'I'm not finished': CNN anchor spars with GOP rep about cutting entitlements - Brianna Keilar

[Dennis Donovan]

Mar 11, 2025
'I'm not finished': CNN anchor spars with GOP rep about cutting entitlements

Good job, Brianna!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Nice try but you can't nail jelly to the wall. I don't know why these anchors keep trying.

[gab13by13]

2. She did a poor job,

[randr]

3. First things first

They are NOT entitlements! Entitlements are what tax breaks for the rich are.

[Number9Dream]

5. I'm sick of CNN and MSNBC referring to Earned Benefits as Entitlements!

Why do CNN and MSNBC always show "Entitlements" in the chyrons when referring to Social Security, Medicare, etc.?? Chris Hayes, Rachel, Lawrence O'Donnel, etc. need to have a word with MSNBC's producers. Same for CNN.

[Uncle Joe]

9. There is nothing wrong with the words entitled or entitlement but around 1970 while Nixon was in power

the negative connotation via the phrase "sense of entitlement" became pervasive so a word describing a legal or moral right to something was propagandized into a negative connotation.

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"Sense of entitlement" apparently first caught on around 1970: Ngram –
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CommentedMay 2, 2020 at 22:16

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https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/532892/when-did-the-word-entitled-gain-its-second-sense-of-spoiled

[Skittles]

10. they ARE entitlements

we paid into SS so we are ENTITLED to receive benefits - STOP letting repukes drive the narrative!

[Skittles]

8. SO

you are saying we are not entitled to SS but the rich are entitled to tax cuts?

[randr]

11. Entitlement is something that you have a right to do or have, or the right to do or have something

It can also mean the feeling of deserving something without working for it.
It can also refer to a government program that provides a benefit to eligible participants, or the unjustified assumption of such a right.
It is the ambiguity that I have a problem with.
I assume my SS income is the money I and my fellow citizens put into a protected account for our retirement. I own it. I am not "entitled" to it by the graces of who ever happens to be in control.

[Skittles]

12. we are ENTITLED to it, PERIOD

STOP LETTING REPUKES DRIVE THE NARRATIVE

[randr]

15. Repukes are the ones who always use the term "entitled"

[Uncle Joe]

4. Three problems with trying to have an "honest conversation with Burchett regarding math."

1. Honesty, he's not emotionally capable of facing it.

2. He doesn't do math that doesn't already agree with his preconceived beliefs unless *rump or musk tell him that his beliefs should be different.

3. He can't bring himself to listen because of all the frightened, partisan voices in his head screaming at him, not to panic.

Thanks for the thread Dennis Donovan

[Falconry]

6. Why in god's name do these news people continue to allow people who LIE on their news programs?

The American public would be much better served if they had unbiased experts on - you know, real economists, SSN experts instead of biased lying politicians. Who in their right mind believes one word uttered by Mr. Dagnummit? It is ridiculous, given the dire straights we are in, to continue to have people on news programs who insist on lying and misleading the public.

[yellow dahlia]

14. Yes - one of my many compaints about CNN.

One of the things MSNBC does so much better is the excellence of their experts, analysts, and pundits.

[johnnyfins]

7. When talking about Medicare fraud

She should have told this idiot congressman to go to the capitol and ask Senator Scott.

[yellow dahlia]

13. He is a mental midget.

I am truly baffled by some of these idiots who get elected to Congress.

The dumbing down of governing.