CNN: Palin Family Issues Like Soap Opera; Downplays Obama Relatives' Troubles

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Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor | NewsBusters.orgCNN has displayed a double standard in its coverage of the difficulties involving the extended family of Sarah Palin versus that of President Barack Obama. Two programs on the network on Thursday evening used multiple soap opera references to describe recent occurrences in the “Palin family saga.” This contrasts with two incidents involving the aunt and half-brother of the president, which have received minimal coverage from the network.

Anchor Roland Martin began the soap opera imagery in his promo for a segment about Palin on the No Bias, No Bull program: “Folks, talk about ‘The Young and the Restless’ -- these days Governor Sarah Palin must be feeling like she’s living in a soap opera. It’s everything from her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy, to a family member ending up behind bars, and it’s not over yet. We’ll catch you up with all the real-life Palin family drama.” After a commercial break, a CNN graphic referenced another daytime TV title at the beginning of the segment: “Palin: The Days of Her Lives.” The anchor also used a similar line, speaking of the “days of the Palin lives.”

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CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin continued from where Martin left off as she introduced her report about the Alaska governor: “Sarah Palin....a politician with a meteoric rise, a picture-perfect family, and a made-for-TV story -- daytime TV, that is. First, Palin’s daughter, Bristol, and her baby daddy, Levi Johnston, split up. Then the teenager’s sex life became the talk of ‘The Tyra Banks Show.’”

Roland Martin, CNN Anchor; & Jessica Yellin, CNN Correspondent | NewsBusters.orgAfter a playing a clip from Johnston’s now infamous appearance on the supermodel’s program, Yellin continued with the soap opera imagery in describing other dramas involving the governor’s extended family: “And like the sands through an hour glass, so are the other dramas in Sarah Palin’s life. Just since the election, her half sister-in-law, seen here in the yellow jumper, was charged with felony burglary for allegedly breaking into a house and taking her four-year-old child with her. And then there’s Sherry Johnston, Levi Johnston’s mom -- she has been charged with six felony drug counts. She pled not guilty, and told the media it's been a rough couple of months.”

Near the end of the segment, Martin shifted away from the daytime TV terminology and borrowed a slogan from a sister TV channel: “You know, our sister network TNT has a slogan called ‘we do drama.’ That might be a new campaign slogan.” About two hours later, CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley briefly revived the imagery during a segment on Anderson Cooper 360: “Personally and professionally, it’s been a rough road for the governor since the Republican ticket was defeated in November. Her relationship with Levi Johnston, the father of Palin’s grandson, has been the stuff of soap operas.”

Near the end of the 2008 presidential race, Zeituni Onyango, the half-aunt of President Obama, and her trouble with immigration authorities became a minor campaign issue. However, CNN gave it scant coverage. On November 1, 2008, anchor Don Lemon gave an news brief about Ms. Onyango: “CNN has confirmed a report that Zeituni Onyango, his late father’s sister, is living in the United States illegally, four years after she was ordered to leave by an immigration judge.” He asked Crowley, then on the campaign trail covering Obama, for the Democrat’s response to the report. She replied that “Barack Obama was asked about it by one of the pool reporters. He ignored it.”

The following day, the network reported that there was an investigation into a “government leak” of the Onyango case. However, it would not give an update on the situation until April 1, 2009, or five months later. During the 9 am and 10 am Eastern hours of the Newsroom program, anchor Frederica Whitfield reported that “President Obama’s aunt is in immigration court in Boston this morning....Zeituni Onyango was ordered deported in 2004. Instead, she stayed and has been living in public housing, in Boston. Her asylum request is being reconsidered under a little-used provision. It allows denied asylum claims to be reheard if applicant can show something has changed to make them eligible. Her reasons for seeking asylum have not been made public.”

The second Obama family incident involved Samson Obama, one of the president’s half-brothers. As he was traveling to his sibling’s inauguration in January, the U.K. denied Mr. Obama a visa for entry “after immigration officers noticed one of his documents was false.” The BBC also reported that “fingerprint tests linked him to an alleged sex attack on a British girl. He was questioned but not charged over the incident in Berkshire, it added.” CNN devoted no air time to reporting the story of this denial when its details emerged months later in April.

One would guess that the troubles of these two Obama family members, along with the fact that another half-brother lives in a shack in Kenya, doesn’t warrant the use of soap opera imagery, at least in CNN’s view.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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CNN is getting desperate...

CNN is getting desperate...

