Matt Welch Talks SOTU Speech and Bailouts on Stossel

On Thursday, January 26, 2012, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch appeared on Fox Business's Stossel, along with The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, to talk about the implications of President Obama's State of the Union address and why his rhetoric doesn't always seem to match his actions.

Approximately 6 minutes.

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[dragknuckle]

@TylerNutify

Obviously you know nothing about conservatism.

1. The Republican controlled House has passed several budgets, but the Democrats in the Senate hasn't passed one in over 1000 days.

2. The wealthy gave far more to Obama than McCain.

3. There is one conservative network to six left-leaning networks.

4. What are you talking about?

5. Try being a conservative in university and see how liberals treat people "not like us."

Now get out there and read Thomas Sowell.

[TWSceptic]

Obama is a good little puppet, and the American people are good little slaves. That's what the people at the top must be thinking now. It's so obvious to anyone paying attention that this whole thing is heading to a cliff.

[TylerNutify]

Obama’s State of the Union Address:

2011.... We need to....

2012 ... We still need to.... Did you guys not hear me the first time?

The Republican Party ... So?

[CornerTalker]

Force kids to stay in school when they want to drop out? So what's that kid doing while he's waiting to be old enought to drop out? 1) Creating a ruckus in the classroom so that studious kids can't concentrate on their work. 2) Destroying order by ridiculing the teacher that has no longer any power to discipline his or her room. 3) Picking a fight with that other kid waiting to be old enough to drop out. 4) Selling drugs. 5) If you can't fill in the blank by now...

[dragknuckle]

@ThisMachineKillsReds

From what I have seen of Occupy, you can be both at the same time. Even Jon Stewart noticed that Occupy Wall Street had its own black ghetto.

[ThisMachineKillsReds]

@dragknuckle I like racists more than hippies. Hating black people does not, necessarily, entail being a left-wing koo-koo moron 'nature' grubbing faggot. Bigotry is far superior to stupidity.

[vonGleichenT]

Students are already being forced to go to school. This would not be something new.

[dragknuckle]

@Choblik

Lots of people like hippies. Nobody likes racists.

[666sigma]

Obama is running for grade school class President.

I promise you no more home work, longer recess, shorter school hours, better grades, kool aid in the drinking fountains and pizza in the school lunches. Or should I am "I will not back down from"?

[Choblik]

@dragknuckle

They label them as hippies.

[dragknuckle]

@Xenthoid

I cannot speak to your specific story. Conservatives can be jerks too, just like everyone else. But conservatives don't write speech codes and label people racist or sexist for stating contrary opinions.

[Xenthoid]

@dragknuckle I got the point of your original post, however, is it really fair to proclaim such a statement?

On a personal note, i have been affiliated with certain political groups on my campus like YAL. we have received just as much hostilities from said conservatives as we did from liberals. all in all, there wasn't much of it to speak of.