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Bill O'Reilly welcomed radio host Tavis Smiley and Prof. Cornel West onto his Tuesday show. The resulting dust-up was nothing short of a cable news classic.
Smiley and West have become a bona fide double act, regularly making the cable news rounds. O'Reilly brought them on to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and poverty in America. He set up the conversation by saying that the two were overlooking key statistics in their battle against poverty that showed the problem to be as much one of "personal responsibility" as economic injustice. Then, he turned to West.
"Where am i going wrong?" he asked. West said that his "lens" was wrong, and that he was overlooking the widening economic inequality in America. "The oligarchs and plutocrats that you tend to want to promote rather intensely [are] not only doing well but been too greedy!" he said. "I don't think I'm promoting anybody who's doing untoward things," O'Reilly said. "We're talking about chronic excess!" West responded, causing O'Reilly to try to shut him up. "No filibustering here," O'Reilly snapped.
He said that what Smiley and West seemed to want was for the government to "forcibly seize" money from the rich and give it to the poor. "That's socialism and that's not going to work here," he concluded.
"It wasn't socialism when we bailed out the banks in the first place?" Smiley said. He started to say that O'Reilly had been "right" in a recent attack on Stanley O'Neal, the former head of Merril Lynch. O'Reilly misheard him.
"Lied about it?!" he thundered. "What do you mean i lied about it?!"
"I said you were right!" Smiley said. "R-i-g-h-t!" O'Reilly apologized, and assured his guests he was "calm." Things got a lot less calm right afterwards, though. Smiley asked why O'Reilly was focusing on O'Neal, one of the few black CEOs of a major firm, causing O'Reilly to shout, "we treat everybody the same here!" Smiley disagreed, and wondered why, when Occupy Wall Street protesters were being arrested, no "bankster" had gone to jail "to pay for his crimes."
"They didn't violate any laws!" O'Reilly said, prompting Smiley and West to essentially lose it. "OOOOOHHHHHHHH!" they both said together. "How do you know?!" West yelled. "There's been no investigations! Why would you say something like that?!"
"All right, knock it off!" O'Reilly fired back. "...You don't have any evidence!" West countered that, with no investigation, no criminality could be proven. "You take your law school at Princeton, you develop an illegality and I will put it on the air," O'Reilly said.
Video @ link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/bill-oreilly-tavis-smiley-cornel-west_n_1006602.htmlBill O'Reilly welcomed radio host Tavis Smiley and Prof. Cornel West onto his... more
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Congressman Ron Paul was on PBS to discuss Libya with Tavis Smiley. Near the very end, the topics of a potential government shutdown and the good doctor's political future come up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a8JAVdf6MUCongressman Ron Paul was on PBS to discuss Libya with Tavis Smiley. Near the very end,... more
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Music Successes:
Prince has sold over 80 million records worldwide.
1979 - Prince - 1.25 Million
1980 - Dirty Mind - 1 Million
1981 - Controversy - 1 million
1982 - 1999 - 6 million
1984 - Purple Rain - 22 million
1985 - Around the World in a Day - 3 million
1986 - Parade - 2 million
1987 - Sign O the Times - 8 million
1988 - Lovesexy - 2 million
1989 - Batman - 2 million
1990 - Grafitti Bridge - 1.5 million
1991 - Diamonds & Pearls - 9 million
1992 - Love Symbol - 3 million
1993 - The Hits/B-Sides - 1.5 million
1994 - Come - 1 million
1995 - The Gold Experience - 1.5 million
1996 - Emancipation - 3 million
1999 - Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic - 1 million
2001 - The Very Best of Prince - 2.5 million
2004 - Musicology - 4 million
2006 - 3121 - 2 million
2007 - Planet Earth - 2.8 million
2009 - Lotusflow3r - 1 million
(Answers.com reports these sales only reflect US, UK and Canada...this is just a fraction of his success.)
Why Do Platinum Artists Flee Underground?
Here is Prince's answer in his words...
Check out the full blog series at http://miawhwn.blogspot.com. Please comment to let me know what you think.
NamasteMusic Successes:
Prince has sold over 80 million records worldwide.
1979 - Prince... more
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Godfather was just a job he took to support the fam. He says in this interview he always regretted not writing and directing his own stuff. Now he's finally got around to this dream with Youth Without Youth and now Tetro. Although, I believe The Conversation, probably my favorite film of all time, was also all his.
You might not think Coppola is an indie filmmaker having worked for studios on many of his films. But he has gone head to head with them and has broken out on his own, creating Zoetrope in San Francisco with George Lucas and a few other USC film school grads, early in their careers, to escape the L.A. madness.
This is a two part interview on last night and tonight, 8/4/09 on Tavis Smiley.Godfather was just a job he took to support the fam. He says in this interview he... more
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M.I.A. has been quite a controversal artist, here she talks openly with Tavis Smiley about her tie to the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and her life as a Tamil refugee.
(Full 12 min Interview at link)M.I.A. has been quite a controversal artist, here she talks openly with Tavis Smiley... more
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Too black for the whites ain't black enough for the blacks....biracials for Obama he's just rightToo black for the whites ain't black enough for the blacks....biracials for Obama... more
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Barack Obama rightly decided not to attend the set up disguised as an invitation to the State of the Black Union.Barack Obama rightly decided not to attend the set up disguised as an invitation to... more
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Do you get what he's talking about? Do you agree that we are who we choose to be? Are we pushing or being pulled? What to think about the power of choice?Do you get what he's talking about? Do you agree that we are who we choose to be?... more
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