CNN is actually right on this one

Sarah Palin's Family is like a Bad Soap Opera. It was an embarrassment to have her run as the GOP VP with the daily drama. Family Values? What are those? The GOP are now advocates of teenage pregnancy. What a disaster.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

I don't understand your

I don't understand your point.  Palin was a bad choice for V.P. because her daughter was pregnant?  That is idiocy.  "Family values" does not mean that people live picture-perfect lives, where there are no troubles or mistakes.  It is pure folly to believe the GOP needs to live up to that kind of standard to be viable.  On the contrary, Palin's family situation shows her to be a very real person.  Besides, the point of this item was the fact that CNN has virtually ignored Obama's family problems--no comment about that?

 

The most successful war America has ever waged is quickly becoming President Obama's war on capitalism.

Family Values means no Teenage Pregnancy

Yes it matters. Apparently to more liberals than Palin supporters.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

Palin loved VP campaign more than helping her daughter

Now that's family values

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Google and Apple officially donated to fight traditional marriage.  Good men want freedom, Evil men want license 

Popular Tech ~ it is quite evident that you are a pompous ASS.

That is the only logical rationale for your continual hate of Sarah Palin and her family... 

 

Your continued imagination

and the sky

is indeed pink

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

PT ~ please take ownership of your comments.

It isn't just me who thinks this.  I just don't get what your continued obsession is on this.

I take full ownership of my comments

None of them use the word hate to describe my feelings towards her or her family.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

When discussing Palin you PT are a full blown hater.

Sorry to break it to you.

You seem to want to stick it to her and her family.  I am NOT alone on this.  It is quite evident you hate Sarah Palin & her family and will not quit...  because of this I do not trust you.

Oh I don't hate her at all

I think she is hot. I just find her unqualified and on the wrong side of important issues...

MODERATOR: "...do you support capping carbon emissions?"
PALIN: "I do. I do." (Transcript)

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

O I C

it's because she's not pro-gambling isn't it?

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

Palin is pro Cap & Trade

I am not into socialist control over energy production and use like you are.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

I think Pahuber had it right....

Sarah must have refused to autograph PopDreck's propeller beanie and he took it kind of hard. 

Issues.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

You are a full blown hater of Sarah Palin. Period. You lose.

Serious, you just are so angry at her... let us know, did she like break up with you?  If so, I would understand...  smart, intelligent . . . she must threaten you huh?

Maybe he hates McCain and his pick of her more

Which is what you guys end up defending.

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Google and Apple officially donated to fight traditional marriage.  Good men want freedom, Evil men want license 

Oh Ok

Repeating lies does not make them any more true.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

PT Gov. Palin's Indiana Right to Life Speech, SPOKE ON TAXES

To bad you just saw the title of the video. It was part 3. She was speaking about TAXES.

Hello!! PT  The first 3 minutes she talked TAXES.

Are you EVER going to answer this one:

 Mr Root ....Executive Producer, 1999-Present

any links..... lololol

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

Palin is a Tax Hiker

LMAO! I am not going to watch hours of babble about abortion to get to the part you are referrring to. I have her record and it is not good.

As for Root, try Google.

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lol executive producer

of gambling videos in his garage

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

Dead and gone PT, JUST A SPIFFY WEB SITE

Not a beauty pageant winner...

Nor any winner what so ever

GWIN

OR GWNI


Loser

Root's story is almost as entertaining. He is, in his own words,
"the world's most successful failure." His first general-interest
book (he's written six of them, most about the art of gambling) was
titled The Joy of Failure, and it revealed how he'd
basically talked his way into a glamorous career with a bullish
sales plan papering over his lack of qualifications.

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

Wayne "The Man" Root

Wayne Allyn Root

Age: 46

Religion:
- Judaism

Education:
- Valedictorian, Thornton-Donovan High School, NY
- B.A. Political Science, Columbia University, 1983

Political Experience:
- President, Republican Jewish Coalition of Nevada, 2005
- Vice Presidential Candidate, Libertarian Party, 2008

Professional Experience:
- Analyst, Financial News Network (CNBC), 1988-1990
- Analyst, National Sports Service, 1990-1999
- Author, 1997-Present
- Executive Producer, 1999-Present
- CEO and Chairman, Global Sports Edge Inc., 1999-2001
- CEO and Chairman, GWIN Inc., 2001-2006
- CEO and Chairman, Winning Edge International, 2006-2007
- CEO and Chairman, W Technologies Inc., 2007
- CEO, Cool Hand Root LLC, 2005-Present
- Chief Economic and Political Strategist, Rare Coin Wholesalers, 2009-Present

Publications:
- The Joy of Failure: How to Fail Your Way to the Top, 1997
- Millionaire Republican, 2005 (#1 Amazon Bestseller, Personal Finance)
- The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts, 2009

Productions:
- WinningEDGE on WGN (BusinessWire)
- King of Vegas on Spike TV (BusinessWire)

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

PT, you are losing it

No Media Available from a media company.

