Brian Williams: 'Could We Use a Little FDR Right About Now?'

Newsbusters ^ | November 29, 2008 | Brent Baker

[madison10]

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)

[mylife]

Williams is an idiot

[MIchaelTArchangel]

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?

[Old Sarge]

Conceding “we can no longer talk to him,”

Well isn't the new Secretary of State channeling Elanor? She Who Must Not Be Named could put in a good word...

[omega4179]

Tell everyone you talk to that FDR extended the depression until the war ended it!

[auboy]

We already got all the Frigging Democrat Rats we can stand, Brian.

[ncalburt]

Lefty Brian Williams was one of the Messiah VP candidates !
Need I say anymore about his dedication to the Messiah’s Marxist Message !

[marron]

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.

[Tarpon]

FDR was a socialist/communist -- and FDR was an idiot.

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.

[mjp]

FDR is credited with a fantastic list of legislative achievements

sure, if you like statism, collectivism, government interventionism, and anti-capitalism

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

more revisionist history

[Texas Eagle]

Brian, why don't you do yourself a favor and learn something. Start by reading this book. It details how FDR's policies and programs extended the Depression by years and how many of his policies continue to fleece Americans to this day.

[T Lady]

As I listened to this drivel while sitting at my Dad's computer last night, it made me truly thankful for the fact I yanked my cable subscription nearly three years ago. Williams was so over the top with this cr@p I literally wanted to puke.

[Mojave]

This are some of the Democratic Party platform positions of 1932 that Roosevelt ran under:

"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.

[AmericanVictory]

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.

[rodguy911]

The more I see and hear Brian Williams the more I think he is just a Brokekaw clone only a little bit dumber if that's possible.

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.

[Born In America]

FDR was a disaster. He gave away eastern Europe to a madman and was totally ineffective in economic policy. Today's media desperately wants us to forget about Reagan. Get over Reagan, the era is over.

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.

[ari-freedom]

imagine combining another new deal with monetarist/keynesian monetary policy. Hyperinflation here we come!

[Frantzie]

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.