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Thom Hartmann Interviews The Woman Who Confronted Paul Ryan For Drinking $350 Wine

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On Friday, we reported that Economist and Rutgers associate business professor Susan Feinberg busted Rep. Paul Ryan’s chops over his dinner tab at Washington’s Bistro Bis, confronting the Congressman after his meal for partaking in $350-a-bottle wine, while his party seeks painful cuts to government programs for senior citizens and the poor. On Monday, liberal radio and TV host Thom Hartmann interviewed Ms. Feinberg about her wine-sleuthing, meal-interrupting ways.

Hartmann opens by noting the poor optics involved in ordering $700 worth of wine with your buddies “while you’re busy discussing how to screw poor people and privatize Medicare,” and on that count, I say fair enough. Hot Air‘s Allahpundit tried to equate this story with Michelle Obama’s recent burger run, and while there are significant differences, both stories do tend to superficially reinforce ideas that their subjects’ opponents have already formed. I would also argue that Ryan’s actions were not hypocritical, but entirely consistent with his principles. During the interview, Feinberg says she asked him how he can live with himself, but from Ryan’s point of view, that $700 worth of wine is going to trickle right down to some minimum wage family. In France.

Feinberg doesn’t fare much better than Ryan, though, even in her own retelling of the story: (From The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann)


Does it bother me that Paul Ryan drank a glass of $350 wine? Not especially. In fact, if I saw him swilling a Bud Light at a local dive bar, I’d probably mutter, “F***in’ condescending poser,” but no matter where Ryan is, or what he’s drinking, his budget plan still sucks. The optics work either way, an indication of how substantive this kind of story is.

Speaking of condescending, though, Ms. Feinberg’s description of her thought process as her outrage gathered was a little bit hard to take. Unless I missed the part of the story where she and her husband were monitoring Ryan’s meal from a nearby soup kitchen, she was in the same restaurant, enjoying an $80 bottle of wine. Her description of the plight of a two-income, minimum wage-earning couple as amusing time-killing banter isn’t redeemed by the fact that she mustered up enough outrage to start a shouting match with Ryan and his companions. It will likely serve only to touch off a rash of well-heeled liberals being harassed while they try to eat dinner. If you want to criticize someone for “letting them eat cake,” it helps not to have moist bits of sponge and butter cream flying out of your mouth while you do it.

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  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    If she was only overweight, a male, big throbbing bright red nose, from Massachusetts and killed a woman while drinking and driving, her drunken stupor and horrendous hypocrisy would have made me thought someone was back from the grave.

  • Dan Abrams Toup

    DavidKramer said:
    If she was only overweight, a male, big throbbing bright red nose, from Massachusetts and killed a woman while drinking and driving, her drunken stupor and horrendous hypocrisy would have made me thought someone was back from the grave.

    Rush Limbaugh?

  • Azarkhan

    Feinberg says she asked him how he can live with himself…

    I wonder the same thing about this stupid left wing b*tch. Mind your own business, Democratic whore. In America, people are allowed to spend their own money any way they want to.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Old news. We’ve all known Ryan is a hypocritical fraud for some time. Now, it’s all catching up with him.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Azarkhan said:
    In America, people are allowed to spend their own money any way they want to.

    Lard Limbaugh proved that wasn’t true.

  • Azarkhan

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Lard

    Speaking of a lard-ass, how are you doing?

  • cjd ohio 1

    sometimes far left nuts dont realize we are laughing at them not with them

  • Tedderman

    Republicans, you can’t live with ‘em and well, I guess that’s it.

  • kvon

    DavidKramer said:
    If she was only overweight, a male, big throbbing bright red nose, from Massachusetts and killed a woman while drinking and driving, her drunken stupor and horrendous hypocrisy would have made me thought someone was back from the grave.

    Wow, I’ve never seen someone travel so far to find a way to discredit something. If the person was someone else then they would be a hypocrite…sound thought process buddy.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    NON-scandal. Liberals will do anything they can to keep the focus off what an absolute failure Ozero has been.

  • MTinMO

    Azarkhan said:
    Feinberg says she asked him how he can live with himself… I wonder the same thing about this stupid left wing b*tch. Mind your own business, Democratic whore. In America, people are allowed to spend their own money any way they want to.