W tech hummm ZERO...that would be "0.00"

Wow, someone rang your door bell and here you are stomping on a flaming paper bag , filled with poop.

EDIT : Now he's a salesman for this SMALL COMPANY.

How did you word that? Chief Economic and Political Strategist, Rare Coin Wholesalers,

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

No it is all true

You are not very good at using Google.

GWIN Announces Debut of 'King of Vegas' on Spike TV Co-Hosted by CEO Wayne Allyn Root

He was the CEO of those companies and still runs one. Unlike the beauty pageant runner up. Root just dominates Palin on Private Sector Experience.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

PT, That was in '06, why is he a salesman for a 6 person company

So Is Wayne a full commission salesman, AT THAT TINY TINY retail gold  coin outlet in the mall?

GWIN is ZERO...w tech is ZERO..

sure he still runs then, maybe when he answers the phone to hear the ROBO CALLS DEMANDING MONEY.

You have missed my post^ , TYPICAL

The Palin FAMILY business is still MAKING MONEY

Today it's still GOVERNOR PALIN, ha ha ha ha ha

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

He is not a Salesman but an Strategist and Advisor

- Chief Economic and Political Strategist, Rare Coin Wholesalers, 2009-Present
- Senior Economic and Political Advisor, Wealth Masters International, 2009-Present

Wayne is very talented, he not only produced his own shows, he hosted them. You are incredibly clueless, he sold those businesses for $6.5 million. That is why they show up as "zero". They are not around under those names anymore.

Sarah owns no businesses, her husband does. Palin is a laughing stock of private sector experience because she has none.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

PT,You are incredibly clueless,

You are incredibly clueless, It's GOVERNOR Sarah Palin..

She can win ELECTIONS.. Wayne only can do SELF PROMOTION ..Start a business call yourself KING, who cares

You are incredibly clueless, why do you LINK to the  DEAD BUSINESS? You are incredibly clueless, why don't you LINK to the stock of the business the "bought him out"? Hummmm ZERO THERE TOO.

Now he is working at a coin outlet,WITH A PO BOX ADDRESS with 6-9 other people, ROTFLMAO

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

lol the Billy Mays

of gambling

maybe he can sell ginsu knives too

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

Billy Mays has more Private Sector Experience than Palin.

Billy Mays is a CEO now too, even he has more private sector experience than Palin, ROFLMAO!!

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

PT The YT clip just 3 MINUTES right there, IN YOUR FACE

AS for Root I did a google search, And it's your bogus link that is A TOTAL JOKE, along with the rest of your Wayne Root CRAP:

Professional Experience:
- Anchorman, Financial News Network
- Executive Producer, 1999-Present
- CEO, Winning Edge International
- CEO, Cool Hand Root Productions 

Where ALL THOSE RED LINKS YOU LOVE??????Hummmmm

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

Try looking up

I posted links to two of his productions. Yes it is all true unlike the beauty queen.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

PT ~ you are the one needing to defend your comments.

Youtube links really are pretty sad not to mention that they have been redacted by those that took the footage.

You've really lost most of your stock on this issue...  

You are a hater of Sarah Palin.  Your obnoxious amount of posts prove this to many on this site.  I will keep saying it when I see you continue bashing this person.

You will keep lying?

I thought you were a Christian? Or are you a hypocrite? Funny how all the lies and smears about me are from supposed "Christians" - what a farce.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

I want to know if she let them live together unmarried under her

roof.  

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Google and Apple officially donated to fight traditional marriage.  Good men want freedom, Evil men want license 

Why? So you have something

Why? So you have something to rant about? Why would that be necessary for you to know. Her daughter is not a politician who put herself in the public eye.

Apparently you don't realize that having family values is trying to do the right thing. Family values is taking situations that families deal with and making the best of the situation and try to learn from their mistakes. Family values is understanding the need for morals and trying to live up to them. Family values is standing with your children when they have problems. Family values is putting your family before yourself.

