Scarborough on Rome Riots: Occupy Wall Street 'Creating New Jobs' By Forcing Rebuilding of Damaged Property
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough marvelously mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement Monday by joking about how the destruction of private property during this weekend's riots in Rome will actually create jobs.
"That will help with the construction industry in Italy," kidded Scarborough as pictures of the riots played on the screen. "You have to rebuild Rome because people burned it down" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MIKA BRZEZINSKI, CO-HOST: I want to ask Sam Stein about the Occupy Wall Street protests which are now one month old, and they took a global turn over the weekend. 951 cities in 82 countries were scheduled to take part in demonstrations after online organizers called for a worldwide rally. The mayor of Rome said $1.4 million in damage was caused after rioters who broke away from a peaceful protest smashed windows and torched vehicles around the city.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, CO-HOST: Now, see, that will help with the construction industry in Italy.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, lord.
SCARBOROUGH: So, they, no seriously.
BRZEZINSKI: Stop it. Just stupid.
SCARBOROUGH: No, you have to rebuild Rome because people burned it down. That’s actually a plus up. This Occupy Wall Street group, look at that, they are creating new jobs.
Despite the snark, the point is a good one likely lost on America's Occupy Wall Street-loving media.
Unlike the Tea Party which the press first ignored and then totally derided, OWS has now after just one month of existence already been responsible for the destruction of private property and thousands of arrests.
At any moment, what transpired in Rome can happen in any city in America causing millions of dollars in damages.
Yet day after day, night after night, our media are gushing and fawning over this movement in a fashion that clearly is emboldening the participants whilst inciting additional followers.
When a riot finally happens on our shores, will the press bear some responsibility for its shameful support of a movement so obviously antagonistic to America and some of our most successful citizens?
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The sad part
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:28am.
is that the leftist media will undoubtedly cite some "economist" who actually buys into the "destruction spawns jobs" fallacy. It's been proposed before, and of course shot down by level-headed economists who take the time to count the cost of the destruction, not just the income from the rebuilding expense. As we've seen on many occasions, liberals never let facts get in the way.
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Create new jobs?
Submitted by Firmworm on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:28am.
Why Yes...even the Virgin Mary statue factories could benefit from this insanity.
Another classic
Submitted by Order270 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:42am.
When I pulled this up I thought I accidental hit The Onion website.
Wow what a moron.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:57am.
Hey joe! Let's burn down your house. Imagine all the work that will make. And while we're at it, drive all your cars into a river. That would be good for the automotive industry.
As another idea, how about you cut off a few fingers and get some surgeons some work too. I mean you want to help don't you joe?
Scarborough's 'joking' will
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:58am.
Scarborough's 'joking' will become a 'plus' for the proponents of this bowel movement, because it can be spun to actually sound acceptable to the idiots who support it.
And how ironic is it for Mika to call ANYTHING 'stupid'???
Shameless and lawless
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:19am.
For the President himself to lend verbal and tacit encouragement to these anarchists, squatters, idlers and malcontents is vile and contemptible.
By so doing, he is encouraging their actions, which include burning, mayhem, violence, idleness, greed, slothfulness and indolence. As a private citizen, it was fine for him to be a community agitator. But while he holds the office of the Presidency (a sad thing in itself), he has a responsiblity to maintain law and order, not chaos and anarchy.
Obama swore an oath to protect and defend this nation. But he is now encouraging rebellion and sedition on a global scale. He has broken his oath and should be impeached forthwith, him and his entire corrupte regime. It's not just him, it's Eric Holder, Rahm, Tim the Tax Cheat, Van Jones - the list of thugs, crooks and anarchists that he brought with him goes on and on.
They have forfeited their rights through their corruption and lawbreaking. A regime that won't enforce the law is by definition 'lawless'. Can we wait for 2012? I hope so. But in the meantime, we can only hope that the Tea Party will drag the Republicans and RINOs to do their duty and impeach this corrupt President and his gang of corrupt 'czars'.
And the Republicans must be made to pay as well - they have gotten away for too long with winking at this kind of corruption. The Tea Party and the american people must drag them, kicking and screaming if they won't go any other way, and force them to obey the law.
I agree...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:46am.
wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, not being a Constitutional scholar, I don't know if what he's done (so far) rises to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors". Simply stating that the "protesters have a point" wouldn't fit into that. He would need to actively encourage a specific act of lawlessness. I do not believe he is too smart to avoid this - he just hasn't done it yet.
One other major factor in this is the general timidity and lack of recognition of the seriousness of what is actually taking place (a Marxist revolution) by the Republicans at large. I only see 20-30 in Congress who may have the insight and the courage for such a fight.
Obama is in his element
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:34pm.
with these protests, right? I mean, after all he IS a community organizer (rabble 'rouser), is he not?
i almost spit my coffee out
Submitted by sometimesright on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:26am.
i almost spit my coffee out when i saw this. regarding those businesses and buildings that have property insurance, what tends to happen to insurance premiums? and who pays the difference? this imbecile want us to thank the flea-party or something?
