Just how much of a joke is Romney? This Decorated Iraq war vet had a BB gun conviction when he was 13 years old. The bb didn't even break the other kids skin. Now this iraq war vet wants to be a cop, but he can't get in the police academy with the bb gun conviction on his record.
Romney refused to pardon Iraq Vet for BB-gun conviction; yet cheers Scooters pardon
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Just how much of a joke is Romney? This Decorated Iraq war vet had a BB gun conviction when he was 13 years old. The bb didn't even break the other kids skin. Now this iraq war vet wants to be a cop, but he can't get in the police academy with the bb gun conviction on his record.
But he looks like a game-show host, so he could become President. Americans love game show hosts.
In the R party it's all going to come down to; do you want a tough "who's your daddy?" type (cons love that, even the men), or, do you want the amiable game show host? Depending on the answer, we'll get either Romney or Thompson.
I thought O'Donnel had a lock on that!
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Naah I heard she turned it down because they would not offer her enough money. I figure the offer was small because they did not want her.
That's it! Gameshow host!
I couldn't exactly put my finger on it, but there's something really plastic and phony about Romney. Game show host is the perfect metaphor
That's it! Gameshow host!
I couldn't exactly put my finger on it, but there's something really plastic and phony about Romney. Game show host is the perfect metaphor
It's my friend Sue's. We were at a pool party together yesterday, drinking martinis, listening to "holding out for a Hero" on my ipod, (we shared the earphones, one each), deciding that that song has to be his campaign theme song, making up names for the other canditates, and planning our next party.
I think I've finally found the perfect woman. It's too bad I'm not gay.
Here's a great Alterman piece on the Libby thing. I love how he dug up all of this old stuff about people like cokie roberts ( i really can't stand that woman), when it was about Clinton lying. God, do I remember all of them whining about "but what will we tell the chillldrreeen". And my newspaper was filled with letters from Republicans (probably paid propagandists) whining the exact same message. "omg the children".
This is just the first 1/2 but the whole column is at the link below.
Think Again: Lies, Justice, and the Punditocracy's "Place"
Remember when lying under oath was the worst thing in the world?
By Eric Alterman
July 5, 2007
Allow me refresh your memory: Once upon a time, we heard Stuart Taylor of The National Journal complaining on “Meet the Press” that “I’d like to be able to tell my children, ‘You should tell the truth. I’d like to be able to tell them, ‘You should respect the president.’ And I’d like to be able to tell them both things at the same time.”
His colleague on that same program, William J. Bennett, spoke of the “moral and intellectual disarmament” that befalls a nation when its president is not “being a decent example” and “teaching kids the difference between right and wrong.” “We have a right to say to this president, ‘What you have done is an example to our children that’s a disgrace,’” he added.
These views were seconded by Cokie Roberts, who said she “approach[ed] this as a mother.” “This ought to be something that outrages us, makes us ashamed of him,” she said. (Her children were fully grown, but perhaps unusually sensitive.) On “The McLaughlin Group,” the panel spent some time actually discussing whether that same president, was, in fact, Satan. I am not making this up.
Apparently, the problem was not so much the lies, but who was doing the lying. As “Dean” David Broder famously explained to famed Georgetown hostess and sometime reporter Sally Quin of then-president Bill Clinton: “He came in here and he trashed the place, and it’s not his place.”
Other pundits made similar points. “We have our own set of village rules,” says David Gergen, editor at large for U.S. News & World Report, who worked for both the Reagan and Clinton White House. “We all live together, we have a sense of community, there’s a small-town quality here. We all understand we do certain things, we make certain compromises. But when you have gone over the line, you won’t bring others into it. That is a cardinal rule of the village. You don’t foul the nest. “
“This is a community in all kinds of ways,” insisted Roberts, whose husband was a pundit, whose parents both served in Congress, and whose brother is a high-powered corporate lobbyist. “When something happens everybody gathers around. . . . It’s a community of good people involved in a worthwhile pursuit. We think being a worthwhile public servant or journalist matters.”
Well, never mind. George W. Bush has decided that Scooter Libby’s lies to a Washington grand jury do not merit a single day of jail time—despite the fact that a Republican-appointed special prosecutor recommended it and a Republican-appointed judge demanded it. And all of a sudden lying is just fine with Washington’s “Powers that Be.”
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/07/alterman_punditocracy.html
This is just the first 1/2 but the whole column is at the link below.
Think Again: Lies, Justice, and the Punditocracy's "Place"
Remember when lying under oath was the worst thing in the world?
By Eric Alterman
July 5, 2007
Allow me refresh your memory: Once upon a time, we heard Stuart Taylor of The National Journal complaining on “Meet the Press” that “I’d like to be able to tell my children, ‘You should tell the truth. I’d like to be able to tell them, ‘You should respect the president.’ And I’d like to be able to tell them both things at the same time.”
His colleague on that same program, William J. Bennett, spoke of the “moral and intellectual disarmament” that befalls a nation when its president is not “being a decent example” and “teaching kids the difference between right and wrong.” “We have a right to say to this president, ‘What you have done is an example to our children that’s a disgrace,’” he added.
These views were seconded by Cokie Roberts, who said she “approach[ed] this as a mother.” “This ought to be something that outrages us, makes us ashamed of him,” she said. (Her children were fully grown, but perhaps unusually sensitive.) On “The McLaughlin Group,” the panel spent some time actually discussing whether that same president, was, in fact, Satan. I am not making this up.
Apparently, the problem was not so much the lies, but who was doing the lying. As “Dean” David Broder famously explained to famed Georgetown hostess and sometime reporter Sally Quin of then-president Bill Clinton: “He came in here and he trashed the place, and it’s not his place.”
Other pundits made similar points. “We have our own set of village rules,” says David Gergen, editor at large for U.S. News & World Report, who worked for both the Reagan and Clinton White House. “We all live together, we have a sense of community, there’s a small-town quality here. We all understand we do certain things, we make certain compromises. But when you have gone over the line, you won’t bring others into it. That is a cardinal rule of the village. You don’t foul the nest. “
“This is a community in all kinds of ways,” insisted Roberts, whose husband was a pundit, whose parents both served in Congress, and whose brother is a high-powered corporate lobbyist. “When something happens everybody gathers around. . . . It’s a community of good people involved in a worthwhile pursuit. We think being a worthwhile public servant or journalist matters.”
Well, never mind. George W. Bush has decided that Scooter Libby’s lies to a Washington grand jury do not merit a single day of jail time—despite the fact that a Republican-appointed special prosecutor recommended it and a Republican-appointed judge demanded it. And all of a sudden lying is just fine with Washington’s “Powers that Be.”
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/07/alterman_punditocracy.html
You think LadyT is trog?I don't know, Trog. Is it important somehow?