    You display your lack of civility and intellect by posting in the manner you have. It seems to me we should all be concerned about the kind of meals and refreshments our elected officials are eating and drinking and who is doing the paying. Had she not intervened when she did, his meal and $700.00 dollars worth of wine would have more than likely been picked up by those who seek to influence Congress in ways that are rarely good for the majority of Americans- those who work for a living.

  • cjd ohio 1

    yeah, mrs obama had that burger and fries while telling us what is healthy………and isn’t her ass getting pretty big?

  • Azarkhan

    Obama was just the second federal-level candidate to earn Feinberg’s cash, according to the Center’s research. (She also gave a similar amount — $2,000 — to Democrat John Kerry during his 2004 presidential bid.)

    http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/07/californias-special-election-paul-ryan-wine.html

    A $350 bottle of wine upsets her tremendously, but a $7,000,000 yacht doesn’t. Susan, can you spell the word “hypocrite”?

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    MTinMO said:
    You display your lack of civility and intellect by posting in the manner you have. It seems to me we should all be concerned about the kind of meals and refreshments our elected officials are eating and drinking and who is doing the paying. Had she not intervened when she did, his meal and $700.00 dollars worth of wine would have more than likely been picked up by those who seek to influence Congress in ways that are rarely good for the majority of Americans- those who work for a living.

    You have NO way of knowing if he was paying for his meal or not!

  • Azarkhan

    MTinMO said:
    It seems to me we should all be concerned about the kind of meals and refreshments our elected officials are eating and drinking and who is doing the paying.

    Then go check on fat ass Democrats like Barney Frank or rich ones like Nancy Pelosi. Better yet, mind your own business.

  • Nasty Face

    Two words for outraged liberals screaming hypocrisy: Al Gore.

    To the writer: how is Ryan a poser for drinking a Bud Light; should he be drinking some fancy import instead in the beltway?

    Yes, Paul Ryan is a Republican, and yes his budget plan does suck, but confronting and attacking the man politically for what he drinks at dinner is a little psychotic.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Azarkhan said:
    Then go check on fat ass Democrats like Barney Frank or rich ones like Nancy Pelosi. Better yet, mind your own business.

    exactly

  • jddoubleu

    that bag of meat needs some lipstick!

  • felixw

    Nancy Pelosi spends $5 TRILLION in borrowed money, with taxpayers on the hook for repaying the bill — but you won’t see THAT covered in the media. But this is the third story here on Rep. Ryan’s $350 bottle of wine.

    This is why more and more people despise the mainstream media. They cover up the huge story, while playing mindless gotcha games over the trivialities.

  • .

    Azarkhan said:
    Feinberg says she asked him how he can live with himself…

    I wonder the same thing about this stupid left wing b*tch. Mind your own business, Democratic whore. In America, people are allowed to spend their own money any way they want to.

    Lovely language….

  • perceptorii

    Why does Paul Ryan believe that he can afford $700 in wine but the government can’t. Because Ryan isn’t the one with an out of control debt problem.

  • Partytime

    I bet the old hag rides her broom to work so she won’t scare traffic. Other than that liberals suck.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    felixw said:
    Nancy Pelosi spends $5 TRILLION in borrowed money, with taxpayers on the hook for repaying the bill — but you won’t see THAT covered in the media. But this is the third story here on Rep. Ryan’s $350 bottle of wine.

    This is why more and more people despise the mainstream media. They cover up the huge story, while playing mindless gotcha games over the trivialities.

    And Nancy’s GOVERNMENT PAID FOR AIRPLANE cost us a pretty penny while she was Speaker of the House. She’s been chewing her nails over losing that perk ever since. Democrats only like spending TAXPAYER DOLLARS, not their own.

  • Azarkhan

    BTW, Susan Feinberg, champion of the poor, makes $160,000 per year. No wonder she can afford to eat at expensive restaurants.

  • Pablo

    During the interview, Feinberg says she asked him how he can live with himself, but from Ryan’s point of view, that $700 worth of wine is going to trickle right down to some minimum wage family. In France.

    Where is his $80 tip going?

  • Pablo

    MTinMO said:
    It seems to me we should all be concerned about the kind of meals and refreshments our elected officials are eating and drinking and who is doing the paying.

    Ryan paid, as was reported in the TPM story, which makes it none of your damned business what he was eating and drinking. Unless he starts preaching about what you should be eating and drinking, that is.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    You have NO way of knowing if he was paying for his meal or not!

