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CNN's Zakaria Supports Obama's Buffett Rule

By Matt Hadro | April 18, 2012 | 18:56

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CNN host Fareed Zakaria, who admitted last year that he held off-the-record conversations with President Obama even though he was covering the President's foreign policy, has now expressed his support for the Buffett Rule – legislation that Obama has pushed for in recent weeks.

Zakaria is reportedly on the short list of considerations for Obama's next Secretary of State if the President is re-elected, and has had to answer for his conversations with Obama and any possible conflict they might have had with his reporting on foreign affairs. Now he is supporting legislation that the President has asked Congress to pass.

"If I were in Congress, I'd vote for the Buffett Rule," wrote the host of CNN's foreign affairs show Fareed Zakaria GPS. "I think as a matter of fairness, the Buffett Tax makes sense." President Obama has been touting the idea recently as he campaigns for re-election, saying that millionaires should be paying a minimum 30 percent effective federal tax rate.

Zakaria did acknowledge that the current legislation is more of a "gimmick" without dealing with any of the tax loopholes and deductions he believes need reforming.

Last year, then-CNN host Eliot Spitzer spilled the beans about a New York Times report saying President Obama "sounded out" Zakaria for information on the Middle East. Zakaria clarified that he was not advising Obama but had face-to-face conversations off-the-record.

Skepticism ensued about Zakaria's journalistic integrity as he praised President Obama's foreign policy. He said the President's June speech on Afghanistan was a "remarkable speech for an American president" and added that Obama made the "right call" on Afghanistan.

He called Obama's Middle East speech in May "remarkably comprehensive" as well as "fair" and "balanced." Later in July, he praised Obama's "restraint" in his Middle East foreign policy.

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Well, color me shocked!

Submitted by gopsteve on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 7:19pm.

Well, color me shocked!

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Ditto

Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:44pm.

Zakaria is an Obama advisor and rep[ortedly looking for a State Department job. He's going to support everything the President proposes.

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Ha, ha.... hahaha... ha...

Submitted by retrocon on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 7:32pm.

you said "journalistic integrity" and "CNN host" in the same article...

haaaa...hahahaha...ha...hahahahahaha

whew... that was good!

thanks for waking me up.

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Here comes some serious

Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 7:37pm.

Brown nosing right here.

Hey Fareed, try to keep it decent eh

Seek Truth, Defend Liberty
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➚ I remember him

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 7:37pm.

He played Fez on "That 70's Show"

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Close

Submitted by stratman on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:04pm.

Farina had the same job with Fez as he does now with Obama: fluffer.

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A Must See Video for Fareed -- The Conservative Awakening Begins

Submitted by libBuster on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:17pm.

Fareed and other Muslim socialists who invoke the name of President Reagan in vain will learn from this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h8O7V-WxWQ&feature=youtu.be

It really gets to the point with outstanding production values. Take heart. Not all conservatives are asleep

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CNN's Zakaria Supports Obama's Buffett Rule

Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:17pm.

I think it would actually be news if Obama's personal anal probe didn't support this rule.

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets". - Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver (1976).
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Yea really,

Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:21pm.

All the commies support stealing!

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With quotes like this:

Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:33pm.

"If I were in Congress, I'd vote for the Buffett Rule," wrote the host of CNN's foreign affairs show Fareed Zakaria GPS."

Thank God Obama's personal anal probe is not in Congress. He is even too stupid for TV because it was THE SENATE that voted down this rediculous pap.

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets". - Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver (1976).
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"If I were in Congress, I'd scramble up trees for coconuts."

Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 9:03pm.

Yeah, thanks, Fred... we'll call you.

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Well, if millionaires should pay a 30% tax rate,

Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 9:18pm.

how about the 49% who currently pay nothing? Surely, in the name of "fairness", they should cough up $100 per person, just so they "symbolically" have some skin in the game? That'd probably generate more $$$ than the Buffet rule.

To re-elect Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and hitting the iceberg again.
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So

Submitted by bobsmom on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 9:25pm.

I guess that means I'm qualified to run HHS, right? I mean, my Grandma once took a pill. And my Dad has a pacemaker. So I KNOW what it means to run an entire segment of the gov't that has to do with healthcare, right? I'll even change my name to Bobsmoud if that's what it takes.

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The reason Achmed supports the Buffmybutt Tax Cut is

Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 9:49pm.

cause he's real sharp with numbers (I thought arithmetic was invented in the Middle East?).

Here's the calculation, yet again with rough but in the ball park numbers. If we take that money from all these evil rich folks and are feeling way FAIR, we get an additional 4.7 billion a year (that used to be a lot of money). The administration flushes that amount of money down the toilet in less than 4 days.

Du Bumbler has admitted to understanding this and is okay with it cause he'll be feeling fair (anyone else that matters feeling "the fair" as well?).

hbnolikeee
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Of course.

Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 10:25pm.

Name one thing Obama has done or tried to do that Fareed would not support (including munching down on hound).

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Of course this stinking Muslim commie puke supports the Buffett

Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:35am.

...Rule.

After all, the stinking Muslim commie puke in the White House is all for it.

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

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GIve that boy a fresh set of

Submitted by texastommy on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 7:50am.

GIve that boy a fresh set of kneepads. Here come da boss.

"Occasionally, and randomly, problems and solutions collide. The probability of collisions decreases geometrically as the size of the committee created to force these collisions increases."
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Give Fareed Zakaria a break! Leftist like Zakaria are not known

Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 8:57pm.

for their intellectual prowess.

Consequently, Fareed probably believes that the Buffett Rule is a tax on millionaires who frequent restaurants with buffets.

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