Larry Kudlow Says Its Good That Human Toll In Japan Exceeds Economic Toll
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This is a very sick man. Kudlow is a former Reagan official and a conservative voice of note, particularly on economics.
What adds to the horror of what Kudlow said is how nobody on CNBC takes exception to it. As Japan is showing us right now, the almighty dollar isn’t the end-all and be-all of humanity.
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O-dub, in poker they call this a “tell.”
He’ll probably be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Look at all the war and death enthusiasts who’ve won that award – Kissinger, Arafat, Obama.
I think there is actually an easy explanation for this. Human beings have the ability to show compassion, empathy, a variety of emotions. Larry Kudlow is not a member of the human race and is thus not capable of any of these emotions.
My guess is he somehow figured out a way to profit from the disaster, and it came to fruition, so he’s now happy (one emotion he probably is capable of having, especially if it involves money).
Equating Obama with Kissinger and Arafat because he inherited an eight year war willfully bungled by Dumbya is a huge overreach. I don’t support his strategy, which can rightfully be deemed an escalation, but it’s certainly can’t be construed as his failure when BushCo left no viable options after its wetdream of Iraq, which btw is hardly a success story.
Kudlow demonstrates perfectly why a conservative mindset is so pathetically similar to that of Gaddafi, Mubarek, Pinochet and other money grubbing, ruthless assholes; nothing is more precious to them than the almighty dollar, while human lives are merely obstacles to their continual enrichment.
How those two bimbos on MSNBC allowed him to get away with such overt callousness and disregard for the untold suffering of the Japanese people as a result of these immense tragedies is beyond belief.
Fuck them all.
Not only are they swine, they are stupid swine. Reading Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short”, several of the people he interviewed who correctly predicted the problems in the subprime market said they had to turn off CNBC during the time when the market really was melting in 2007 because the people on the air were such idiots and cheerleaders.
From Kudlow’s twitter page
“I did not mean to say human toll in Japan less important than economic toll.Talking about markets.I flubbed the line. Sincere apology. ”
5:59 PM Mar 11th via web
Retweeted by 7 people
http://twitter.com/larry_kudlow/status/46389721148039168#
Barry, Kudlow clearly indicated multiple times that the impact on the markets was more important that of the human cost.
He can tweet his bullshit, lameass apology all he wants; the videotape captured his callous disregard for the Japanese people and his despicable greed.
I watched the video. It was one time, not multiple times. Looked like a flubbed line to me.
This reminds of the 9/11 attack and one right-wing commentator saying, and I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember who it was, “My first thought was, ‘I wonder what this will do to gold prices.’”
jr & OW,
I think you may be going too far on this one. It seemed that what Kudlow wanted to say (or would have wanted to say if he’d thought about it) was something to the effect that, “We’re grateful that we don’t have an economic disaster coming on top of the human one.” He was on a show about the stock markets & his comments were focused on the stock market.
I suspect that what the others (bimbos goes a bit far doesn’t it?) heard.
Besides we’ve got a lot worse to hang on Kudlow.
I agree Kudlow is a sick man.
Next thing you know he’ll probably endorse drone attacks that kill hundreds of civilians in Pakistan or the never-ending torture of an American whistleblower.
This is another post stretching to manufacture outrage. This is a poorly worded response to being asked specifically how the event was affecting the markets, and nothing more. You all need to dial it back a bit and take Jon Stewart’s advice: be reasonable.
db: “It seemed that what Kudlow wanted to say …was something to the effect that, ‘We’re grateful that we don’t have an economic disaster coming on top of the human one.’”
That’s being very generous. He could have simply not mentioned the human toll while talking about the market’s reaction.
Well, another TYPICAL OW-MMA cherry pick of a quote. Even after the man apologizes for the way it came out, you boobs on the left will villify the man.
You people will do anything to tar and feather someone who opposes your point of view. Oh, but then again, you ARE the people of “toleranc” and “inclusion” RRRRIGHT.
I’m with Barry, db and Buzz on this one. It was a poorly delivered line, but in the clip cited I don’t see a callous disregard for human suffering. Certainly nothing in that clip to generate the shocked, shocked! outrage.
As db said “We’re grateful that we don’t have an economic disaster coming on top of the human one.” is closer to the sentiment I saw being, yes, badly expressed.
Leave the taking offense at stupid gaffes to the wingnuts, folks. Overreacting like they do doesn’t make us look like the adults.
You mean after someone said something really, really callous, other people might say unkind things about him? The *horror*!
It’s really awful when people say unkind things about others. I’m glad you didn’t say anything unkind about anyone else while pointing out the terrible, terrible tragedy of people speaking unkindly.
@sull930: Says the side that endorses the Thought Police of Breitbart and O’Keefe. Turn anyone into the Federal BI lately for opposing the war, boy?
“Equating Obama with Kissinger and Arafat because he inherited an eight year war willfully bungled by Dumbya is a huge overreach.”
Dunno about that.
1) Kissinger also inherited a bungled war (and has yet to quit whining about it).
2) I doubt Duhbya intentionally bungled the war. The invasion was willful and acutely inadvisable, but I am sure that he intended for it to be a huge success. He’s probably still waiting to be hailed as the savior of the Middle East….
Yeah, I don’t get the outrage here either. It was inarticulate to be sure, but I didn’t get the impression that he was being a callous assface in this clip.
Hearing the clip, it sounds like he was trying to report the news (which was not bad) while trying to acknowledge the tragedy, and, well, there just isn’t any way to do that. A bad flub, but not callousness.
Mr. Strowbridge,
You’re of course right that Kudlow could have avoided mentioning the human tragedy of the tsuami. But wouldn’t that have left him open for criticisim for failing to mention it at all?
Mostly I assert that if we are going to object to “Breibarting”, we can not do it ourselves. I’d equally like to point out that we are not the equivalent of “ditto-heads” as we will call out Oliver when we feel he’s being excessive.
Now, Dr. Psycho, I don’t believe that Shrub planned Iraq to be the fiasco it turned out to be. He really thought we’d be welcomed as liberators, and the whole thing would be over in 6 months. So he’s delusional instead. Is that really better?
I noticed – elsewhere – that someone mentioned that Pres Obama had played golf and gone to the Gridiron Club when there were 10,000 deaths in Japan. I’m curious about when these “felt grief contests” and “outrage competitions” began.
I mean really. I feel bad, you feel bad. Do we need to put pencil marks on the wall, as it were?
‘I watched the video. It was one time, not multiple times. Looked like a flubbed line to me.’
It didn’t sound that way to me:
LK: ‘I mean, the human…the human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that, and the human toll is a tragedy we know that, but these markets are see…, all these markets, right, stocks, commodities, oil, gold, there is no major breakout or breakdown; I have to look at that positively…I look at these positively…’
‘I suspect that what the others (bimbos goes a bit far doesn’t it?) heard.’
You’re right db; that was uncalled for.
’1) Kissinger also inherited a bungled war (and has yet to quit whining about it).’
Kissinger also advocated for and convinced Nixon to secretly bomb Cambodia; I’m not seeing Obama in the same light.
’2) I doubt Duhbya intentionally bungled the war.’
I’m fairly confident that this will not pacify the grievances of the Iraqi people.