Posted on 01/21/2014 11:04:10 AM PST by Kaslin
On Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams – who reportedly earned $13 million a year in 2012 – quoted Karl Marx while hyping a new report on global income disparity: "...the staggering news out today about the growing gap between the haves and the have nots." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Williams melodramatically recited the findings: "Some new figures came out today....And they are so shocking, it takes a while for them to sink in. A study commissioned by Oxfam says the world's richest 85 individuals have the same wealth as 3.5 billion people around the world. Once again, 85 people on this planet have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people on this planet."
Multi-Millionaire Brian Williams Lectures Viewers on Income Inequality
As NewsBusters' Tim Graham reported in 2008, this is the same Brian Williams who "lives in one of New York's swankiest addresses in Manhattan with the chic restaurant Le Cirque on the ground floor, which offers high priced cuisine like an appetizer of terrine of foie gras with Gewurtztraminer gelee for $38. 'It's better than having an Applebee's in the lobby,' he joked to the New York Observer in 2006."
Williams has a history of hypocrisy when it comes to scolding others for their wealth or spending habits. In January of 2012, he actually had the nerve to hit then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over his "unimaginable wealth." In August of 2012, he wrung his hands over the amount of money spent in that year's presidential race:
...spending on 2012 presidential radio and TV ads has now surpassed the half-billion-dollar mark....$500 million could feed 9.2 million malnourished children for 50 days. It could immunize 29 million children for life. It could provide clean water for 500 million children for 40 days. And it could buy 166 million antimalarial mosquito bed nets, two for every person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
On Monday, after noting that "the top 1% of families own 46% of our total global wealth," Williams added that the annual World Economic Forum would "be focused in large part on this growing and dangerous income disparity."
Here is a full transcript of the January 20 news brief by Williams:
7:17PM ET TEASE:BRIAN WILLIAMS: We're back in a moment with the staggering news out today about the growing gap between the haves and the have nots.
7:22PM ET SEGMENT:
WILLIAMS: Some new figures came out today, as we mentioned, on global wealth and income disparity. And they are so shocking, it takes a while for them to sink in. A study commissioned by Oxfam says the world's richest 85 individuals have the same wealth as 3.5 billion people around the world. Once again, 85 people on this planet have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people on this planet. The top 1% of families own 46% of our total global wealth. Their share equals $110 trillion.
These numbers have come out on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which, while attended by the rich and powerful, is this year going to be focused in large part on this growing and dangerous income disparity.
Typical communist piece of crap. They never apply their rules to themselves.
Hypocrites.
And I bet it gives him a big tax deduction which is more important to him than helping the poor
“But Brian Williams has those John Kerry Concern Eyebrows.
LOL! I remember that POS had to “clarify” his grimace when FL was switched from Gore to Bush in one of the projections on election night 2000. I can’t believe he could find work after that flagrant bias...
<<<< I bet he puts 90% of his $12,000,000 to charitable uses. >>>>
Leadership, Brian. Give 3/4 of your wealth away to the first 10 people you see in a rough neighborhood of New York. I’m sure everyone else in your overpaid bracket will follow suit.
Down here at The Hope And Change Mission For Wayward Boys, we’re all real glad that Brian is talking. Yesterday, we all had a Talk Sammich. The day before, they served us Talk On Toast without the toast. I hear we’re each going to get a big old piece of Talk Pie tomorrow. Ummm-mmmm. Maybe they’ll put some Talk Whipped Cream on top! Thanks, Brian!
A strong feeling.
Kool converter..
Brian “Bow from the Waist” Williams.
Rush has said that liberalism is a mental disease and he is correct.
Brian Williams lies and undermines his country because he gets lots of silver for his betrayal and he has no morals. He even watched his daughter having sex with another women on an HBO show called “Girls”. Read this from Newsbusters and you will know how he likes to be there in person.
http://tinyurl.com/akaddzv
He also has that too tanned look with raccoon eyes from wearing the goggles.
New math? Inflation? Donkey brains?
And then what? Let them go back to starvation diets; or to drinking out of mud puddles again?
Hey; why not feed 4.6 million for 100 days? Maybe 2.3 million for 200 days? Or even 18.4 million for 25 days? Maybe ONE BIG MEAL for 460 million!
Choices, choices, choices!
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