Cramer on Lenin

[∞]

I've seen this guy bring him up 300 times, can you Bolsheviks provide me some insight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUuOOnsGu6Y&feature=related

[Q]

Does anyone really take made up quotes this serious?

I couldn't remember such quote in WITBD, but maybe my memory is a little rusty, so I did a search and nope (http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22what+is+to+be+done%22+site:marxists.org+now+i s+not+the+time+for+profits).

[Jimmie Higgins]

Does anyone really take made up quotes this serious?

I couldn't remember such quote in WITBD, but maybe my memory is a little rusty, so I did a search and nope (http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22what+is+to+be+done%22+site:marxists.org+now+i s+not+the+time+for+profits).

We should start making up quotes and attributing them to Ronald Regan. Try it the next time you are at a bar: "As Regan always said..."

[Rusty Shackleford]

Im not worried about a guy who predicts and reports market movement with prop comedy.

[Red Commissar]

Does anyone really take made up quotes this serious?

There's a considerable business in those awful "xxxx" -God quotes that have become popular on some billboards and bumper stickers in certain places. Cramer's been an idiot anyways, like NV said his way of talking about the economy is nonsense to begin with.

I mean I remember when the bank bailouts happened and then the healthcare debate, wingnuts were sending made up quotes attributed to Marx and spamming them around, even though a quick search would show that Marx never said any of those things. Yet people believed it-

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/consumerdebt.asp

One of the most problematic ones is this false quote by Norman Thomas for wingnuts to further the whole "zomg Democrats have a secret socialist agenda!"


"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

This, despite the fact that no one has ever found a single trace of Norman Thomas saying anything to that effect. I think Reagan employed this term as well and people still continue to throw it around.

[fa2991]

As Reagan always said, "Yo, fuck dis shit, homeboy! Cramer be trippin'!"

[Invincible Summer]

Why are people so bad at drawing conclusions? Even if Lenin did say "Now is not the time for profits," why would it matter if Obama said the same thing?


I can't wait for the next shitty implication:
"Did you hear?!?! Obama/other famous person said the term 'working class'!!! That means he's a communist!!!!"

[Red Commissar]

Why are people so bad at drawing conclusions? Even if Lenin did say "Now is not the time for profits," why would it matter if Obama said the same thing?


I can't wait for the next shitty implication:
"Did you hear?!?! Obama/other famous person said the term 'working class'!!! That means he's a communist!!!!"

There is a whole website for this, but using the Hitler/Nazi comparisons and quotes.

http://obamaisliterallyhitler.tumblr.com/

[Invincible Summer]

There is a whole website for this, but using the Hitler/Nazi comparisons and quotes.

http://obamaisliterallyhitler.tumblr.com/

Funny, I was about to actually make a Hitler comparison, but didn't want to bring in Godwin's Law

[Invincible Summer]

Also, Cramer sort of looks like if Lenin gained more weight

[Q]

One of the most problematic ones is this false quote by Norman Thomas for wingnuts to further the whole "zomg Democrats have a secret socialist agenda!"


"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

This, despite the fact that no one has ever found a single trace of Norman Thomas saying anything to that effect. I think Reagan employed this term as well and people still continue to throw it around.

I've seen it attributed more to Kruschev.