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CNN's Johns Gushes Over 'Incredible,' 'Riveting' Michael Moore Speech
Newsbusters ^ | 3/13/11 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 03/13/2011 11:36:35 AM PDT by Nachum

NN's Joe Johns hyped a recent Michael Moore speech on Monday's Newsroom as "incredible" and "riveting." Johns highlighted a clip from the left-wing film director, who spoke at a pro-union rally in Madison, Wisconsin, where he claimed that "America is not broke...The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands! It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers...to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich."

Anchor Brooke Baldwin brought on the correspondent for the regular "Political Pop" segment 40 minutes into the 4 pm Eastern hour, and asked about Moore's March 5, 2011 address in Madison. Johns immediately gushed over the director's words:

BALDWIN: What was he up to in Madison?

JOE JOHNS: Yeah. Well, it was a speech and it was really pretty incredible. Have you seen it by the way?

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KEYWORDS: bigtarget; broadsideofbarn; cantmiss; cnn; enemywithin; gushes; johns; mediapinkos; over; pinkos; pinkosinmedia; wisconsinshowdown
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1 posted on 03/13/2011 11:36:44 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Sounds like Johns might have a “man crush” on the human donut hole.


2 posted on 03/13/2011 11:43:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Look for the union label and just say, NO!)
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To: Nachum

Okay, Mikey, start giving your millions to the masses.


3 posted on 03/13/2011 11:43:50 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Nachum

Michael could be right.

Wall Street is full of the meanest sort of crooks.


4 posted on 03/13/2011 11:44:01 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nachum

Of course most of them are Democrats.


5 posted on 03/13/2011 11:44:28 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nachum

Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. But then, he should know because he’s “uber-rich”. When is he giving away his money?


6 posted on 03/13/2011 11:45:11 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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To: Nachum

“Incredible” - As in not credible

“Riveting” - As in jackhammer to the ear


7 posted on 03/13/2011 11:45:18 AM PDT by Ground0
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To: Nachum

This unremarkable speech was a Lib rant delivered by a millionaire who is suing his studio for millions of more dollars. What a joke. No wonder CNN has the ratings it does.


8 posted on 03/13/2011 11:46:51 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Nachum

It was one of the stupidest speeches ever delivered.


9 posted on 03/13/2011 11:48:24 AM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: yldstrk

Remember the old saying about don’t shoot the messenger?
Doesn’t apply when talking about Fat Boy.


10 posted on 03/13/2011 11:48:24 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Nachum

What doesn’t the dumb-ass just look into the camera and say: “RISE UP COMRADES, RISE UP!!”.

Just a case of Communists doing what Communists do, nothing here to see folks.


11 posted on 03/13/2011 11:49:04 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Nachum
Mickey Moore and Al Gore, two hypocites amongst thousands of "uber rich" libbies that would die rather than give a pennny to a bum. One keeps a huge jet and home using "non-green" carbon emitting energy while another should be flown to Cuba when he gets major surgery for a brain transplant in the empty cranial cavity located anterior to the anal spincter.
12 posted on 03/13/2011 11:50:17 AM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: yldstrk

From a rich guy who employs non-union labor on his films.....


13 posted on 03/13/2011 11:50:26 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Marxist Gushgasm.


14 posted on 03/13/2011 11:53:21 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: Nachum

CNN - “Voice of the Regime”


15 posted on 03/13/2011 11:54:00 AM PDT by TPOOH (I wish I could have been Jerry Reed.)
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To: Nachum

The uber-rich being the union leaders, who make far more than the Wisconsin governor or senators and representatives. The uber-rich being the teachers, whose combined salary and benefits are at least 1 1/2 times higher than the average Wisconsin private sector workers, who can retire and receive 1/3 of their salary the rest of their lives, while taking another job.

THe people are wise to you Mikey. We know what’s going on here. You go slink back to Cuba for some awesome medical care.


16 posted on 03/13/2011 12:01:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: yldstrk

Maybe America is not broke but a lot of people are. Looks like we are going to live in interesting times in 2012.

Here is an excerpt.


Moore Delivered in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday, March 5th, 2011.

America is not broke.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it’s not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.

Today just 400 Americans have the same wealth as half of all Americans combined.

Let me say that again. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer “bailout” of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can’t bring yourself to call that a financial coup d’état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true.

And I can see why. For us to admit that we have let a small group of men abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy, would mean that we’d have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that we have indeed surrendered our precious Democracy to the moneyed elite. Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic — and, until this past month, the rest of us have felt completely helpless, unable to find a way to do anything about it.



17 posted on 03/13/2011 12:03:31 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Sounds like Johns might have a “man crush” on the human donut hole.”

Nahh.. just some more un-biased reporting by the MSM.


18 posted on 03/13/2011 12:04:04 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The way to end terrorism is to terrorize the terrorist)
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To: Nachum

Has Joe Johns ever heard a speech before?


19 posted on 03/13/2011 12:12:00 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Nachum

Moore/Maddow'12!
~ Honesty ~ Integrity ~ Sharia Compliant ~

20 posted on 03/13/2011 12:15:47 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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