Rachel Maddow Grills Dr. Evil (aka Rick Berman)

Joe, come on you can't believe that? He speaks for the $$$$$$$, not for front line restaurant operations staff. Look at your team, how many does he speak for. What has he done to help your staff? Your team? Lobbying pays big! The chains that have been supporting him are not thinking about thier employees.

Despite the hunger from the left to squash every single freedom idea, Maddow and most that feel like her live in a BOX, they have no idea what the real worl is like. Berman might have some faults, however his believe is strong and he does speak for many Americans that feal the Government is taking over and taking away all our rights. Why are we talkinh Politics in a Food Mag.

Berman's work hurts the industry. His columns in the trade mags are filled with junk science that do nothing but attempt to inflame people. His work basically turned the National Restaurant Association into a bunch of Republican cheerleaders on donors, fighting minimum wage laws with slanted data, fighting nutritional disclosure with lies about cost and trade secrets, funneling industry dollars to K Street so he could keep his standing with Delay and Rove, and the list goes on. Berman is a disgrace and is the reason I, and my mid-size operations, no longer belong to so-called "trade groups."

Rachel Madcow is only interested in putting down conservatism and free enterprise in any way possible. Obviously, she feels that only her view is allowable in our society. Typical of NBC to support her.

In her own interpretation of "shoot the messenger", it was interesting to note that Rachel Maddow was interested only in who was paying for the research not the science or findings themselves. In the 60 MInutes profile, Berman had this to say about obesity: "If it's true that we have an obesity epidemic, it will be the first in the history of mankind that can be eliminated by closing your mouth and going for a walk." What we have is a "victimization epidemic" - always looking to put the responsibility on someone else.

According to public records filed by public restaurant companies and his personal comments at and during NRA public events. His income from lobbing on behalf of chain restaurants is in excess of $2,000,000 per year! He does have a small staff dictated to chain restaurant concerns. He is one could gather paid much more than he ever made at Brinker by 10 fold.