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  • Al Sharpton is an annoying fraud.

  • Ron Paul 2012!

  • cornel is my hero

    amen!!!!

    that bankster warmonger hobama is a failed hoax!!!!

    nobama 2012!!!

    ron paul 2012!!!

    

  • Health care is NOT a right unless it is ADDED by a majority vote, like women's right to vote and others, etc.

  • Health care can't be a right unless to you make doctors slaves and take away their rights.

  • @TheTruthBomb Just curious. How so? I'm interested in your thoughts on this.

  • @ahhhhjjjj Health care is a either medicine or a physical act performed on a person.

    Lets say we made having sex a right.

    Man to women, I demand sex it's my constitutional right.

    Patient to Surgeon I demand heart surgery it's my constitutional right.

    You can't make a act another has to provide a right, without removing the right of the individual to withhold their services.

    Rights are things you can born with that don't require a act of another.

  • How could cutting $2.1 Million affect 32 million people? Schultz is such a joke.

  • The Black Agenda?!?! I always love seeing that one! Ed knows better! SMFH, if Obama locks in on that worded concept.....................th­e possibilities in the area of reactions from The Right are endless!

    That said, Professor West is one solid individual!

  • @palatiality I'm embarrassed whenever i wash Al on his show Politics Nation. He can't read the teleprompter. Al improvises very well when he speaks, but, like you said, as an anchor, nah.

  • This is ANNOYING...they never let West speak!

  • Haha, cornel west just predicted the occupy movement on his first statement!

    

  • From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.”

    (Frederich A. Hayek)

  • Fucking ridiculous. Every time I discuss economics with a liberal, they start speaking louder and louder and louder to drown out ur voice. Shatpton is just sooo annoying. Equality is great and all but you can't force equality to happen.

  • Who taught you to hate yourself? Who brainwashed you? How powerful is the media? African Americans are supposed to be getting hired left and right even though most of the companies in America are ran by whites and 99% of congress are white men. Since the president is black, companies are supposed to reject me and wait for a black guy? What's funny is that there's a white guy comfortably seating between two negroes that look like they're ready to kill each other on national television.

  • Why should Obama only be concerned about black people and not Americans in general? Negroes like West have been paid and endorsed by white men throughout history to turn Negroes, or whatever, against each other and it's worked for centuries. I've seen this act before. Black people stop referring to him as an intellectual. Malcolm X and W.E.B Dubois are examples of intellectuals not this fake ass Fredrick Douglas. By the way, what has West done for you''ll?

  • i could watch this 24/7, this ended too soon

  • Tell it like it is Dr. West. This isn't the black agenda, this is working class agenda.

  • who turned out the lights in that news room?

  • from time to time , they select a " Wizard of Oz "

  • Cornell speaks the complete truths. Everyone else is speaking half truths.

  • Sharpton shows he's a flunkie of Obama, the flunkie of the 1% & the war profiteers. Not a second too soon, Dr. West rips the masks off Sharpton & his puppet master, Obama, the tool of the 1%. Bravo (at last) Dr. West -- keep fighting for the 1% by taking on the Obama & his 1% masters. You see the light at last Dr. West -- keep spreading the truth by taking on the sell-out, Obama & his head flack, Al (the bought off) Sharpton!

  • GOD BLESS YOU PROFESSOR WEST. YOU HAVE NEVER FALTERED FROM STANDING UP AND SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN A SEA OF DENIERS.

    THANK-YOU FOR TAKING SUCH A PASSIONATE AND COURAGEOUS STAND AT A TIME WHEN SO MANY LEADERS HAVE REMAINED SILENT. THANK-YOU FOR BEING OUT THERE ON THE FRONT-LINES TO LEND YOUR UNWAVERING SUPPORT TO THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT. IT SEEMS THAT THE PASSAGE OF TIME (FORTY YEARS OR MORE ) HAS NOT PALED BUT EMBOLDENED YOUR COMMITTMENT TO THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY.

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  • America is collapsing the banksters dont give a fuck they back stabbed the government who cannot show this to the people Rothschild are laughing all the way

  • Can anyone tell em why Asians aren't included into statistics? Why are they alienated when it comes to assessing the unemployment rate?

  • Cornell West is my new hero.

    Obama is a fraud bought & paid for by Goldman Sachs.

    Dirty Old White Man.

  • I'm not a big fan of Sharpton, but he ate Cornel's pseudo-academic ass up!

  • I hate how the media tries to racially keep us divided!

