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Message started by Starlifter on 10/21/12 at 21:46:43

Title: CNN Sucks
Post by Starlifter on 10/21/12 at 21:46:43

CNN Airs The Most Ridiculous Statement I’ve Ever Seen On Television

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The portion of the documentary in question covers Mitt Romney’s stint as a door-to-door Mormon recruiter in 1968 France, a duty which helped him to avoid military service in Vietnam. Earlier in the doc, narrator and interviewer Gloria Borger glossed over the fact that Romney sought, and received, four deferments during the Vietnam War (and later lied about it), instead saying simply that he was “exempt as a student, and with a high draft number.”

The doc also notes, as an example of Romney “becoming his own man,” that he protested in favor of the draft that he so skillfully avoided, before moving on to the time he spent in France, a time that Romney once described as “tough” because the French were “not happy to see Americans, because we were in Vietnam at the time.”

Yes, you heard that right. Not only did Mitt Romney protest in favor of sending other people’s children to die in Vietnam, even as he avoided service himself, he then complained about how those dying Americans made it “tough” for him while he was in France avoiding service.

Perhaps to avoid charges of bias, the documentary steers clear of these contradictions, but then takes the whitewashing to blindingly absurd levels by introducing the next segment with the aforementioned most ridiculous statement I’ve ever seen on television. “In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American,” Borger says, “but Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it.”

That’s right, in 1968, the year in which the highest number of American deaths in Vietnam were reported (16,592), France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American who was avoiding service in Vietnam. Aside from the constant danger of having one’s eye put out by an errant baguette, what hardships did Mitt Romney face while he was “in country?”

Well, all those dying Americans were causing protests in France, and as a result, says fellow Romney missionary Mike Bush, “There was no train service, there were no buses, no newspapers. The electricity would go off from time-to-time.”

The electricity would go off from time-to-time? Mon Dieu. Think of the horrific flashbacks to rudely-interrupted Gilligan’s Island reruns and spoiled escargot. But the horrors of Vietnam-era France didn’t end there.

“There were no letters from home,” Bush continues. “The money at the time came via check. That was our lifeline was getting letters from home.”

So, CNN’s story is that Mitt Romney had it tough during Vietnam because the protests in France made it hard for his dad to send him money. That’ll give anyone the thousand-yard stare.

Title: Re: CNN Sucks
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/21/12 at 21:57:32

Woo HOOO,, Romney SUX,, so? Bammy does too..

Title: Re: CNN Sucks
Post by srinath on 10/22/12 at 05:24:23

5C4345425F5869596951434F04360 wrote:

Woo HOOO,, Romney SUX,, so? Bammy does too..

Right JOG, but not because of giveaway's to the rich. That I would think is all that separates these 2 ... and IMHO very very important.

Govt for the rich, by the very very rich = Romney.
Govt for the poor by the very rich = Obama.

Cool.
Srinath.

Title: Re: CNN Sucks
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/22/12 at 08:38:55

The One thing Bammy has done that really causes me to thingy my head & ask WHY was the deal with that pipeline. He Seriously upset some Exremely Big PLayers on the world stage when he did that. I cant believe he did that. IDK how I feel about what he did, but, if it chapped the butts of a few Ultra Rich,, I mite just like it a little. I cant remember the name of the rig that had been towed up to Prudhoe Bay, but someone had anticipated the passage of that bill & went ahead, spending who KNows how much $$$ to get a rig ( IIRC, it is , if not The Largest, its real close to it). NOw I cant remember which one of the Supah Rich guys was setting up for railroad up there,, dangitt.. but how very handy for him..

Okay, did a little hunting. Look what shows up..

Energy Policy: Killing the Keystone XL pipeline may help one of the world’s richest men get richer. North Dakota’s booming oil fields will now grow more dependent on a railroad the president’s economic guru just bought.

Stop us if you see a pattern here. About the time George Soros — Hungarian billionaire and key donor to leftist groups and the Democratic Party — invested heavily in the stock of the state-run Brazilian oil company Petrobras, President Obama was curbing U.S. offshore oil production and the U.S. Export-Import Bank announced a $2 billion loan to Petrobras to finance deep-water drilling off the pristine beaches of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

As he was imposing curbs and moratoria on U.S. offshore drillers, President Obama wished the Brazilians well in the hope we would someday be Brazil’s best oil customer.

Apparently, oil tankers coming from Brazil are better and safer than a pipeline from Canada, whose best customer we will not be if they ship their tar sands oil to China instead.

Interestingly, another billionaire, Obama economic inspiration Warren Buffett, stands to benefit from the Keystone XL pipeline delay.

As oil production ramps up in the Bakken fields of North Dakota, plans to use the pipeline to transport it have been dashed.

As a result, North Dakota’s booming oil producers will have to rely even more on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad, which Buffett just bought, to ship it to refineries.

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion. Berkshire Hathaway already owns about 22% of Burlington Northern, and will pay $100 a share in cash and stock for the rest of the company.

So,economic decisions made for political buddies,,

BUT Waita MINNIT!? I thot Bammy was gonna set rules up & do things that would take care of the common people!! That little veto cost Americans Tons of jobs,, Ohhh AttaBoooy Bammster!