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Subject: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 08:29 PM Well, well, well... Big Media needs a new story so... ...no matter what occurs Wednesday night Romney will be declared the winner... That's right... News is entertainment and watching Obama surge ain't entertaining so they need to push their narrative on America so over the next week or two they can write and say "Obama losing ground" or "Romney gaining ground"... Those are the only options for Big Media... BTW, you heard it here first... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: gnu Date: 01 Oct 12 - 08:58 PM Come on, eh? Do you REALLY think the media would "spin" something as important as a presidential debate? I mean, every US voter will watch it and decide for themselves, right? No brainer, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:01 PM Five of the last 6 of these things were called for the challenger, regardless of who won... Just wait and see... I think they are poised to try to push Romney... I'd all but bet the farm on it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:07 PM Prez al-Obama couldn't fight his way out of a wet Pamper. Hillary will have to be there to tell him what to say. He's tied to her apron strings. Her chuckleheaded puppet. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:12 PM And then the Krinkz woke up... Obama went before the entire Republican Congressional Caucus and tore them a new ***hole... People forget that... He doesn't need to prepare... And he probably is just kicking back sayin' he's preparin'... I mean, this guy will kick Romney's butt... Tye problem is that Big Media ain't gonna see it that way... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: gnu Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:19 PM Hank... such inane bullshit. I just don't understand why you would embarrass yourself like that. Told ya before to take lessons in being a good troll if ya do even have the slightest intelligence it takes to be a good troll. Really... that is embarassing... even for you. I didn't think I could think any less of you but I was wrong. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:35 PM No gnus is good gnus. (:-( P)= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:43 PM There you go again,bobette. I tell ya,I wanted to like al-Obama. I wanted him to shake things up. Apologize to the nation of Iraq. Declare war on Pakistan. Turn Amerika into the neverending Burning Man Festival and Woodstock Nation we dream of. But he just goes along looking like a bobblehead. Hillary's porchmonquis. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:43 PM No... It's no Krinkz is good Krinkz... Pre-Krinkz Mudcat was just fine... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:45 PM No, Krinkz... Given your attitudes about black folks you didn't want to like Obama... In other words, "You lie"... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:45 PM You prefer to preach to the choir. Your comfort zone. Nice and safe. (:-( 0)= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:52 PM Nope. It's true. I wanted to. But keeping Robert Gates on, the Bank and Auto Industry Bailout,etc.,makes my blood boil. I could just scream!!! (:-( O)= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 09:57 PM Maybe if you would denounce your dislike for black people then maybe I'd take you seriously, Krinkz... Racists, however, just don't get no respect from me... I'm not interested in hearing your rationalizations... I'm Southern, too... BTW, Southern or not, th auto bailout worked... That's why Ohio will go for Obama... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:01 PM You're predicting the debate result before it happens, Bobert??? And as a Media-announced loss for Obama? Why????? Do you enjoy the sense of martyrdom or something? Sure, Big Media spins their news stories...and they look for controversy and senationalism. They're in the entertainment and propaganda business. But why are you assuming that specific result? They could just as well entertain either way...by saying Obama screwed up or by saying Romney screwed up. Or they could play it both ways, just to keep the pot boiling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:11 PM No business should get a bailout. People learn from failure. As you well know, being a teacher and all. It's like promoting a pupil to the next grade even though they got all F's. (:-( P)= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Rapparee Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:14 PM Bobert, you didn't ask me if I gave a damn/shit/rat's ass. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:15 PM I'm not saying anything that a lot of op-ed columnists aren't writing, LH.... As for bailouts??? Wall Street, Big Oil, Agri-Business, DoD get 'um everyday... When I hear you going after them, Krinkz, then along with you denouncing your racism, I'll take you seriously... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:21 PM As Chongo would say, "Do ya, Rap?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:21 PM I'm not a racist. I can play monkey junk with the best of them. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:25 PM Yeah, right, Krinkx... Your former posts kinda in conflict with yer last post... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:38 PM Henry, you live on Hopper Avenue, right? What was the number again? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:39 PM I think Prez al-Obama is a swell guy. But why did he attend that whitey hatin' church? He should have gone to Reverend Willie Wilson's church. I used to watch his show every Sunday morning. Til it got cancelled. I loved his show. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:45 PM Maybe you should review Rev Wright's entire body of work and not focus on one sermon which, BTW, I agree with what he was saying... I been in a lot of black churches and lotta stuff goes on... Ain't nothin' like white churches that I know of... People get worked up and they speak of stuff that white folks don't want to talk about... Yeah, in the context of what Rev. Wright was preaching, "God damned America"... I agree with the context... What's you real problem, Krinkx... You ignorant of what Rev. Wright was talkin' about or you just hate black folks... Your other posts say you hate black folks... BTW, I pay attention here to what people say so don't try to BS me... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:50 PM There you go again, bobette. Drawing the race card. Focus on his accomplishments. Not the fact he's bi-racial. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:57 PM No, you played the race card a long time ago here, Krinkx... Your dealt the hand yer playin'... Not me... Have a nice night... I'm going to bed... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 01 Oct 12 - 10:59 PM It will be covered like ever other political event. Fox will say Romney kicked butt. MSNBC prime time with say Obama owned. All of the other media will wait for the polls. What else is new? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Stim Date: 02 Oct 12 - 01:26 AM Though I agree that the media have tried hard to make this election seem like an election, I don't think they'll give Mitt a push start. The momentum is going the other way so clearly that even Fox News and Bloomberg are giving Obama a five percent lead Romney has a Major Hill to climb They won't be able to resist the urge to kick a man when he's down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:25 AM Vote for Chongo (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 02 Oct 12 - 09:31 AM Watch for one of the two following Big Media catch phrases coming within a week of the Wednesday night debate: 1. "Romney is gaining ground" or... 2. "Obama is losing ground"... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Oct 12 - 11:17 AM Never forget, it's a game. The purpose of a game is to entertain the public, distract the public, and relieve them of their money. To keep the game interesting, it is desirable to stretch out the suspense about who is going to win for as long as possible. Given that, yeah, it would be advantageous for the Media to try and give Romney a bit of a boost at this point...just to keep things "interesting". (yawn...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 02 Oct 12 - 12:08 PM I't all irrelevant says Romney... Romney-debates won't be about winning or losing *giggle* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 02 Oct 12 - 12:23 PM "These debates are an opportunity for each of us to describe the pathway forward for America that we would choose .......," Romney continued." Bobert, I'll bet you that after the debate no major media besides Fox and Limbaugh will say that Romney has done this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 02 Oct 12 - 12:57 PM Henry Krinkle 154 Hopper Avenue Fair Lawn, New Jersey 610452 Like a rabbit...hip...hop... (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: dick greenhaus Date: 02 Oct 12 - 01:56 PM Fair lawn, NJ is a tourist trap. (Ex Glen-Rocker) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Oct 12 - 04:40 PM In the 1976 film Taxi Driver, when Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is talking to a Secret Service agent, he gives his address as 154 Hopper Avenue, Fair Lawn, New Jersey. There is a Hopper Avenue in Fair Lawn, but 154 Hopper Avenue does not exist. