"It's what they are, it's what they do"

[ritaxis]

Edit:I'm sorry about this. THe link is to a page that changes and I can't find the thing that it was supposed to link to, so you'll just have to take it on faith that it was something really outrageous.


My son brought me this link just now, and it is so outrageous I feel I must share it.

Is there any question about what Fox News is all about? What they care about? I didn't think so.

But some of us still think that capitalism as a whole is benign at least, benificent at best. But this (yes, that's the same link repeated) expresses perfectly what capitalism is.

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[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

Surreal.

I have given up TV a few years ago. Frequently I am reminded of the wisdom of my choice. But this is just surreal.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

You may've already seen this in my journal before, but just in case, and for anyone else who doesn't know it, this is, after all, the news network that fought and won a case in Florida in 2003 in which they claimed they had a First Amendment right to "distort" the truth and present it as news.

What did you expect?

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

One of the Rothschilds, those bete noires of the anti-Semite, famously said that the time to buy in the market was when there was blood running in the streets (BARRONS quoted him in their latest issue). This is just the same thing, expressed by one of those too morally calloused to realize what he sounds like.

Re: What did you expect?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

There was a time, not so long ago, when they were busy pretending they gave a fig about human issues. They don't pretend any more. I don't know if the watershed moment was before or after the Enron executives gloated about deadly wildfires in Southern California because it would drive up prices for energy.

The thing is not pretending.

Why does the Rothschild quote sound less callous? Maybe because it's more general?