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tavernier

(12,393 posts)
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 07:55 AM Nov 2014

The Today Show did an exposé

on hotel rooms, and maids who were improperly cleaning them (such as using a dirty hand towel to wipe off the sink, instead of a cleaning rag... gasp).

Why don't we ever get an exposé of congressmen who get paid a butt load of money but who don't work at all??? Leave the hard working maids alone, and spend a week following these jerks instead!

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merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. Simple. Members of Congress don't unionize.
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 08:04 AM
Nov 2014

Also, don't be looking to NBC for anything anti-establishment, especially anti-Republican.

TV networks aren't exactly populist, esp. NBC. And especially the Today Show, which is big moneymaker for NBC. Not about to alienate any of those advertisers.

But, if you need Martha Stewart to tell you in 30 seconds or less exactly how to make that perfect Victorian May basket to hang secretly on your neighbor's door, the Today Show is for you.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
3. exactly
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 09:07 AM
Nov 2014

they have been crooks from the very beginning. It's a political system, as all are, easy to corrupt by men and women with money and power as their only agenda.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. What dirty billionaire is Boehner wet ragging this week, off one more vacation as Imperial Emperor
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 09:09 AM
Nov 2014

Obama is left alone in an abandoned Rome to wreck more havoc with, gasp, Presidential memos?

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
7. "Five on Your Side" (Raleigh, NC) just did an expose on school bus drivers.
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 10:05 AM
Nov 2014

I thought the same thing when I saw that.....why aren't they targeting the 1%-ers who are screwing the 99%?

Well, I know that answer: it's because the 99% doesn't own the television networks.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
11. Because most people stay in hotels from time to time
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 10:34 AM
Nov 2014

And find that it would be a health hazard not to have a clean room. Congress well they have a 9 percent approval rate so nothing would be that shocking.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
12. Because it's easy to cause hate of the people that are not your audience.
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 10:44 AM
Nov 2014

I can't imagine that many people who work outside their homes have the time to watch the Today Show. What's left? The retired and the people that don't have to/don't have work. Prime time for Sheeple. Focus their hate on someone other than the people that are making their lives worse, not better.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
13. Now, now,now
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 11:22 AM
Nov 2014

I shall wave the pointy finger of outrageous inconsequentals at you. We must, I tell you, we must have those maids using the proper cleaning techniques as prescribed in the Handbook of Prim and Proper Wiping.

Should we expect James O'Keefe to be dressed up as a maid soon to expose this scandal that Obama is not spending time addressing?

Cha

(297,378 posts)
14. They're only cablable of doing exposes on hotel maids.. corruption and slime in Congress is way
Sat Nov 22, 2014, 06:20 PM
Nov 2014

beyond their abilities.

Good question, though, tavernier

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