    Come off of it, Michelle-in-Utah. Ryan worked very hard to deprive the elderly of health care. This is not a man with a moral or ethical bone in his body. Of course he was lapping up wine from lobbyists’ troughs. I’m sure he does it all the time. I doubt he has the skills to make a dime on his own. Or, the energy and discipline.

  • Pablo

    MTinMO said:
    Had she not intervened when she did, his meal and $700.00 dollars worth of wine would have more than likely been picked up

    Oh! Are you psychic? Were you there? Are you familiar with Ryan’s dining habits and the payments thereof? Do tell.

  • Pablo

    THE REAL RABID KOOK said:
    Come off of it, Michelle-in-Utah. Ryan worked very hard to deprive the elderly of health care.

    Ryan’s plan doesn’t change a thing for the elderly. You lie, Kook.

  • Harry Flashman

    Interesting. Tommy would call Paul Ryan a poser if he were bellied up to a bar with a beer. So…does that make Sarah Palin any more authentic in liberal eyes? Just wondering.

    Can’t have your cake and eat it, too, Tommy.

    That being said, kudos for this part:

    ” If you want to criticize someone for “letting them eat cake,” it helps not to have moist bits of sponge and butter cream flying out of your mouth while you do it.”

    Heh. Well said.

  • Jaurez

    THE PHONY ROYAL KING said:
    Come off of it, Michelle-in-Utah. Ryan worked very hard to deprive the elderly of health care. This is not a man with a moral or ethical bone in his body. Of course he was lapping up wine from lobbyists’ troughs. I’m sure he does it all the time. I doubt he has the skills to make a dime on his own. Or, the energy and discipline.

    Yea, like Obummer never gorged himself on the lobbyist trough. Gawd, you’re a loser. Total loser.

  • Jaurez

    “that $700 worth of wine is going to trickle right down to some minimum wage family. In France.”

    Clearly, a failure at business 101. The owner of the restaurant made a profit. Alcohol usually has a 100% mark-up. Was he or she residing in france? The waiter made a nice tip. Was he or she residing in france?

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Come off of it, Michelle-in-Utah. Ryan worked very hard to deprive the elderly of health care. This is not a man with a moral or ethical bone in his body. Of course he was lapping up wine from lobbyists’ troughs. I’m sure he does it all the time. I doubt he has the skills to make a dime on his own. Or, the energy and discipline.

    If you are SURE, you should have proof. Feel free to provide it, Royal Dimwit.

  • laceyunderalls

    She sure is a busybody huh?

    Riiiight. I’ve seen the list of her campaign donations. That explains everything.

    Again I have to wonder, if he broke no House ethics rules or drank this on tax payer dollar, what in the hell is her major malfunction.

    But I repeat myself…

  • jddoubleu

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Ryan worked very hard to deprive the elderly of health care.

    if you die early it will be worth it…

  • RIChris

    The only thing more pathetic than a drunken liberal taking it upon herself to mind someone else’s business, is the fact that no one carrying on about it knows jack about Ryan’s budget plan other than what they are told by other seemingly drunken liberals.

  • szore

    Those are nice earrings she is wearing. Why can’t she sell them and give the money to some poor kid in the ghetto?

  • WutzUpWithThat

    The Righties are circling the toilet bowl right now!

    2012 is going to be one big flush for the Repubs!

  • tatboy

    “If you want to criticize someone for “letting them eat cake,” it helps not to have moist bits of sponge and butter cream flying out of your mouth while you do it.”

    Best line you’ve ever written Tommy… :). And there have been some good one. Go back to stand-up, you’re a natural.

  • 2012freedom

    I wonder where she was when the tax payers were footing the bill for Nasty Nan Pelosi’s alcohol? At least Ryan pays for his own. But as is typical, the Democrats want everyone else to pay for theirs.

  • tatboy

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Come off of it, Michelle-in-Utah. Ryan worked very hard to deprive the elderly of health care. This is not a man with a moral or ethical bone in his body. Of course he was lapping up wine from lobbyists’ troughs. I’m sure he does it all the time. I doubt he has the skills to make a dime on his own. Or, the energy and discipline.