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Holy Mary Mother of God! PT can't you just lay off of her or

are you planning to do this everytime?

 

Lay off Mary. Blaphemous person

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Google and Apple officially donated to fight traditional marriage.  Good men want freedom, Evil men want license 

Daniel

you are confused ---- you can only blaspheme God

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

That's true, and I didn't say he blasphemed Mary

God name was also taken in vain in his statement

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Google and Apple officially donated to fight traditional marriage.  Good men want freedom, Evil men want license 

why then was not

your focus on God? 

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

My apologies to both you and Daniel.

I did not intend to blaspheme, but I know how that can come accross after re-reading.  I was trying to sound like the guy down by the river.

pah

i think Daniel was straining at a gnat

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

botg

Never mind, I'm not going there. I can PM you if you want to know what I was thinking. 

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

You may PM me anytime or send me a message.

I see they got that with NB.  I love this site and its people...for the most part ; )

Do What?

dey poopdeck

spam-a-lam-a-ding-dong

(as if you didn't know)

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

TNT Slogan

"We know (not do) drama"

CNN Slogan

"We know nothing.  However, we do make up a lot of crap."

kata... "All Bias...All

kata...

"All Bias...All Bull!"

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

bt - "All Bias...All Bull!"

24/7!!! 

And if we could find a few more hours to throw in, we'd do it in a heartbeat!!! 

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

Media vs. Sarah

One more positive about the Tea Parties is that the Susan Roesgen "reporting" incident demonstrated true media bias to more people. Americans, for the most part, dislike injustice. As the media continues its immature, ignorant unfairness decent citizens will come to realize what has become of American "journalism". Attacking Sarah Palin, now almost a blood sport for "liberal" ignoramuses, is getting quite old very quickly. And with the internet now on the scene, hiding the truth is becoming an almost impossible task for lying hypocrites. Maybe there is hope after all.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

The Future

Sarah Palin will, one day, be president. It's all good.

And right up to the minute she is sworn it, the pit-bull media

will be chomping at her heels!  That is IF there continues to be a mainstream media! 

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

delete  

delete

 

I used to think that the

I used to think that the media's attacks on Palin were because they are afraid of her and  want to damage her so that she can never run nationally again.

I thought it was personal.  Now I'm not so sure.  

They might be going after the GOP as a whole.

I think they just might be using these constant tabloid-type stories on her in an attempt to make her the face of the Republican party....if they can paint the GOP as the people who talk "family values" but have imperfect families themselves, then they can say they are all hypocrites.

Because we all know, one can't aspire to an ideal unless one is already perfect.  And the way to never fall short of ideals is not to have them to begin with.

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

mb... Nail on

mb...

Nail on head.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Thanks, bigtimer....

I had half a thought that  I was out in left field with the sun in my eyes....

I just can't imagine that they are that afraid of her...I'm sure they think they could take her down again....so it has to be more.

I don't know...maybe I'm overthinking it.

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

They are wanting her to be

They are wanting her to be the candidate.

Just like they did McC.

Just different tactics.

They know what they are doing....

...and so far they are doing it masterfully.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Hey BT, I have a

Hey BT,

I have a different take on the media's savaging of Palin. Things were quiet for a while, but when she announced her PAC, the media attack machine went into kill mode.

I believe the media is scared to death of this lady! Know why? They remember (notwithstanding Popular Tech ;-)) how she was received by the conservative base.

I believe they want to try and destroy her before she can even announce her intentions of running (if she does at all). I do, however, believe that the opposite will actually happen. The more they attack her, the more they'll solidify the conservative GOP base. As Rush says, leaders show up in their own time.

Delete

Delete

I contend that the MSM is

I contend that the MSM is afraid of Sarah Palin

I need no more proof . . .

No one is afraid of Sarah Palin

They think she is dumb as bricks and her family a laughing stock. She had the most embarrassing VP campaign ever.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

Who's dumb?

"They think she is dumb as bricks..."---the pot calling the kettle black. LOL

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Palin Fear

I disagree with you people who say the media and Dems are not afraid of Palin. They are. Never have they gone after a VP nominee like they did with her, and NEVER have they kept after the losing VP nominee like they have with her. They are scared to death that she will be our first woman President. They have never even stuck with the losing presidential nominee like they have with Palin - how much do you hear them slamming McCain now? Not much, if any.