Frédéric Bastiat is Rolling Over in His Grave
Submitted by Fenwick on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:30am.
The Parable of the Broken Window is a must-read for anyone with such a Keynesian bent...
Old Humor-New Reality
Submitted by Firmworm on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:03am.
I remember seeing a cartoon in a magazine many years ago that showed in the first frame a homeowner standing in his living room next to a shattered picture window staring at the floor where a rock wrapped in paper lay on the floor. In the second frame he is shown unwrapping the rock and reading a note that read 'Call Jacks Glass ' with a phone number. I saw the obvious humor in this as to what idiot would do that. Doesn't seem so funny anymore.
You beat me to it
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:02pm.
I just read Bastiat's book about a month ago.
But this is a pretty good idea you're working on, Joe. 'Member when they flew airliners into tall buildings and destroyed them? 'Member that? It made all the papers. Remember the big increase in jobs that followed? Nah, I don't remember that, either.
Scarborough's idiocy debunked in 3 1/2 minutes:
Submitted by lsudolemite on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 5:19pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3AKoL0vEs
I don't think this was what
Submitted by wiwf on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:39am.
I don't think this was what they had in mind to create new jobs, haha.
Rome wasn't built in a day...
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:46am.
Rome wasn't built in a day...
...but it only takes a day for OWS to burn it down.
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And that Zero-Nero wannabe,
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:55pm.
And that Zero-Nero wannabe, Boy Barry, will happily play his violin while it happens................
Joe to the rescue..........
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:49am.
The funnier part of this "episode" or panel distortion errrrr discussion was some d-bag from the NY Slimes trying to pin the Kock brothers on Cain asthe meme has been the last few days because Cain knows someone who knows some who hired someone.........................
Halperin and Schmoe both laughed at the absurdidty of it all.
Noel, the other part of this "story" they are leaving out or are just not interested in are the racist signs and the Kill Bush signs etc, etc, etc, etc.
Christ the LEFT would PUT people at Tea Party rallies with hateful signs and the AP would surprsingly be right on the spot...................
Kind of like at Target and Michelle O.......
Slightly off topic.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:52am.
PMSLSD showed the depth of their liberal weinie-ness this morning by devoting an entire segment to sports. But not just "sports" - to soccer. With the MLB playoffs just concluded and the World Series set to begin, college football and the NFL and the NHL in full swing, and the NBA troubles, they cover British league soccer.
Yep. "We need to be more like Europe", indeed.
I am glad this is all being
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:35am.
I am glad this is all being filmed. After it's over, arrest the vandals &, if they cannot pay restitution, make them indentured servants, untill everything they have destroyed is paid off, with intrest.
Broken window....
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:40am.
No one on the Left ever wants to know who bears the loss of the original property destroyed. It was part of an asset that was damaged. The fact that "someone" is hired to repair damage still does not account for the loss.
It is this training (the dubious art of willful stupidity) in which the Left are past masters.
boring economics
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:50pm.
It is about economic energy or efficiency.
The initial capital investment is a highly efficient way of using capital in the economy and therefore creates a lot of temporary economic energy in a short period of time.
The maintenance of initial capital investments (often normal wear and tear/security) is moderately efficient in that it provides a lower level of energy for the economy but is often done over a longer period of time.
The repairs or insurance claims on damage done to an investment is nearly worthless as far as economic energy because it duplicates previous inputs and puts a strain on the original investors.
Is it true? No one who actually has a job is that stupid.
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:43am.
Scarborough was a Republican congressman? Really?
Marvelously Mocked - Really Noel?
Submitted by Conservator on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:29pm.
I happen to watch Joe Scarborough this morning and his comments about the demonstrators in Rome for a mere few minutes can't obfuscate the 4 hours of leftist rants made today. You may know him and like him personally, but he's a schmuck that sold out his so-called conservative views and the Republican party to hang out with progressives. It would be appreciated if you focused more time on Joey the sell-out.
Joe Scarborough
Submitted by AdrianVance on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:03pm.
Classic Keynesian economics! Their Nobel Prize winning exponent, Paul Krugman, says that employing people to dig holes and fill them back up would help the economy! You cannot make these idiots up. They should have their own comic strip and not our country.
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digging holes
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 1:08pm.
and to think that is a better idea than slaughtering a bunch of pigs - at least you aren't wasting food while people starve
Joe made a funny! Ha ha,
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 3:23pm.
Joe made a funny! Ha ha, destroy away OWS'ers. Because the D's are right behind you, ready to appropriate funds to clean up after you!!!
Don't stop to think about how some poor starving child will go hungry when they take the $$$ for this - it's only the eeeeeeeeeeevil R's who do that, right???
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Brzesinski: The Human Emoticon
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:59pm.
Dear Mika chirps in with her cliche "Oh, Lord" and "Stop it" punctuations to Scarborough's comments.