The “Blame The Liberals” Game
With gas up to $3.67 and oil above $12, what a wonderful message we have from Jonathan Hoenig, who runs an outfit called Capitalist Pig. He’ll be on Hannity and Colmes tonight, blaming guess who for the high price of oil. The environmentalists. Which is a cute way of saying “the liberals.” We should feel sorry for the poor oil companies who work so hard on exploration and are kept down by the coal and oil-hating Democrats, and who have such narrow profit margins that they have to struggle. Never mind that Republicans have been in power for most of the last twenty-five years controlling one branch or the other of government. If those horrible tree-huggers would just let the good-hearted capitalists do their thing, what a wonderful world it would be.
I take the sanguine view that this whole “crisis” ain’t no bug: it’s a feature.
Nothing less than a full-on panic is going to direct creative juices into better finding energy alternatives.
The trick here is to keep people from placing nearly religious levels of faith in the power of government to ’solve’ things.
As you note, the government (liberal or conservative) isn’t terribly effective.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hoenig is another Ayn Rand fan.
Ayn “Me First” Rand.
If he wasn’t blaming the tree-huggers, he’d be blaming Bill Clinton. Or, unions. Or, the commies. Except for the capitalist commies in China, who’re Hoenig’s best friends.
Capitalist pig, indeed.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Capitalism always works better then ‘more govt.’ just look at Enron, the Savings and Loan thing, and all the other gone belly-up capitalistic ventures that the government had to bail out. Not that I’m anti-capitalism it’s just that it does need some regulation and controls and the government is the only entity that can do it. “Market” corrections can be oh severe that they destroy the entire economy.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Has anyone seen this guy’s website? His t-shirts are quite disgusting:
book named “Greed is Good”, and a poster with “Capitalist Pig” above a large, conquering tank.
Shouldn’t capitalism be about empowering everyone, by giving everyone equal opportunity to achieve a similar quality of life? It would appear that to Hoenig capitalism is about selfishness and intimidation.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
What a dick.
(Sorry Alan, I couldn’t avoid the name calling after I saw that poster.)
May 9th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Would someone please tell me if there’s some kind of mid-point between capitalism and socialism? I honestly have no idea.
In Alan’s book, there’s a thing that goes like this (from left to right, but top to bottom here):
communism
socialism
liberalism
conservatism
fascism
totalitarianism
May 9th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hoenig is a regular on the FOX-Cavuto round table show.
One of my most memorable FOX moments was listening to the Cavuto round table pose the idea that launching a war on Iran would be good for the US economy.
Win, win!!!
Capitalist pigs, indeed.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Real simple, capitolist/ pig= $ 4.00+ a gallon and NAFTA ! just ask johnny how much he invests in usa economy & companies and he will tell you all you want to know about how well his foreign investments are doing [he can change the suject better then any financial worm on fox]
May 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
“In my opinion, Israel should level Hezbollah with no mercy… If that means we level 200 points off the Dow or we pay an extra $.50 at the pump, I’m fine with that… I don’t care how high gas prices go.”
From Newshounds.us
Just another greedy elitist skank who wants war, war, war and more war, and screw anything that doesn’t fatten his bank account. And very much the sort of mentality expediting our march toward extinction.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hoenig on FOX – June, 2006: “… if you want to see the Dow go up, let’s get the bombers in the air and neutralize this Iranian threat. We’ve gone to the negotiating table, we’ve danced around with these people and that’s not going to help this country nor this stock market.”
Also, from newshounds.
They don’t get much crazier than this dude, do they? Melt a few million A-rabs to add a couple hundred points to the DOW? Jonny wants to get RICH!!! And FOX makes sure he has a regular place at the Cavuto round table?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hey, anonymouse: i’ve been wondering; is Alan greenspan the same Alan greenspan that was Ayn Rand’s protege?
(I mean, her other protege that she didn’t sleep with and then discard)
May 11th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Yes. They were once sort of a “couple”. Probably sometime around “the war”.
(The Spanish-American War.)
May 13th, 2008 at 3:09 am
I KNEW it!
May 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Mouse, LOL.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm