MSNBC Host Suggests Orwell’s Anti-Communist Novel ‘Animal Farm’ Is A Tale Of Capitalist Greed’

The Libertarian Republic ^ | 4/30/14 | Austin Petersen

[TheProducer]

MSNBC host Krystal Ball suggested Tuesday that George Orwell’s famously anti-communist novel “Animal Farm” is an allegory for capitalism run amok — immediately setting the hair of literature professors across the country on fire. Ball spoke on MSNBC’s “The Cycle” about the recent release of French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which argues capitalism is intrinsically unfair and advocates a global wealth tax to level the playing field. Ball noted that Piketty’s claims have been met with some criticism, which she felt was undeserved. “Piketty has predictably gotten the full Cold War treatment,” she claimed. “The National Review calls his book ‘soft Marxism,’ and Lord only knows what they’re saying at less responsible outlets or (ugh) the comments section.” “Even the august and ostensibly economically literate Wall Street Journal tells him to read ‘Animal Farm,’” she noted. “Animal Farm? Hmm. Isn’t that Orwell’s political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the other animals they need all the food because they’re the makers and then scare up the prospect of a phony bogeyman every time their greed is challenged? Sounds familiar.”

[Constitution Day]

Bwahahaha! What an utter MORON!

[coloradan]

Not a moron. Evil. Taking a page from 1984, which I’m sure will also be spun into something the exact opposite to what it is.

[skeeter]

Leftists are all lies. They have nothing else.

[Resettozero]

Just because the Marxists have succeeded in taking over our public education system doesn’t mean American Constitutional conservatives have to roll over and die without at least making a stand against evil.

[Farmer Dean]

Krystal Ball?Really?I don’t watch MSNBC but it sounds like they’ve been hiring strippers for hosts.

[pepsionice]

Kinda like saying Babe Ruth was a fantastic pitcher (winning 97 games in his career), or that Superman was racist, or that Leave it to Beaver was family drama. You can say stuff like this but it’s all bogus.

[wattsgnu]

I stopped reading after I saw the name, Krystal Ball.

[Steely Tom]

Lies for the LIVs.

[Constitution Day]

I think you’re probably right.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

I can see all of these being used by the left.

[GreenAccord]

In the same vein, I suppose the movie Cocoon is a story of adolescent coming of age. And Star Wars is a Shakespearean tragedy about the massive loss of life of Imperial forces when facing some rebellious malcontents.

[DMZFrank]

Liberals are the most delusional and cognitively dissonant creatures on the planet!!!! They are constantly altering and airbrushing history to suit their corrupt, evil, and malevolent purposes.

Fortunately we have Orwell’s very own explanations as to why he wrote the book and what he meant.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

MSNBC host Krystal Ball

Seriously? That sounds like the name of a porn actress.

[alloysteel]

Not classic capitalism, in which a product or service is provided to another in exchange for some medium of exchange on an arms’-length transaction, but its corrupted and deformed distant relative, “crony capitalism”, in which some animals were more equal than others.

Failure to differentiate between honest business transactions and the closed and exclusionary manner of conducting business in “crony capitalism” is one of the great obfuscations being promoted in the world today.

[Resettozero]

Fortunately we have Orwell’s very own explanations as to why he wrote the book and what he meant.

But sooner rather than later, you may have to memorize those explanations - and the book - and walk around a pond with other memorizers on a hidden piece of property somewhere, rehearsing all the lines. Is it getting hot in here?

[El Cid]

“Animal Farm? Hmm. Isn’t that Orwell’s political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the other animals they need all the food because they’re the makers and then scare up the prospect of a phony bogeyman every time their greed is challenged? Sounds familiar.”

Although I would not have summarized Animal Farm in that manner, in a way her description does sound pretty familiar.
Reminds me of the 'You didn't build that' pResident. The Big Government critters, and sundry 'Community Organizers' - believe that should get all of the economic resources from the working taxpayers farm animals - that are beneath their 'betters' in D.C. And their allies in the Media are happy to come up with any bogeyman (or 'look squirrel!' event) when needed to provide cover for ruler hog class.

[PATRIOT1876]

Krystal Ball completely misses the point that is clear as if you were standing right in front of the “HOLLYWOODLAND” sign. Even grade school children can understand this message in large letters. A mule can get the point if you hit it in the head with a sledgehammer as large as the obvious “Communism bad Capitalism good” truth that is in Orwell's parable.

But extreme Leftists like the ironically named “Krystal Ball” misses the point to everything in life. With a name like Krystal Ball you would think that she could at least predict the past-—maybe someone as ignorant as her should do a tiny amount of research into the history that she missed in school about the 100 million to 200 million killed by the Communists that she esteems so highly.

[Chances Are]

Just for the record, Babe Ruth was a very good pitcher. He was the ace of a formidable Red Sox team before the brain trust realized his hitting talents were even more imposing than his arm, which would only be used every 4th day.

The rest of your post, though, was spot-on. I don't argue with your basic premise.

CA....

[oh8eleven]

Kinda like saying Babe Ruth was a fantastic pitcher ... You can say stuff like this but it’s all bogus.
You're suggesting the Babe wasn't a great pitcher?

[polymuser]

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