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 02 Oct 12 - 04:50 PM Where is Fair Lawn, NJ??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:08 PM Just across the river from NYC.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:30 PM Hmmmmm??? Ain't that like where the Giant's Stadium is??? Don't sound like any place I'd want to tour... Don't get me wrong... I like some of NJ... I like the Pine Barrens and Long Beach Island and... Well, that's about all I like... Some of ya'll know I got family in Jersey from my thread last year on the TV show "Bear Swamp Recovery"... Yep, Phil (Buddy to me) is my 1st cousin... He was purdy tough when he was young but now a days he has his son, P.J. and his grandson, Tiny, to take care of the tough stuff... But never mind that... Back to the debates and the media... Not even sure why the Krinkx put his address up unless he's trying to get folks to send him Christmas cards... I do cards but ain't addin' no one to the list for this year 'cause there are 16 in a box and the boxes I buy have 16 cards and I ain't buying no stenkin' 2nd box for Krinkx... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:37 PM You can just send me cash. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:38 PM Hop Henry satys around until Christmas so we can meet his brother, Kris Krinkle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:41 PM Henry Krinkle alias of Travis_Bickle We would all be better off not rewarding the pooh poodle with his turd treats. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 02 Oct 12 - 05:41 PM If there's an echo sound in you mail box then that will be the cash I plan on sending you, Krinkx... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Oct 12 - 01:19 PM This should be an interesting evening for me to watch the debate. I'm embedded at a national legislative conference in Richmond, Virginia, and I'm planning to watch the faces and listen to the groans and moans at the nearest local watering place. May the better man win! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 01:34 PM Go to Joe's Inn on Shields Ave for a noisy but good supper if you can, Charley... No debates there, however... Yer better off back in yer motel room than to expect anyone at any of Richmond's watering holes to be quite enough for you to hear the television in the corner... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Oct 12 - 02:31 PM Bobert- Thanks for the advice. This will be an interesting evening, given that the legislative staff attending this meeting come from all over the country. Some are strictly non-partisan but others are, shall we say, "Full Monty." "Joe's Inn," shall I say "Bobert sent me?" Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 03 Oct 12 - 03:57 PM Some are strictly non-partisan but others are, shall we say, "Full Monty." You mean the men there take all their clothes off? That must tend to distract attention from the political differences. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 04:09 PM Unless you run into the owner, Nick, who I've known since the 60s the folks in there don't know me... I been getting into Richomnd once 'er twice a year since '85 so no reason to ask 'um nuthin' about me but... ...good food and good prices... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Oct 12 - 05:48 PM "You mean the men there take all their clothes off?" That is the implication but I'll give a honest report of how it all goes down. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 06:42 PM Robert Reich agrees with Bobert, almost. I'm nervous because the debate is likely to be an equalizer, with neither of them obviously winning -- which would be tantamount to a win for Romney, because the media will treat them as neck-and-neck, and forget that Obama has momentum and the Romney campaign has been a disaster. Which, of course, is a self-fulfilling prophesy. We will see polls later this week showing them tied. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 03 Oct 12 - 06:47 PM I think it will all depend on whether Romney answers questions about national issues with position 1---or 2--- or 3...or 3.167. I'm sure Obama has relevant replies to all of them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 06:59 PM I'm not worried, Jack... I very much believe that Obama is going to win... Take away Citizens United and Big Media he wins by 6 points... I fully expect Big Media to try to create news tonight and my gut feeling is that over the next month that margin will end up at 4 points... It's a shame... But, like I have said, the real shame is that the format does not leave to a policy discussion... It will end up a series of 2 minute commercial with shorter ones in between and in the final analysis won't reveal anything new... It's like a beauty contest... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 07:04 PM Obama flowchart Romney answers 1 ---------- But what about 2? 2----------- But what about 1? Repeat as needed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 03 Oct 12 - 07:04 PM awww... Bobert... I'd like to think Jim Lehrer is clever enough to get more out of them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Richard Bridge Date: 03 Oct 12 - 07:05 PM Now should I get up in the night and watch the debate? Apparently new polls are bad news for Obama (baffled as to why - and the Joe Biden "gaffe" is obviously a reference to the toxic legacy of Bush, and current Republican bill-blocking). If Romney gets in, kiss your arse goodbye - there will be armed uprisings in the USA and WWIII within a year - and an uninhabitable planet if not wiped out by nuclear war before then within 20. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 03 Oct 12 - 07:12 PM It's by no means clear that "Big Media" will declare a win for Romney. First we should define terms. "Big Media" is basically a meaningless yet emotionally-laden term. Does it include the Washington Post and NYT? Neither is likely to declare a win for Romney, for a whole host of reasons, most of which should be obvious. It would be nice--though unlikely on Mudcat, it seems--to have a rational debate about the debate (or most other political topics). It seems clear to me that what Obama and Romney say is probably not as important as the attitude which comes across to the viewer. In this regard, I'd say Obama has a real chance to "win" the debate. What he needs to do is make Romney appear whiny and petulant, hence not presidential. I know this can be done since it's been done to Romney already--by other Republicans in their debates. Best guess as to how to accomplish it: drop 47% in at every opportunity--not aggressively, just off the cuff. That number seems be achieving cosmic signficance in this election and sliding it into the conversation--in an offhand manner---is very likely to really wind Romney up---and the game could be over. It's also obvious what Romney is going to do: bring up the old question at every opportunity: "Are you better off now than 4 years ago. Obama has to be sure not to get rattled by this mantra--and to have a counter, perhaps pointing out that Republicans have blocked many of his economic initiatives. Ironically enough, Obama will not be able to mention the bedrock truth behind the economic situation: that no president has more than a tangential influence on economics. Neither the unemployed nor people who feel worse off than 4 years ago will accept this from a president. So what Obama needs to do is establish beyond doubt that he does identify with the pain people are going through, that he is working himself into the ground dealing with it --and that Romney has in fact written off about half the country. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 03 Oct 12 - 07:14 PM "Are you better off than 4 years ago?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:30 PM *raising hand* Yes, I am! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:38 PM Like I said, Ron... Big Media pushed that Reagan response to Carter as if it was the Holy Grail... I watched that debate and I thought that Carter won the debate... Big Media didn't... The "Are you better off" part of the debate was not the hight light until Big Media decided that it was and pushed it... That's my problem with these debates... No one get a glimpse of these people's thinking... I mean, if they would just zero on "tax policy" and nothing else that would be a debate and at the end of the night the folks who watched it would better understand tax policy and the differences between the two... But that won't happen... The debates will bounce from one question that elicits sound-bite answers to the next... Not a debate at all... Just a beauty show where Big Media is the judge... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:42 PM There you go again, bobette. Whining because things aren't the way you want them to be. Buck up! Be a man! You're not always going to get your way. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:45 PM Just reporting history the way it went down, Krinkx... No whine, just fact... