This final full week of the 2010 campaign delivered its fair share of Halloween-worthy frights. Topping the ghoulish behavior was the pre-debate head-stomp administered to MoveOn activist Lauren Valle by a Rand Paul supporter. Talk about your monstrous mash. The Paul backer, Tim Profitt, then took chutzpah to a whole new level, telling a reporter that Valle actually owed him an apology. Then there was the fear-mongering intent of Sharron Angle's campaign ads showing groups of menacing-looking Latino men streaming across the border -- a gang of Willie Hortons with a Spanish accent. And there was the president telling Jon Stewart he thinks Larry Summers has done "a heck of job" -- and not meaning it in a Brownie kind of way (despite his "pun intended" attempt to walk it back). Now that's scary. Happy Halloween, HuffPosters!
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Thanks for your exhausting effort on the Sunday programs to spread the good word. You are terrific!
Like tonight's episode, in which the CEO in the beginning makes the statement (paraphrasing) "I want to see that all my employees are performing at the level I expect them to."
Almost every single CEO either says that or you can see that that is their attitude towards their workers - and in every single case, when they get out into the trenches and find out that every single job, even the lowest paid ones, take so much more work than they ever imagined in their luxury office, MBA desk job.
Not more work because of the difficulty level - just more WORK. Long hours of backbreaking work.
And then you have your conservative mentality that the free market rules and who cares if even all of the jobs that DO remain in this country get shipped off to China or India. After all, if you're too stupid and lazy to get a PhD or invent the next new information technology, evidently you don't deserve to be able to make at least a basic living. Even with the type of jobs you see everyday workers doing in that show, which almost none of the CEOs or any affluent conservative would be either unwilling or not even able to do.
8:24pm
Alexandria, VA
I went to the rally just for fun. hope I can see it on utube...no tv.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/10/30/HP/A/40153/StewartColbert+Rally+to+Restore+Sanity+andor+Fear.aspx
10:21pm
Alexandria, VA
Thanks. My cell phone just won't do it. I'll have to fix my laptop.
Timothy Mark Profitt, 53, is charged with fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor, for stepping on the shoulder and neck of Lauren Valle, a MoveOn.org activist who was trying to get close to Republican candidate Rand Paul to present him with a mock award. Profitt will be arraigned Nov. 18, according to court records.
Fourth-degree assault carries a maximum penalty of 12 months in jail, a $500 fine or a combination of both.
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/10/29/1501165/former-rand-paul-volunteer-scheduled.html#ixzz13xE7C7Op