Pwned: "Do you have a degree in economics?"

[Rael]

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, you may remember just yesterday said the attack on Rupert Murdoch at a hearing encapsulated what the British were feeling.

Today, Contessa "educated" a conservative Representative that if Congress does not raise the debt raising, the country would be "reverting into a depression." Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said he disagreed which prompted the MSNBC host to ask him if he had a degree in economics.

"Yes ma'am, I do. Highest honors," Rep. Brooks responded.

According to his Congressional page: "Mo graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics. In 1978, he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School."

 

[specsaregood]

Lmao

 

[SilentBull]

Lol!!

 

[Travlyr]

Ha... ha... pwned ... the media is proving to be nothing more than shills for the elite.

 

[Matthew Zak]

At first she was like "I got you."

Then she was like "Oh crap."

 

[PBrady]

lol, look at her wikipedia page now under biography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contessa_Brewer

EDIT: It has already been taken down haha. It was something to the extent of adding "She does not, however, have a degree in economics".

 

[Liberty_Mike]

This lady is just another MSM shill.

 

[CoreyBowen999]

Shes garbage. xD

 

[Fredom101]

Degrees in economics are degrees in bullshit. All that is taught out there is lame Keynesianism fantasy economics. I would have more respect for the guy if he said "No, I have real world experience and don't subscribe to the nonsense theory they are teaching in schools these days."

 

[specsaregood]

Degrees in economics are degrees in bullshit. All that is taught out there is lame Keynesianism fantasy economics. I would have more respect for the guy if he said "No, I have real world experience and don't subscribe to the nonsense theory they are teaching in schools these days."

I think you missed the point chief.

 

[mczerone]

Wow. I hope that RP has an answer ready for that.

"No, but after Nixon closed the Gold window on April 15th, 1971 I devoted myself to learning everything I could about the monetary system, studied with the economist Murray Rothbard, and read works from everyone I could find from Samuelson to Friedman."

Didn't she at least look at a bio of this guy before the show? Oh wait, that's what people with integrity would do. She's just the teleprompter-reading eyecandy that agreed to puppet everything her employer wanted her to say.

 

[MJU1983]

Saw this on Drudge, knew it would be good based on this:

MSNBC Info-Babe to Congressman: 'Do you have a degree in economics?'

'Yes ma'am, I do. Highest honors'...

^ LOL

 

[Liberty_Mike]

Just did a little research on this Congressman. He is a freshman Republican who defeated the Republican incumbent in the 2010 primaries. It looks like he is decent on economic issues for the most part, such as supporting the ability to opt out of SS taxes and investing them in programs individuals choose. He also supports withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan and immediately ending our intervention in Libya. Looks like the guy could be decent, however I don't agree with his opposition to stem cell research. Anyone know more about this guy?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Brooks

 

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Hahahahaha! Sure shut that stupid bitch up. Fucking awesome!

 

[PastaRocket848]

lol that was hilarious. the guy was very respectful with his response. i'm not sure i would have been as much so.

 

[gls]

however I don't agree with his opposition to stem cell research.

I don't know anything about this guy, but usually "opposition to stem cell research" really means opposition to federally-funded stem cell research -- which obviously is a libertarian/constitutional position.

 

[georgiaboy]

Oh, boy that was good. In hindsight, I wish he would've set her up with, "What would it matter if I did?"

To which she could've answered any number of retorts ("well if you're going to speak on these matters against such formidable eonomists as these establishment bigboys, blah, blah"), and then POW! he coulda outlined his own credentials.

Reminds me of one of my favorite exchanges with Sean Hannity and the guy who had the stats on military contributors to republican candidates back in 2008. priceless.

 

[mello]

It would have been a little funnier if he asked her afterwards if she had an economics degree as well.

 

[emazur]

My response might have been "How many Soviet central planners had degrees in economics before the collapse?"

 

[amy31416]

Just did a little research on this Congressman. He is a freshman Republican who defeated the Republican incumbent in the 2010 primaries. It looks like he is decent on economic issues for the most part, such as supporting the ability to opt out of SS taxes and investing them in programs individuals choose. He also supports withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan and immediately ending our intervention in Libya. Looks like the guy could be decent, however I don't agree with his opposition to stem cell research. Anyone know more about this guy?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Brooks

I'm all for stem cell research, but not federally-funded. Not a detraction, in my opinion--and even if he's against it across the board, it's certainly not my biggest issue with the government.