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:47 PM "Are you better off than 4 years ago?" In what respect? If I were to look at it from my own point of view...some things in my life are better...some things are not as good as they were then. It's a mixed picture. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:50 PM I think it's all a pile of crap. They're competing for the opportunity to run up a big fat bill and stick taxpayers with the check. They all suck. Every last one of them. I hope Amerika is conquered by Iceland. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:53 PM Me too. It would be quite an improvement. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:56 PM Bobert-- I hope you speak another language than Meaningless Leftist Jargon. Sorry, it just ain't very enlightening. For starters, are the Washington Post and NYT part of "Big Media" or not? Just a simple yes or no will do; no tome necessary. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 03 Oct 12 - 08:57 PM Guest was me. Big surprise. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:19 PM So much for equal time... Big Media has rigged this debate so that Romney got 60% of face time... Normal... I predicted this... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:38 PM David Gregory has basically called so has Chuck Todd. Todd is saying he has provided details. Why didn't I hear any? Bobert. As far as NBC is concerned you were 1000% correct!! Name a detail Chuck!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:42 PM I knew the way this was going down... Don't even pick a network.... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:42 PM Missed opportunity by Obama. Not one mention of 47%. No attempt to rattle Romney, thus allowing him to come across not only as organized (with several lists of plans) but also as a reasonable person (albeit promising everything to everybody, with no hint of how to pay for it.). Romney at the end: I will (help) create 12 million new jobs. Totally meaningless statement. Question is how many gullible people now on the fence will believe it. Romney even came across with specific anecdotes of people he had met---thus picturing himself as a compassionate person as well as the voice of sweet reason. And no attempt by Obama to rebut this hogwash. Not good. Hope it does not change many minds. As they say, politics ain't beanbag. Obama was entirely too kind to Romney. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:44 PM Guess who. I must not have sent my e-mail to the right White House address---Obama did not take my advice--and paid for that omission |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:48 PM So the NYT and Post may in fact declare a "win" for Romney. But it's not because of any imagined MM conspiracy--it's that Obama (and Lehrer) let smarmy Romney get away with murder. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Ron Davies Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:54 PM Romney even was allowed to appear "presidential"---exactly the opposite of what needed to happen. As I said, hope not many on the fence were swayed by this drivel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,Stim Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:59 PM If by "appear presidential", you mean that Romney was jumping around like Yosemite Sam, then you are right. I was amused that Romney wanted to eliminate PBS and Big Bird and then said something about letting the state run the programs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Ebbie Date: 03 Oct 12 - 11:01 PM No question that both men came off well. To my mind, the president did better because he used a more reasoned approach- but I'm not so sure that Romney supporters would agree. Romney came across as more impassioned so maybe his dearth of details won't matter to those supporters. Neither man scored zingers- but I did resent that Romney in his allotted closing moments repeated statements that had earlier been dissected and refuted by Mr. Obama- and of course, those repeated statements were left to stand. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 11:07 PM Romney scored some points twice with 90 billion for green energy. President Obama needs to explain the rational for that. Chuck Todd and Gregory must have watched a different debate from me. "Saying my plan is X" when the specific numbers in his plan is X-7 trillion does not mean that "he provided specific details." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 11:09 PM "repeated statements that had earlier been dissected and refuted by Mr. Obama- and of course, those repeated statements were left to stand. " He won the coin toss. Them is the breaks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 11:15 PM I will say one thing. The Democrats will have a lot more clips for Ads. Because governor has again repudiated some of his previous platform plans. He hates redistribution but calls for it in his medicare plan. He is going to cut taxes on the three percent of small businesses but have them pay their share but cut taxes on the 97 % he is doing this to stimulate job growth but it is going to be offset by closing loopholes so how is it going to stimulate job growth? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: gnu Date: 03 Oct 12 - 11:18 PM Rant time: Don't you Yanks understand RULES? WTF was THAT? Not only were the debaters allowed to stray from the rules, the moderator interjected with specific questions directed at ONE debater? What? Really... what? And how does a moderator not ASK? Doesn't a moderater simlpy ASK without imposing HIS iterpretation? I was disgusted. I was aghast before EITHER even spoke. When the moderator paused during the introduction after begging decorum to allow the audience more than enough time to cheer Obama and they did not, AS ASKED NOT TO DO... it totally floored me. I call that one a draw based purely on being a judge. That was a draw. My comment is based on how *I* perceive Yanks saw it - the general viewing public Yanks. However, again, you Yanks do not understand fair debate. That was a dog and pony show at best. Sad. Very sad. High school kids could have done a better job on all sides of the coinS. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 03 Oct 12 - 11:28 PM "Don't you Yanks understand RULES? WTF was THAT? Not only were the debaters allowed to stray from the rules, the moderator interjected with specific questions directed at ONE debater? What? Really... what? And how does a moderator not ASK? Doesn't a moderater simlpy ASK without imposing HIS iterpretation?" What can I say Gnu. When you are right you are right. But Romney interrupted more and he interrupted first, so obviously President Obama won. :-) >>When the moderator paused during the introduction after begging decorum to allow the audience more than enough time to cheer Obama and they did not, AS ASKED NOT TO DO... it totally floored me.<< I am not sure what you are talking about here. He introduced them both. The audience enthusiastically cheered for both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Oct 12 - 12:03 AM I think both candidates did quite well, but I doubt that either one changed many minds. I'd call it a tie. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 04 Oct 12 - 01:24 AM I watched the debate; I wasn't going to but I did. The inmates ran the asylum, pretty much. I spent a few minutes at CNN's recap, and MSNBC's recap. To hear Carville and Matthews tell it, the president barely showed up. I'll get Conservative comments tomorrow. A few of things struck me: Romney seemed to always be looking at the president during Mr. Obama's orations, but he blinked an awful lot. Conversely, the president often was looking down (at his notes? his shoes?) when Romney spoke. I thought this very telling. Both debaters seemed to be able to run roughshod over Lehrer, resulting in the president getting to speak 4-5 min. longer than the challenger. Romney, however, did manage to get in an extra turn a couple of times as Lehrer tried to go forward. CNN had a crawl at the bottom of the screen which, I surmise, was tracking instantaneous reactions to the candidates as they spoke. It was broken down by sex (what most of you call gender). No matter the topic, Obama generally had higher approval from women than men, and Romney generally did better with men. I would give Romney an edge in tonight's fracas. But I don't think it was any sort of a knockout. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:07 AM Hi, John, good to see your post. Trust all's well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Richard Bridge Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:15 AM May I say, Ebbie, how nice it is to see someone use the word "refute" correctly? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 04 Oct 12 - 06:19 AM I don't have a TV. Remember? I accidentally pushed it over with my foot and broke it. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:14 AM Well, Romney fired off enough so-called facts to keep an army of fact checkers busy for the next week or two... Here's the ad I would write for Obama: The Voice: "With all the talking that Romney did during the debate what one thing do you remember him saying?" Then the picture focuses in on a guy rubbing his chin, not saying a thing and with a puzzled look on his face. B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:57 AM "I don't have a TV. Remember? I accidentally pushed it over with my foot and broke it." Same here--but it wasn't accidental. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jeri Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:07 AM I think, based on what was said, it was a draw. BUT I think Romney scored a slight win simply because he didn't say anything stupid. There was one time when Obama went after Romney about where the money was gonna come from--the MATH) and the smarm started to crack, but he didn't pursue it long enough. The overtime stuff, which Romney started with the first question (and as John said, got a couple extra turns) and both candidates continued, drove me nuts. I kept wishing Lehrer could turn into Chris Matthews and just interrupt them and not back down. The one thing I wish President Obama had gotten across is that you can't work with people on the other side if they refuse to work with you, and that Congress is as responsible for the budget, AND the debt as the President. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Richard Bridge Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:17 AM That and 47% |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:17 AM After the economy crapped out during Nixon's reign, Jimmy Carter got blamed. And Congress wouldn't work with him either. Old tactic. (:-( ))= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Elmore Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:48 AM I have an Obama sticker on my car. I thought Willard won. I have the blues. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:17 AM Oh Susannah, Don't you cry for me I'm going to play my banjo With Obama on my knee!!!! (:-( P)= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:29 AM "...Congress is as responsible for the budget, AND the debt as the President." Fine, but the last budget was passed on Jun 22, 2009 when the House, Senate and presidency were all three were controlled by Democrats. Republicans have only had the House and that started in January, 2011. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:40 AM I found it very frustrating to watch. There were many opportunities to nail Romney to the wall and Obama failed to do that. He was much too kind. Romney gets points for his style and his ability to shift his platform positions at will. No doubt his high donor supporters know that he truly has their interests at heart but some of his Tea Party supporters may now be confused where he stands. On to the Vice Presidential Debates! Charley Noble, on the road in the Lowlands of Old Virginia |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: beardedbruce Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:44 AM One has to wonder about how accurate ANYTHING Bobert says is... "From: Bobert - PM Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:19 PM So much for equal time... Big Media has rigged this debate so that Romney got 60% of face time... Normal... I predicted this... B~" "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During their 90-minute debate on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama talked four minutes longer than Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But when the debate was over, it was what Obama didn't say that defined the evening - and helped make it a good one for Romney." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:59 AM I was wrong way back up there ↑... I said Jim Lehrer was clever enough to get the right responses from the candidates.... and I thought there were half a dozen 'domestic issues' that weren't even touched. Where WAS immigration, abortion, women's issues...etc.? I do NOT see why Obama continued to allow Romney to endlessly repeat that distortion about the "716 billion taken from medicare" I doubt that any of this will change many minds, and I'll bet political ads are being crafted right now to explain Romney's playing fast & loose with various facts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 12:03 PM Well, makes one wonder how many more Mitt Romneys there are in there and if any of them are saner than the others... Etch-a-Sketch is sho nuff sakin' it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 12:03 PM Etch-a-Sketch is sho nuff ***shakin'*** it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 12:37 PM Looks like your prediction was right, Bobert. How you gonna celebrate? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 01:17 PM Get drunk and.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 01:17 PM ...100!!! B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 02:07 PM Rather than go to one of the plethora of Democrat-owned websites and get the predictable DNC talking points, here is what an Irish website has to say about last night's debate: Romney wins first debate against Obama "Republican candidate Mitt Romney overturned the presidential race last night in a stunning victory over US president Barack Obama in the first of their three debates. A CNN/ORC post-debate poll showed that 67 per cent of viewers believed Mr Romney won the debate on domestic policy. Only 25 per cent said Mr Obama won. "A week ago, people were saying this was over," said David Gergen, a political consultant and former advisor to four presidents. "Americans thought two to one that the president would win the debate, and he lost. Now the race is back on." From the outset, Mr Romney gave the impression he enjoyed the confrontation with Mr Obama, whom he watched closely, with a smug grin, throughout the 90 minute debate. Mr Obama almost never looked at Mr Romney, and gave the impression he wished he were elsewhere. In his opening remarks, Mr Obama wished his wife Michelle a happy 20th wedding anniversary, calling her "Sweetie" and promising that "a year from now, we will not be celebrating in front of 40 million people". The joke fell flat, but was retrieved by Mr Romney, who prompted the heartiest laughter of the evening when he congratulated the Obamas. "I'm sure this was the most romantic place you could imagine, being here with me," he told Mr Obama. Mr Obama's lacklustre performance may have been the result of nearly four years in the White House, unchallenged by sycophantic aides. His facial expressions seemed to indicate annoyance, irritation, even outrage at what Mr Romney was saying, yet he never attacked the Republican challenger. In his moment of greatest exasperation, Mr Obama said, "Governor Romney says he is going to replace (heathcare reform) with something, but he can't detail how it would be replaced… it reminds me of when he says he is going to close loopholes and deductions for his tax plan, but we don't know the details… Is the reason that Governor Romney is keeping all these plans secret because they are too good?" Mr Obama did not once mention the "47 per cent video" in which Mr Romney said "it's not my job to worry about" nearly half of Americans who pay no income tax. After months during which his campaign hammered away at heartless practices at Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mr Romney, Mr Obama never mentioned Bain. He did not allude to Mr Romney's refusal to release more than two years' income tax returns. Nor did he point out that under Mr Romney, Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 states for job creation. Mr Romney successfully executed the "Etch-a-Sketch" erasure that one of his top aides predicted during the Republican primaries, portraying himself as the defender of the middle classes, the saviour of Medicare (government health insurance for the elderly) and a champion of bi-partisan cooperation. Mr Romney said he takes the reference to the "pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence to mean "that we care for one another. We are a nation that believes we are all children of God. We care for one another." The darling of Wall Street, Mr Romney condemned the Dodd-Frank Bill, enacted under the Obama administration to regulate banking, as "the biggest kiss to big banks" and added: "I wouldn't designate five banks as too big to fail and sign blank cheques." Mr Obama repeatedly portrayed Mr Romney's plan to cut income tax for all Americans by 20 per cent as a "$5 trillion tax cut" to which Mr Romney would add $2 trillion in increased military spending. "He has been asked a hundred times how he would close loopholes and deductions," Mr Obama said. "When you add them all up, they don't come to $5 trillion. The only way to meet Governor Romney's pledge is by burdening middle class families." "I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut," Mr Romney stated baldly, though economists say that is what a 20 per cent across the board income tax reduction would mean. "There will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit… I will not under any circumstances raise taxes on middle income Americans." Job creation, healthcare and the role of government were the main topics of the debate. Mr Obama said he had created five million private sector jobs, that "the auto sector has come roaring back" and the property