 I don't think anyone can come up with another reason - forget the tabloids idea - that was stupid - there are tons of people with real scandals to write about - it is fear, pure fear - on the part of the media and libs

The only thing they are scared of

...is having someone that clueless as President. I can come up with plenty:

Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads (Video)

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

pt - had I been Sarah Palin when that 'what do you read'

question was asked, I would have given Katie the single-digit salute and walked out! 

The AUDACITY of Katie...and all the rest of the liberal media, to insinuate that ---golly, gee, you live way up there in the north country and I guess you just read hunting & fishing magazines---when it is QUITE EVIDENT THAT SARAH PALIN WAS THE *MOST QUALIFIED OF ALL 4 TOP CANDIDATES IN THE ELECTION!!!!  *as is exhibited each and every day by the current officeholders!  You can bet your bottom dollar she would never have APOLOGIZED for America, HER COUNTRY, to the entire world!  

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

Good grief!

Good grief!

Won't you guys ever learn!!  

Pop Tech tosses his bait into the water and you rise to it like a school of trout!

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

Please forgive me, mb - I just couldn't help myself ;-)

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

What a joke

 She had the most embarrassing VP campaign ever.  You are too young, clearly, to remember the late Adm. Stockdale. 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Stockdale ruled

Pathetic!

A man who begins - begins! - a VP debate with the words "Why am I here?"  RULES

Thank you for handing me a 12 gauge fully loaded over-under.  Slugs or 8-shot?   And what next, will you offer to have me place the business end directly on your temple? 

(And for a Libertarian, it is very strange you would have supported anything on the Perot ticket.)

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Stockdale Ruled

"I feel like I'm an observer at a ping-pong game."

Perot was better than Higher Taxes George H.W. Bush.

Bush Defends Reversal on Taxes, Citing Nation's Economic Needs (The New York Times, 1990)

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

Your point?

Since you are so willing to change the subject, Perot wanted to raise gasoline taxes by .50 a gallon. 

And considering he was running on a notoriously protectionist agenda, he would have driven up costs for consumers across the land.  Last time I checked, protectionism is not something Libertarians found endearing.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Not a 'temple shot'.

That risks removal of only the frontal lobes.

Therefore leaving this world with one more PopTard clone. 

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

Uns, LOL.

Stockdale made Obiden look like Albert Einstein.

Damn, I had forgotten all about that guy.

-Dave

This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.

PopTech

Your amnesia over a guy named Wayne Allyn Root is just legendary.

Legendary.

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

Wayne "The Man" Root

What a qualified candidate with REAL private sector experience and RELEVANT education.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

wanna bet?

wanna bet?

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

Wayne Allyn Root says "I'd support 'open borders.' "

You're defending the guy who is the Failed Candidate, Libertarian Party Primary Election (President) (votes: 165) 2008

The guy who said: "...I don't hold [smoking marijuana] against anybody ...", and "I'd support 'open borders.' ", and "I love to gamble.", and "All my buddies are white, what can I tell you!"

Time Magazine says "All that bluster makes him seem more like a telemarketer . . ." and ". . . [Wayne] tells me he’d at least like to get a nationally syndicated radio show out of this presidential campaign."

 

Good choice PopTech !  /Sarcasm Off

What Wayne Really Said...

Immigration: "I'm more of a Ron Paul Libertarian on this
one. But it is a complex issue. Libertarians generally believe in open
borders. Under the CURRENT situation that is dangerous (because of the
threat of terrorism) and disastrous (because it will lead to the
BANKRUPTCY of the USA). If we could end welfare and entitlements of all
kinds for immigrants tomorrow, I'd support "open borders." But we all
know that's not going to happen. Even then I'd demand tight border
security to screen for disease, criminal background, terrorism
associations."

Gambling: "On the other hand, I love to
gamble. I’m a risk taker - whether it’s betting on a business idea, a
stock, a million dollar real estate investment, or the Dallas Cowboys. That’s my chosen form of entertainment."

I always make good choices unlike you.

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

I have the facts on my side!

You posted that already

Immigration: "I'm more of a Ron Paul Libertarian on this one. But it is a complex issue. Libertarians generally believe in open borders. Under the CURRENT situation that is dangerous (because of the threat of terrorism) and disastrous (because it will lead to the
BANKRUPTCY of the USA). If we could end welfare and entitlements of all kinds for immigrants tomorrow, I'd support "open borders." But we all know that's not going to happen. Even then I'd demand tight border security to screen for disease, criminal background, terrorism associations."

Gambling: "On the other hand, I love to gamble. I’m a risk taker - whether it’s betting on a business idea, a stock, a million dollar real estate investment, or the Dallas Cowboys. That’s my chosen form of entertainment."

