Joe Bageant: The Middle Class Game Is Up, We’re Heading to a Slave Labor Planet
Bageant (gotta love this guy) …
Move your lips like a reporter, wear a black shirt and a $600 bush jacket in disaster and war porn spots as Anderson Cooper does, and make at least 4 million a year base salary (plus a few hundred thousand more a year in speakers fees for canned talks. Cooper’s agency will provide the list). Anderson’s basic message is that the world is a horrific place filled with miserable inferior lives, ridden by want, African machete amputations and the like. The guy in front of the flat screen in Cedar Rapids, Iowa doesn’t even have to stop and think to draw the corpo-state approved conclusion Anderson delivers. It’s instantaneous into his deep reptilian brain: “Hatians fucked. Iraqis fucked. Greeks fucked. Me live in best place of all.”
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