Sirota discovers that Fox News loves big oil and high gas prices.

[madfloridian]

Run time: 04:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8uPvyd41es   Posted on YouTube: June 25, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 27, 2007 By DU Member: madfloridian Views on DU: 1283

 
The opening question from the interviewer lady person...."are we a bunch of whiny babies?"

That passes for news?

From Sirota's notes at You Tube:

The second of two segments on Fox News' weekend business show. In this segment, we debate oil industry price gouging - notice how the other panelists laugh at the very well-known, well-substantiated facts about how the oil industry manipulates supply and refinery capacity to drive gas prices artificially higher. Only on Fox News is the statement of fact laughed at.

And from David Sirota's email today...how in God's name can people watch this stuff and take it seriously? They are laughing at the people who have trouble paying for the gas they need, praising big oil companies. This is truly sick stuff.

When I wrote by book Hostile Takeover (now out in paperback with new additions), I envisioned it as something like a Hitchiker's Guide to Wall Street and Washington's Galaxy - a handbook folks could use to see the real truth when they watch television shows about politics and the economy. I thought the book was a necessary decoder considering that watching these shows is like looking through a sci-fi movie-style portal at planets light years away - planets where Earth's basic laws of physics and facts just don't apply, a place where it's considered totally awesome that health insurance companies rip off patients and oil companies rip off consumers. Appearing on one of these shows as I did recently on Fox News' weekend business show - well, that's even more of a voyage. It's like physically visiting one of those planets without an oxygen mask.

And what the heck happened to Wayne Rogers whom I always fondly remembered from Mash? He says no entitlements to nobody ever! What a bastard.

It is like being in another universe.

[QC]

1. What's wrong with Wayne Rogers? Easy.

Wealthy background. Prep school. Princeton. Been rich all his life.

It's an old story: those born into privilege pretending that they climbed their way to the top and everyone else can damn well do it too.

[underpants]

10. I have seen him on there absolutely tearing Walmart apart

From really early on on Fox he has been on that show and for some reason I have flipped over there to see him rail against Walmart for the pay structure and their attempt a few months ago to start a bank. Rogers apparently has started several banks and he tore the first guy on this clip apart about the banking schemes that lead to the Great Depression as well as the role that locally owned banks play in small business lending (to include farming).

Just so you know.

[PA Democrat]

2. How can any moron still watch FAUX after seeing how they are nothing

more than mouthpieces for the oil companies and all other big businesses? Jeez, are they going to tell us that there is no such thing as OPEC as well?

Quit whining America. Bend over and take your screwing from the oil companies like good loyal Americans.:crazy:

[Kokonoe]

3. IT'S A CONSPIRACY THEORY.

:sarcasm:

[Mark D.]

4. IDIOTS

Wayne Rogers especially, using it as a soapbox to say we need to end 'entitlements'. Amazing. No
word by any about the fact that we taxpayers shelled out 8 billion last year to big oil for R&D that
hasn't gotten us any new ways to replace foreign oil while Exxon / Mobil had the largest profits of
any company in world history that same year THEY raised gas prices to record levels during summer
months (which they do becuase, they just feel like it, knowing more folks want to travel and drive
with A/C on using more gas). We get 2/3 of our oil from the Western Hemisphere, I am so damned
tired of people screaming OPEC every time prices go up when we get more oil from CANADA than
we do from any single country in OPEC. Just another way to 'hate them A-Rabs' vs. realize it
is the big oil corporations playing energy games. You'd think after hearing of (the few out
there who heard it in the MSM) Enron laughing about how gouging prices in California would
hurt the little guy, how their gouging lead to an energy crisis that caused an elected &
otherwise not THAT horrible gov. to be removed & replaced by a GOP operative and all of
that. You think more would finally see the corporate illuminati at work. But no...NOT.

[anotherCTliberal]

5. The interviewer can't believe they've broached this topic?

As Sirota states, we have no/unreliable public transportation infrastructure in this country! So glad that I'm paying $3.60 at a "gas sale" here in CT and I feel I'm entitled to cheap gas. I'll tell you what we're entitled to. Vehicles that get more than 50mpg as a rule, reliable and reasonably priced public transportation for those of us who aren't affluent enough to live right around the corner from the office, and not wasting our "disposable income" to help the Big Oil boast record breaking profits. Oh and I feel we're entitled to having elected officials listen to their constituents and ACT upon what we want, not whomever lines their pockets.

[underpants]

8. Which would lower the demand there by lowering price

at least that is what all these people are saying.

[mikelgb]

6. revolting

:puke:

[rniel]

7. Completely out of touch with regular americans

Marie Antwonette "let them eat cake"

This is a moment in history just like that.

[underpants]

9. Link to a link with the Chevron and Texaco memos Sirota was talking about

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/45