NBC's Ann Curry Rants: It's 'Fundamentally Unfair' Some Have More Money Than Others
In a supposed discussion of financial ethics with left-wing Harvard professor Michael Sandel on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry decried people being able to pay more money to get through airport security faster: "...there's an inherent unfairness to it....it's about those with money having an easier life than those who don't. And there's something fundamentally unfair about that." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Sandel was on to hawk his new book, "What Money Can't Buy," which Curry touted as, "a hard look at what's up for grabs in our society and asks, even if we can buy something, should we?" Sandel put different "moral dilemmas" to the morning show hosts, including the airport security line scenario. Curry went on to indict American society: "...not everyone has access to being able to get money, to work for money.... until America becomes fair in terms of how able people are – can be to make money, until the playing field is fair, it is unfair."
The first scenario Sandel outlined was the idea of paying grade school students cash to encourage them to read. After the hosts debated the issue, Sandel observed: "So there are two objections here. Matt's is about fairness, to those who won't be able to succeed. Ann's – Ann seems to worry about crowding out the real thing that we want to teach, the right attitude toward books....The love of reading for its own sake....Money might chase out that desire."
When the airline ticket "dilemma" came up, Curry began by confessing:
I'm not sure I think it's fair. It's something I've done, and I have to say that I always feel guilty about it.... I mean, you are paying for a service – but one time I came out of a plane and I was in first class, and they stopped everyone who was in coach from even exiting the plane until we all got out and I just wanted to put a bag over my head. It just feels, there's a sense of, I'm kind of better than you are. And I don't – I don't think that is right.
As Curry continued to rant against the unfairness of it all, weatherman Al Roker pointed out: "But don't we also teach our kids, in a sense, life isn't always fair." That's when Curry demanded America level the "playing field."
Wrapping up the segment, co-host Matt Lauer praised Sandel: "...it's a fantastic book because it forces you to say, we know we can do something, but should we do that thing?"
Sandel responded: "What you began, especially in the disagreements, was the kind of debate I think we need to have more often in our society about where money and markets serve the public good and where they don't belong."
News anchor Natalie Morales chimed in: "It's brilliant." Curry added: "That was enjoyable."
Writing for The Huffington Post in 2010, Sandel urged the Obama administration to expand government control over the economy:
Social-welfare liberalism seems a more practical doctrine than the anti-bigness version of earlier progressives. It is hard to imagine how to break up the large financial institutions and corporations that dominate modern economic life. And yet I believe it's a mistake for contemporary liberals to give up on the old progressive project of exerting democratic control over economic institutions. In fact, it's a mistake that has backfired on the Obama presidency. The initial reluctance of Barack Obama and his economic advisers to take a tougher line on the banks has led to a populist backlash that now threatens his agenda.
Here is a portion of the April 25 exchange:
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8:43AM ET
SANDEL: At airports, to get up to the security checkpoint. We know that if you buy an expensive ticket or pay extra, you get to jump to the head of the line.
MORALES: Right.
SANDEL: How about that? Is that...
MORALES: I think it's fair.
SANDEL: Natalie?
MORALES: You pay – if you want to buy a first class ticket you're going to pay a premium but you pay for the service. So, I think the same way, I think it's fair.
ROKER: I do, too.
SANDEL: Ann?
CURRY: I'm not sure I think it's fair. It's something I've done, and I have to say that I always feel guilty about it. But...
ROKER: But you do it.
CURRY: But I do it anyways.
MORALES: But we do it, yeah.
SANDEL: But why? Why do you feel guilty?
CURRY: Because there's an inherent unfairness to it, I think, that the idea – I mean, you are paying for a service – but one time I came out of a plane and I was in first class, and they stopped everyone who was in coach from even exiting the plane until we all got out and I just wanted to put a bag over my head. It just feels, there's a sense of, I'm kind of better than you are. And I don't – I don't think that is right.
SANDEL: What do you think, Matt?