    Actually… anyone who cares to know the facts or actually READ articles around the net. It was the people at Ryan’s table that ordered. I’m sure he had a glass. But Tommy also fails to point out that many at the restaurant described Ms. Feinberg as drunk. And she is a state worker living off my back BTW.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Where are you having dinner tonight, Tommy? Perhaps someone can follow Ms.Feinberg and find out what kind of car she drives, what she buys at the grocery store, and by the way, who IS her husband and where does he work? Is she a relative of Kenneth Feinberg’s? Inquiring minds want to know.

  • 2012freedom

    But this stupid wench probably has nothing to say about Obama’s brother living in a hut. Go figure.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Seriously, who is Susan Feinberg’s husband? Is she one of Kenneth Feinberg’s three daughters? If so, it does add a bit of interest to the story. Why don’t you look into her background, Tommy.

  • Purplewings123

    What a CREEP she is!! Why doesn’t she follow Obama & his family around & confront them on the billions of taxpayers money they waste just having a great time. Hawaiian Vacation -TOTAL COST: $1,474,200. Cost to operate Air Force One: The president – Air Force One, which according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, costs $181,757 per hour to operate.
    She doesn’t even have the facts right on his Health Care proposal.
    He should have called the police for harassment here!!!!

  • tatboy

    2012freedom said:
    I wonder where she was when the tax payers were footing the bill for Nasty Nan Pelosi’s alcohol? At least Ryan pays for his own. But as is typical, the Democrats want everyone else to pay for theirs.

    Or Obama’s golf trips that I pay for.

  • timzank

    Seriously, the dude has a salary of $174,000 a year, if he wants to buy a $350 bottle of wine, does anybody here (liberal or not) honestly see a problem with that?

    Not a very good “gotcha” as it pretty much backfired on the professor. She’s knocking down $160k a year as a public employee and eating at the same trendy upscale place, that’s pretty much “pot-kettle” territory kids.

  • gefforyk

    I think that this whole story is funny… First, Ryan by her own admission in the interview seemed to have no idea as to how much the wine cost, but it is interesting that he is sitting at lunch with a Hedge Fund manager.. but then the clueless liberal econ professor appears on Russia Today hosted by a blantly biased host… Not much of a story on either side as I see it… but amusing.

  • CRW

    “…and we proceeded to argue a little more, but as soon as I brought up the ‘L’ word, he got really, really angry and confrontational, and within, I would say, about 15 seconds he was standing up and yelling at her — at me…”

    Aside from her obvious flakiness, what sort of a verbal slip was that? Was he yelling at “her,” or at “me?” Did this conversation really happen, or did she make it up?

  • CRW

    And as long as liberals think it’s okay to tell people how to spend their taxpayer-funded salaries, I suggest that she stop buying $80/bottle wine and dining at tony restaurants, and get her teeth fixed, instead.

  • OxyCon

    If you were looking for the prototypical, condescending, pseudo-intellectual, leftist-elitist college professor, you’d have to look long and hard to find one more obnoxious then this Feinberg scr*nt.
    People like her really make shelling out tens of thousands of dollars a year for you children’s college education that much more painful, knowing that your money is going to reinforce a system where these wannabe poseurs congregate and try to impose their belief systems on your children, in return for a good grade.

    Anyway, her students seem to think she really sucks:
    http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=697660

  • winning

    Seriously Tommy, you guys that hear the latest chic dis like, “it’s bad optics” and go off and repeat them several times without even pretending to be original is just plain corny. Back in 2000, the mantra was that Bush didn’t have “gravitas”, and it’s just been a series of cliche phrases ever since. Lately it’s all about being “the adults in the room”, why don’t you try that one out, too?

    It just doesn’t look good when you copy other people. :)

  • seek

    Ugly woman, ugly behaviour – no excuse.

    I just want to pluck those unbelievably bad eyebrows! Is there a law against looking good, just cause you’re a radical left wing loon?

  • azgrandma

    Courage to speak out? Takes no courage at all to make a total horses butt out of yourself. If they want to spend their own money – it is none of her business! Which one is more ignorant him or her? guess they are equal.

  • winning

    I also have to ask, if this is the type of place that serves $350 a bottle wine, what was this self-righteous bit** doing there?

  • Jim R

    Points taken, Tommy, but it’s worth mentioning she’s not attempting to turn over our senior’s health care to Wall Street. That’s why he’s a hypocrite and she’s not.

