# I pit Stuart Varney, for being an uneducated stupid ignorant douchebag **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 9, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512 "2010-04-09T11:54:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/1 "2010-04-09T11:54:05Z")
After watching [this](http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004080054) ridiculous News snippet, I really started to worry about the sanity of the average US TV viewer. Who ever let a douchbag like Stuart Varney speak in public on TV? Yes right, that [mega douche O’Reilly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVxDNJ6RZQw) (_percentage doesn’t matter, since it’s a much smaller country_ - at the 3min mark) Naturally, the EU is not the US, but calling us pagan is uncalled for. However, that is fine and I can live with it, calling us pagan- Losers is going a bit overboard. Pagans, right. There is NO alcohol available in Ireland on [Good Friday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday#Associated_customs), NO Store is allowed to sell it, in Germany, comedic theatre performances and events which include public dancing are illegal on the day. Apparently, we are debt ridden, sure NO bank bail-out happened in the USA, that was only happening in the EU, like [Ireland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_bailout#Irish_banking_rescue), don’t bother reading the list here: > **[Bank of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America)** > > The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded in San Francisco, California. It is the second-largest banking institution in the United States, after JPMorgan Chase, and the second-largest bank in the world by market capitaliza... > **[CIT Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIT_Group)** > > CIT Group (CIT), a subsidiary of First Citizens BancShares, is an American financial services company. It provides financing, including factoring, cash management, treasury management, mortgage loans, Small Business Administration loans, leasing, and advisory services principally to individuals, middle-market companies and small businesses, primarily in North America. Under the reporting mark CEFX, it leases locomotives and railroad cars to rail transport and shipping companies in North America... [Recession](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession), what? Yes, there is a [recession](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_recession)going on here - apparently [not in the USA,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession#United_States) which is why [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9310_California_budget_crisis)is obviously a straight out LIE. VAT (Value added TAX) none existing and un-American, so there is absolutely NO Sales tax in the USA either, so [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States) is a LIE as well. So, all these Americans paying this extra charge in the shops in the US (depending on state) are being conned by the clerks? So I guess, [THIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Corporation)un-American bail-out has not happen either? Property tax - most EU countries don’t have it, read [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax). Guess what, they don’t take away you house either, if you fall short in paying you property tax – since there is NONE. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/2 "2010-04-09T15:16:00Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > After watching [this](http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004080054) ridiculous News snippet, I really started to worry about the sanity of the average US TV viewer. > Who ever let a douchbag like Stuart Varney speak in public on TV? Yes right, that [mega douche O’Reilly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVxDNJ6RZQw) (_percentage doesn’t matter, since it’s a much smaller country_ - at the 3min mark) Yeah, yeah, weep for the poor stoopid American. If O’Reilly gets even one American in a hundred to watch, he’s considered a success. His audience is indicative of a fringe, not an average. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/3 "2010-04-09T15:39:37Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, yeah, weep for the poor stoopid American. If O’Reilly gets even one American in a hundred to watch, he’s considered a success. His audience is indicative of a fringe, not an average. Think so? [The O'Reilly Factor - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O'Reilly_Factor) the wiki states following \*“The O’Reilly Factor is the most-watched cable news show in the USA. In 2009, the show averaged about 3.5 million viewers a night.” \* And then the US also got [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Beck)clown. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/4 "2010-04-09T15:54:32Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > Think so? > [The O'Reilly Factor - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O'Reilly_Factor) the wiki states following \*“The O’Reilly Factor is the most-watched cable news show in the USA. In 2009, the show averaged about 3.5 million viewers a night.” > \* > > And then the US also got [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Beck)clown. I hate O’Reilly with the passion of a thousand suns, but 3.5M/307M is pretty close to one in a hundred. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/5 "2010-04-09T15:55:10Z")
So… 3.5 million Americans vs. one American in a hundred, i.e. 3.07 million Americans. Big whoop. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/6 "2010-04-09T15:59:47Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > I hate O’Reilly with the passion of a thousand suns, but 3.5M/307M is pretty close to one in a hundred. Yeah, but when you combine it with the [ratings](http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/01/jersey-shore-ratings-keep-on-climbing/) for _Jersey Shore_, that leaves _two_ out of a hundred Americans with repulsive TV-viewing habits. What the hell is wrong with you guys? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/7 "2010-04-09T16:28:10Z")