LAUER: Because I want people to like me, I'm going to say that look, the people who are less affluent then are not afforded the same convenience and why is their time not as important as my time?
CURRY: Yes.
MORALES: Right.
SANDEL: Would you make a difference between early boarding privileges, so you can put your bag in the overhead bin, that's a convenience.
LAUER: At an amusement park.
SANDEL: And – well, or an amusement park. Or going through the security check quicker?
ROKER: Hmm?
SANDEL: Is there a difference?
LAUER: I think – we've just signed up, a lot of us here, for this system. But they do a security check on you right now, for a fee, that allows you to go faster through the line. So it's not like they're letting you go by without security.
CURRY: Right, but it's still a question of money.
ROKER: But you're still paying a fee.
CURRY: You know, it's about those with money having an easier life than those who don't. And there's something fundamentally unfair about that. Because not everyone has access to being able to get money, to work for money.
ROKER: But don't we also teach our kids, in a sense, life isn't always fair.
MORALES: No, exactly.
CURRY: No, but there's – until America becomes fair in terms of how able people are – can be to make money, until the playing field is fair, it is unfair.
LAUER: Just to wrap it up, it's a fantastic book because it forces you to say, we know we can do something, but should we do that thing? Did we fail? Did we pass? What happens here?
CURRY: Do we feel bad?
MORALES: It's how you debate.
SANDEL: What you – what you began, especially in the disagreements, was the kind of debate I think we need to have more often in our society about where money and markets serve the public good and where they don't belong.
MORALES: It's brilliant.
LAUER: Alright, the book is "What Money Can't Buy." Professor Michael Sandel.
MORALES: Thank you.
LAUER: Professor, Michael, thank you so much.
SANDEL: Thank you.
LAUER: Great to have you here.
CURRY: That was enjoyable.
MORALES: Very good.
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Comments
Loony Liberals
Submitted by VT Con Man on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:38pm.
have absolutely no clue what so ever.
Wow.
In the Name of Fairness
Submitted by neutron on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:25pm.
In Ayn Rand's classic, Atlas Shrugged, every freedom taken from a person or company was done in the name of "fairness."
Teh One, the Dems, and all the libtards all cry out for "fairness" while exempting themselves.
Was it fair that almost all of the Stimulus money went to people, organizations, and states that supported Teh One, while others who were more needy went without?
They say "fairness" to get their way, because weak-minded fools still are thinking the English definition of "fairness" while the Dems have already shifted to an Orwellian Double-Speak meaning of the term.
The Reps and conservatives need to get out in front of this "fairness" drum that the libtards are beating.
As Inigo Montoya said to The Sicilian in The Princess Bride, "I don't think that word means what you think it means."
It isn't fair that Ann gets silly awards
Submitted by libBuster on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:51pm.
I think it is unfair that Ann gets worthless awards from social groups who want her to attend their dinners. It is merely a way of having a pseudo celebrity there.
It's unfair that Ann gets prime seating at New York restuarants even though she is not a regular.
It's unfair that many brilliant people were passed over as host of the Today Show and the slot was given to a woman of marginal intelligence.
Life isn't fair. Get over it you silly little girl
Yeah, What Me Worry Ann
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:41pm.
Yeah, What Me Worry Ann Curry.................it isn't fair that some people have more brains or common sense than others either, so maybe you ought to go complain about that too.
Killa
Submitted by rockyracoon on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:43pm.
I don't thinks she has either.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
I'll tell you what, Annie.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:42pm.
If you give me half of your annual salary, I'll give you half of mine! Howzat?
Do your part
Submitted by wingnut55 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:46pm.
What has she done to redistribute her wealth? Which homeless person has she invited into her home. Who was the poor High School graduate that she put through College? Please do your part and then you can preach to us.
Damn Right
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:36pm.
She should really put her money where her mouth is, give everything away and live in a trailer house on an Indian reservation.
Okay, Ann...
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:48pm.