    The right has made an industry out of personal attacks on anyone that defends the vulnerable in this country, especially those perceived to be in much better shape than those they advocate for. That’s why the right won’t listen to Al Gore until he rides a donkey and wears sandals and never burns a CO2 molecule again.

  • winning

    Jim R said:
    it’s worth mentioning she’s not attempting to turn over our senior’s health care to Wall Street. That’s why he’s a hypocrite and she’s not.

    You’re either really ignorant or an outright liar. Provide a link showing that Ryan’s budget plan does this. And when you can’t, here’s an idea, stfu.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    kvon said:
    Wow, I’ve never seen someone travel so far to find a way to discredit something. If the person was someone else then they would be a hypocrite…sound thought process buddy.

    You liberals never seem to get erudite humor, why is that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Randall-Drullinger/529146233 Randall Drullinger

    15 mins of fame ugly eyebrows, bad teeth and all.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    So because she is verbally taking the side of “the little people” it is perfectly fine for HER to be dining out in a tony restaurant, but Ryan crossed some line. I am quite surprised she did take him to task for drinking a French wine and not “buying American”, like her bottle.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    BTW, loved this account from one of her students on the “Rate My Teacher” site:

    “She freaks out if you bring bottled water instead of tap water to class, and actually had a brain aneurysm when one student was caught drinking Bling H2O. The paramedics had to wheel her away.”

    Kinda explains it all.

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    Ugly woman, ugly behaviour – no excuse.

    I just want to pluck those unbelievably bad eyebrows! Is there a law against looking good, just cause you’re a radical left wing loon?

    gee, probably your finest moment, seek. unbelievably sharp, stinging criticism!

    you’re such an amazing guy.

  • Steve_27

    MTinMO said:
    You display your lack of civility and intellect by posting in the manner you have. It seems to me we should all be concerned about the kind of meals and refreshments our elected officials are eating and drinking and who is doing the paying. Had she not intervened when she did, his meal and $700.00 dollars worth of wine would have more than likely been picked up by those who seek to influence Congress in ways that are rarely good for the majority of Americans- those who work for a living.

    What the hell are you talking about?

  • Nature Freak

    Tonight, I am drinking a PBR.
    $5. 79 for a 6 pack (bottles) at the local Circle K.
    It better not be aged. At least it is union made.
    Must be nice to have $350-a-bottle wine,

  • Nature Freak

    Josephlymartel said:
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    Josephlymartel, you just posted total gratuitous spam, yet you make more sense than many here at Mediaite ever do.
    Interesting.

  • seek

    darladoon said:
    gee, probably your finest moment, seek. unbelievably sharp, stinging criticism!

    you’re such an amazing guy.

    You keep wishing I was a guy darla, not about to have a sex change for you sweets.

    The woman was trash – what more do you want? Her address cause she is now your idol? Ugly as sin and stupid to boot – badddddd combo.

  • seek

    Josephlymartel said:
    Then again? A proposed guideline, for example, would prevent punks from that hypothesis. This kind of thing is a natural solution to that. They’re on a roll. No hard feelings? I made the mistake of showing my your benefit and I’ll bet a lot of you will be dying to find out more in reference to that triviality. I don’t want to diminish the prospects for an adjunct. Did you note this? It’s how to relax with your expedia coupon code. For a while, I just type of shuffled around, hoping it would go away. This would be greatly satisfying if that turned out to be the right solution. In point of fact, that story in respect to, this phenomenon is a parable of sorts.
    http://expediacouponcode.onsugar.com/

    put down the drink! hide the pills! You have completely lost it. The parable of sorts is “don’t drink and type”.

  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Tonight, I am drinking a PBR.
    $5. 79 for a 6 pack (bottles) at the local Circle K.
    It better not be aged. At least it is union made.
    Must be nice to have $350-a-bottle wine,

    A bow and hearts would indicate someone cares. They seem to be missing.

    If it’s red – don’t care if it’s a $1,000 a bottle – still sucks.

  • Nature Freak

    Nature Freak said:
    Tonight, I am drinking a PBR.
    $5. 79 for a 6 pack (bottles) at the local Circle K.
    It better not be aged. At least it is union made.
    Must be nice to have $350-a-bottle wine,

    Magic Hat Brewing Co. makes better beer (no offense Pabst)
    http://www.magichat.net/
    You can’t go wrong here.