Um, O’Reilly. I thought we’d established that! ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/8 "2010-04-09T16:33:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > So… 3.5 million Americans vs. one American in a hundred, i.e. 3.07 million Americans. > Big whoop. Sure, sure, that’s why Glen Beck only earns $32mill a year and O’Reilly something like $10 million…completely negligible. > [@DanBlather](#): > > I hate O’Reilly with the passion of a thousand suns, but 3.5M/307M is pretty close to one in a hundred. Sure, one in a hundred, that is still 3.5million, watching a News show like that? Jez, that’s a fucking hit show - and it’s only some douche talking horseshit stupid crap that he pulls out of his ass. These two clowns are complete and utter idiots of the highest calibre… throw in American Idol and you soon got a bunch of idiots roaming the streets of America. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/9 "2010-04-09T16:42:34Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > These two clowns are complete and utter idiots of the highest calibre… throw in American Idol and you soon got a bunch of idiots roaming the streets of America. Yeah, and…? ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/10 "2010-04-09T18:17:37Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, and…? Maybe, that’s why you get people like [this](http://www.mediaite.com/online/conclusion-sarah-palin-speaks-like-a-toddler/) in Politics to be successfull. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/11 "2010-04-09T18:26:37Z")
Fortunately, though, the idiots in the street aren’t really the important ones. We get progress though the work of scientists and engineers and such. It’s when the idiots in the street, be they brownshirts or teabaggers, get actual political power (that is to say, some politician who claims to represent the idiots convinces them to vote for him or her) and are in a position to hassle the scientists and engineers that we have problems. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/12 "2010-04-09T19:14:40Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > Think so? > [The O'Reilly Factor - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O'Reilly_Factor) the wiki states following \*“The O’Reilly Factor is the most-watched cable news show in the USA. In 2009, the show averaged about 3.5 million viewers a night.” > \* Our population is a little over 300M. 3.5M is, of course, just over one percent of that. If that’s not a fringe, I don’t know what is. Factor out children, etc., in the general population, then we might edge up to a few percent, but it still looks like a fringe to me. There’s certainly no property tax at the federal level, though I agree that it’s extremely misleading to use that fact to argue that there’s no property tax. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/13 "2010-04-09T20:16:40Z")
Varney went to the London School of Economics. It’s no wonder he doesn’t understand economics. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/14 "2010-04-09T21:18:48Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Varney went to the London School of Economics. It’s no wonder he doesn’t understand economics. This might explain his misguided understanding of economics. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/15 "2010-04-09T21:34:06Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Our population is a little over 300M. 3.5M is, of course, just over one percent of that. If that’s not a fringe, I don’t know what is. > > Factor out children, etc., in the general population, then we might edge up to a few percent, but it still looks like a fringe to me. > > There’s certainly no property tax at the federal level, though I agree that it’s extremely misleading to use that fact to argue that there’s no property tax. I just can not believe, how dumb these “hosts” think people are… really, who in their right mind can watch them on a regular basis. 3.5 million every day watching this garbage, that contradicts itself. 3.5 Million people every day, that maybe is 1% of the total population of the US on a daily basis, however that makes much much more than 1% of the voting population. VAT is sales tax, sure taxation it is differnt in the US than the EU, but to blatently state that there is NO sales tax, is just a plain BS lie. This might to an American, that does not watch FOX sound like, _yeah yeah, ah well, thats just FOX_ but it is one way how the US is displayed and represented to the rest of the world. Think of Germany, properly one of the first things that pops into your head is Hitler, yet there is much more to it, than just that. The French have bad personel hygine, the Irish drink all day…etc. When we hear US, we think of idiots like O’Reilly and Beck, eating junkfood and overweight fatties. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/16 "2010-04-09T21:35:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Varney went to the London School of Economics Another famous alumnus: Mick Jagger, That’s a true fact, you could look it up! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/17 "2010-04-09T22:22:58Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > 3.5 Million people every day, that maybe is 1% of the total population of the US on a daily basis, however that makes much much more than 1% of the voting population. If only those eligible to vote are counted as viewers – but as far as I know that’s not the case. All 3.5 million viewers could be criminally insane 12-year-old illegal immigrants for all we know. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/18 "2010-04-10T16:30:40Z")
I don’t think Neilsen gives set-top boxes to 12 year old illegal immigrants. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/19 "2010-04-10T17:03:46Z")
Those “Hey Vern” commercials got old quick, too. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512/20 "2010-04-12T16:01:52Z")
Glenn Beck is only in it for the money. [QUOTE=Glenn Beck in Forbes Magazine] With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported [Glennbeck.com](http://Glennbeck.com) and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers. (FORBES has a relationship with that channel via Forbes on Fox.) [/QUOTE] > **[Glenn Beck Inc](https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0426/entertainment-fox-news-simon-schuster-glenn-beck-inc.html)** > > In his empire there's the ideology--and then there's the money machine. If you discovered you had this cash cow, would you milk it? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-stuart-varney-for-being-an-uneducated-stupid-ignorant-douchebag/535512.md?page=2)