Then pick your favorite off-camera co-worker. Maybe your assistant. I bet she's not making more than $100k (I'm sure of it) but just to be sporting, let's put your money where your mouth is.
Fix it so YOU only make $100k per year. Give the rest away. You can start with your assistant. In fact, you could lobby your boss to pay EVERYONE YOU WORK WITH THE SAME. How about that? On air, off air, janitor, make up lady, news writer, cameraman, EVERYONE MAKES THE SAME, okay?
It'll be great.
Really.
Ann
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:49pm.
I need some "field leveling" cash...cough it up!
Sorry but you have to demand
Submitted by Sude23 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:48pm.
Sorry but you have to demand it from the right, remember they are the ones keeping us all down not the holier than everyone liberals ;)
"It's not fair..."
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:51pm.
"... but I do it anyways?"
Humm... Then why don't you do the "right thing" and trade your first class seat with someone in coach? Also, why can't you pool your salaries together and share them with all the stage hands, like some restaurants do with tips? That would be the "fair" thing to do, wouldn't it? Or does that rather large salary that you're enjoying tend to mitigate the "guilt" you claim to be feeling? That salary would buy a lot of Prozac, would it not?
If you want to "level the playing field," that's fine and dandy, but YOU have to take the first step, something you are unwilling to do! Are you willing to share your salary with others? NO! Are you willing to trade your first class ticket with someone in coach? NO! Do you want to do anything to, you know, "level the playing field?" No, you want someone else to "level" it for you, just to assuage the guilt you claim to be feeling while enjoying the "perks" you don't want to give up. No wonder you feel so guilty, you're a friggen hypocrite!
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.
The 4 libtards in the screenshot together make over $20 million
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:56pm.
Lauer's annual salary alone could cover the salary of the POTUS THROUGH THE YEAR 2054.
Hypocrisy on steroids.
Again, you think stupid has met it's match, then...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:56pm.
No Ann, life isn't fair. Stop buying first class plane tickets and live like the people you feel so badly for.
What isn't fair is the government takes my money and hands it over to someone else who isn't working. What isn't fair is that I pay my cell phone bill, then the government charges me extra to pay for a cell phone for someone who isn't working. What isn't fair is that my husband and I scrimped and saved to build his business and now they're saying it's not fair.
Rad
Submitted by cocodrie on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:04pm.
I had my own business for 45 years. We should be ashamed.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Gotta wait for the Disqus makeover
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:01pm.
In order to post my first thought.
If Ann thinks it's sooo unfair, and she's soooo embarrassed, I'd be more than willing to alleviate her embarrassment by accepting, without questions, any amount of her money she'd like to give to me.
Given her apparent level of embarrassment, I'm guessing that should be no paltry sum. PM me Ann.
Monumental Stupidity
Submitted by feisty on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 12:59pm.
What a colossal moron this Curry is. Railing against a system that she takes advantage of at every opportunity. She flies first class and feels terrible about it? Oh please. Maybe the airline industry is figuring out how to afford the fuel in their planes by creating places where people can pay for additional services. Would people pay more to get on the plane first? YES. Would they pay to get through security faster? YES. Would they pay more to have a big, comfortable seat and get off the plane first? YES. If you don't want those added services, don't pay for them, Ann. Fly coach with the second class citizens. Just because you don't fly first class doesn't mean you are any less of a human being, it just means some people paid a heavy premium to be treated better and have more conveniences. Don't take it personal and don't politicize it. If nobody paid for it they wouldn't have it.
The playing field will never be level. Work hard, do your best, and good things are likely to happen. Deal with it. It's called life. Stop criminalizing people who have.
you cant fix stupid
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:00pm.
What Anne is trying to say she feels guilty for being better than other folks.
Hey Annie if it will make you feel any better I don't envy you, I don't care if you are in first class and I'm in coach, and most of all I don't want to be you.
Yeah, I live in flyover country and we rather like our lives and look upon your type of life as a waste of time. Sure we'd take your salary but not if we had to live like you.
