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PBS's Tavis Smiley and Guest: Republicans Don't Want to Help Jobless
Newsbusters ^ | September 9, 2011 | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/09/2011 1:12:00 PM PDT by lbryce

A taxpayer who doesn’t favor Barack Obama might not mind subsidizing a show where he’s attacked as unserious about the country’s problems. But with PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley, it’s been a relentless attack on Obama from the left. Everything he’s done isn’t half-socialist enough.

On Wednesday, Smiley welcomed fellow leftist and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert to his show to denounce Republicans for keeping Obama from passing a woefully insufficient second “stimulus” attempt. Herbert thinks Obama's new spending proposal is about one-tenth of what's needed. We need a four-trillion-dollar plan.

SMILEY: To your point now, then, whose fault is it? If the president can't put something forth that you believe Republicans will support, is it the president's fault, is it the Republicans' fault that we don't have a serious jobs bill in this country that can put Americans back to work?

HERBERT: I'm starting to feel like I guess the majority of the public feels. You look at the leadership in Washington and it becomes a pox on both their houses. The Republicans have undoubtedly been obstructionists from the very beginning. We've been in this terrible economic crisis for a long time now and they have thwarted every effort by the administration to do anything substantial.

SMILEY: Speaking of Republicans, what do you make of these growing numbers, at this hour, at least, growing numbers, it would appear to me, of Republicans, some of them well known, some with major committee assignments, saying publicly that they will not attend the president’s jobs speech. What do you make of that?

HERBERT: Well, the political back-and-forth in Washington has gotten to absurd levels. I think it is highly disrespectful not to attend a joint session of Congress that’s being addressed by the president.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cutpbsfundingnow; jobless; leftwing; liberal; partisanbs; partisanmediashill; republicans; tavissmiley
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To: lbryce

It’s good to know the net worth of the leaders of the Class Envy crowd. Usually, they are filthy rich, and they ain’t givin’ it away. They grub it all to themselves. The only “charities” to which they might contribute are other leftist activists.


21 posted on 09/09/2011 3:03:02 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: lbryce

Bob Herbert is wrong: four trillion simply isn’t enough. We need a forty trillion dollar plan. And when that doesn’t work, we need a four quadrillion dollar plan!


22 posted on 09/09/2011 3:28:16 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Skepolitic

It is mind boggling the number of media and other people who carry the water for Obama, the worst President in the history of this country.


23 posted on 09/09/2011 9:15:49 PM PDT by Grey Eagle
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