CNN's Hill: 'Greatest Lie in American History Is the Myth of the Self-Made Person'

MRC Newsbusters ^ | November 8, 2015 | Brad Wilmouth

[Maceman]

Appearing as a guest during the 5:00 p.m. hour of CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow on Sunday, liberal CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill declared that "the greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person" as he answered a question about why GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is so popular with white Republicans.

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[Norm Lenhart]

Exactly. Thats the whole basis of ECT.

AND we get to restart the extraction industry to get the resources to build the cages, thus putting the very Americans back to work caging them that liberals made unemployed. Iron/steel workers and miners.

It’s Karma.

Tust me I planned this out. Im on a mission to save the world here ;)

[Bob434]

I’m sharpening some sticks as we speak- They’ve poked us for long enough- now it’s our turn

[sitetest]

Eff you, hill.

[GraceG]

The Talent-less, Aimless, and Lazy always ENVY the Talented, Driven, and Industrious.

[Bob434]

[[“Greatest Lie in American History Is the Myth of a non-biased media”]]

That’s the second greatest lie- the first is now ‘man has caused global climate change’

[justa-hairyape]

Does this moron even realize there was no central government when America was founded ?

[PATRIOT1876]

‘man has caused global climate change’ is the easiest lie to disprove.

It might be the greatest lie, but no one would’ve ever believed it or even heard much about it if not for the extreme Marxist Media

[CGASMIA68]

Once again CNN produces a nobody..WhoTF is Poopy???
And Lamont Hill is a racist POS......so that sums that interview up,no need to watch.

[Norm Lenhart]

We put them in cages or they put us in cattle cars.

Eventually one or the other WILL happen. History is what it is. It’s just a matter of time.

[justa-hairyape]

Greatest lies in American History.

I did not have sex with that woman.
A video cause Benghazi.
It is impossible for a nuclear reactor to completely meltdown.
Bruce Jenner is a woman.
OJ Simpson is innocent.
Etc...

[DoughtyOne]

And that’s exactly what it is, one great big pant-load.

[driftless2]

The left is desperate to tear down concepts of self reliance and personal achievement. All good must flow from the state, not the individual.

If the left wins the argument that nobody is a "self-made" success, they have successfully argued for communism.

Since, in their belief, nobody is successful without help from others (family, infrastructure, etc.), they can say, like Obama said, whatever you have, you don't own. That is the communist argument.

And what you will end up with after all wealth is confiscated by the state is a country with 99% of population doing as little as possible. The country will swiftly descend into an American Zimbabwe.

[righttackle44]

A CNN poisonality worth perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands wants to know how people worth billions become wealthy?

[griswold3]

You don’t have to be a Weatherman to see which way the wind blows.
Who is not aware of the attack by “Progressives” on those who create value? This is the Cargo Cult mentality in spades.

[CyberAnt]

So, you seem to be thinking the same thing I’m thinking .. is Marc upset because more white people than black people like Dr. Carson ..??

And if that upsets him .. then MARC is THE PROBLEM; not Dr. Carson.

And, it shows how RACIST Marc is .. because he doesn’t believe any black person could ever be liked by white people. It’s a terribly biased viewpoint.

And .. because the Repubs don’t like Obama .. then Marc assumes the Repubs can’t possibly like Carson either.

Meaning, Marc never bothers to realize that Dr. Carson is being judged by who he is .. and not by his skin color.

And .. if Dr. Hill was a white guy .. I’d still think he was a total idiot.

[mjp]

"the greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person"

A person has free will. A person's new ideas, motives, character, personal choices, and actions that enable him to be successful are his own. In a rational person, in a free society, they are a product of reason, and they do not necessarily and deterministically come from his genetics or the environment.

[cpdiii]

I worked as a deckhand at 16 years old. I worked as a roughneck at 18 years of age. I worked as a drilling fluids technician on every continent where there is drilling for oil with the exception of Australia. The Aussies had that covered themselves. I worked as a flight instructor and lastly as a pharmacist. I paid for all my University expenses by my work. The only exception was 500 dollars from my grandparents when I had no money to pay my rent or buy food. I did not pay them back for many years. When I did pay them back it was not just money but care and love when they could no longer take care of themselves as did my brother.

They raised us. They were the people that gave my brother and I the values to become anything we desired to be. He graduated from High School second from last in a class of about 250 students. If it were not for his best friend “Moody” he would have been last. Two tours of Vietnam adjusted his attitude. When he came home and went to University of Texas Arlington he graduated with an engineering degree with a 3.8 grade point average.

He and I did all of this on our own and this makes us self made men with several degrees that could only be achieved by our hard work and a great nation that allowed us to work for success. Few nations afford their citizens the opportunity to succeed despite their desire to succeed.

However, the most important thing is I live in a great nation that allowed me the opportunity to be a self made man.

ps
I also flunked out of University the first time. A few years on the oil rigs “adjusted my attitude.” When I went back to University I was on the Deans List. I had no choice because of my past performance if I did not stay on the deans lists my grade point average would not have been sufficient to graduate in Geology. Years later when I went to pharmacy school I went to interview and had a copy of my past grades. Pharmacy school is hard to get admitted to. I laid my transcript down on the desk and it had a big red line on it that I had drawn. I explained that everything above the red line was the “old me,” and it was a dismal record. Everything below the red line was the “new me.” The new me had great grades.

It worked, and they admitted me to pharmacy school even though others with much better total grade point averages did not get admitted. I did well in pharmacy school.

The point I want to make is that despite your background and errors in life and academics if you are willing to work your butt off our great nation will assure you of success despite your errors when young.

We live in the greatest nation state in the history of mankind. This nation was created by mostly those fleeing from oppression of their religion or lack of opportunity. They were frankly the bottom of economic and social society. They were the dregs and hopeless of Europe. Our nation should have been a total failure based on those that came to our shores.

Among those were a few men and women of great intellect. They wrote the Declaration of Independence and most importantly the Constitution of the United States. Those two short documents transformed the dregs of the world into the greatest nation ever.

So long as the Constitution is followed and protected we will remain the greatest nation and savior of the world, as Ronald Reagan said, “The Shinning City on the Hill.”

Today our Constitution is under attack by its own elected government and both political parties with some rare exceptions. If they win Constitution dies and will our great nation.

THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR, least I give my children and grandchildren nothing.

[Verginius Rufus]

The implication of Hill's comment is that the opinions of white people don't count...or perhaps that if they like Dr. Carson, that makes him suspect...probably some kind of Uncle Tom.

Hill is glib but apart from having a doctorate, he's just another Sharpton.