Media personalities claim socialism didn't cause Venezuela's collapse, but it did. --------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/johnstossel Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnstossel --------- “Blaming socialism for Venezuela’s riches to rags story is grossly misleading,” an Al Jazeera reporter claims. John Oliver claims: “If you follow conservative media at all you might have seen it frequently painted as the inevitable dire consequences of a socialist government." Oliver blames it instead on "epic mismanagement.” But John Stossel says: “Mismanagement is what happens under socialist governments. It always happens because no group of central planners is wise enough to manage an entire economy. Even if they have good intentions, the socialists eventually run out of other people’s money.” In Venezuela, when their socialist government ran out of money, they just printed more. When business owners raised prices to keep up with inflation, the government often took away their businesses. Yet celebrities praised Hugo Chavez, who started Venezuela's socialism. Model Naomi Campbell visited Chavez calling him “a rebel angel.” After Chavez's death in 2013, Oliver Stone tweeted, “Hugo Chavez will live forever in history. My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned.” Sean Penn told The Hollywood Reporter that “poor people around the world lost a champion.” Stossel says the good news is that, unlike American celebrities, "most Venezuelans who escaped their country’s socialism do understand what went wrong.” In Florida, reporter Gloria Alverez talked to Venezuelan immigrants, and most of them told her socialism doesn’t work. One said, “it's never gonna work.” Another man explained, “it's something that breeds and leads to other misery and destruction.” Stossel warns that if we don’t realize that socialism is to blame for Venezuela’s destruction, “other tragedies like Venezuela will happen again and again.” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQgTRBugRg

Megyn Kelly is well known for working at Fox News & NBC. Now she’s her own boss, and feels free to call out bias wherever she sees it. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Today, big media has an agenda. It’s not just, "give the news." Fox News and a few others spin right. Almost everyone else spins left. That’s why I’m glad we have independent journalists like Megyn Kelly. We worked together at Fox, and then she went to NBC. She felt pressure from her bosses to stick to a certain agenda. Not pleasing the network got her fired from NBC. Now she has her own podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. “I’m totally uncancellable,” she tells me. “That was my only mission in coming back into our business. I didn’t want a corporate overlord.” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdftX2aENa8

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqVKSH3_vM

John Stossel got an eyeglass prescription over the Internet. Should that be illegal? Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/johnstossel Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnstossel Need glasses? Going to an optometrist can be a pain and waste the better part of a day. So a company, Opternative, invented an at-home test. It's cheaper and more convenient than traditional eye exams. You just need a cell phone and a computer. But the American Optometric Association wants it banned. They say "it poses significant health risks to consumers" because "it relies on new, self-administered tests" rather than "assessment by an eye care professional." Everyone who wants glasses should go to an eye doctor, says the association. Is this new eye test dangerous? Or is it a cheap and efficient eye care alternative? John Stossel takes the Opternative at-home test in Part 2 of our "Bottleneckers" series. Produced by Naomi Brockwell. Edited by Joshua Swain. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgmJqbXg1s