  • ED SHITS AND AL SHARPLESS.. What a dynamic duo.  They both suck.

  • @ 12:58. Al sharpton was like wtf?? Conyers got a jobs bills??? lol

  • Cornel is a great man.

  • Rush Limbaugh: "somebody throw these niggers a piece of chicken!"

  • I know msnbc are turning this argument black here,but it is how talks start.All people have to get moving.If you can't get out of your house give our people support.

  • West seems to be the only 1 on the panel wth a head. Obama gets away wth murder because he's black. A white face would not get away wth half the shit he does. But thats the game; after Bush, the country was on a brink of a revolution. But they pulled a black card, offered "Change & Hope" & everybody calm the F**K down. As a blk woman, I voted, believed in, & supported him. I'm just 1 of the few blk people that's aware of how badly she was duped & refuse 2 support anybody based on skin color.

  • @YouLaToya

    So you voted for Obama because he was black and you bought into his Hope and Change bullshit? You never looked into who was financially supporting him and why?

  • @kaminoneh No love, not because he was "black" but because he seemed like the lesser of 2 evils... Do consider the alternative.

  • @YouLaToya

    okay fare enough. 

  • @YouLaToya support the republikkkans then you selloutbitch

  • @montez254 Lol... You call it sellout, I call it patriotism... ^_^

  • @YouLaToya difference between you can mr cornell west and travis they want obama to to suceed theyre just let down by his policies.you are one of those black uncle tom tea party members big difference.obama let me down also but i refuse to vote for the ilk in the republican party.SO YES OBAMA 2012

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  • @YouLaToya we just have to agree to disagree its your right not to vote be blessed and OBAMA 2012

  • @montez254 yer a sell-out faggot - any questions?

  • No, Obama ain't the oligarch's shoe -shine boy....I will say he APPEARS to be that way and at this point appearance counts if he wants relelection...Yet, consider this- since he knows he's not getting relected (he's not), why doesn't he let it all hang out?? Yeah, totally drop his Bush policies, , bring ALL the troops home- at least try....I think he's become placid sad to say

  • Race is still a real issue. Not acknowledging that truth is racist.

  • What a joke! Obama's biggest campaign contributors came from Wall Street and the Banker Plutocrats. This is pure msnbc propaganda nonsense. Obama is sucessfully serving Bush's third term doing everything exactly the same. Wake up people! Obama works for Wall Street & the Bankers! If you think otherwise, you're a brain washed idiot. 

  • Obama has the easiest job in the world. He's a puppet

  • @MistaFrz Actually its only the easiest job in the world if you're not human

  • @tek510

    It's easy to sign what Goldman sachs tells him and read off a teleprompter.

  • Velma Hart is being pimped

  • "TRUE" haha

  • @mespasticpunk amen brother!

  • Sharpton is such a fucking idiot tool...

  • ed... your boring. msnbc sux now

    

  • i agree with Cornel. When are liberals going to critisize obama where they need to. Bias only leads to mroe bias.

  • Al Sharpton aka Mr. ME ME ME is an idiot...everybody fought Ryans plan in the House but you dont see that on MSNBC and main stream media...the only place you wouldve seen it is if you were watching CSPAN live

  • He uses lots of big impressive words. Someone should teach him about the Federal Reserve.  He would then see the true threat to America's lower/middle class.

  • I can tell you this, Cain is 100% black. Since the Y chromosome that Obama got from his black father is shorter than the X chromosome he got from his white mother, he is slightly more white than he is black. I consider Obama white and so should everyone. It is very racist to consider someone black because they have a drop of black blood, but not white because they have a drop of white blood. While most blacks vote for Obama because of his policies, let's remember, he is white.

  • Sharpton is a tool of the machine! Go Cornel!

  • Shut your big fat trap, "reverend" Al Sharpton.

  • IM SORRY BUT THE LAST 3 MINUTES WAS UNCIVILIZED RUBBISH

  • west better watch - he may get shot lol

    by obamas thugs

  • i think for a second ed turned black at the end

  • Obama has a spine.... it's just that he's a massive pussy! Brother West definitely knows his shit, the blue blazer lady is grabbing at anything, she doesn't know shit.

  • yeah i htink i do like cornell west and i'm a white 31 year libertarian who was raised rural, lol.

  • Does anyone notice how MSNBC keeps using race baiting tactics to get viewers and cause trouble? "Pres Obama and the Black Agenda" followed by "The Black Agenda" again right underneath it. Corel West is not for Black people, he is for Poor people of all colors! He says it in almost every speech he gives and the Media still thinks this is a Black issue. The Main Stream Media is corrupt and is run by the Oligarchs who control this Country. Obama is working for Wall St. and the MSM loves him for it.

