D. L. Hughley Quotes
He’s so dumb, he actually believes what he is saying. J. J. from Goode Times could run this company better than he can…. Why do people call him Christian. Christ cared more for the poor people than he did for Halliburton.
D. L. Hughley, Comedian, Describing George W. Bush, HBO Real Time With Bill Maher, March 6, 2006
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4 Presidents were present including George W. Bush to whom the audience realized that the put down of his policies and practices were directed.
The Bishop in this letter threatened to excommunicate the President because his economic policy was causing the death of babies and elderly people from malnutrition and lack of medical care and other basic services.
Malthus was of the view that population growth often eclipsed the capacity of government and private institutions to support the population. There are even today nations and subpopulations where the economic growth is reasonable but the population growth is greater so that at the end of each year, the average person is poorer and has a lower standard of living. What Malthus did not anticipate is the remarkable productivity growth rate of those institutions like American agriculture, which allo`ws many more people to thrive within a fixed geographic area.
The Banks and Wall Street were much to blame of the Great Depression which began in 1929. Many called for reform and heavy regulation of the finance industry. However President Hoover was very passive and the Depression became worse. Hoover also opposed ANY regulation of banking or Wall Street. Hence the names in this quotation. The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
Bush had been allowed to join the Texas Air National Guard which meant that he did not have to serve in combat in Vietnam the way most other men his age did. However, there were no records of his having reported for duty during several months when he was to be in service. Bush claimed that he was on duty and there was no action taken against him by the then authorities which detractors attribute to his father’s high position and supporters refer to as evidence of the fact that he did nothing wrong. He had been arrested for drunk driving, and the WMD dispute has ever since raged of whether he had been honestly misled by bad intelligence. Bush was not a functional illiterate but had been a college graduate and had completed graduate school studies. He was a poor public speaker and was not an intellectually curious man and did not read much, but this was a huge exaggeration.
Darryl Lynn Hughley is an American actor, political commentator, radio host, author and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the "Big Four" comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality and interviewer in New York City. In early 2013, D.L. Hughley landed in 9th place on Dancing with the Stars.
