HRC: “Rich People, God Bless Us”
May 2, 2008, 10:11 am
Posted by Eduardo Peñalver
It’s very hard to figure out what she’s trying to say here, but it seems like she’s saying that rich people like her and O’Reilly have a special obligation to contribute to the common good. Nothing wrong with that. But why is her campaign denying that she said “God bless us”? According to Wolfson, she said “God B-L-E-S-S-E-D us.” But that just doesn’t seem right. Watch the video and tell me if you agree. The funny thing is, given that there’s nothing really wrong with what she said, lying about her words is just going to create controversy where there shouldn’t be any.
I agree with you. It sounds very clear and very deliberately emphasised. I don’t know the context, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but the words are clear.
“God blessed us” is an oddly inept way of saying, “Rich people- and it was GOD who blessed us with riches- ” etc. Everyone’s straining out gnats and absorbing porkies.