Naomi Klein Debunks Bush's offshore drilling plans

topic posted Fri, July 18, 2008 - 12:37 PM by  Dan
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Fox Business Channel has an “after-the-market-closes” show, called Happy Hour, which appears to exist in a surreal space of unreality: bar setting, complete with a bartender and business men with their brewskis in the background, host Rebecca Gomez looking like she’s ready to hook up and whose only research before interviewing Naomi Klein ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein ) appears to be skimming the reviews of The Shock Doctrine ( www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine ) on Amazon, and to top it off, guest host Eric Bolling admits to not only being an oil trader, but never looking at the book! That’s respect, I’ll tell you, for the collective intelligence of their viewers as well as Naomi.

Still, with all the obstacles FBC places in the way of having an intelligent discussion, Klein manages to get in some great points that leave the embarrassingly ill-informed Faux hosts with little to do but sputter inanities like “Naomi, do you like capitalism?”
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  • Jo
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    Naomi didn't debunk anything. It's a difference of opinion of whether the greater crisis is the environment or energy availability/pricing. I like a clean environment as much as the next person but feel the progress generated by utilizing our resources is worth tapping into new previously untouched areas. And ditto the previous poster - open the markets further and allow new solutions and creative technology to flourish.

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