market is recovering. Mr Romney stretched the jobless number to include those who have stopped looking, part-time employees who would like to work more and the under-employed, citing 23 million Americans who are out of work. He repeatedly said that the number of people on food stamps has risen from 32 to 47 millionn under Mr Obama. The job figures for September, to be released tomorrow, will constitute another big test for Mr Obama. Mr Romney did not deliver the "one-liners" and "zingers" he reportedly memorised for the debate, but he turned one of Mr Obama's favourite themes – trickle-down economics – on its head, calling the president's policies "trickle-down government". He promised that his five-point plan for energy independence, more trade, cracking down on China, better education and helping small business would "restore the vitality that gets America working again." Mr Romney criticised Mr Obama for investing $90bn in green energy companies. "That would have hired two million teachers," he said. "About half of them went out of business. A number of them were owned by people who contributed to your campaign." Perorations on Dodd Frank and Simpson-Bowles (a bi-partisan deficit commission whose recommendations were never taken up) were probably lost on most television viewers, but Mr Romney succeeded in appearing calm, presidential and in command of the facts. It was at the same time his biggest flip-flop and his best performance." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 02:23 PM So...real content means nothing, but style is vital? Coherent facts and consistent policies mean nothing, but "appearing calm, presidential, and in command" means everything? ;-D Why am I not surprised? It's total bullshit in either case. If elected, Romney will suck up to the big banks and the corporates, and the Republicans will celebrate. If elected (again), Obama will suck up to the big banks and the corporates, and the Democrats will celebrate. They will both meanwhile accuse the other guy of being what they both are: corporate servants. And the public will vote for the one who "appears calm, presidential, and in command of the facts"....LOL!!!!!!!! It's like watching Imperial Rome reeling drunkenly through its last decadent and corrupt days of decline. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: VirginiaTam Date: 04 Oct 12 - 03:51 PM Fact Checker has come back with this on the debate 10 lies Fine, but the last budget was passed on Jun 22, 2009 when the House, Senate and presidency were all three were controlled by Democrats. Republicans have only had the House and that started in January, 2011. did democrats ever really have 60 votes Get your Mitts off Rmoney. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:21 PM Yes, the lies came so fast and furious that Obama had to be wondering, "Gosh, which ones should I debunk"... But what Romney did last night is provide lots on new material to use against him the final few weeks... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:22 PM Thanks for the links, Virginia. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:35 PM The head of AlterNet is a former publisher of Mother Jones, as far-Left and partisan as the IWW and CPUSA websites. Debunking facts with trash. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:43 PM I'm far-left, pdq, and I don't consider Mother Jones to be all that far left... Liberal??? Yeah... Far left??? No... BTW, exactly where is the "trash" in the fact checking??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 12 - 05:00 PM I confess... *I'M* partisian.... to sanity, logic, truth, facts and reason. In any debate... 'won' is an opinion on how you handled yourself and competed with your opponent. It often has little bearing on facts. (I once heard a guy manage to slip in.."remember, 7 out of 10 doctors leaves 3!", and his opponent didn't notice.) Romney managed to be fast, clever, audacious and pointed... but as has been noted, not always factual. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Henry Krinkle Date: 04 Oct 12 - 05:10 PM He was Romnificient!!! (:-( D)= |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 05:26 PM "BTW, exactly where is the "trash" in the fact checking???" Please show me the section where AlterNet (or Mother Jones, for that matter) do a similar job and debunk the lies told by Obama. Snopes and FactCheck both have sections debunking each candidate's statments. Perhaps I just missed the balancing statements by AlterNet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 04 Oct 12 - 05:53 PM Why do there have to be "balancing statements." True is true false is false. It says a lot about your bias if you have 10 Obama "lies" pointed out for every 10 Romney lies. So if The President is only called out 5 times then the score is 5 to 5 for Romney because he got away with 5? Grow up! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 04 Oct 12 - 06:07 PM Mother Jones, as far-Left and partisan as the IWW and CPUSA websites Far left??? IWW?? CPUSA???? Oh, please. Sorry, PeeDee, but Mothetr Jones is middle of the road. Just shows ya how skewed the TePublikans are when it comes to reality. Y'all ain't got no concepetion of what "far left" means. For the Industrial Workers Of The World, would refer you to Melvin Dubofsky's We Shall Be All Quadrangle, 1969- then you might have a clue what you're spouting off about. Or not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: gnu Date: 04 Oct 12 - 06:23 PM "BUT I think Romney scored a slight win simply because he didn't say anything stupid." Hahahahahahaaaaahehehehheheee! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: akenaton Date: 04 Oct 12 - 06:30 PM From over here, Mr Romney looked like a man with a vision for his country, confident, full of enthusiasm for the battle, self belief. Mr obama looked as if he did not believe what he was saying. Where was the inspiration.....his heart is no longer in it....if it ever was. Perhaps he has realised the country knows that "change" is beyond him? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 06:39 PM Don't worry about Obama. The nameless powerbrokers who put him up for the job have already secured a $35 million estate in Hawaii for Bammers retirement. That's why the statement "we will not be celebrating our aniversary like this next years" brought a huge smug smile from his wife. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 04 Oct 12 - 07:03 PM Where is that info from, pdq? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 07:28 PM One of the 10 items that AlterNet says is a lie is covered by FactCheck.org: "Eastwood didn't phrase things as artfully as most other convention speakers. The often-used 23 million figure also includes 8.2 million who are employed in part-time jobs but say they are seeking full-time work, the so-called "under-employed." And it also includes another 2.5 million who say they would like a job and would take one, but haven't looked for one in the last four weeks." {obviously concerning the "23 million unemployed" several people, including Romney, have used} |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 07:49 PM Little grasping at straws going on here.... I mean, there's a reason why Romney won the debate... He came in with a bunch of lies and knew that with the 2 minute rule that he could lie his ass off and the forum was not set up so that Obama would be able to dissect them... Good strategy... May get him a bump but as the lies are exposed is going to hurt him in the long run... Cheap trick... Can't wait for the 2nd debate now... I mean, tomorrow would be fine... Obama will defeat Romney the next two debates... This from the guy who started this thread and predicted that Romney would be declared the winner of last night's debate... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:10 PM "The nameless powerbrokers who put him up for the job" (pdq referring to Obama) Yeah...those nameless powerbrokers. Here's a little something about that, pdq. They are the people who put up both candidates and back both parties. Every time. They hardly care which one wins, because either one is already in their pocket, and either one will do, but what they do care about is this: Which one is presently more marketable to the American public? That is the one they will be most concerned about promoting in the final analysis, because that is what keeps the whole phony spectacle of the 2-party system going, and doing its real job, which is to divide, conquer, befuddle, and rule the American public through an empty-suit figurehead such as Obama, Romney or whoever else works at the moment. It's theatre. If it's reasonably good theatre, it achieves the desired effect. Failed theatre would be when so many people see through the charade that hardly any of them consent to believe in it any longer. That time has not arrived yet in the USA. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:31 PM My gracious, LH... you do have this recurrent theme.... I know, I know... "it's only a personal opinion"... but sheesh! "..either one is already in their pocket, and either one will do,..." Some of those powerbrokers DO manage to skew the system and mess with things, but it is just not the case that they "have both (candidates) in their pocket". That implicitly implies a level of corruption that is just not supported by facts. As to "winning" the debate... just remember, Romney has had several months of awkward, foot-in-mouth, careless remarks. So... Obama has one 'sorta' off-night and suddenly 'ol Mitt is labeled by some POLLS as a leader and competent manager of serious financial issues? HA!... I say... and HA! Where have those polled folk been? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:40 PM Well, I have said before that I prefer Obama to Romney, Bobert. And I prefer the Democrats to the Republicans. This doesn't change the fact that I think both of them represent basically the same USA imperial interests and corporate interests that I'm opposed to...but what bothers me about the Republicans more than the Democrats is that they also represent the farther right segment of the American voting public. Thus, I'd rather see them lose, given the choice, than see their supporters get what they wanted. I don't like seeing that kind of political philosophy get any encouragement. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:44 PM That was Bill talkin, LH... You know... The other Bobert... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:48 PM Ooooops! Pardon me! I was typing too fast, I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:51 PM No, you were thinking to fast... Slow down, man... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:52 PM Let me put it this way. The Democrats frustrate me and really piss me off. The Republicans, however...ARGGGH!!!...they make my flesh crawl, cause my gorge to rise, and send me off in search of Holy Water, a crucifix, a mallet, silver bullets, and a wooden stake! ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:53 PM "thinking too fast" - Yup, that was it. I gotta slow down, like you say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Songwronger Date: 04 Oct 12 - 08:58 PM From the clips I've seen, Obama got his ass kicked. Obama's never earned anything in his life. His college degrees were awarded to him, his political offices were awarded to him, the freakin' Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to him. But last night he had to do a job of work, and he failed. He's a creation of the CIA. His whole legal career is a lie. He proved that last night. No debate skills. He looked like a criminal, and Romney looked like the TV hero cop giving him the third degree. And Romney's a moron. Kind of like George W. Bush's big brother in a fraternity. Both of those men should have been booed off the stage, but they weren't, and Romney tossed Obama from one turnbuckle to another. Obama needs to wear a mask next time, like some lucha libre wrestler. What an idiot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Songwronger Date: 04 Oct 12 - 09:24 PM Obama at the next debate |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 04 Oct 12 - 09:27 PM Maybe you had better use a thicker gauge of tinfoil in your hats. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 09:29 PM From what I saw, Romney came in and lied his ass off and Obama was so taken back by the impostor that he didn't really know how to respond to the machine gun lies... He won't be fooled again... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:31 PM "thinking too fast" It's best to do it like *I* do, and only think half-fast. ;>) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:31 PM BTW, Romney can lose Ohio, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Wisconsin and still win. He would have to "run the table" in the South and Midwest to do it, but it can be done. Prediction: Bammer 269 to Romney's 271. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:42 PM Happens all the time, Bill. My mind races along merrily and gets way ahead of my fingers on the keyboard. This results in a lot of typos, because I'm only halfway through typing one word and already starting into typing the next one or the one after that. I have to consciously make my mind slow down to avoid the errors. I think it's quite a common problem these days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:45 PM Wanta place a side bet, pdq???D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:04 PM Ask Nate Silver. He has been within a few points the last 2 elections. He says Obama gets 317. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Oct 12 - 12:38 AM "Romney came in and lied his ass off and Obama was so taken back by the impostor that he didn't really know how to respond to the machine gun lies." I don't think that he expected Romney to contradict so many things he has been saying for so long with just a couple of BS words. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Stringsinger Date: 05 Oct 12 - 11:33 AM O is cagey and Romney better know it. He's laying a trap for Romney who could really lose it in the next couple of debates because he thinks he's riding high on this one, with all of his bullying and lies. O is cool under fire, a good attitude for a U.S. Prez. Romney will tie the American people to the top of his car. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Oct 12 - 11:35 AM Maybe the real powers that be (those behind the curtain and the throne) much prefer a race that seems pretty close to one that seems to be a forgone conclusion, therefore they did a little coaching to give Romney a bit of a boost? The coaching could involve, for instance, telling Mr Obama NOT to bring up the 47% and a whole bunch of other damaging stuff he could have brought up. In other words, get Obama to behave in a rather lacklustre fashion for this round, thus re-energizing the Republican campaign, thus making the race "exciting" again. It is a form of media entertainment, after all, and one doesn't want the excitement level of the public to dwindle, right? So that could be it. Just a possible suggestion. Given the ruthless and combative nature of politics, it seems extraordinary that Obama would not have used some really obvious ammunition he could have to damage Romney, unless he was coached not to by some pretty persuasive voices. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: akenaton Date: 05 Oct 12 - 11:57 AM I think Mr Obama is getting sick of politics...maybe he's too nice a guy to live with blood on his hands. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 05 Oct 12 - 12:45 PM In the last four election cycles, Republicans have been tied or had an advantage in the number of votes cast all but once. The only year that Democrats had the avantage was in 2008 when their base thought their dream world would come true if they voted for Obama. Even with the Republican advanatge and the strong majority of independants will be voting for Romney, polls in "swing sates" are being skewed at least 6% in favor of Democrats sampled, and some polls are skewed as much as 11%. These polls are run by NBC, New York Times and other sources that are supposed to be taken seriously. Fact is, Ohio may be a "tossup" but nothing south of DC is. Romney is actually ahead in electoral votes if polls are unskewed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 05 Oct 12 - 01:41 PM ""Romney is actually ahead in electoral votes if polls are unskewed."" If it were true, which it almost certainly is not, that would be the saddest possible indictment of the lack of intelligence of the electorate in those states. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Oct 12 - 02:18 PM I am always disappointed when a liar's pants don't actually catch on fire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Oct 12 - 02:46 PM And his nose doesn't grow rapidly longer... ;-) Political cartoonists used to delight in lengthening Richard Nixon's nose. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 05 Oct 12 - 02:52 PM There's no such thing as honest polls September 21, 2012 By Dr. Kevin "Coach" Collins {edited by me} When he was asked how he thought history would treat him, Adolph Hitler said, "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." This "history be damned" attitude is alive and functioning within today's far Left American media. It makes no pretense about being honest, it just churns out Democrat propaganda. And sad to say, it is being aided in its fraud by useful idiots on the Right who lend credibility to the Left's phony polls who report them without question. It is hard to tell who is more culpable in this daily assault on the freedom of the press, but since the Left is what it is, the Right would have to be held more responsible for the damage these fake polls do to the morale of the American people. The under-sampling Republicans and over-sampling Democrats to force headlines to show Barack Obama is winning is now so rampant it almost seems like the product of a frat house prank. In this "prank" the "reporters" are being tested by the "pollsters" to see how far away from reality the sampling can go before someone finally asks a question or even reads the internal data of a poll before slavishly reporting it as truth. How much of a sampling skew toward Obama can we take? Each new poll skew seems like a breath blowing up a balloon. Now polls are regularly skewed at least 10 points in favor of Obama. Some "polls" delivered with a straight face have used a Democrat projected turnout 13 points higher than the expected Republican turnout. No one questions this but just sheepishly reports what is ordered. {edited by me} Gallup has already been threatened with a lawsuit to get them to start issuing poll reports Democrats like. Gallup is not a stupid bunch. They know by Obama's Department of Justice can cut the legs off of them in a heartbeat so they have recently started to get in line. Careful research shows that all genuine data items point to a smashing victory for Romney, but at this point it is hard to see the lying pollsters and compliant "reporters" saying this until the day after the Election. {edited by me} |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 05 Oct 12 - 03:17 PM Political cartoonists used to delight in lengthening Richard Nixon's nose. They hardly needed to. