Former CNNer Bob Franken: Pawlenty Plotting 'Oligarchy'
It takes a former CNN "correspondent" to make Tim Pawlenty sound scary . . .
It's kind of fun to watch former MSM "reporters" turn into totally-out, liberal partisans once they leave their "reporting" gigs. Take Bob Franken. For years a big-time national correspondent for CNN, the network let him go in 2007. Franken is now free to let his liberal freak flag fly.
Witness Bob on MSNBC this evening. Commenting on Tim Pawlenty's tax-cut proposal, Franken fulminated that the former Minnesota governor is planning nothing less than to lead [cue spooky music] an "oligarchy." Franken also took a scatalogical shot at "trickle-down" economics.
View video after the jump.
Watch Franken in action with a rant that would make Keith Olbermann proud, and consider that for years CNN held this guy out as an objective "correspondent" on a top national level.
Franken appeared on Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show.
CENK UYGUR: I mean, Bob, is this guy serious?
BOB FRANKEN: Well, he's serious in that he's pandering to the segment of the Republican party, the very wealthy, by basically letting them off the hook for any responsibility. They're interested in buying back a government. And so he is out there trying to see to it that he is the one where they shower all their wealth on, so he can turn around then and lead the government and be the person who heads their oligarchy.
The simple fact of the matter is that this is nothing new. There's an old discredited theory you called voo-doo economics. It was called the Laffer Curve, Laffer Curve, it was a laugher from the beginning. A rising tide lifts all boats. You know: there's a trickle down theory. Of course they don't say what trickles down on people. [Belly laughs from Cenk.] The point is that this is something that Republicans love to talk about and they drive us deeper and deeper into debt when they do.
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obviously
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 9:04pm.
he's MSNBC anchor qualified. Pure moon-battery.
Well, as I keep saying, Keith
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 9:25pm.
Well, as I keep saying, Keith Olbermann left a pretty big cesspool to fill....Uygur is obviously bringing in outside help....
Franken-stein is still alive?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 10:08pm.
I thought he had kicked the bucket.
With respect to Mark Finkelstein...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:44am.
Reporters report the facts and leave the interpretation up to the consumer. Journalists distort the facts and present a story/"piece" through the filter of their agenda leaving no room for interpretation. If you disagree with them, you are then labeled by the very same people who claim to be against labels! Bob Franken was never a reporter. He was, is, and always will be a biased, agenda driven, journalist. As is Chrissy the spittler Matthews, Larry O'dumbell, Jenkoff Uighur, Marty Basher, Rick Maddow, Sgt. Erectile Dysfunction Shultzie, Wolfie Blitzed, Andy Pooper, Client number 9, and the rest of the msm democrat propaganda machine.
Is Bob Franken also known as Stuart Smalley Senior?
Talk about bringing back a bad memory...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:46am.
Bob Franken?! Before the days of Fox News, when CNN was the only cable news network available (and, of course, before the ability to vent on NewsBusters) I used to grind my teeth watching him deliver his biased reports and political "analysis".
So I guess the Laffer Curve
Submitted by VBaxter on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:07am.
So I guess the Laffer Curve is voodoo, discredited economics while Keynesian is the right way to go nowadays.
Ron Paul 2012
Bob Franken.
Submitted by blazermaniac on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:55am.
Is Bob Franken, related to Al Franken? Certainly seems that way!
Honestly, how do these
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:16am.
Honestly, how do these "journalists" manage to function in a world they've ignored their entire lives? You can't have lived in the last four decades and reach Franken's conclusion unless you're either deaf, dumb and blind; or knowingly refusing to see reality.
Disabled or deceitful? Either way, Franken and his chuckling buddy Chunk aren't worth the time to watch.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Simple............Zydokomuno.
Submitted by Xpat48 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:20am.
Simple............Zydokomuno.
While in Cleveland Franken was a booob-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:56am.
he has not changed-ask him if he knows Pawlenty-Bob is a liberal hack with so socially redeeming qualities.
2nd rate reporter who was run out of Cleveland.
The best part is he is in great company-with all the other scum bag liberals at MSNBC.
My favorite aspect...
Submitted by Suilbup on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:52am.
of this exchange is the arrogance and condescension used by the host.
"I mean, Bob, is this guy serious?"
That's a hard-hitting question.
I wish someone would have asked it of Pelosi/Reed/Obama when they introduced the individual mandate and tried to dress it up as authorized by the commerce clause.
"I mean, hey, are you guys serious?"
It's so off-handedly derisive and direspectful of any opposing viewpoint that it's offensive in and of itself. I can't think of very many people that I would treat this way, including people with whom I completely disagree.
Seriously.
Franken
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:20pm.
The more they rant about a Presidential candidate, the stronger that candidate seems to be. Oh, and Franken is not worth mentioning. He's not only a has-been, he's a never-was.
Oligarchy?
Submitted by NL207 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:28pm.
You mean like in executive branch 'Czars'??