  • Liberals blacks demanding more welfare. The more welfare, the more economic decline. But you can't tell these people on the left that. They can't see and they don't care. They demand socialism and damn the consequences.

  • Dr West should run for president as an independent!

  • @ajordan26able no we do not need another nigger as POTUS.

    one is enough.This will never happen again.ever.

  • @xcalibur4l

    Was going to agree with you about big brother but your just a racist troll

  • Obama is such a disappointment to many who voted for him in 2012.

  • By the way-Love Dr. Cornell West, hope he lives long and stays strong.

  • @Xtralutionary Dr. West is telling the truth.....I love listening to truth, its absolute...

  • @scorpionJB Dr West is telling the truth. And the more truth he exposes about Obama. His die hard ObamaBot followers get more hostile and defensive. Like this cunt in this video.

  • @HarveyRex23 what's sad about this entire situation, when Obama was introduced to the national stage while serving as the keynote speaker during the 2004 democratic convention, the hair on the back of my neck stood up (literally), I got bad vibes on the spot, for I knew he was going to be the next president, and while that reality unfolded, every single voice of the true black luminaries who has genuinely fought for the cause has been underminded, underappreciated, and undervalued

  • @HarveyRex23 and what's crazy, our plight has worsened since his tenure as president, not blaming everything on him, but considering the fact that Obama received 98% of the black vote, the fact so many black folk believed in his message, for him to distance himself from our plight, luminaries such as Dr. West has the right to state the truth and criticize the rhetoric...as of 2010, the average black household earns 12-14,000 dollars, the average white household earns over 120,000..staggering

  • @scorpionJB You know whats truly staggering, that people list numbers that benefit them but never realize that numbers see no prejudice. You listed that the "average" white household earns over 120k. Thats a pretty talking point on paper. Now lets look at the numbers. When you know that the top 1% of the wealthy control the vast majority of the wealth in the U.S., what do you think that does to raise that average eh? When are you people going to learn the battle is elite vs the world?

  • "War of the classes" is right! But soon this will end, it's only the doorway to a NEW world order. The new world order attempts to bring peace and harmony to all classes at home and abroad. It will not succeed for long. A sharp division will be forced to occur. The consequences for those who choose to go against the current will be persecuted with capital punishment (Death). The intensity generated through politicians & civilians these days is simply a cry for this inevitability to not be!

  • OMG, even Sharpton seems rational compared to that pseudo intellectual fake.

  • @DawnOfTheDead991

    Shut you fucking house negro.

  • @Reqrezentin Yassuh maass! Do you want your shoes shined too?

  • @DawnOfTheDead991

    No, really, seeing I'm a field negro.

  • @DawnOfTheDead991 After weze hahvust dem tobako and coton plants?

  • This should be called " Can we be white too. ..Of course the problem is everyone's but now they have these blk confused ohcrats debating the global elites or whatever other name u call them agenda, which as been set in stone since the 17oo's.

  • Why are all the people he's talking too black?

  • Gosh.

  • Al Sharpton talks the most sense!!!

  • Question. Who writes the bills? How are bills passed? If Obama tried to pass a bill that would benefit poor people would that mean it would get passed? Lets try this. How about you write your Congressman to express how you aren't pleased with the conditions for the poor and working class. Better yet why don't you ask West to leave his office in Princeton and take a job at Howard to be closer to the poor in DC.

  • @therealbigboy23435-Your answer is: THE CORPORATIONS WRITE THE BILLS. The corporations wrote the health care bill. Look I PROMISE YOU THIS: Obama will never pass a LARGE EMPLOYMENT BILL. Why, not because of the Republicans, but because his handlers, The Federal Reserve, The Military, The Secret Societies, etc., and honestly he does not relate to poor people, he did not see a ghetto until he was like 20 years old. He relates to rich white men, that's about it.

  • look obama has fucked up here and there for everybody pure and simple and the black ppl who act like any negative criticism against him is some sort of conservative fox news backed opinion is stupid. We have 9.2% unemployment rate (blacks 15.9%) and i am tired of obama ( and all democrates) having no damn back bone. I don't see either fighting for the middle class. Remeber General electric made 14.2 billion last year and paid no taxes.....thanks obama

  • What has Cornel West done for Black people? What has Tavis Smiley done for black people? What have YOU done for black people? Why are you looking for the President to do for a particular race? The advancement of a particular people starts from the ground up. What are you doing to advance black people if thats your concern?

