So much for filibuster reform. Wednesday, MSNBC host Alex Wagner interviewed Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren for approximately seven minutes on a variety of topics. Wagner used a full 1/7th of that time to ask one question:
Senator, I want to ask you as we talk about handouts and transparency and accountability and oversight, the issues of corporations and their increasing power, before we let you go. This notion of corporate personhood is something the Supreme Court is dealing with. At the same time we are talking about corporate handouts, Washington state announced today they may give $9 billion more -- they've given $9 billion in tax breaks to Boeing. They may give more. If there's a priority for the Republican party at this point, it seems like it is actually corporations. They are falling lockstep with the Mitt Romney saying that corporations are people too. What happened to people? Are they not people too? It seems like we are on a trend line in this country corporation person hood and the health and strength of corporations is being conflated with the health and the strength of the American worker and Americans in general. How do we stop that? How do we recalibrate and get the goalposts back towards the center?
Wagner clearly admires the work of Warren, calling her “the great Elizabeth Warren” at the onset of the interview. She appears to have endeavored to impress her idol with her comprehensive grasp of Warren’s anti-business perspective. Unfortunately, MSNBC viewers would have probably liked to have heard Warren’s version of it.