  • Nature Freak

    seek said:
    A bow and hearts would indicate someone cares. They seem to be missing.

    If it’s red – don’t care if it’s a $1,000 a bottle – still sucks.

    One can easily find a good red wine for 20 dollars.
    Wine over 100 dollars has snob appeal.
    A bow and hearts is always a good touch.

  • Nature Freak

    Nature Freak said:
    One can easily find a good red wine for 20 dollars.
    Wine over 100 dollars has snob appeal.
    A bow and hearts is always a good touch.

    Seek, I live in a small Florida town..
    It may cost more than 20 dollars in NYC or DC.
    Years ago i had a dalliance with the wine business in North Carolina.
    Wines over 100 dollars are usually about using a wine as bling.
    There are rare exceptions.

  • Nature Freak

    seek said:
    put down the drink! hide the pills! You have completely lost it. The parable of sorts is “don’t drink and type”.

    Seek, this add was just total gratuitous spam for some bogus company called Expedia.
    The poster was just posting random dialogue. The poster will post on 100′s of sites tonight.
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  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Seek, I live in a small Florida town..
    It may cost more than 20 dollars in NYC or DC.
    Years ago i had a dalliance with the wine business in North Carolina.
    Wines over 100 dollars are usually about using a wine as bling.
    There are rare exceptions.

    the last very expensive bottle that hubby saved religiously had gone sour. I thought it was the funniest thing ever – he was heartbroken as were our guests. lol

  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Seek, this add was just total gratuitous spam for some bogus company called Expedia.
    The poster was just posting random dialogue. The poster will post on 100’s of sites tonight.
    The poster makes money for each person who signs up.

    well good for him. Maybe we should all sign up and get paid for drivel. ]

    Just a thought…..

  • winning

    Nature Freak said:
    Tonight, I am drinking a PBR.
    $5. 79 for a 6 pack (bottles) at the local Circle K.

    Yeppers, Tuesday night, going on midnight, and homey’s downing Pabst. F’ing awesome. You should have applied at the Circle K while you were there, you’re not below swabbing decks and cleaning crappers, you know.

  • Yoda002

    Ryan is just bought and paid for with lobbyist dollars. This is standard practice in the GOP. Nothing to see here, move along. I don’t see FAUX covering this type of stuff. Now if it was a Democrat this would be on FOX and Friends.

  • Nacho

    Paul Ryan needs to resign. This is not acceptable. How much longer is going to continually embarrass the people of Wisconsin?

  • purveyor

    Sweet Jesus, many times I have had people her complain about my use of the word “Socialist” to describe contemporary Democrats.

    Judging from the commentary in here, thank you, as you have made my point. Class envy and militancy!

    God Bless America, in that reason prevails.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Gaithersburg/100002228361650 David Gaithersburg

    Holy cow you people are nuts, as is the toothless lady in the vid. Ryan is free to do with his money anything he wants, its HIS money, not yours.

    Funny how the toothless lady feels no guilt over her own ability to dine in a fine restaurant. Hypocrite.

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  • Pablo

    Yoda002 said:
    Ryan is just bought and paid for with lobbyist dollars. This is standard practice in the GOP. Nothing to see here, move along. I don’t see FAUX covering this type of stuff. Now if it was a Democrat this would be on FOX and Friends.

    Why do you lie? If you have to lie, you have something to hide. What are you hiding, liar?

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Next time Paul get the real stuff at a cost of a few thousand or so a bottle.

  • szore

    I think if all the jigs in the ghetto gave up their $250 sneakers, we can balance the budget!

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    The difference is that Paul Ryan isn’t fighting a war against drinking wine while Michelle Obama is fighting a war against obesity. Look people, I don’t care if “Mooshelle” wants to graze at Taco Bell, but when you start bitching about other people’s weight you deserved to be judged as well. In fact, I’d like to see her in Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition, her ass is a disaster area, you know.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • tatboy

    Yoda002 said:
    Ryan is just bought and paid for with lobbyist dollars. This is standard practice in the GOP. Nothing to see here, move along. I don’t see FAUX covering this type of stuff. Now if it was a Democrat this would be on FOX and Friends.

    And how many stories (and minutes) have MSNBC done on Op Gun Runner? You know that incident where our Justice Dept got a couple of our law enforcement officers killed.

