This Exists: Neil Cavuto Invites “Johnny Sack” To Whack Obama’s Fiscal Policies

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by Colby Hall | 10:50 am, July 29th, 2010

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Okay, it wasn’t the Soprano‘s character, but it was the actor who portrayed him Vincent Curatola who showed up on Your World with Neil Cavuto. As one can see in the following clip, the actor and character seem to have a lot of the same mannerisms. Rarely does one see a public personality or actor speak with so much bile about an elected official (particularly the President of the United States) but one gathers that is the exact reason he was booked on Your World.

One can only wonder the booking process that preceded this booking: Producer A: “Hey look at this clip: Governor Christie is pals with the guy who played Johnny Sack on the Sopranos.” Producer B: “Call him up and see if he’s willing to trash Obama on TV.” Producer A: “Great idea!”

Need an example of his anti-Obama screed? Check out a partial transcript below:

If he had respect for the country he would throw his hands up in the air and say “I’m done.” “I have no idea what to do with any of these situations.”

I’ll tell you one thing. One-time president. I believe that and I’m not a psychic. The damage between now and the next 2 1/2 years with this guy, especially to the small businessman absolutely outrageous.

I would love to know if people can come back from the dead from world war II and saw in — saw this today, my God, they would move to a communist country. It didn’t work in the soviet union, not working in Cuba. We don’t need the government, get out of the way. Tell the banks that you bailed out, lend money out to credit-worthy people and let business take ca of business because it always does.

Cavuto defended the booking by ending the segment by claiming “for those of you who criticize my choice of Vince as a guest, because Vince has a better track record.”

Really?

Chris Christie, fox news, gabagoo, Neil Cavuto, New Jersey, Vincent Curatola

paulmdoro

Here’s what I don’t get. Many conservatives (including some on Fox News) are outraged when celebrities with left-wing views openly share their political opinions. They’re told to shut up and stick to their day job, etc. They were enraged by Bush-bashing from famous people. So why is FNC giving airtime to Johnny Sack and Jon Voight and Ted Nugent and Ben Stein or whomever if celebrities are supposed to stay quiet about politics? Only right-wing celebrities have valid political views? Is this guy on Cavuto’s show an expert on small businesses or the economy?
Jackie_Treehorn

Anyone surprised? Really?
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Ben Stein is more than qualified to give his positions on public policy. The rest, not so much. John Sacramoni included.

And keep in mind, I believe Cavuto constitutes part of the “news” team of Fox “News”, and not the “editorial page”. I could be wrong on that, though.
DukeCO

paulmdoro said:
Here’s what I don’t get. Many conservatives (including some on Fox News) are outraged when celebrities with left-wing views openly share their political opinions. They’re told to shut up and stick to their day job, etc. They were enraged by Bush-bashing from famous people. So why is FNC giving airtime to Johnny Sack and Jon Voight and Ted Nugent and Ben Stein or whomever if celebrities are supposed to stay quiet about politics? Only right-wing celebrities have valid political views? Is this guy on Cavuto’s show an expert on small businesses or the economy?

You forgot Janine Turner, Victoria Jackson, and numerous Miss Americas.
lonestar77

Colby wrote:
“Rarely does one see a public personality or actor speak with so much bile about an elected official (particularly the President of the United States)”

So, were you on crack for the 8 years preceding the Obama administration? You wouldn’t even need to look for an actor. NBC news had no shortage of calling the Pres. bush a “racist” “fascist” & “murderer”. Good gawd, dude, you can’t possibly write something like that and think the people reading are dumb enough to believe it.
MakeANoise

Indeed that was the reason he was booked…everyone knows that Fox News hates the President.
paulmdoro

Actors called Bush a fascist murderer on NBC? I missed that.
paulmdoro

DukeCO said:
You forgot Janine Turner, Victoria Jackson, and numerous Miss Americas.

