.
It looks like a frog caught in the headlights (assuming they acted like deer, which they don't).
Chrissy has gas...he needs to
Submitted by ChicagoSteve on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:47pm.
Chrissy has gas...he needs to expel it!