MSNBC: Americans are so ‘freedom
obsessed,’ they are blinded to threats
like virus or climate change
BizPac Review,
by
Frieda Powers
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/6/2020 5:44:39 PM
An MSNBC contributor called out “freedom-obsessed” Americans and their aversion to big government amid the coronavirus pandemic.Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas blamed Americans obsessed with the idea of freedom for creating a vulnerability in the country to threats like climate change, speaking in the topic during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.(Video) “Something has to change so this doesn’t happen again,” MSNBC co-host Willie Geist said to Giridharadas. “What do you think we will learn from this as we look out over the horizon?”“One of the fundamental questions to me is, what’s going to be our relationship to government, the idea of government after this?”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/6/2020 5:48:17 PM (No. 403025)
We would all be speaking German if we were not so 'freedom obsessed '!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SALady 5/6/2020 5:51:02 PM (No. 403028)
Only a true Communist would hate freedom.
And, sadly, Communists are all that work at MSNBC these days!!!
42 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2020 5:53:55 PM (No. 403031)
Yep, and we have been killing people to tried to take our freedoms for 244 years.
I don't advise trying to take our freedoms....and a lot of us have guns.
34 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/6/2020 6:04:49 PM (No. 403042)
Hypocrites. They wouldn't be saying that if they were the ones losing their freedoms.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Plex 5/6/2020 6:09:11 PM (No. 403047)
Where were all these crybabies during the Hong Cong flu at Woodstock??? All that social distancing /s
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 5/6/2020 6:23:37 PM (No. 403057)
To the nitwit that said that, Do you think that people yearn for enslavement? And about " climate change"......YOU get worked up over that, it's something neither you or any human on earth has an impact on . Our climate waxes and wanes with solar activity.
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 5/6/2020 6:24:58 PM (No. 403060)
"What's in a name...?"
Anand Giridharadas
says a lot to me - Multiculturalism
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 5/6/2020 6:25:18 PM (No. 403061)
So freedom obsessed that we have repelled tyranny in all its forms time and time again from this country’s inception. The world should be thankful we are so freedom obsessed seeing how time and time again so many other nations fall for the slow creep of tyranny forcing us to push it back under its rock once more. Freedom obsession is the story of our country’s culture. It’s in our dna. I feel nothing but immense pride for this obsession. This obsession is the reason that this will likely never happen again. We will find a way to prevent this from happening and if it still happens we will find a way to avoid having to devastate our economy in response ever again. Ingenuity can only ferment in freedom.
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You damn right I'm freedom obsessed!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/6/2020 6:50:19 PM (No. 403086)
Unlady like, I know. But bite me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/6/2020 6:51:50 PM (No. 403089)
Freedom Obsessed ???
You mean like the freedom obsessed guys who wrote the declaration of independence ?
And died in the prosecution of it ?
And wrote the Constitution of the United States ?
I pray to wake up each morning of my blessed life to be as OBSESSED as they were.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/6/2020 6:58:54 PM (No. 403103)
Yes, we are so "freedom obsessed" that the entire country was willing to sacrifices their lives and livelihoods for a short time to "flatten the curve" and help save fellow elderly Americans.
However, in time, WTP began to realize it was based on false science and models that continually were downgraded while our economy and livelihoods were being destroyed. Americans are a very kind and generous people but...DON'T PLAY US FOR FOOLS!
In the meantime, the Dems refuse to return to the House to do the Peoples' business and delay and obfuscate necessary funding to save the American People and the economy. As #10 so eloquently said, Bite Me!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 5/6/2020 7:01:52 PM (No. 403109)
a civil war is brewing they are trying to remove the guns
from people specially diane feinstein that old bag 88 years old
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msjena 5/6/2020 7:02:03 PM (No. 403110)
Live free or die.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/6/2020 7:22:47 PM (No. 403132)
At least the ba$tards have come out in the open.
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Americans, especially American women, cannot handle the idea of individual freedom and liberty. They live in hives...and the Queens (someone like Oprah or Ellen) set the tone for the Karen-bees, who pass it on to their hive at play group or lunch at Panera and enforce the groupthink. No one wants to be excluded, you know.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/6/2020 8:09:09 PM (No. 403176)
We'll fight to preserve them, too. You'll likely find that out
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/6/2020 8:38:38 PM (No. 403202)
Dude was born in Ohio; he needs to explain freedom-obsessed. That must be a term he learned while at the NYT.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/6/2020 8:52:28 PM (No. 403220)
Freedom obsessed, yes. That's why people are coming her from all over the world. I don't see people sneaking into Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea. Maybe Anand Giridharadas could go to one of those countries and try reporting about freedom. Maybe he could go to whatever country his ethnic name is from and try his reporting and bad mouthing that country and see what happens. Do we like freedom, yes. We also like to keep others free as demonstrated by the many US soldiers sacrificed defending other nations to protect freedoms. Journalists need to get over themselves. What do Anand Giridharadas think makes him be able to report such BS with a straight face..... our freedom that he obviously does not appreciate!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/6/2020 10:27:12 PM (No. 403280)
AND the MSM Nazis are happy to trash everyone's rights no matter the reason...
We win, YOU LOSE!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2020 11:26:13 PM (No. 403332)
The ones who didn't care much about freedom stayed in Europe, or left when the going got tough after '76.
The ones that came here through great difficulty and fought and won a desperate war against the biggest army and navy on the planet were pretty damned obsessed with freedom.
And a heck of lot of us still are.
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How is it that the high rise dwellers in NYC always know what is best for the rest of US ?
Freedom isn't free and We aren't giving it up. I still think we should bring back the draft so young people can see how the rest of the world lives. They would have a greater appreciation of freedom.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/7/2020 2:14:23 AM (No. 403405)
How about the CV-19 being totally orchestrated by the demonrats in conjunction with China to get the ignorant people in the USA used to living under jackboots?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
paral04 5/7/2020 9:08:14 AM (No. 403643)
I think this person would be happier in some commune. Shades on "1984" or "Brave New World". It is really scary to see this stuff in print. I think of all the lives that were given to get and protect our freedom being scorned by this idiot.
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