Sure there are plenty of them. But if we aren’t supposed to take left-wing celebrities seriously because they’re just uninformed actors or musicians or whatever, why should we take right-wing celebrities seriously?
stoogedudes

paulmdoro said:
Here’s what I don’t get. Many conservatives (including some on Fox News) are outraged when celebrities with left-wing views openly share their political opinions. They’re told to shut up and stick to their day job, etc. They were enraged by Bush-bashing from famous people. So why is FNC giving airtime to Johnny Sack and Jon Voight and Ted Nugent and Ben Stein or whomever if celebrities are supposed to stay quiet about politics? Only right-wing celebrities have valid political views? Is this guy on Cavuto’s show an expert on small businesses or the economy?

Paul, you hit the nail on the head.

Well, hell. Isn’t Gene Simmons a right winger too? Wasn’t he on Megyn Kelly’s show not too long ago?

I can’t help but think about the Dixie Chicks. They dared speak out against Bush, and where have they been lately?
BatBoy

“Rarely does one see a public personality or actor speak with so much bile about an elected official…”
I compared this statement with what Obama has said about Arizona…

I have to say…what Vincent Curatola said is mild.

Leave it to Mediate and MSNBC “The Official Home of Race Baiting” they will promote a non-story into something the left will be foaming at the mouth over for the next week.

Seriously Colby, listed to the video again…it is not say what you are saying…
I will give you a C- on this article.
paulmdoro

BatBoy, is Vincent Curatola an expert on the economy or running a small business?
gary

Neil doesn’t need to defend the booking. If you don’t have a problem with all the Bush and Cheney bashers that come from the entertainment business, why do you have a problem with Vincent? It was refreshing to hear the part about banks and the SBA loans that are impossible to get. What he’s saying hits home with many small businessmen and businesswomen in this country. Another left Obama suck up writer. When is Mediaite going to hire some writers with balls.
paulmdoro

gary said:
Neil doesn’t need to defend the booking. If you don’t have a problem with all the Bush and Cheney bashers that come from the entertainment business, why do you have a problem with Vincent? It was refreshing to hear the part about banks and the SBA loans that are impossible to get. What he’s saying hits home with many small businessmen and businesswomen in this country. Another left Obama suck up writer. When is Mediaite going to hire some writers with balls.

What if you did have a problem with Bush and Cheney bashing from the entertainment business, as many conservatives did?
DukeCO

lonestar77 said:

So, were you on crack for the 8 years preceding the Obama administration? You wouldn’t even need to look for an actor. NBC news had no shortage of calling the Pres. bush a “racist” “fascist” & “murderer”. Good gawd, dude, you can’t possibly write something like that and think the people reading are dumb enough to believe it.

NBC News? That is complete and utter bullshit.
The Real Royal King

If Neil wanted someone without any knowledge of the subject at hand, he should have gotten Pamela Sue Anderson.

AT FOX, HONESTY
IS NOT OUR POLICY.
BatBoy

paulmdoro said:
Bat

I said, “what Vincent Curatola said is mild” I just said that Colby said much worse in his article and it did not fairly reflect what Vincent Curatola said.

Paulmdoro, you might want to review the video too!

I Give you a “D -” for commenting without understand what you are commenting about!
paulmdoro

I understand perfectly fine thank you. I do enjoy you handing out grades though. Good times.
BatBoy

DukeCO said:
NBC News? That is complete and utter bullshit.

lonestar77 Maybe DukeCO just graduated from high school. I am pretty sure he would not have know anything on how NBC covered anything let alone Pres Bush. – Just a Theory!
paulmdoro

Does someone have a link to a celebrity calling Bush a fascist murderer on NBC? That I’d like to see.
lonestar77

Olbermann called Bush a fascist numerous times. He called him a murderer at least once that I know of…prolly more. That’s just a couple examples of an NBC newsperson. I’d list the celebs and what they had to say but there isn’t enough time in the day.
paulmdoro

Olbermann is a talk show host. I was under the impression that the reference was to an actor or performer calling Bush a fascist murderer on NBC. So that never happened?
EdinNJ

Another in a long line of right wing false equivalencies. A major news organization books a celebrity to trash a sitting president and it equals something some liberal celebrity said on TMZ.

