"What is it in the Arab world where there's so many people available for demonstrations on a weekday? I mean... these guys always look like they've got a two day growth of beard, they're always available for demonstrations and they're always yelling in the same passionate way. Are they always ready, like, sitting on benches ready to hit the streets, with attitude? I mean, I'm kidding, but it is to us a cartoon. They put a shoe at the top of that flagpole. We (Americans) laugh at this! I mean, you want to know our western attitudes? This is a joke! You guys are sitting around with nothing to do, drinking sweet tea, waiting for something to happen. I mean, why don't they work?"
Well Chris, unfortunately, due to the economic downturn, Starbucks has had to close four of its shops in Sadr City. And this is after Macy's and Neiman Marcus announced they would not be opening branches in Fallujah or Basrah.
Seriously?
Where the hell have you been for the last, oh, I don't know, 5 years? Did he really ask, "Why don't they work?" as if, there is some abundance of jobs just waiting for these people in Iraq? Maybe it has something to do with the absurdly high unemployment rate that's been estimated at anywhere between 25% and 50%.
The man gets paid upwards of $5 mil. per year and asks questions like this? Isn't he supposed to be a reporter.
If this is the standard to which MSNBC holds their reporters, then the whole network is a joke.
That's all I got.
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