Welcome to the real world,
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:02pm.
Welcome to the real world, bonehead.
It must be good for you to leave your mothers basement. You have now made a complete fool of yourself on national TV, good news it is NBC so only other loons will have seen you embarrass yourself.
also Ann
Submitted by I hate marxists on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:06pm.
As a person stated next time go to a restaurant and stand in line like the rest of us. How were you able to get a table in Rao's not even knowing them.
Stupid people
Submitted by fatboy on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:06pm.
So this means that it's unfair to have Kobe start every game and play more minutes than those riding the bench...just because he's more skilled?
I don't hear them railing against that injustice. Stupid people.
also Ann
Submitted by I hate marxists on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:06pm.
As a person stated next time go to a restaurant and stand in line like the rest of us. How were you able to get a table in Rao's not even knowing them.
Life
Submitted by Curly on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:08pm.
Totally nuts! How do people like her get on TV?
Life
Submitted by Herbster on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:33pm.
Good question.........but the question goes beyond the Curry person. Mika? Mrs. Greenspan? Lemon? Schultz? O'Donnell, Chucky Todd? The empty skirts on CNN? Roland Martin? The list is endless.......
The further dumbing down of an already vast wasteland.
It's very simple.
Submitted by Servo1969 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:09pm.
These sort of attitudes make perfect sense if you are an adult who is still emotionally immature.
"It's not fair that someone has more than I do!"
This is, quite literally, the way a child thinks.
She would have been wonderful..
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:11pm.
As a State reporter for PravdaTV in the glory days of the Soviet Union! Then she would have been happy! And she belongs on a crappy station like that-its probably not even in HD! Dont you all remember the Soviet films of the 80's that werent even in color?
How about a Worker's Paradise?
Submitted by Savonarola on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:12pm.
Ann, let's go look at the Soviet Union. Yeah, that was much better. God, where did you go to college?
As much as I disagree with Curry's fundamental premise,
Submitted by Jack Herman on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:13pm.
she does have a point with regard to TSA and airport security. It's one thing for an airline to provide premium treatment to an individual paying more for a ticket. Any government agency, TSA or otherwise, should be treating every citizen in a similar manner, no exceptions.
So if those with money can pay
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:14pm.
for quicker access, doesn't that mean they won't be standing in line with the po' folk? And doesn't that mean the 'po folk won't have to wait in line as long, given the shorter lines? So don't the 'po folk benefit to some extent by removing money from the rich folk?
I'm confused.
It's not fair Ann didn't get the brains God gave a termite.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:16pm.
Doesn't stop her from earning her millions and living away from "those people".
She would not lift a finger to help anyone, but then whines about unfairness.
I don't think she has the brainpower to realize how hypocritical that makes her.
Liberal guilt expressed as faux-empathy
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:16pm.
If I were on her show, the first question I'd ask is "How much of your income do you donate to charities?" followed by "What are those charities?"
Curry is just like the rich Hollywood Left that praises socialist states like Cuba ("They have free health care!") while dissing the US for its "unfair wealth distribution" -- an economic model from which they have earned $ millions.
I'll tell you what's not fair
Submitted by mang on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:23pm.
This idiot makes more money than me. Maybe she'll give me some of hers if she really agrees with what she says.
Look up at the scoreboard
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:26pm.
The Tar Heels get the rebound and are out on their break. Barnes jams a spectacular windmill dunk. Heels by 2.
The refs stop play and the diversity and fairness official reset the scoreboard to make it fair. Tar Heels get one point from the dunk and Duke gets the other point. Whew, this has been a tough game for the Blue Devils. Where would they be if the refs weren't applying the new "distribute the fairness" rule after each Tar Heel fast break?
curry
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:40pm.
You are so pathetic. Do you ever think before you make such stupid remarks? Just what is your point? Why not drive to your destinations and stay off planes and first class seats msdnc no doubt, pays for. If you think people who work hard and make millions is unfair, then why not quit your "so-called" job.