Similar to how some bigtime rightwing media personality like O’Reilly, Savage, Limbaugh says something racist, sexist, etc. and it’s an example of how both side do it because some anonymous commenter said something intemperate on a Daily Kos diary in 2007.
The Real Royal King

lonestar77 said:
Olbermann called Bush a fascist numerous times. He called him a murderer at least once that I know of…prolly more. That’s just a couple examples of an NBC newsperson. I’d list the celebs and what they had to say but there isn’t enough time in the day.

Well, you certainly have nothing to back up your screed, do you?
lonestar77

Do your homework. What Vince Curatolo said was tame compared to what actors/celebs continually said about Bush not only on cable news but on the network news. It’s all out there. I’m not gonna copy & paste every link for you.
paulmdoro

I will take that as a no. Of course I am aware of Bush-bashing by celebrities. Criticizing him is not the same as going on NBC and calling him a fascist murderer.

Maybe what Vince said is tame, but not all celebrity Obama-bashers have been tame. See Victoria Jackson or Jon Voight for examples.
timzank

An actor disses the messiah and our resident socialists here at mediate go apeshit. Fine. Going apeshit on it is absolutely allowable, but to act as though it’s somehow unprecedented shows what a bunch of liars (or idiots) you are. One or the other.

I love this quote “Rarely does one see a public personality or actor speak with so much bile about an elected official (particularly the President of the United States)”…
Jeneane Garafalo
Barbra Streisand
James Brolin
Charlie Sheen
Al Franken
Dixie Chicks
Oliver Stone
Paul McCartney
James Cameron
Bill Maher
Jon Bonjovi

There are literally thousands more…..

A ridiculous article, and a ridiculous false premise…..
timzank

Colby, I just had to re-read that again. Were you serious? Or was it meant to parody?
paulmdoro

I don’t think anyone went apeshit, and yes many celebrities were very critical of Bush. But no one has even attempted to answer my original question. If the right says left-wing celebrity opinions are unwarranted and misinformed, is the same true for right-wing celebrities?
The Real Royal King

timzank said:
An actor disses the messiah and our resident socialists here at mediate go apeshit.

Is that on some secret thread that some of us don’t have access to?

AT FOX, HONESTY
IS NOT OUR POLICY.
gary

Paul, I have no problem with Bush bashing from celebs. The point is against this administration it’s handled by the left so differently . When somebody from the left needs a celeb to bash the tea party ,let’s call Janeane Garofalo. We just dismiss her as a leftwing nutjob. I don’t cry like a little bitch like Colby, all up in arms. The problem now is if you go to the left cable stations barely anybody goes on who has conservative views. Mathews is the only one and nobody watches his show.This leaves it all to Fox. Except for Hannity ,Fox allows opposing views on their shows all the time, with alot more tolerance than I see from Msnbc.
chatmandu002

“Rarely does one see a public personality or actor speak with so much bile about an elected official (particularly the President of the United States)”

How quickly they forget. How about Whoopi Goldberg and her comments against George Bush.
paulmdoro

I really don’t watch any of the cable news networks. So you’re saying it’s about balance? MSNBC features left-wing celebrity president bashers so Fox News counters with right-wing celebrity president bashers?
aimlowjoe

This is racism disguised at partisanship. What is Obama doing to small businesses? It is the banks who are hording the money and won’t lend it.

Aimlow Joe was here
http://www.aimlow.com
gary

Balance and a much thicker skin.
paulmdoro

Thicker skin is debatable. Certain people had conniption fits every time someone like Sean Penn said anything political.
gary

Didn’t take long for the race card again.Hey aimlowjoeblow go out and try to get a SBA loan (WHICH IS A GOVERNMENT BACKED PROGRAM). The banks only act as the middlemen. The government makes it so hard to get these loans. People just give up .This is what Vince was talking about.
felixw

You might think that a Mafia guy would be the perfect expert on Obama’s policies. But in all fairness, the Mafia loan sharks never took as big a cut out of your earnings as the Democrats plan to do next year.
paulmdoro

Hey felix someone has to support all the poor white folks on welfare.
SteveMG

This was over-the-top and pretty ugly but I’d suggest that Colby go watch Olbermann’s “special commentaries” about Bush or Cheney if he’s looking for comparable attacks on elected officials. The words “murderers” and “fascists” come to mind.