  • tatboy

    Nacho said:
    Paul Ryan needs to resign. This is not acceptable. How much longer is going to continually embarrass the people of Wisconsin?

    Really? Someone at his table orders wine and he should resign? WOW!!!

  • purveyor

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:

    The difference is that Paul Ryan isn’t fighting a war against drinking wine while Michelle Obama is fighting a war against obesity. Look people, I don’t care if “Mooshelle” wants to graze at Taco Bell, but when you start bitching about other people’s weight you deserved to be judged as well. In fact, I’d like to see her in Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition, her ass is a disaster area, you know.

    Well put!

    Your Post is a perfect example of my personal and philosophical thesis: “Neutral Principle.” The founders referred to such as “Equal Protection.”

    Such a simple concept, until, it is YOUR ox that is gored? LOL My compliments

  • tatboy

    Ryan’s guest at his table paid for wine he ordered with his money he earnedat his non-govt job. This other lady paid for her $80 dollar wine with my money she gets from taxes collected to pay her public salary. So I didn’t pay for Ryan’s wine… I did pay for hers.

  • winning

    Yoda002 said:
    Ryan is just bought and paid for with lobbyist dollars.

    You must have some information that the ethics committee should know about. Either that or you’re talking out of your ass. I suspect the latter.

  • winning

    Nacho said:
    Paul Ryan needs to resign. This is not acceptable. How much longer is going to continually embarrass the people of Wisconsin?

    Why is it unacceptable? Because the democrat underground told you it is? Please explain yourself. Tell us why it’s unacceptable for people to spend money, because I pass this high school now and then, and the teachers lot is full of really nice late model cars, yet they’re constantly bitching about their contracts. Let me know, please.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Denny-Flojak/1550780778 Denny Flojak

    Jim R said:
    Points taken, Tommy, but it’s worth mentioning she’s not attempting to turn over our senior’s health care to Wall Street. That’s why he’s a hypocrite and she’s not. The right has made an industry out of personal attacks on anyone that defends the vulnerable in this country, especially those perceived to be in much better shape than those they advocate for. That’s why the right won’t listen to Al Gore until he rides a donkey and wears sandals and never burns a CO2 molecule again.

    Right, and the left has been quiet and fearful of the big bad right wing bad guys. Like MSNBC’s prime time lineup and the MSM going after a christian counseling service run by Michelle Bachmann’s husband. Or Bill Maher calling Bachmann and palin the “MILF” vote, very classy, or calling sarah’s daughter the C word.
    But let’s review. This woman, Feinberg, who is a liberal teacher at Rutgers (see the earlier message referring you to her student evaluation, it’s very revealing), stated she and her husband were in the restaurant for 40 minutes when Ryan arrived. Ryans dinner guest ordered an expensive bottle of wine. About 90 minutes later, according to Ms. Feinberg, Ryan’s acquaintance ordered another bottle of wine. Ms. Feinberg and her husband tied up a table at the restaurant for over two hours.
    Why would two people on a mission from lib heaven stay in a seat that could have been turned over to another guest, not depriving the waiter of another customer and additional tip income. Why does she deserve an $80 dollar bottle of wine on her state run college income, which is paid for by the people of New jersey? Would they approve? They probably wouldn’t give a shit.
    Oh, and by the way, al gore doesn’t need to ride in on a donkey, he’s already a jackass. And the hypocrites on the left that defend the vulnerable, the cultural elites like Feinberg, the talking heads like Keith Olberdouche making 10 mil. per year, the jeaneane Garafalo’s and Rosie O’donnell’s, most of us don’t care what they have to say. But if we did, I think the most likely response would be, f##k you. Not classy, but look at the company I’d be keeping.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    The “Prof” use to work for Kerrys campaign. She is another ultra liberal not shock here, unfortunately Tommy always forget the rest of the story. How convenient.

  • LAPhil

    darladoon said:
    gee, probably your finest moment, seek. unbelievably sharp, stinging criticism! you’re such an amazing guy.

    Well, why don’t you enlighten the rest of us with your obvious intelligence and education?