  • Thanks Cornel ! Everything you said needed to be said THANKS AGAIN !

  • @starrra1 amon......this brotha is real.....i love all these guys, they do care, even if there's a differnce of opinion...

  • @scorpionJB thanks ! i completely share your sentiment , Brother Cornel is definitely the real deal

  • Cornel West and Tavis Smiley do not speak for, nor do they represent "Black" people. They represent themselves and their views are not indicative of every Black person in this country. His compromises doesn’t mean lost the fights. It just means he was more calculated with his punches. People like Smiley and West get knocked out in the fist round. You just can’t throw haymakers and expect to win.

  • @therealbigboy23435

    And Obama does? What has Obama done for black people since he's been in office?

  • @therealbigboy23435 I disagree with you, Barack Obama has lost the fight, you said that Obama was more calculated with his punches, no, he throw no punches for working and poor people. Every policy that Obama has passed has been in the interest of wall street, banks, corporations and the wealthiest 1%. Mr. West said it best "Obama is a black mascot of the oligarchic elite."

  • @therealbigboy23435 Calculated with his punches??? When has he thrown a punch? Obama keeps up with this compromise, and he'll be looking for a new job January 20, 2013.

  • Cornel West attempts to relate directly and Al Sharpton just begins to bellow

  • The Nobel peace prize should be taken away from Obama! He has a big CFR hand up his puppet backside. Impeach this evil liar and let us get rid of his evil empire. Don't forget to get medieval on them.

    "When injustice becomes law, Rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson

    whatis-theplan(dot)org

  • CAN WE ALL GET ALONG TO HELP OTHERS?

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  • "class warfare..."

    what a conspiracy nut. makes you rethink princeton's reputation.

  • @theAYSays Why is that conspiratory? Look at the policies in the last 30 years: clear overrepresentation of the rich class. Tax cuts, subcidies and deregulations on one side, and stagnating wages, loss of jobs and increasing poverty on the other. Go figure,,

  • @daveruda

    Because rich people, even assuming that they're nothing but selfish and have not an ethical bone in their body, only care about one thing: becoming more wealthy. That's not class warfare; they're not purposely trying to make the poor even poorer. Instead, they're trying to do whatever they can to increase profits.

    But the way that economics work is that they can't become richer without enriching someone else, unless they use government to coerce others into less-than-beneficial

  • @daveruda

    agreements. Subsidies, for example, force people to give their money in support of things they otherwise would not care to buy. Why lower prices when you can force people to buy your goods?

    Higher taxes is what causes more poverty, less real wages, and decreases jobs because taxes take money out of individual consumers' hands and put it into government's hands. Government is not as efficient as a spender as a collection of individuals, because government cannot specify goods and

  • @daveruda

    services to tailor each individuals' particular needs. Higher taxes also means less money for individuals and individual companies to higher more workers, to offer lower prices for consumers, etc., all of which increase the rich-poor gap and make everyone poorer.

    Regulation seems like a good idea on the surface, but in reality it increases the rich-poor gap unfairly because lobbyists rig the regulations to benefit the richest, most powerful companies at the expense of smaller,

  • @daveruda

    or more innovative companies. For example, Walmart lobbyists lobbied to raise the minimum wage to 7 dollars an hour. Walmart didn't have to pay single cent more to their workers, because their lowest-earning worker already made 8 dollars/hour. However, most family businesses paid around 5 dollars/hour. After this increase, a lot of smaller businesses went out of business, effectively crushing Walmart's competition all across the country.

    Regulation also prevents innovation, because

  • @daveruda

    many companies need to be able to do things differently than the conventional method. Regulation, at its best, reinforces a certain standard method of doing things - a method that the top companies have mastered. Innovation requires a break from those standard methods, which regulation will stifle. For example, the FDA restricted the production of a hormone shot to one pharmacy, who proceeded to raise the price from 15 dollars to 10,000 dollars - not because of a patent, but because

  • @theAYSays I guess you think a society only should benefit a small elite like now? If you look back at the time when capitalism worked best 40s-70s...the economy was under tight regulation and taxes were high on the richest people. They could not stash away their profits and gamble on Wall St corrupting speculation. They accually had to invest their money into the economy. Corporate profits are higher than ever but ordinary people dont benefit like they used to---now in a state of decline..

  • @daveruda

    of regulation.

