Thomas Friedman on Morning Sedition ...

[lanparty]

I can't believe they had this colossal putz on and gave him an almost COMPLETE pass.

I can't stand his "more education" crap. The fact is that we are no OVER-EDUCATING people since we are outsourcing white collar jobs overseas for no advantage other than wages. Hundreds of thousands of electrical and software engineers are now unemployed in this nation. They have a HARDER time getting other jobs due to their being "overeducated" for "regular" jobs.

Next time, I hope they get Greg Palast on the phone next time to hand Friedman his ass on a platter. I cannot stand this overly neo-liberal notion that outsourcing "NECESSARILY" benefits people in 3rd world nations.

Shit at the very LEAST they could have gotten Randi Rhodes to call in. She would have ripped Friedman a new ass hole.

In fact, all we do is send our best jobs overseas to places with poor labor, health and environmental standards. At the sametime, we are DESTROYING the leverage of organized labor here at home. The net result will be to turn the United States into India.

Yes, I once too believed the bullshit claptrap about outsourcing and globalization. Then I figured out the game (and I got the axe). It's not about "competition" or "efficiency". It's all about a companies ability to subject workers into ever more serf-like working conditions.

I might have to STOP listening to Morning Sedition now. Marc Maron had this guy on AIR AMERICA. REMEMBER ALL THOSE PROTESTERS IN SEATTLE. THAT IS YOUR AUDIENCE.

Air America is all about POLITICAL RADIO. Even the loudmouth morning hosts on "duh" radio will take a position and get people fired up. Even NPR would bother to ask TOUGH QUESTIONS. Shit Even Pat Buchanan would have been a better Air America host during that segment.

JEESH. FIRE MARC MARON!!!!!!!

[trumad]

1. Actually Lou Dobbs would have nailed his ass...

[lanparty]

2. Lou Dobbs is awesome !!!!!!

He beats up on free traders EVERY night. The guy is a REAL journalist.

[Claire Beth]

3. yeah, Lou Dobbs is great! n/t

[pretzel4gore]

4. doesn't make sense....

nothing in mainstream media does.
randi rhodes voted for reagan in '80 election cuz of 'gas prices'
she said....
let's email air america and tell them 'friedman is a card carrying pig you goofy assholes'...

[GOPFighter]

5. 'More education' is a hoax

A 43-year old factory worker looses his/her job. The GOP says no problem, all we need to do is re-educate to do a new job. To do what? Education takes time, money, and in the end there's no guarantee that there will be a job waiting at the end of the training. Worse, education decreases your chance for a new job because someone who has successfully completed a training course, or gets a degree, expects a wage commensurate with their training. That is exactly what corporate America doesn't want to do. The more your wage exceeds minimum wage, the harder companies will work to replace you with a lower wage worker (Mexico, India) or a machine.

I work for the federal government and they are trying to contract about 70% of our professional workforce (a degree is required for these jobs}. The contract workers get paid about half what we do now, they have far fewer benefits but it costs the government (taxpayers) about the same as a federal employee. Guess who gets the difference? The contracting company (who then gives a portion of the profit to the GOP in political contributions.)

The workers in America are getting seriously screwed.

[lanparty]

8. Agreed ...

Corporate America wants an educated worker at sub-minimum wages. The bottom line is that all the people who did what they were "supposed" to do in the first round of "globalization" got the axe in THIS round.

The other big piece of shit is this notion that we are "importing" people so they can "create jobs". Aren't we supposed to train AMERICANS so they have the skills to start companies?????

[vi5]

6. Don't know why I subject myself to playing Devils Advocate, but..

"REMEMBER ALL THOSE PROTESTERS IN SEATTLE. THAT IS YOUR AUDIENCE."

Where do you get that information from? Honestly, if that were the target audience of any group, it would be a very limited one. I'm one of the people sympathetic to and favorable towards that cause. But again, I"m under no delusion that if AAR or any of it's individual shows were to consider that specific group their audience, that they would fall flat on their faces in no time ratings and advertising wise.

For the record, I hate Friedman and I"m anti-outsourcing. I just think the quote above was a bit off the mark.

[lanparty]

9. Pissed off liberals ...

That's the audience of Air America. The type of people who demonstrate against WTO, NAFTA and FTAA.

Guess what, when you broadcast you have a target demographic. You have a group of "core" audience who will keep coming back. You need to cater to that group to keep them listening.

Morning Sedition seriously pissed off it's core demographic this morning by laying down for Thomas Friedman. The guy is seriously evil in his own self-deluded fashion.

We need to outsource Marc Maron. He can't seem to hold a serious conversation and it COMPLETELY OBSESSED with "The Day After Tomorrow".

Think about it. This guy rails on about "The Day After Tomorrow", but he nods and agrees with Thomas Friedman. Air America doesn't mean "AIR HEAD"!!!!!!! Let's just call him Marc MORON from now on.

[DancingBear]

7. This is why Morning Sedition is such a terrible program

None of the hosts have the ability to engage Friedman on his positions. Remember, these hosts are (by and large) put there to have "fun" in the AM, hence the banal stuff like "dream diary" et al.

They are kindergarten kids when they have to attempt to be interviewers, and it showed today. Friedman was able to do an infomercial for his beliefs without being forced to defend them in any way. It would have been extremely beneficial to have someone the caliber of Palast to argue the opposing viewpoint here, and it would have made for interesting radio. Whether you agree with him or not, Friedman is an intelligent man, well versed in the issues, at least as to how he sees them. This interview cried out for some serious discourse, and we didn't see it today.

As long as this program remains in its present format, we never will.