I was listening to Terry Gross on Fresh Air within the last few weeks, and she was interviewing one of the stars of the HBO series "The Newsroom" John Gallagher, Jr., and they played an audio clip from the show. The main stars are Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer and Sam Waterston, and their performances are quite excellent from my point of view. Jane Fonda plays the big boss, and she does a great job of manipulating all her minions. And the spouse will tell you that I have watched a LOT of television, so I might know what I am talking about in my review of this show.
They deal quite frequently with politics and public opinions in general, and the specific discussions of what they should feature on their nightly news programs are quite fascinating.
The audio clip I mentioned in the first paragraph had to do with the Makers v. Takers argument that Governor Mitt Romney tried to advance during his presidential campaign of 2012. This is one of the most misguided statements that he made, though my favorite is still the Binders of Women comment during one of the debates.
While I was mulling over this comparison of who Romney believes are producers as opposed to consumers of public largesse is exactly backwards. The makers are the people breaking their backs to actually support their families at little more than minimum wage (people like bakers and fast food employees, etc), while the takers are the ones shaking down the government for lower tax rates so they can keep more of their millions of dollars they make each year.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
They deal quite frequently with politics and public opinions in general, and the specific discussions of what they should feature on their nightly news programs are quite fascinating.
The audio clip I mentioned in the first paragraph had to do with the Makers v. Takers argument that Governor Mitt Romney tried to advance during his presidential campaign of 2012. This is one of the most misguided statements that he made, though my favorite is still the Binders of Women comment during one of the debates.
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While I was mulling over this comparison of who Romney believes are producers as opposed to consumers of public largesse is exactly backwards. The makers are the people breaking their backs to actually support their families at little more than minimum wage (people like bakers and fast food employees, etc), while the takers are the ones shaking down the government for lower tax rates so they can keep more of their millions of dollars they make each year.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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