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  • Does Ed Schultz need to look into a mirror or something? He clearly doesn't realize that he is an old white man from North Dakota

  • We are Anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.

    We are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.

    We are Anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. You are a human being, your life has value.

    We are Anonymous,

    We are legion,

    Expect us!

    whatis-theplan(dot)org

  • @Ubertroll94 dude, we get it.

  • we are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.

    we are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.

    we are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value. we are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!

    whatis-theplan(dot)org

  • We are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.

    We are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.

    We are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value.

    We are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!

    whatis-theplan(dot)org

  • we are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world's governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.

    we are aware of the governments' attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.

    we are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value. we are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!

    whatis-theplan(dot)org

  • @KarainFoE

    hahaha cornballs.

  • @KarainFoE-Nice try....THERE IS NO "ANONYMOUS" you are a government run organization who post shit on pages like this to get BLACKS TO JOIN. And then when the government declares MARSHALL LAW, which is already in the senate bill HR 465, {CONCENTRATION CAMPS} you can start rounding up BLACKS for joining your so-called terrorist organization. SORRY I BLEW YOUR COVER!!!!!

  • Goddamn they were wiling out. Some strong opinions on that video. Ron Paul 2012

  • Both are BOULE PROSTITUTES However West is beginning to distance himself from his greek Boule affiliations it appears Sharpton is simply a media whore for the elite campaigning for Obamanations re-election~!

  • West is clearly so much smarter than everyone else at that table.

  • Whoops, wrong thing. They're talking about medicaid, not medicare.

    Medicade budget in 2010=290 Billion

    2.17Million/290Billion= .000748 Percent. 748 MILLIONTHS of a PERCENT. People have no concept of scale.

    Take a look at mint com "Death and taxes" image.

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  • Sharpton is a politician hack and opportunistic pundit stooge. Cornel West is a hot air factory but at least among West's own narcissistic rambling and grandiosity some truth gets farted out onto the msms' pundit core faces.

    Suck it Chris Matthews, msnbc, cnn, huffpost, not-so-sharp-ton, and all yall mother fuckaz

  • Barack Obama is clearly not a democrat. And fox news pundits have the nerve to fool americans into thinking he is a Socianist or Marxist?!?!?!?!?! I am beginning to think all these americans who aren't smart enough or willing to find out what's really going on, who continue to believe the bullshit their public officials spout out, deserve this country they have been tricked into creating. I hope someday they realize how bad they fucked up before it's too late.

  • @jpp3g Obummer is a Democrat. He's a post-Clinton/post-90s "centrist"  DLC type.... but yeah I.E. moderate Republican in practice.... Moderate Rpublicanism died but lives in today's Dem Party... as the Republicants slide into Tea Party absurdity and right-wing extremism.

  • @S2Cents

    Yeah that's exactly what's wrong with this country. It's good to see someone that can break through the bullshit party barriers and realize that they are virtually the same, at least regarding their ultimate net results. I prefer to call it paleoconservatism, which I am not completely against. They aren't imperialists, but they have too much faith in the free market. What do you think about Ron Paul? I'm still not sure about him...

  • @jpp3g Paul thinks government all bad, fantasy market i.e. economic system which doesn't exist in reality and never will, ever- equals good.

    Paul's a space cadet. However, libertarian dreamers like Paul make for great critics of the Republican/Democrat Party.

  • @jpp3g "I am beginning to think all these americans who aren't smart enough or willing to find out what's really going on, who continue to believe the bullshit their public officials spout out, deserve this country they have been tricked into creating."

    Well put.

    Very well put.

  • I wasn't sure I should believe that MSNBC was a socialist left wing propaganda channe. It seem they were right. I mean correct !

  • plz do give two man a baseball bat so they can start beating eachother with it.

  • the last couple minutes turned into pure slapaho politics, shout a bitch and slap a ho

  • Cornell West is EXACTLY correct the only reason I would thumb this down is because of the terrible disgrace Al Sharpton is in this video.

  • West is so right about the jail/prison industrial complex. I did 50 days in jail over some shit I didn't even do but the system is such a slick conveyor belt reality doesn't matter.

  • @DoomCity202 It's not about black or white, dem or repub, left or right...It's about the elites vs. the rest of us. They have played us off each other for too long. Obama is just a puppet like W was. They work for the same ppl who believe in eugenics and making us hate each other.

  • @BigCavone75 a cannot disagree with you at all....all good points

    respect

  • I think the debate should be keynesian vs free market economics.

  • Patriot act has just been ext