Comments by "" (@MrEab2010) on "Republican Congressman Says Health Insurance Unaffordable Because Poor People Have Iphones" video.

  1. I have to hand it to journalists. Day in and day out they have to sit there, calmly, and treat some of the worst people alive like decent human beings. I would not have that kind of self-control.
    27
  2. what, you mean you don't make $200,000 a year plus $20,000 per speaking engagement, not including expenses, and have all of your personal and office expenses paid for by the taxpayers? What's wrong with you, you lazy bum? ;)
    7
  3. and for that 200k Chaffetz does maybe 3 days of actual work, which largely consists of showing up to vote, something you can program a robot or a computer to do. Talk about a useless freeloader.
    6
  4. the handful of celebrity journalists make that kind of dough. The vast majority of working journalists would be lucky to see $50,000 a year. I know because I used to be a newspaper reporter in college, making $100 a week (ok, ok, that was the 1980s).
    5
  5. it would be the ultimately irony and poetic justice for an inhumane pig like Chaffetz who believes in Republican social Darwinism at its most extreme.
    4
  6. it depends on where you work. A small town paper may not even take you on full-time, they may only pay you by the story. Many work for next to nothing to develop a portfolio. And senators and other big-name pols are more accessible than you think, many will invite YOU to talk to them for the free publicity, especially around election time. Again, I know because I would interview U.S. Senators as a college journalist. Also, journalism in general is a dying profession, many stories that you read now will soon be written by robots.
    4
  7. when I was an intern reporter I handled the police beat, which consisted of strolling down to the police precinct every morning to see who had been robbed or murdered the previous night. And when I interviewed ex-Sen. Ed Brooke on election day, he didn't serve me oysters, I assure you! Working journalism is not nearly as glamorous as you think it is. ;)
    2