John Stossel Fights Frivolous Lawsuits On A Go-Cart
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July 7, 2010
John Stossel’s libertarian fury has landed today on frivolous warning labels– things like “do not eat” on printer cartridges and warnings on go-carts that, when turned on, they may move. Most of these ridiculous labels are the product of frivolous lawsuits that, according to Stossel, our government is too lenient with. To prove this point, of course, Stossel presented the most important piece of evidence in the story backing his claim: a go-cart.
On his regular visit to America Live, Stossel brought a pre-taped package of him wandering the streets of New York in his go-cart rather slowly, and asking passers-by about the warning labels on it. The go-cart was essential to making this point, you see. While he didn’t ride it into the studio, unfortunately, he did lend it to someone else to ride around the show while he and Megyn Kelly debated. Kelly found herself in a fairly awkward position as a lawyer, given that the entire premise of Stossel’s argument was that lawyers were hurting America, or, in other words: “We need you lawyers the way we need nuclear missiles. Because we want lawyers to keep us safe, but we avoid using our missiles.”
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