Video: Neil Cavuto-"While you were bitching..."
Jackson's Junction: Video blogging...
Fox's Neil Cavuto, host of Your World, lays out the absolute toughest put down of griping congressmen I have heard in quite a while! Complete with profanity, Neil slaps down all those who were quick to complain about todays emergency evacuation of The White House when a small aircraft breached the no-fly zone.
Just watch and tell me this is not classic. We need more people on TV who are willing to 'shoot from the hip' and just slap down liberal lunacy!
You can watch the video HERE! (Windows Media Player)
You can watch the .Mpg Version HERE (High speed - all players)
Enjoy and let us know what you think about Neil's on-air rant.
shift hits the fan
way to go neil! way cool for that nerd!
he's right--many (or most) of the politicians have elevated themselves way beyond the pale--
reminds me of the joke of the two standing in line in a cafeteria in heaven (I hope not!) and a guy in a lab coat rushes by and breaks the line in front of them--
'who's that?'--
'oh, that's god pretending to be a doctor'--
Posted by: george fillmore | May 12, 2005 at 04:37 AM
A hit! A palpable hit!
Posted by: The Anchoress | May 12, 2005 at 06:12 AM
Well there is a reason why CNBC fired him. I like him though - he's an asshole and he knows it , and he tells it like it is
Posted by: ian | May 12, 2005 at 07:40 AM
I saw this live yesterday afternoon. All I could say was "YEAH!" I like Neil - I don't care how big his head is.
Posted by: SithChick | May 12, 2005 at 08:04 AM
Gooooo Neil!
Posted by: Dana | May 12, 2005 at 10:50 AM
Glorious. Simply glorious.
Posted by: Mike | May 12, 2005 at 01:14 PM
Key point: The perception that these representatives of the people were more offended that they were hustled out with the commoners than at the risk of an terrorist incident. I am fascinated by the snooty behavior indulged in by champions of the common man. Seems like some of us think we are a little more equal than others. Let them bitch and moan on camera, and play it on a continuous loop on the internet. Truth 24/7.
Posted by: Californio | May 12, 2005 at 02:10 PM
Yeah, this is good fun to watch, except that the whining senators are actually right in a way for once. It boggles the mind that the civil defense plan for the most "target-rich environment" in the country is to hit a big red button labeled "panic!" In fact, doing a "running evacuation" was actually a very bad move because given the threat (a plane that can carry ~300lbs of payload), people would have actually been safer *indoors*. Why? 300lb payload means a bomb not big enough to get at the inner parts of a large building, or an NBC attack in which case indoors = safer. And yes, they knew what kind of plane they were dealing with before the evac order was given, and a C-150 can really only carry about 500lbs including pilot, payload, and fuel.
This just reinforces my view that DHS is remarkably incompetent. If this is how the plan works for DC, what about Boston, Chicago, or Dallas? And it's not just about terrorism- a plan for dealing with a smallpox attack would probably come in handy if the chicken flu crosses over, or a hurricane shows up, or heck, even a massive blackout, though lord knows that would never happen.
Posted by: the snob | May 12, 2005 at 02:55 PM
ROCK AND ROLL!!!!
Neil, run for something. Run for anything. I'll vote for you. Hell, I'll pretend to be a democrat and vote for you five, six, seven times.
Posted by: George | May 12, 2005 at 03:50 PM
OH SNAP!
Well done. It astounds me that these people can complain about an evacuation in a post-9/11 world. I'm sure they would have been very grateful to be evacuated if there had been a plane headed for the Capitol building on 9/11.
Posted by: Anne Haight | May 12, 2005 at 04:00 PM
The funniest thing about all this is that you steal content from Fox News and slap your own Web site's name onto it.
Lame.
(Go ahead -- throw out some misguided "fair use" argument and reveal the ignorance about copyright that you share with 95 percent of the Internet population.)
Posted by: Sam | May 12, 2005 at 04:00 PM
Way to go Neil! I'm (unfortunately) a constituent of Senator Lautenberg so I think I'll send him a little note to thank him for being a prick. What a joke. I guess that's what you get when the NJ Democratic party has to scam to save a seat after Torricelli messed up.