Pot: "Wait, you weren't smoking pot in your dorm room? Root: No, I wasn't. I wasn't. But I don't hold that against anybody, but I wasn't.... "

Race: "He [Obama] had a lower average than me and he got into Harvard and I didn't. And so my answer is, has America really been unfair to minorities? No it hasn't. It was unfair to me. A white butcher's kid, whose father had no money, but nobody gave me a break. And do I have a chip on my shoulder? You're damn right I do. And I represent millions and millions of poor people in this country who weren't lucky enough to be poor and black, they were unlucky enough to be poor and white, and they can't get into Harvard. So maybe that country Barack's fighting for, he's got the wrong country here. He's been just fine in this
country. The rest of us need someone to defend them.... "

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

You posted that

FS, You posted that already

In regards to POPPED that is some funny stuff.

POPPSTER NEVER RESPONDED TO THIS:

Wayne Allyn Root

And one of POOPED WEAKEST POSTS YET... drum roll here it is:

Executive Producer, 1999-Present 

Come on popster we are WAITING for that link.

We are talking about a company of ONE.. HA HA HA

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

Wayne "The Man" Root

Look at that RELEVANT Eduction and REAL private sector experience. Not like the 5 college try journalist and beauty pageant winner.

Wayne Allyn Root

Age: 46

Religion:
- Judaism

Education:
- Valedictorian, Thornton-Donovan High School, NY
- B.A. Political Science, Columbia University, 1983

Political Experience:
- President, Republican Jewish Coalition of Nevada

Professional Experience:
- Anchor, Financial News Network, 1988-1990s
- Author, 1997-Present
- Executive Producer, 1999-Present
- CEO, Winning Edge International
- CEO, Cool Hand Root Productions

Publications:
- The Joy of Failure: How to Fail Your Way to the Top, 1997
- Millionaire Republican, 2005
- The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts, 2009

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~LMAO!!!

That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel. 

LMAO is Right!

Sarah Palin is an embarrassment to higher education...

Education:
- Attended, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 1982
- Attended, Hawaii Pacific University, 1982
- Attended, North Idaho Community College, 1983
- Attended, University of Idaho, 1984-1985
- Attended, Matanuska-Susitna Community College, 1985
- B.S. Journalism, University of Idaho, 1987

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That is a good article on Wayne "The Man" Root

Thanks...

"It would be a mistake, though, to write Root off. The things he cares about--being able to gamble legally via his home computer, continuing to home school his kids without much interference, keeping taxes low--speak to a lot of Americans."

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Play time

I want to play with Sarah Palin. I'm sure Todd feels otherwise. Oh well, there's always http://www.myspace.c.... She always delivers.

Ban this perv

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I second the motion, Dan!

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

Thirds, here!

Freakshow.  Pervert.  Degenerate.  and probably really, really lonely.

You can destroy the Constitution when I'm dead and gone, and unable to defend it. 

Until then, back off, you liberal jackasses.

Future foretold

Near the end of the segment, Martin shifted away from the daytime TV
terminology and borrowed a slogan from a sister TV channel: “You know,
our sister network TNT has a slogan called ‘we do drama.’ That might be
a new campaign slogan.”

If CNN keeps diving into the depths of the ratings, slogans like "May I have an application?" are in their future.

Uh, no, that might be CNN's

Uh, no, that might be CNN's new slogan....

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

~ mb

I think that's what I said.

;-)

Well,  you actually said

Well,  you actually said that might be a new campaign slogan, so in my tired brain I was thinking you meant for a candidate,  but you apparently meant for CNN's campaign coverage.

DUH!  Now I get it!  LOL

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

Or...

  "Would you like fries with that?"

"Would you like fries with that?"

 
Or an apple pie?  : )

 

Gary

All the oil is in Texas and the dipsticks are in D.C.!

Beam me up, Scotty

After this blog, some on this site will recognize me for the prescient, sapient being that I am.  Just the other day, one inquisitive NBer asked (to the effect of), ‘Give me a straight answer, why is the media fascinated with Sarah Palin? … and don’t tell me that they are afraid of her.’  I gave her a straight answer which today has been confirmed by this very site; Sarah fills the supermarket tabloid void. 

Back in the day, The National Inquirer or some such rag would have had a grainy black and white photo of Sarah Palin and some big guy in a hairy gorilla costume holding hands and walking along an Alaskan creek bed.  The huge banner headline would have read:  SARAH PALIN:  “I AM CARRYING BIG FOOT’S BABY!”