  • LAPhil

    Thom Hartman’s not biased or anything, is he? What an insufferable jerk!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maryellen-Brady/1250608117 CarmanK

    Rediculous, Feinberg isn’t a public official with the power to defund programs for the sick, the elderly, the disabled or the poor. She is not the one on capital hill espousing shared sacrifice. Ryan is the one who wants to privatize SS to enrich his WALL STREET masters and the kill medicare to aid his insurance buds. I don’t begrudge any one a $300.00 bottle of wine, but then don’t come and tell ME, the american people, that you understand the plights of the poor and unemployed. Don’t tell me, while sipping your expensive wine, that you can feel the pain of not being able to feed your children or get medical care for them on you “minimum wage job”. The Expensive wine is symbolic of the republican disregard for the american people’s plight in this economy: Obama must fail, at all costs. It is obvious that Ryan is friends is not paying the costs of their political objective to make Obama fail. Also, how dare that RAT take his Congressional salary and DO NOTHING for four years.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    CarmanK said:
    Rediculous, Feinberg isn’t a public official with the power to defund programs for the sick, the elderly, the disabled or the poor. She is not the one on capital hill espousing shared sacrifice. Ryan is the one who wants to privatize SS to enrich his WALL STREET masters and the kill medicare to aid his insurance buds. I don’t begrudge any one a $300.00 bottle of wine, but then don’t come and tell ME, the american people, that you understand the plights of the poor and unemployed. Don’t tell me, while sipping your expensive wine, that you can feel the pain of not being able to feed your children or get medical care for them on you “minimum wage job”. The Expensive wine is symbolic of the republican disregard for the american people’s plight in this economy: Obama must fail, at all costs. It is obvious that Ryan is friends is not paying the costs of their political objective to make Obama fail. Also, how dare that RAT take his Congressional salary and DO NOTHING for four years.

    Would be at all possible for you to provide the quotes when Ryan said he felt the pain you listed above? Just curious. As for your claim that he wants to privatize SS only to benefit Wall Street, you honestly have to be blind to suggest no Democrats ever curry favor with Wall Street, and lobbyists. You know, except for the President, who pledged to change to lobbyist atmosphere in D.C. once elected, and then promptly hired lobbyists for his administration. And no Dems suckle at corporate fiscal teats, except for Obama, who willingly took tons of G.E cash and rewarded them by having Charlie Rangl write tax codes which exempted G.E. from paying taxes on their billions in profits. Those Republican wine-swilling bastards!

    But how exactly did Ryan manage to get elected on that platform of selling out the SS system to Wall Street? Or is he trying to come up with a plan that may lead to repairing a system that Dems have been telling is insolvent for decades, yet have not managed to concoct a plan to fix the damned thing? This echos the plan that George Bush had floated years ago where people would have the OPTION of placing a portion of their SS accounts into the markets to avoid insolvency. The Dems in Congress howled that this would be the ruination of the elderly and it was the worst idea ever proposed. The sick irony was that Bush merely wanted to make the same retirement options that Congress enjoyed available to the general public. Yes, Congress demonized a plan they had for themselves to prevent the rabble from enjoying the same benefits.

  • CAconservative

    A $350.00 bottle of wine? Stop the damned presses!!

  • X-3

    Thom Hartmann Interviews The Woman Who Confronted Paul Ryan For Drinking $350 Wine

    If you’ve got it, flaunt it baby! Baron Philippe de Rothschild’s Chateauneuf du Pape (1964) is the best wine I EVER imbibed with steak and lobster. Oh, what a night that was! Had St Julian White Port (1949) for dessert. Yessir!

  • dougx

    I support Ryan politically and will just reiterate as before, my suggestion is he drink beer when in public. Beer is an old Germanic and Irish drink. Wine is more liberal and Mediterranean.

  • X-3

    dougx said:
    I support Ryan politically and will just reiterate as before, my suggestion is he drink beer when in public. Beer is an old Germanic and Irish drink. Wine is more liberal and Mediterranean.

    Ah, yes, the elixir of the common man. No argument–when in Rome, etc. Let’s see now…hmmmm…how about Killian’s Red, or if you’re really brave Mackeson Triple Stout? (The latter may be referred to as “gut varnish” if you’re in the right crowd, but then I’ve never really been known to run with the “right crowd.”)

  • Acedblflt

    this is completely dumb.  there’s no correlation between Paul Ryan drinking expensive wine and someone’s benefits being taken away.  What’s the alternative?  Barney Frank and Bobby Rush get to drink expensive wine because they’re for someone keeping benefits?  The woman’s pretty self-righteous and so is the idiot who put her on TV.

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