"My father's hands didn't build this company?!"

Another spoilt entitled white man thrust into the world of privilege at the expense of the community at large.

Ok, a little hyperbolic but it's catchy.

like Cenk said, politicians on both sides ROUTINELY take quotes out of context.

But that is pretty beyond the pale. The out of context quote is 180 degrees from what he actually said.

When I first heard this, I cringed. It sounds like he's sort of improvising and the line they pulled out was indelicately delivered. However, anyone who actually thinks that their success is completely independent of the rest of us is a classic ingrate. One person's success depends on interaction with others. If you have a product, you need people to buy it. That means you need people to have access to money and to the product, which means you need banks and bankers, roads and truckers, rails and train operators, boats and boat crews. In order to convince people to buy it, you need advertising space - billboards, newspapers, websites, television programs and all of them are staffed by still more people. Without security, your success is meaningless, so that's police and firefighters, the entire judicial branch of government. A lot of this infrastructure is subsidized by the public.

No one does it alone. You have to be a special kind of disconnected to convince yourself that's not true. If we govern with the attitude that successful people should not be expected to give back, it will cripple those who are emerging successes. We need to create an environment where people can buy things, and super rich people can afford to pitch in to keep that happening even if they refuse to see that they're included in the list of people who benefit.

holyshitrant

I know, make lying a capital crime!

If Obama's got the bully pulpit, why doesn't he, once and for all, tactfully address these outright lies on the part of the opposition Right and the Faux Noise corporation, so as to, at the very least, reveal that he's hip to the charade?

Surely, some of those hypnotized Faux Noise viewers in the middle of the country would break out of their trance temporarily and perhaps wake-up to the bullshit that's being fed to them...

Or does that "stoop" the dignity of the Office?
Seems to me, letting his words get twisted like this is just asking to get trounced in November.