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 05 Oct 12 - 03:19 PM pdq's post is gathered from AntiObamaBlog.com | Dr. Kevin "Coach" Collins That information is NOT edited by me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Oct 12 - 03:22 PM pdq, I think the "history be damned" attitude you describe is equally apparent on both the Right and the Left these days. The USA's standard mode is "history be damned". The USA has repeatedly launched wars of choice against small, distant countries that offered no real threat to the USA. That's what Hitler was in the habit of doing, only he didn't reach quite as far beyond his borders as the USA does. Both the Democrats AND the Republicans have been repeatedly guilty of backing those pre-emptive wars of aggression. The only American politicians I know of who have resolutely opposed them are Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) and Ron Paul (Republican). The rest have all lined up dutifully and justified open and illegal aggression against other countries which were no threat to the USA...and occupation of those countries, apparently believing, like Hitler, that "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Politicians in both your parties continually tell lies, mislead the public, and misrepresent themselves. This is totally obvious. Like Hitler and his ilk, they also believe that "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." It's standard behaviour in American politics. And you see it only on the Left???? You must be blind in one eye. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 05 Oct 12 - 03:27 PM pdq's post is gathered from AntiObamaBlog.com What A Surprise! As per usual, no facts need apply. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Oct 12 - 03:59 PM Skewing the debate?? Slimeball. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Oct 12 - 04:26 PM Maybe it was a handkerchief. Well maybe he has phobia of shaking hands with a Black man. Or a better man. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Oct 12 - 04:32 PM Nope. I remember him picking up his notes. no hankie. And why would he sneak a hankie onto the podium? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 05 Oct 12 - 04:45 PM Little Hawk... "And you see it only on the Left???? You must be blind in one eye." You still don't get it. I'm asking Left-leaners to accept the fact that their side is also lying. That is why I asked for Top 10 Whoppers from Obama to balance the Top 10 Whoppers from Romney. Open-minded people should be able to discuss both (=all) sides. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 05 Oct 12 - 05:16 PM I'm asking Left-leaners to accept the fact that their side is also lying. Not exactly, PeeDee- the Dems may be guilty of spin and bias, but when it comes to out-and-out lies, half-truths, distortion, and absolute 14-karat bullshit, the Repubs win half down. Its a difference in kind, not in degree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Oct 12 - 05:50 PM Okay, pdq, if you are simply asking Left-leaners to accept the fact that their side is also lying....then I have no reason to argue with that. Both sides lie a great deal of the time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Oct 12 - 05:58 PM There is a difference in kind and intent and degree. The Romney plan was to "etchesketch" It was clever to wait until the debate. I will grant. But in effect Romney called himself a liar a half dozen times during that debate. Also, the we are not going to let the fact checkers run our campaign mentality. and there is that whole thing where Romney told the FEC and the MA elections board that he was running Bain while he tells us that he wasn't. Romney's lies are so big that they deserve a much more majestic name "Epic legends" perhaps. It seems as though he is reading them from a gold tablet that only he can see. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Oct 12 - 06:09 PM Yeah, I think you're right about that, Jack. A big problem with politics, I think, is that people tend to focus much more strongly on what they don't like than on what they do like...and they focus the most rigorously on the man they don't like! So...for Romney's supporters...they're not all that much concerned about closely examining what Romney says for its veracity. What they want to focus on is his criticism of Obama, and thing that are wrong with what Obama says, because the primary thing that really moves them is hatred of and contempt for Obama. So as long as Romney attacks Obama in a way that his supporters enjoy, that's all that really matters to them. And I would venture to suggest that it works almost exactly the same way on the other side of the partisan divide. The real thing that's motivating Obama's supporters is their hatred of Romney, their contempt for him and his party, and their desire to see him lose. Both sides concentrate mostly on denigrating the other side and sniping away at it, rather than on keeping their own side honest. Why would they put much energy into vetting what their own guy says when the main thing they want to happen is to see the other guy lose? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 05 Oct 12 - 06:30 PM You realize of course, that polls are getting harder to do at all because so many people don't have land lines. Many young folks especially... who 'might' tend toward Dems... have only cell phones and don't answer polls. Maybe someday they'll have a system where we VOTE by special cell phone code and skip all this guessing..... anything to get away from the electoral college nonsense will suit me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Oct 12 - 06:43 PM "The real thing that's motivating Obama's supporters is their hatred of Romney, their contempt for him and his party, and their desire to see him lose." Not at all, not even a little. Its the agenda of the GOP they are against. As their agenda gets more narrow and nutty the more and larger lies their candidates have to tell to win. Its not Romney's fault per se. It is just that he is only one slippery enough to have brought it this far. The election would be all but over now is some like Santorum, who is a firm believer in "conservative" principles was running. But "the well oiled weathervane" has a few turns left. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Oct 12 - 07:51 PM Of course they're against the Republican agenda. It's 25 different shades of lunacy. (I posted a previous more lengthy reply already...but somehow mistakenly hit that mysterious combination of keys near the Shift key that suddenly makes everything VANISH!----------------------------------------------------------------------------) And I haven't the heart to type it all over again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 05 Oct 12 - 10:16 PM Obama is ahead in the polls. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bill D Date: 05 Oct 12 - 10:30 PM Yes.. but the Republicans are explaining how the polls are skewed by the dastardly, liberal 'mainstream media'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 05 Oct 12 - 10:48 PM The Republicans think the world is round, like a saucer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 05 Oct 12 - 10:51 PM Romney: "What's a saucer?"... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 04:56 PM "Obama is ahead in the polls." From Rassmussen this morning: Romney 49%, Obama 47% "somebody else" 2% "undecided" 2% "Both men have solidified their partisan base. Romney is supported by 89% of Republicans and Obama by 88% of Democrats. Among those not affiliated with either major party, Romney leads by 16. The generation gap remains wide. Obama leads by double digits among those under 40. Romney leads by double digits among those over 40. " |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 06 Oct 12 - 05:46 PM pdq, those figures are based on a whole 500 people interviewed on one night. Yippee. Obama is ahead in the polls, still. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 06 Oct 12 - 05:51 PM Skewed for Republicans |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: gnu Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:21 PM I am skewed for the 11th. I shall have munchies and beer and won't invite anyone to watch the game with me. People crap on Biden left and right but he is gonna kick Ryan's ass. Big time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:23 PM Rasmussen changes 1/3 of the results each day. The number I gave comes from data collected the 3rd, 4th and 5th. Therefore 1/3 is still "pre-debate" data. Check their site tomorrow morning for the real number. Perhaps that should be "tomorrow mourning". