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Gutfeld on CNN's Socialist Tweet: 'A Perfect Snapshot of the Left' (Video)
Fox News ^ | January 16,2018 @ 5:49 PM

Posted on 01/17/2018 5:32:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Greg Gutfeld reacted to a CNN tweet dubbing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a "socialist before it was cool."

CNN ✔ @CNN - He's an environmental hero - He was a socialist before it was cool - He never let a political disagreement turn nasty

Many Americans have turned MLK into a safe holiday mascot, but some say King still speaks in ways that go beyond civil rights http://cnn.it/2DyooSM

5:33 AM - Jan 15, 2018

Gutfeld said the notion that the Soviet Union's economic system was "cool" is a "perfect snapshot of the left."

"What a perfect distillation of the adolescent mindset in today's media and in Hollywood," he said.

Gutfeld said that, while the stock market routinely reaches new heights, many young liberals continue to yearn for "the most discredited economic system ever."

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gutfeld; gutfeldtweet

1 posted on 01/17/2018 5:32:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s(Gutfeld)fun to follow on Twitter.


2 posted on 01/17/2018 5:34:29 AM PST by EEGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It was cool except when it wasn’t, of course. It’s like the way that capitalism is the worst political philosophy in the world except for the rest.


3 posted on 01/17/2018 5:39:27 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: EEGator
He's got a point. Only CNN and the 'rat sheeple could be convinced socialism is "cool." I'd rather have a political and economic system that works, that actually creates happy, prosperous societies. Socialism has a 100% failure rate at that, no matter how modern day 'rats and libtards try to dress it up or spin it.

Any liberal lurkers out there - cold hard truth time. Your elite "leaders" are promoting socialism and trying to impose it upon us via fascist means not because it is good for us, but because it would be good for them, the "more equal" animals...

4 posted on 01/17/2018 5:45:13 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I actually have a lib friend. I have no idea why he thinks how he does. Union guy from Reading...total s-hole.


5 posted on 01/17/2018 5:48:30 AM PST by EEGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Socialists of one flavor or another soaked the world in blood and wreaked starvation across the earth throughout the 20th century, but, hey, it’s cool to be a socialist now.


6 posted on 01/17/2018 5:55:00 AM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It was cool except when it wasn’t...

Exactly. There were the little hiccups along the way, mass killings, purges, etc. Any lib lurkers out there, go to Wikipedia and look up "mass killings under communist regimes." How "cool" is socialism now? Or look at what is happening in Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Starvation, riots, secret police, yeah, real cool libtards. Socialism sucks.

7 posted on 01/17/2018 5:58:06 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: EEGator
I actually have a lib friend. I have no idea why he thinks how he does.

Same here but he's not a friend and never will be. He's just a fellow senior softball player who actually believes communism is the perfect form of government...

I've almost punched him out several times after he made disgusting comments about Justice Scalia's death and President Reagan........

8 posted on 01/17/2018 5:59:44 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“He was a socialist before it was cool”

Most Americans reject socialism precisely because it is not “cool”.


9 posted on 01/17/2018 6:01:05 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I train my friend at work. He’s a depressed fat guy, but I care for him.


10 posted on 01/17/2018 6:05:57 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ThunderSleeps

“Any liberal lurkers out there - cold hard truth time. Your elite “leaders” are promoting socialism and trying to impose it upon us via fascist means...”

And before you impose socialism on the rest of us, you’re going to have to confiscate our guns - every pea-pickin’ last one of ‘em, before you proceed.

Otherwise, be prepared to encounter a rifle behind every blade of grass, as a WWII enemy of ours so aptly put it.

WOLVERINES!


11 posted on 01/17/2018 6:12:24 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Paine in the Neck

And, in current events we have... Venezuela! And yet millennials supposedly love it. Incredible.


12 posted on 01/17/2018 6:13:29 AM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Being drunk on power is the “cool” part.
Eleminating your competition and or your inferiors.
I am certain the people who advocate socialism do not see themselves on the bottom rung of socialism but on the top.
Where all perks are.


13 posted on 01/17/2018 6:16:22 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

For the moment, the ideological heirs of those that believe the flames of liberty must be extinguished and the aspirations of the individual curtailed for the alleged good of humanity have grown more sophisticated in their methods of getting the people to comply with their agenda.

We must ask with concern: will the aspiring despots among us resort to the violent tendencies of their philosophical progenitors in the attempt to bring about socialism’s ultimate triumph?


14 posted on 01/17/2018 6:18:56 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Leep
I am certain the people who advocate socialism do not see themselves on the bottom rung of socialism but on the top.

And when they find out they're actually on the bottom rung, there's no way to back out of it.

Used to be, when you said anything even slightly disparaging about incremental socialism, the sheeple would bleat, "If it ever got too bad, we'd just vote it out!" Anybody remember that line?

Socialists who are sure they are anointed by God to rule don't respect the ballot box.

15 posted on 01/17/2018 6:27:01 AM PST by thulldud ("What makes it news is its dissemination, not its concrete reality." -- Ellul)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MLK was not a socialist, he was a a registered Republican. Isn’t that an inconvenient fact you never hear from the media.


16 posted on 01/17/2018 6:38:45 AM PST by lp boonie (Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Jay Carney’s gourmet kitchen is filled with Communist propaganda"

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/12/jay-carneys-gourmet-kitchen-is-filled-with-communist-propaganda/


17 posted on 01/17/2018 6:55:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Leep

You nailed it!


18 posted on 01/17/2018 6:57:37 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Did he weep for Fidel and Hugo? I had a couple of snootfulls of Bacardi and Coke.


19 posted on 01/17/2018 6:59:28 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: BenLurkin

#17 The people would not ever have that much food to eat. Only the commie party members would like those pictured.


20 posted on 01/17/2018 2:25:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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