On the 1/8/13 The Five, the topic was unpaid internships. Greg Gutfeld said, “The left paints this myth that people toil for years on this low-wage job, but no, they don’t. They’re only on that low rung of the ladder for a short time, that’s why it’s low paying and that’s why it’s a low rung.”
Bob Beckel asked, “How do you know that?”
Gutfeld said, “Because I studied it.” Of course, he didn’t say where or what he studied.
Gutfeld continued, “A low paying job has to be low rung in order to get people up on that… If you make that low rung high paying, than the unskilled worker can’t get up there and move up. That’s why the biggest myth of all time is that sweatshops are bad. Sweatshops for emerging economies are for workers with no skills.”
Let’s see Gutfeld work in a sweatshop if he thinks it’s a myth that they’re bad. Let’s see him earn one half to one quarter of what he needs for the basics, and spend 50-75% of his income on food alone.
True story:
Right after this line playing this clip earlier, my speakers stopped working, and nothing I did would get them back on. Then I promised I wouldn’t play anymore clips of Gutfeld talking… and they kicked right back on.
Let me repeat that: My speakers kicked off right at the end of this line, and in the most bizarre timing ever, kicked back on right after I promised I wouldn’t play Gutfeld talking again.
Bob Beckel asked, “How do you know that?”
Gutfeld said, “Because I studied it.”
I find Gutfilled’s reasoning, “because I studied it” an interesting choice of words — as opposed to, say, “because I’ve DONE it” . . .
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