Posted on 03/28/2015 1:45:28 PM PDT by drewh
n the grand scheme of things, a few hundred people joining up with Islamic State forces is “not a big deal,” economist Robert Reich said Friday evening on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show.
“We’ve covered it during the headline of all these westerners joining ISIS. I don’t understand that,” host Larry Wilmore said to his panel. “You know, we have the teen girls and all this. Why are people trying to join ISIS? What’s going on?”
And Reich’s explanation:
I think that there are not that many trying to join ISIS and you say all these European, all these Americans. Out of 600 million Europeans and Americans you’ve got, what, 400, 800 trying to join ISIS? This is not a big deal. The press is making it a big deal and the more we talk about it, the more people are gonna go.
That prompted Wilmore to ask the former Clinton advisor: “Well, you don’t think ISIS is a big deal?”
Reich clarified that the Islamic State itself is a “big deal” but that the actual number of recruits from the West — especially American ex-military recruits — is overblown by media outlets.
“But what about servicemen? What about people in the military?” Wilmore asked in response, regardless of how few actual cases there are. “If you’re in the military, what’s making you join ISIS? I don’t understand what that is.”
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It’s a big deal that there are ANY Americans who think it’s a good idea to join ISIS and help them burn churches, murder Christians, rape little girls, and cut off people’s heads.
He would also say Obama turning the Middle East into a political/military nightmare is no big deal.
Bob, you do know Larry’s supposed to be the funny one, right?
I see what you did there. heh.
Short sighted comments.
It’s a shame that dwarf tossing was banned.
LOL - better!
Lord Farquaad speaks.
that one doubled me over...
The dwarf Robert Reich is not really a “big deal”...
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Is there a hole in his back to operate his mouth?
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So short he doesn’t cast a shadow.
Because that's what they're going to do.
Really, Robbie, you little snot?
He can shrug off hundreds of dead innocents as though they were so many flies.
The chance that any of them will be a faculty member are infinitesimal, so what difference does it make?
Nah, but he's trying hard to out-Harf, Harf.
Must be jealous of all the attention he's been unable to get. Probably looking to change jobs for to jack up his salary before the SHTF.
That, or Soros is paying him to be stupid.
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