Agree
Submitted by dliston on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:50pm.
I agree with Ann. I think its fundamentally unfair that an idiot like her is on TV, makes the money she does and has the job she has and someone intelligent like me doesn't.
I know how to relieve Ann Curry's guilt.
Submitted by tolstoyx on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:51pm.
Dear Ann Curry, send me your home address and I will come over to your house and remove any furniture that you have that is way better than mine. I think this is a realistic way to alleviate your guilt over having more money than I do.
There is the very essence of the liberal/socialist mindset
Submitted by dlwoltmann on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 1:55pm.
It does not matter how hard YOU work. It does not matter that YOU make good decisions with your money. It does not matter that you have more money because YOU have earned it.... It is unfair that you have more than someone else. I have no problem with charitable giving (It is a tenant of my faith that I do cheerfully and without reservation). Forced or compulsory confiscation of property or treasure(Taxes as punishment) is Tyranny at its worst. If we do not stop it NOW, we will never recognize this great country.
Of course its unfair...
Submitted by rgallegos on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:00pm.
Of course its unfaor Ann. That is what Capitalism done right ,without the shackles of the government, can overcome.
Don't worry, Ann...
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:04pm.
When Obama completes his "fundamental transformation" of the United States, there won't BE any first-class.
And I'd like to pose a question to you in the meantime.
You liberals love to talk about the rich paying their "fair share."
Let's look at it from the other side....
Just what do you think is a "fair share" of someone else's wealth?
What is it with these fairy
Submitted by ruby2ssday on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:42pm.
What is it with these fairy tale communists that they think that when the utopia comes and all is fair, that they are going to be among the 1% ruling elite that will have all the money and comforts that the masses cannot have? Most of them will be down here in the mud and filth with the masses. We have seen the expected ruling elite and folks like Ann are not in them.
Much worse than that...
Submitted by SSix2 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:07am.
Actually the media and other liberals that help bring the ones in power would be lined up against the wall and shot because they know to much about the people in power and how they got there. The people in charge would just "remove" these people and replace with new lackies who know their place.
Here is a link about a KGB defector explaining this exact scenario. Watch the full interview it is very telling...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cDGALhzro&feature=relmfu
Don't worry, comrade Curry, by the time the Kenyan Muslim...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:06pm.
...commie fraud is finished wrecking this country, nobody will have any money, period.
How's that for fairness, you profoundly stupid ignoranus?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I make $40k a yr, so I better get a check from Ann because it's
Submitted by VanPastorMan on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:22pm.
not fair that she makes more than me. Come on Ann. Put your money where your mouth is. Send me the check today. And keep em coming. As long as you make more than I do it's unfair and you need to stop being an evil twit.
their sun is setting
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:23pm.
What some on these dinosaur TV shows don't realize is that the new media has brought influence to and by the masses. They are mistakenly equating their influence to the amount of money they are paid. Us coach riders collectively on Newsbusters have more influence than Ms Curry. And we don't have to bring on dog and pony acts to get viewers.
Is it fair?
Submitted by octavioj on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:27pm.
She makes millions of dollars a year while people suffer. Is it fair? She can just give it all away.
The Little Red Hen
Submitted by taznar on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:31pm.
Most people read "The Little Red Hen" and believe its entirely fair the Hen doesn't share the bread with those who refused to help because they had better things to do.
Some people seem to believe the Hen is being unfair, and someone should take some of that bread away from her to share with others.
Sometimes life isn't fair. But even when it is, some people still complain because it isn't their kind of "fair".
That's a banned book
Submitted by ruby2ssday on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:36pm.
Little Red Hen has been banned in schools because it teaches that some will not achieve the greatness we should all have. And don't ever bring up Uncle Remus.
"Giving it up," to be fair!
Submitted by ronljl on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:43pm.