Sadly, such rags have been replaced by glossy’s like Women’s Day, Cosmopolitan, and of course the Internets. (SIC/GWB).  But triumphantly, Sarah Palin lives on to fill the void of unbelievable bumpkin folklore!

As a for instance, who among us didn’t at first glance believe the photo-shopped picture of Dear Sarah poolside in an American Flag bikini toting a gun?  http://z.about.com/d/diyfashion/1/0/1/F/-/-/Sarah_Palin_Bikini_Costume.jpg

It took a host of conservative bloggers days to debunk this one, and it was time well spent for them and the rest of us who love Dear Sarah.  (I love the guy in the background with a Schlitz and a cig.  This was your first clue that the picture wasn’t real.)

Anyway, Americans love Dear Sarah for many reasons, not least of which she is from cold, hard, unburnished stock and seems to relish the fact.

Now, I am not sure whether to sue CNN for stealing my material, or have sex with an alien on the mother ship.  Any suggestions?

NB ALERT – THIS JUST IN – DEVELOPING ...

http://donstuff.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palinkillsbigfoot.jpg

I assume the baby gets hairy later?

I'm not surprised that a liberal expresses pride in his fellow..

... liberals' ability to crawl through the mud, sleaze and slime.  

  It is a noteworthy accomplishment to create from nothing the bizarre idea that Trig Palin was actually Bristol Palin's daughter, therefore sliming not only Sarah but her innocent daughter.

A two-fer of sleaze. Of course you should be proud.

Now get back on the bottom of that shoe where you belong...next to the chewing gum, cockroach remains and dog poop.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

THIS IS NOT A FAIR COMPARISON

Palin's family troubles relate to her immediate nuclear family, whereas Obama's do not. That is a very big difference. It doesn't mean the misbehavior of his relatives should not be covered by the media, but it does mean that they are less exciting.

Right or wrong, people see your messed up children as a product of you and a possible reflection of your shortcomings. People do not see your messed up half brothers or cousins you never lived with as a reflection of your problems and shortcomings.

 

I completely agree

Sarah's parenting skills are put into question with her daughter where Obama's are not.

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Pop tech you can't blame parents for sins of teenagers

Unless she is known to have encouraged their spending time alone in her house.

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do you have children?

just curious. 

I love to help the helpless but I'm not gonna help the clueless   ~Dennis Miller

Katainkent...

Kata, the more he posts, the more convinced I am that he isn't quite old enough to produce them, if you get my drift.  

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

*shrug*

*waits patiently* 

 

I love to help the helpless but I'm not gonna help the clueless   ~Dennis Miller

kk, what Uns is saying is that PT can play organized sports...

...without having to wear a jock strap.

-Dave

This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.

Yes

And unlike the "it is everyone elses fault" Palin, I take responsibility for mine. (oh and no teenage pregnancy, we had that talk).

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interesting

thanks for the answer... and the ...whatever the heck the rest of that was.  So then you're mid to late 40's.  Okee.

I love to help the helpless but I'm not gonna help the clueless   ~Dennis Miller

~Annnnnd

He is also humble, modest, and self-effacing. He seeks only to promote
peaceful discourse, gives extensively to charity, tutors inner city
children, wears recycled underwear to reduce global warming and
single-handedly supports an ENTIRE tribe of Borneo pygmies.

 

 

 

hey chose

seen any brunettes lately?

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

~:-)

Only in the mirror, darling! Thought I'd take a look around before I turned in and couldn't resist a few bites of all the juicy bait lying around on the threads. Dang, gotta brush my teeth again now.....

Pygmies Against Palin

And now Pop is an honorary member of the Borneo chapter of Pygmies Against Palin.  Sarah can't keep an eye on 'em from her front porch, but I understand she has subscribed to National Geographic.

Jer

Yep, Join the Club

Though, that is sort of ironic as I do not believe she knows where Borneo is.

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I'm still looking...

 ...for all fifty-seven states Obama said he visited.

You think we're stupid, PopTard? It's clear you're a liberal pretending to be a functioning, logically thinking human being.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

You figured it out

Oh yes I'm a liberal, golly jee, huck, huck, you are the smartest of them all.

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Hey, PopTent, finally worked up the stones...

..to take a crack at me?