And Sam, you're wrong - the funniest thing about this is YOUR post. Just silly.
Posted by: lyndi | May 12, 2005 at 05:01 PM
Yeah, gotcha -- my post is more silly than somebody taking copyrighted content and slapping his own name on it, as if to tell viewers "Look, look, this is mine!"
Posted by: Sam | May 12, 2005 at 05:08 PM
Oh blow it out your porthole-"the snob".
Ted Kennedy should be made to run more often.
Posted by: madawaskan | May 12, 2005 at 08:46 PM
Absolutely awesome! It's high time somebody put the members of Congress in their place. What a bunch of whiney, spoiled, unappreciative, self-absorbed nitwits, always looking for someone else to blame!
And by the way, even Reid couldn't resist a little Capital police put-down.
Posted by: Susanna McNeil | May 12, 2005 at 09:47 PM
Well, I took a look at it, and it's pure distilled Faux.
The first thing out of Cavuto's mouth was him claiming congressman were complaining about not enough advance warning. He provides no quote or source.
Then he implied the congressman were complaining about capital police and jet pilots. He mentioned that the police are paid less than the congressman but he provides no source or quote of complaints about the police or to make the salary mention relevant.
Again he implies the congressman are blaming the police and uses the manly epithet "arse".
Implies that if there were failure of procedure it's congresses fault anyway.
Again he implies that congress was criticizing the capital police but provides no source or quote.
Then he claims two democrats appearing on Fox as sources of some complaints. Quotes only Frank Lautenberg as complaining about procedure. Fails to mention that the congress he is blaming for not doing it's work is run by repubs.
Tells the dem complainers to quit shifting blame. Does not provide source or quotes for the claim that dems are trying to shift blame.
Blathers about self absorbed losers who try to shift blame when they should have done the work themselves. Again he provides no source or quote of anyone trying to shift blame.
Then he said it's his opinion that the complainers (Lautenberg and unidentified on Fox?) seemed more upset about having to evecuate with the minions than appreciating that there lives were saved.
Yeah, that's a piece of work alrite.
Posted by: wrapper | May 12, 2005 at 10:22 PM
Sam: Get a life.
Wrapper: So now only the NY Lies is allowed to publish commentary? Get a life.
Posted by: Observer | May 12, 2005 at 10:45 PM
I posted commentary on Cavuto's commentary. Something wrong with that?
Posted by: wrapper | May 12, 2005 at 11:46 PM
Thank you Neil....how soon some people forget the horror of 9/11 and all of the finger pointing in Congress that went on afterward. I bet the passengers on those doomed flights - Men, women, and children wouldn't have minded the opportunity to evacute a building for safety's sake vs having to sit at 30,000 ft. and soon realize that they were going to die. The moronic congress-clowns who complain should be launched to 30,000 ft...sigh.
Posted by: Terri | May 12, 2005 at 11:55 PM
That's fine Terri. Who were those congress-clowns and what did they say?
I already know what Lautenberg said according to Cavuto, so what did the other guys say?
Posted by: wrapper | May 13, 2005 at 12:28 AM
Went quiet in here.
Posted by: wrapper | May 14, 2005 at 12:12 PM
It's because they sensed the troll in their midst, and decided that feeding you would just take the dicussion further off track. Have a nice day asshat, and head back to DU where you belong.
Posted by: Brad | May 14, 2005 at 07:37 PM
Thanks, Brad. Well said.
Posted by: Trey | May 14, 2005 at 07:40 PM
It's true that I don't belong to the local hand holders, but I didn't attack any of you, just Cavuto's blather.
How about this? Defend Cavuto bringing up the salaries of capital police when he offers no source or quote of anyone complaining about them, and instead of a troll, I'm just debating the merits of his commentary.
Isn't that the way things work inna comment box?
Posted by: wrapper | May 15, 2005 at 10:06 AM
Or, no need to defend Cavuto. Someone can agree that his blather was distorted demogaugery.
It's not like this is the amen corner is it?
Posted by: wrapper | May 16, 2005 at 09:19 AM