Greg Gutfeld Talks Up The Virtues Of Sweatshops

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.

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Robert Urban commented 2013-01-09 19:09:20 -0500 · Flag

Right Circus Clown College Graduate. They only stay on that low rung until they throw themselves off the top of the building. See: China puts up suicide nets on their factories.
http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2012-03-30/inside-apple-s-foxconn-factory.html#slide10

David Gee commented 2013-01-09 16:06:59 -0500 · Flag

To hear that from someone who has been handed so much in exchange for so little is pathetic. Gutfeld is nothing more than some propped-up morning zoo jock.

Kevin Koster commented 2013-01-09 11:25:35 -0500 · Flag

One has to wonder if Gutfeld knows about the little matter of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire…

Anne-claire Souza commented 2013-01-09 11:21:11 -0500 · Flag

@aria,this was no coincidence,your speakers couldn’t take this much evil in one shot.

Anne-claire Souza commented 2013-01-09 11:18:34 -0500 · Flag

Stupid is as stupid does.

truman commented 2013-01-09 09:37:22 -0500 · Flag

“I studied it” is a Gutfart variation of the old “Some say”. Translation: Right-wing propaganda pulled from the ass of Jabba The Ailes and spewed by Fux Noise into the ears of its ignorant teabagger audience."

Kent Brockman commented 2013-01-09 08:58:20 -0500 · Flag

Sweat shops in emerging economies = The New Model for The Company Town

Visitor 55 commented 2013-01-09 08:36:02 -0500 · Flag

“moving up the ladder of success one rung at a time” is the biggest myth of all time that neocon/teabaggers like to paint (as if any of them can provide personal examples). A “grunt” who starts at the “first rung” rarely gets to the top. It is the exception rather than the rule. gutfart is an ignorant pig and people who swallow his pigcrap are even more ignorant.

Richard Santalone commented 2013-01-09 06:30:21 -0500 · Flag

@mj – the same one How much do you want to bet that Greg Gutfeld hasn’t done anything for a living outside of INHERITING and being a WELL-CONNECTED LEGACY?

Peter Lynch commented 2013-01-09 06:21:59 -0500 · Flag

Yep. Fuckin’ evil.

Nora Jones commented 2013-01-09 02:49:09 -0500 · Flag

Memo to conservative ivory tower – an internship on Wall Street bears no resemblance to a sweatshop in China or India, you pompous gits! I haven’t studied the subject in depth, but I possess a bit of common sense and sensitivity. The people on this show are just so rude and evil, I can’t believe it!

Nora Jones commented 2013-01-09 02:36:40 -0500 · Flag

Does he think that workers in sweatshops eventually move into executive positions? He is such a vulgar, ignorant and evil piece of trash!

Aria Prescott commented 2013-01-09 02:07:50 -0500 · Flag

*"That’s why the biggest myth of all time is that sweatshops are bad. *"

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.

mj - the same one commented 2013-01-09 01:53:09 -0500 · Flag

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.”

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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