I didn't read anywhere in that article where Ann Curry said that she choose to walk through the "regular folks" line to be screened, nor did I notice where she gave up her seat to an elderly person (or service member) sitting in coach. She may be complaining that it's unfair, but what the hell is she doing about it. Ann seems more than will to keep the perks of the 'unfair' system when they apply to her.
Actions speak a lot loader than words, right?
What Ann really wants.
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:14pm.
You'll notice Ann says she feels guilty, but she "does it anyway."
So what she wants is for the government to do it for everyone, so no one has to be faced with that moral dilemma.
Wah... Wah... Wah...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:45pm.
If life was fair, someone with actual talent would have Ann Curry's job. Shut the f___ up you moron.
Phony is as phony does
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:50pm.
This same guy was on Morning Schmoe this morning and Meeeeeeka Boobinski was gushing all over him as he was railing against being a young boy who went to the Twins games and the best seats were 3.50 and the bleachers were only 2.00 BUT if it rained both got wet - THERE WAS fairness people.
Then in the 90's the new stadiums had the luxury boxes and when it rained they sat in the AC and under a roof and ate out of a fridge and and and.........
Liberalism is a bleepin' disease and the only cure is a "ballot" in your hand.
Ann if you take 100 people
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:54pm.
Ann if you take 100 people and give them each 100,000. Within a year or two 25% will be broke, 60% will be living paycheck to paycheck and the remainig 15 % will have most of the money.
This country is the most fair system in existence because it rewards producers to make things or services better and in doing so lifts everyones standard of living.
How is North Korea doing? They seem to have a fair system... Everyone suffers equally. Except the ruling class of course.
If life was fair.....
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:06pm.
If life was fair all the Elvis impersonators would be dead and Elvis would still be living. I swear liberals think everything should be fair. They are so out of touch, life is not fair, but it does give everyone a fair chance, you just have to make the right choices.
What is unfair, Ann, is their are a lot of people out there that work harder and contribute more to the company they work for than you do and are paid less. THAT is unfair!
But not so unfair
Submitted by Model850 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:09pm.
CURRY: You know, it's about those with money having an easier life than those who don't.
Um, yeah. That's why capitalism is the superior system. It's why people try to make as much money as they can. It'd be more than a little stupid if having money made your life harder, now wouldn't it?
And there's something fundamentally unfair about that.
But not so unfair that you would give up your privileged life, eh, Ann?
Stunningly ingnorant.....
Submitted by notinstl on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:10pm.
Curry is the poster child for progressive lunacy
unfair?
Submitted by oldfart on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:43pm.
Life is unfair - not everyone has the same abilities and therefore different opportunities. What is done with those skills is up to the invididual. Is everyone a Professor Hawking? Is everyone a Oscar winning actor(iss)? Is everyone an Edgar Allen Poe?
Is everyone as dumb as dog poop like Ann Curry? Is everyone born with very rich Grandparents like Barack Obama?
Only progressive socialists believer in equal results. I would suggest she lead the way, take a vow of poverty and give all her money to the Obama administration and live with OWS in tents.
Please just....
Submitted by Aubrey on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 3:55pm.
Shut the hell up, you Communist Anti-America Hack.
Liberal Hypocrite
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 4:02pm.
Hey Ann, if your wealth makes you feel guilty feel free to write me a check. Or are you just another hypocritical do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do liberal?
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonI'm Ann and I just want to say
Submitted by daveinboca on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 5:43pm.
Bow wow, Woof woof!
Can you imagine...
Submitted by krendler on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:27pm.
Can you imagine getting stuck talking to this dip$h*t at a dinner party or something?
It's fascinating, out of the 300 million or so people in the country, that NBC chooses this imbecile to be one of its on-air personalities.
Same for Mika Brez... whatever her name is.
So Ann, cure it!
Submitted by ruby2ssday on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:31pm.
If she really believed this she would give ALL her own money to charity. But that will never happen.
A socialist definition of "fair" is when everyone (except the ruling ellite) share the misery equally.
wow
Submitted by caveman1313 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:49pm.
that is one dumb liberal.
i guess i do have to give her credit for her insight into the pay to read scenario.
