Posted on 11/29/2008 4:06:23 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Working on the day after Thanksgiving, Brian Williams used Friday's NBC Nightly News to promote a new book from FDR's grandson, providing Williams with an opportunity to propose: In your estimation, could we use a little FDR right about now? Though Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies failed to end the Depression, Williams hailed him as the man who led this nation out of financial disaster. Conceding we can no longer talk to him, as if we'd benefit from doing so, Williams trumpeted how tonight we think we have about the next best thing in FDR's grandson, Curtis, who lives in the south of France after a career with the UN.
Williams cued up Roosevelt, I know you've been asked for comment along these lines lately: In your estimation, could we use a little FDR right about now? Roosevelt naturally agreed as he recalled FDR is credited with a fantastic list of legislative achievements, but to me, his achievement in conveying confidence and hope to the American people was far more important and so I hope Obama picks it up and will convey to the American public that they have to join him in coping with this recession.
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We don’t need FDR. FDR messed the U.S. up. Maybe Ronald Reagan, maybe George Washington, but NEVER another FDR. (even though we got one anyway)
Williams is an idiot
FDR? Isn’t he the b@st@rd who caused this mess? What the hell do we need Franklin Delano Raines back for? Is he going to clean up the mess or screw us some more?
Well isn't the new Secretary of State channeling Elanor? She Who Must Not Be Named could put in a good word...
Tell everyone you talk to that FDR extended the depression until the war ended it!
We already got all the Frigging Democrat Rats we can stand, Brian.
Lefty Brian Williams was one of the Messiah VP candidates !
Need I say anymore about his dedication to the Messiah’s Marxist Message !
Sure, if you want to turn a downturn into a full-blow depression that takes ten years and a world war to get out of. Sure.
And so is anyone who thinks FDR did anything except turn a market crash and 3 year recession into a decade long depression.
FDR raised the marginal tax rate from 25% to 94% at the end of WWII. You may as well not work and take the free pies at those confiscatory rates. History is your friend.
sure, if you like statism, collectivism, government interventionism, and anti-capitalism
more revisionist history
"1. An immediate and drastic reduction of government expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance, to accomplish a saving of not less than twenty-five percent in the cost of federal government."2. We favor maintenance of the national credit by a federal budget annually balanced on the basis of accurate executive estimates of revenues.
"3. We advocate a sound [gold] currency to be preserved at all hazards.
"4. The removal of government from all fields of private enterprise except where necessary to develop public works and natural resources in the common interest.
Brian displays the typical arrogant ignorance of the MSM stars. He is obviously quite unaware that FDR needlessly prolonged the Great Depression while pretending to a gullible populace that he was ending it.
Williams seems to have no core.
HE could just as easily promote Nascar as capt. Zero and all in the same breath.
In essence he is just a media whore who will do or say near anything for a fast buck.
On the other hand, they will continue to idolize FDR because he represents the concept of big government designed to imprison its people. FDR's government is inefficient and overwhelmingly redundant.
imagine combining another new deal with monetarist/keynesian monetary policy. Hyperinflation here we come!
Cool. I am killing cable and TV at the house too. Why pay money for propaganda. I kept it because Fox was tolerable but no more. I wish anyone who voted for McCain would cancel cable/sat and shut the TV off.
Brian Williams is an idiot.
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