If Thomas Jefferson were alive today?

Question

Would he work for CNN or Fux News?

oops Typo! Fox

Answer 1

He'll watch FOX News.

Answer 2

Yeah one guy with a Brain and true knowledge of the meaning of our founding father Good ol' Thomas Jefferson a brilliant man and a Statesman not a Politician. Yes he would tell them to pack up their Viagra, their mistresses, and all that they can carry and head for the hills. A quote from him against France, "If they want a War We will accommodate them with War, Embargo On" ! The man knew where to hit them right in their pockets. But see so who is the enemy here? Yes the politicians they are our enemies they are using that strategy against their own people? Which is worse, to die starving in the cold or to be gassed? Either way they are destroying this country for which it stands, and is no longer one country under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All? It is a split country to be pieced together in banks by the foreigners, and yes Bush needs the money they are going to try and rule the world and that takes more than Billions he lost from his own endeavors before he entered the White House. But that was not his money either, he never earned a dollar of his own in his life. Look up his biz history? Many times has screwed the little people in Stock Market. After his Daddy tapped all phones using the excuse of Cartel money they were tapping for the control of the Stocks and they hit all the main families of the Mafia to become the Mafia with government backing Just like Frederic the Great?

Answer 3

Jefferson said that an educated and informed electorate is the cornerstone of democracy. I think he would be totally shocked at how things have turned out in the United States.

There are a lot of things that most people don't know about the Constitution and how it was used in Jefferson's time.

First, the Electoral College elected the President, but the general public did not. In only two states, the electors were chosen by popular vote, but in most cases, they were chosen by the state legislature. Even the places that had a popular vote limited it to landowners. In Jefferson's Constitution, the President was to be chosen, not by the people, but by representitives selected by the state legislatures.

Senators, too, were to be chosen by the state legislatures, not by popular vote. Popular election of Senators was not made official until 1913, though some states were doing it earlier.

Jefferson intended for the highest offices in our nation to be filled, not by the will of an ill-informed and under-educated populace, but by a small group of educated, dedicated, and usually wealthy men such as himself.

So he would probably refuse to work for any network, since all networks are attempting to brainwash the voters with misinformation. Jefferson would probably write a column for The National Review, or The Wall Street Journal.

Answer 4

He would so furious after seeing the way that the Bush cabal has bastardized his beloved Constitution and Bill of Rights that he would land on the police states Watched list.

Not that I would know about these things. Cough.

Then he would marry well again..assuming he were exceptionally well preserved.

Then he would be hard at work at freeing the nation from the grips of fascism. Something he has expertise in.

I would gladly give my life if it meant that Jefferson would have another crack at fixing things gone terribly awry. Though I doubt that even Jefferson could effectively fight the evil that we face.

Answer 5

Neither. He would actually force folks to read and study on their own and form an opinion based on Facts.
Not some B.S. Microwave answer that gives a link to what somebody else thinks. He would say the Internet and all the B.S. you find is "Dumbing Down" everyone.
He would call most folks lazy, because he encouraged individual thoughts.
Not stupid statements that always begin with:
"Why do all Cons....." or "Why do all Libs..."..
He gave of himself to give us the right to research and think. Not some Glorified Talk Show host selling Ratings...

Answer 6

If that great man were alive today, he'd puke at what has happened to the great country he and others made for us.

He had no respect for the local newspapers of his day...even though he read many. He thought that people who report the news should be objective.

He certainly wouldn't waste his time on Faux Noise.

Answer 7

He would work for neither. CNN and Fox are both propaganda outlets that go against his beliefs.

Jefferson would be a Ron Paul supporter if he were alive today and would probably be writing for radical libertarian website lewrockwell.com

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson was quoted as saying: "don't let government over spend the country into dept".
I don't know if I got the quote exactly right, but that was the meaning of it. And that was almost 250 years ago. He seen it then, and it's happening now.

He would scoff at both of those stations.

Answer 9

I think Thomas Jefferson would be working for BET.

Answer 10

Given that CNN is VERY left elaning and Thomas Jefferson was definately NOT a leftist, he would NOT wrok for CNN.

You ever read anyhting that Thoms Jefferson wrote?

Contrary to lib propagande, Fox is more centereed than most TV news, ESPECIALLY the network news.

What do you call fabricating stories just to make a political point? It is sure NOT journalism... NYT, CBS are just to left leaning sources that have been caught doing this.

Answer 11

He would hang his head and weep because of the size and corruption of our government.

Then he would lead a new revolution to return the government to the non intrusive, much smaller, low tax government that the founding fathers envisioned.

Read the constitution and see how little the federal government is actually authorized to do and how much it has infringed on the dominions of the individual states and the lives of the individual citizens.