No, that doesn’t excuse Mr. Curatolo – and citing Olbermann is about as low as the bar can go – but he didn’t invent personal attacks on the President.
The Real Royal King

felixw said:
You might think that a Mafia guy would be the perfect expert on Obama’s policies. But in all fairness, the Mafia loan sharks never took as big a cut out of your earnings as the Democrats plan to do next year.

Yes, we all heard from you and your ilk that taxes were going to be raised last year and this year. Hasn’t happened. It’s not going to happen. Go whistle “Dixie” in Minnesota.

AT FOX NEWS, HONESTY
IS NOT OUR POLICY.
Liberal Media Is Totally Corrupt

Hollywood’s conservatives are finally coming out of the closet.
paulmdoro

Liberal Media Is Totally Corrupt said:
Hollywood’s conservatives are finally coming out of the closet.

Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, they’re free at last!
felixw

The Real Royal King said:
we all heard from you and your ilk that taxes were going to be raised last year and this year. Hasn’t happened. It’s not going to happen.

Royal King do you read the newspapers? Do you have a clue what is going on? Maybe you should stop chanting slogans and check up on reality.

If you did you would know that in a few months time

Capital gains tax will be going up
Dividend tax will be going up
Income tax will be going up
The Death Tax will be jumping from 0% to 55%
Itemized deductions will be further limited
Etc.

I suggest you read this article on Obama’s $3,000,000,000,000 tax hike, and quit spreading disinformation. Because either you are totally ignorant or willfully lying — probably a bit of both.

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703976804575114151637806636.html
ReConUSMC

The Media , Obama , Liberals and radical Socialist(Really Marxist ) will not be happy until we as Americans are no longer a free nation and our personal decisions , Freedoms and Individualism is dead .
Radial Socialist need to control the ”All ” sickly and sadly wrote Lenin .
The destruction of our Constitution and Founding is their moronic gold . God is out … Atheism rules .
Hence Truth, right and wrong becomes Relative .
The Marxist Collective has no room for creativity ,disagreement , Individualism , Capitalism or better Idea’s .
Marx said The Doctor , Engineer and Peasant are equal .
Ironically it never worked in Russia and was the cause of their end .

Yet this Bozo President and far left congress wants to give us a better managed and run house of Stalin …..
No thanks !
timzank

To be fair, the mafia and the dems operate the same way, except the mafia is a whole lot smarter. They (the mafia) don’t actually bleed the victims so dry they have to close up shop, the mafia wants the money to continue, where as the dems don’t think that far ahead.
maxine

gary said:
Didn’t take long for the race card again.Hey aimlowjoeblow go out and try to get a SBA loan (WHICH IS A GOVERNMENT BACKED PROGRAM). The banks only act as the middlemen. The government makes it so hard to get these loans. People just give up .This is what Vince was talking about.

Thats a government *bury you in paperwork* syndrome, hoping you’ll go away. Not exclusive to Obama. Been that way for as long as I can remember.
maxine

timzank said:
To be fair, the mafia and the dems operate the same way, except the mafia is a whole lot smarter. They (the mafia) don’t actually bleed the victims so dry they have to close up shop, the mafia wants the money to continue, where as the dems don’t think that far ahead.

No, the mafia just break arms and legs if not kill you. The dems will give you a hand up if ever needed, without exorbitant interest rates growing daily. I don’t want to hear about taxes. We pay taxes when Republicans have office and I have yet to see mine lowered. Course I’m not in the right tax bracket and I don’t own a big corporation. I just work for one that threatens outsourcing everyday to make us feel grateful we don’t need that hand up…… yet.