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RUSH: How many of you\u2019ve heard about the trials and tribulations of Rosie O\u2019Donnell with Oprah? Rosie O\u2019Donnell is a classic illustration of a point that I\u2019ve made frequently about liberals, and that is failure is a resume enhancement. You fail as a Democrat — politician or whatever — fail as a liberal, and you get promoted. It\u2019s almost like your failure has made you a victim, particularly if it\u2019s in the private sector. Then your failure is because of evil conservatives who haven\u2019t signed on to whatever it is you\u2019re doing. Or stupid, idiotic Southerners who refuse to watch your show, or what have you. But you gave it your best shot. You tried. You put Rosie on the air.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what they think, because they let the media make them. <\/p>\n
But it never happened. <\/p>\n
So now they\u2019ve fired Rosie. Rosie wanted to move her show from Chicago where Oprah\u2019s network is to New York. They said “no.” But they didn\u2019t just fire Rosie. “Oprah Winfrey has cut 30 full-time employees from its struggling OWN Network, a move that represents a loss of nearly a fifth of its workforce. After the latest round of cuts, about 90 people remain on the OWN payroll, down from 150 employees at its peak. ‘It is difficult to make tough business decisions that affect people\u00c2\u2019s lives,\u2019 Winfrey, OWN\u00c2\u2019s CEO and chief creative officer said in a written statement Monday. ‘But the economics of a start-up cable network just don\u00c2\u2019t work with the cost structure that was in place.”<\/p>\n
No, Oprah, they don\u2019t work with Rosie O\u2019Donnell. They were not talking mass appeal here! <\/p>\n
Put her on HBO.<\/p>\n
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She\u2019d be fine. <\/p>\n
But this is not my point. I\u2019m just giving you facts. Just giving you data. My point is: Why is Oprah laying off workers? Why is Oprah ignoring the Obama way? Why is Oprah ignoring Keynesian-inspired deficit spending to spur growth at her network? Why isn\u2019t Oprah out saying, “You know what? I\u2019m gonna spend and spend! I\u2019m gonna keep hiring! Even though my network\u2019s not making a dime and nobody\u2019s watching Rosie, I\u2019m gonna go out and I\u2019m gonna hire even more people. I have camera-ready jobs here. I got control-board-ready jobs here. I got stage-manager-ready jobs here. Uh, I\u2019m just gonna keep hiring. I\u2019m gonna keep spending. I\u2019m going to do it the Obama way. I\u2019m gonna spend money I don\u2019t have, and that\u2019s how I\u2019m gonna grow my network.”<\/p>\n
Why didn\u2019t she do exactly what the president she endorsed has been doing? This really disappoints me. I thought all good liberals understood that when times get tough — when growth is stymied, when jobs are needed — the last thing you do is cut costs. The last thing you do is fire people. No, when your business is tanking just like your country, what do you do? You borrow more money and you spend more money and then you give it to union people! Why couldn\u2019t Oprah do that? Has she not learned anything from watching Obama? This is called “investing in the future.” You deficit spend. Camera-ready jobs in Oprah\u2019s case. <\/p>\n
Now, there is one difference.<\/p>\n
Obama gets to do his spending with everybody else\u2019s money.<\/p>\n
Oprah would have to spend hers. <\/p>\n
And Oprah decided, “You know what? Obama\u2019s way won\u2019t work for me. If I could spend Obama\u2019s money doing this, I would do it, but I have to spend my own. So I\u2019m not going to deficit spend for more camera-ready jobs. I\u2019m not gonna give Rosie a raise. I\u2019m not gonna go out and hire three more hosts to do three more shows and expand my network like Obama would, because I\u2019m not gonna spend my own money irresponsibly.” <\/p>\n
So in the real world — in the real world of the private sector — Oprah Winfrey would no more do what Barack Obama\u2019s doing with this country\u2019s economy with her own company than anybody else would. She\u2019s doing what must be done: cutting costs, canceling failed shows, getting rid of employees that she can\u2019t afford who aren\u2019t doing any work. ‘Cause that\u2019s the real world. No, Oprah knows. She lives in the real world. <\/p>\n
Obama doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s in a fantasy make-believe world. When audience share is down, when you\u2019re up against hard times, what would Obama do? Double down on spending! Hire more people! Triple down on spending! Go borrow more money! Hire your way out of this, Oprah. Do it the Obama way! It worked wonders for him, didn\u2019t it? Why aren\u2019t you deficit spending? Are you afraid of a little bankruptcy, Oprah? Come on, hire up! Watch your ratings go through the roof. You haven\u2019t busted enough budgets yet to see results. Spend, baby, spend! You\u2019re not spending enough money. That\u2019s the problem with your network. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Obama would tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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