"...there's an inherent
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 6:58pm.
"...there's an inherent unfairness to it....it's about those with money having an easier life than those who don't. And there's something fundamentally unfair about that."
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What a childish temper tantrum. I'm sure she makes a lot more money than most people, but doesn't have a problem with that.
It wasn't fair...
Submitted by mike7705 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 7:27pm.
That I had a paper delivery route for years as a kid and had more money than my friends who didn't .What was wrong with me? I
So Ann
Submitted by GregE on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 7:39pm.
You make millions. Use it to make things fair for as many people as you have the money for, to bring yours down to their "level." Then you'll be satisfied, right Ann? Get started.
Hey Ann.....
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:01pm.
While you are counting your millions, do you feel the same way? Now fork over that cold hard cash!!!!!
I feel the same
Submitted by iFight on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:16pm.
Sadly I stay up at night worrying about this very thing.
I mean, how can I have this much money while others have so little?
Then I remember I go to work each day to earn my paycheck.
Advice
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:41pm.
Miss Curry: If you or your co-anchors are so overwhelmed with guilt over how much you make, remember that no one forced you to sign your contract. Simply demand a contract that pays you the equivalent of minimum wage every year. If you are unwilling to do this, then STFU.
(And can someone pass that sage advice to the guilt-ridden, whiny Andrew Ross Sorkin over at CNBC?)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
It is actually ironic
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:49pm.
It is actually ironic how these idiots on NBC (what is the combined salaries of these idiots on that panel again?) can actually sit there and whine about what $$$ can't buy? Hey NBC......How much did GE pay in taxes on $14 Billion Dollars in profit over the last 3 years? Yeah, I thought so. Pay your fair share you no good tax cheatin' race baitin' bags of douche!
Salaries of the panel...
Submitted by poseA on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:06am.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/ann-curry-net-worth/
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/matt-lauer-net-worth/
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/al-roker-net-worth/
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/natalie-morales-net...
If she finds it so unfair,
Submitted by mrskorn on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:37pm.
If she finds it so unfair, how about she donate all but the average salary ($50,000?) and live like the average person. Would be curious to know how much she gives to charity.
How did we get to this? I thought the American Dream was that you work hard and have a chance to become anything? And yet here are rich celebrities announcing that it doesn't seem fair. Rich.....
Why is making money suddenly something to be ashamed of? (Oh yeah, the millionaire himself, Obama).
Charity my foot!!!!
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:38pm.
Did you ever see the Seinfeld episode where George concocts a scheme to not get christmas presents for his coworkers? He gave them a card that said he "donated" money in their names to a fake charity he created: "The Human Fund: Money for people".
The more and more I listen to these SCROOGES on tv whine about other people's money, I think about this. Not to say he does it, but I could see Joe Biden doing something like this.
Hey! Annie Pooh!
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:32pm.
Are you really that stupid, or are you just that stupid?
Whats fundamentally unfair is
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:39pm.
I work, so other dont have to!
MORON ANN
Submitted by Metsie62 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 12:15am.
This woman is a flippin' raviong idiot...it makes me want to spew my morning joe TODAY
http://www.celebritynetworth.
Submitted by poseA on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 3:55am.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/ann-curry-net-worth/
It would be good if she would
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 8:10am.
It would be good if she would wear her first-class-seat-I'm-so-embarrassed-bag-over-my-head while she's on TV.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
As Gen. Honore said during Katrina....
Submitted by JLin on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:53am.
You can't fix stupid.
Are We Surprised?
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 3:17pm.
The woman's a socialist. (She's actually a communist, but we aren't allowed to say that.)
Curry: "I just wanted to put
Submitted by desertphreak on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:31pm.
Curry: "I just wanted to put a bag over my head. It just feels, there's a sense of, I'm kind of better than you are. And I don't – I don't think that is right."
She must think she's better than I am - she's telling me what is fair in life and what is not.