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:30 PM Yup, PeeDee, and Romney leads by triple digits among people with absolutely no brains at all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:37 PM Well, I'm gonna disagree. PDQ is a smart man who believes what he believes. He has a right to his opinion, as do we all. I think he reads too much Republican-slanted media, but I expect he thinks I read too much Democrat-slanted media. The Rasmussen poll is considered to be a good one. So, we'll see tomorrow. Until then, Obama is leading in the polls. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:47 PM Nice response GUEST,Inverted Anti-Christ. Want to reprise our bet from 4 years ago? I know I'm a "slow pay" but reliable. If Bobert is listening, I'll take his offer also. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:05 PM PDQ, on the election, yes. On the poll, no thank you. We on for the election? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:12 PM Yep. One audio CD on the presidential election this year. No handicap, unless one is considering Joe Biden. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:15 PM Yer on, buddy. This will be the third CD you'll have sent me. (Must admit I really liked the other two.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:32 PM The Rasmussen Poll is to pollin' what FOX is to news... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:54 PM Yer on, too. Either 1 audio CD or a cash bet up to $20. Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert - PM Date: 04 Oct 12 - 10:45 PM Wanta place a side bet, pdq???D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:05 PM See my PM... Yep, we're on... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Ebbie Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:41 PM WHAT?? No one is betting $10,000? I'm embarrassed for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: gnu Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:49 PM Soooo.... yer puttin ten large at what, Ebbie? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 06 Oct 12 - 09:06 PM Well, Eb... Pdq did offer to bet $20 or a CD... I would feel terrible takin' his money so I've agreed to getting one of his CDs... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 09:42 PM I've made it clear that I'm a music fan, not a player. I used to have a tape made on a mono Wallensak of my uncle playing jazz guitar and jamming with Erroll Garner, a good friend of his and fellow Republican. Made at his house after "a few". Lost it in a move years ago so I can't copy that onto a CD. I'll send him a few odd CDs anyway, since I know how hard he will take losing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 06 Oct 12 - 09:50 PM Bobert, were I you I'd take the bet. As an aside, a good friend of mine who lives in a south-western state of the USA is a small-business man. He is also as left of center as I am, meaning he's close to being a socialist. He's not voting for Obama because the new regulations regarding small businesses are breaking him. He expects to have to close down his business--something he's worked hard at for thirty-five or so years. The putrid organization known as the EPA--its new stature and authority redefined by Bush and carried further by Obama--has become an enemy of the people. I can sure see why Americans are having difficulties with this election. Prepackaged crap just don't cut it no more. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:00 PM I've taken the bet, brucie... Looks like I'm gonna get a CD of pdq's uncle... That's okay with me.. I don't want pdq's money... BTW, we have two choices... Pollution or not... The folks who are spending the big bucks for Romney are polluters... No thanks to bad air and poison water... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:11 PM Er, I said I lost my uncle's tape in a move years ago, but I have very good taste in music and I will match a CD to the new owner. About the EPA, it was Carol Browner, a former Berkeley radical and dropout, who said that everything pollutes in one way or another therefore the EPA has a right to control...everything. She may be the only member of Clinton's cabinet to serve the full 8 years. I could look that up but I don't really care that much. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:14 PM Koch brothers = major polluters... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST Date: 06 Oct 12 - 11:24 PM Bobert, the EPA has done little about fracking, Alaska oil drilling, the big timber companies and their practices: please do NOT deify the fucking EPA to me. And neither Bush nor Obama has curbed that organization. They tell a small business man they can enter his business premises at a time of their choosing, no warrant required. My friend is in a non polluting business. WTF, is it any wonder he's not voting for Obama this time? All he wants is to get a fair shake and operate his business. Period. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 07 Oct 12 - 04:12 AM 999 guest if there was ever a time for your friend to get some satisfaction if he is in a swing state, it is now! tell him it is time to speak out! If he is in Texas then fuck that Rick perry voting seperatist bastard!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Bobert Date: 07 Oct 12 - 07:53 AM Fracking is stupid... I mean, here we are told that future wars will be fought over water and here we are polluting good water and pumping it down under the ground to extract natural gas... The politics just ain't right for sane environmental policies... We need to turn that around and soon or we'll all be fucked... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 07 Oct 12 - 08:27 AM Crap. That guest was me. The point is, both Bush AND Obama have allowed the EPA to shit on people while the EPA sucks at the tit of big business. My friend tells me that new regulations adhered to under the Obama administration have basically ruined him. So why would he vote for the guy who's helping put him out of work? While I still see Obama as the best choice, he no longer does. I cannot say I blame him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 07 Oct 12 - 10:15 AM "The politics just ain't right for sane environmental policies... We need to turn that around and soon or we'll all be fucked..." Yeah. Meanwhile, Obama as did Bush before him backed off on the smog standard put forth by the EPA. Well, since oil and coal don't listen to us, let's get lots of threatening letters off to various Small Business Harry the Widget Makers and threaten them instead. Well, the threats worked and the price may be very expensive for the incumbent. My friend voted for Obama in 2008 because Bush era crap had to go. With the help of Congress and the Oval Office, the EPA has become a good guy with no teeth. So either empower the EPA which seems to have got into a slugging match with small businesses because it can't do a damned thing against the big boys, or start at the top with bad polluters and work yer way on down. WTF good is industry if no one can breathe? ##################################### "According to OpenSecrets.org, the following data was recorded by the Senate Office of Public Records. The top 10 industries for 2009 were: Pharmaceuticals/Health Products - $199,323,702 Insurance - $122,065,251 Oil & Gas - $120,669,855 Electric Utilities - $108,163,536 Business Associations - $92,696,817 Computers/Internet - $88,847,937 Misc Manufacturing & Distributing - $84,363,782 TV/Movies/Music - $77,861,927 Hospitals/Nursing Homes - $77,465,842 Education - $73,913,389" I'm quite sure that many of the fifteen thousand registered lobbyists in Washington, DC are working for one or more of these people--and they are people now--well, persons. And maybe the above data tells us more than we want to know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 07 Oct 12 - 10:43 AM Bruce, I didn't intend to include PeeDee in the "no brains at all" category - but upon reflection, there may be something to that..... I also seem to recall something about a right to one's own opinion, but not to one's own facts......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 07 Oct 12 - 11:30 AM We're cool, Greg. The problem as always with facts is their source. People quote facts from somewhere, except for ones we make up as we go, and studies show that 97.63 % of people do that. I think pdq argues his case in much the manor other folks do. We all tend to trust internet sources, and there there be dragons. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: Greg F. Date: 07 Oct 12 - 01:22 PM People quote facts from somewhere... Some do, and some quote "facts" from nowhere; Fox "News"[sic], Rush Limbaugh and Paul Ryan being three of the all too numerous examples of the latter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big Media: Romney Wins 1st Debate... From: GUEST,999 Date: 07 Oct 12 - 03:35 PM Mitt Romney ain't all that far behind. |