I see you chose an easy one and ignored all my others that would have required actual thought...not two or twelve spam links.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

So basic yet you can't figure it out

This statement proves to me AGAIN, ad nauseum, that 1) you have no children and 2) you have zero understanding of basic human nature or the concept of freewill.

Many years ago, in my family we children were banned from going to certain places, like a creek that ran close to home.  Guess what?  I went anyway.  Again.  And again.  And again.  I went up to said creek when it was flooded and way over its banks; so close that one false move meant I went into the creek and got swept away. 

Now, does this mean I had bad parents?  No; it means that they could not watch me 24/7.  NO PARENT CAN.  The end. 

No doubt that when you DO have children, you will spend 8-10 hours a day violently, savagely beating the crap out of them for even the slightest infraction, because of that damned freewill thing that all humans are imbued with.  In which case I will be fearing for them.

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Uh...

Palin's half sister-in-law?  Palin's daughter's ex-fiance's mother?   Hardly "nuclear family" and hardly more newsworthy than Obama's half brothers and/or Obama's aunt...

Kelly, it's not what you

Kelly, it's not what you do, it's whether you have an R or a D after your name

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

Oh.

Of course.  ^^

botg ~ Perfectly truthful and to the point! Best quote of the

day.

"Kelly, it's not what you do, it's whether you have an R or a D after your name."

Bravo!

Sorry respectful, but

Sorry respectful, but you're wrong.  Palin is attacked because she's a Republican, and a conservative one at that.  Any attempt to come up with another reason is a waste of effort.  Rest assured, if GW Bush's half-brother lived in a shack it would be all over the media.  If any relative of his, even a distand cousin, was suspected of a sex crime it would be covered endlessly.   Observe how the media treated the coverage of the tea parties this week.  They have a chip on their shoulder for anything and anyone that has even a hint of conservatism.

 

 

The most successful war America has ever waged is quickly becoming President Obama's war on capitalism.

CNN Dementia = MSM Dementia

The recent surge in CNN & the rest of the MSM's unprofessional & childish behavior is staggering.  So far I have written 3 letters to CNN execs of Susan Roesgen's abhorrent behavior towards Norm at the Chicago Tea Party.  That seems easier to target for a "one-off" incident.

The problem with defending Palin, who I too truly believe has been unfairly brutalized, is that the loons & MSM are coming at her from all sides and it is very difficult to ward off what is obviously a well-funded commando operation on detrimental publicity for Palin or any GOP hopeful that steps forward, or even might step forward.

Perhaps we, the public, can divide and conquer with strategic strikes back where it hurts, now that many of us have read Saul Alinksi's Rules now too!  I, for one, feel compelled to dish back their own tactics; enough of being the "Silent Majority" and enough of turn the other cheek. 

As one of those first timers to ever step forward and protest at the Tea Party or protest at anything for that matter, I was proud to see so many like minded people speak up & step out.   I never wrote letters to WA & Congress in my life before the Obama Spend-a-thon began either. But because of recent events, it is clear, that my work, and others has just begun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The real question you need to ask yourself

Is why do none of the other 2012 potential GOP candidates need defending.

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Actually, PT i believe we are wondering when you snapped and

if you are trying to prep the path for another candidate...  this ain't the way ta da it.

uhhhhhh

they are not being attacked??

so why are the media and kos-bots attacking?

i know you can't speak for the media but.................

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

uhhhhhh immediate family member behind bars IS NEWS

Its not attacking.  Governors connection to criminals is important

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uhhhh immediate

???????????

 her half step-sister-in-law????

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

Daniel ~ pardon me, but you are kinda coming off as a nutjob.

I could be wrong.

Daniel Baker ~ How about Obama's relatives... are they fair game

too?

It seems that the chaff is showing their heads on the Palin articles, eh?

Maybe they are not so easy to attack

The MSM and Kod Bots find it hillarious to do this that is why they do it.

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And you apparently enjoy it too.

Please, continue.

You look like the perfect ass you so obviously are.

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Stop looking

i can't believe

it's not Fabio

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

What a plot!

Someone should do a youtube soap-opera about the Bamster, featuring the pedophile half-brother, the dope dealer other half-brother in a shack, the welfare auntie, the layabout communist father, the mandingo-complex mother, the girlfriend Vera Baker that M'chell found out about, the white girlfriend he dumped in Columbia, the loon Reverend Wright, the mafiosi Tony Rezko, the terrorist Bill Ayers, and of course starring the coke-snorting star of unknown nationality.

Could be a hit.

Slick

  And they could have episodes like, "What will we do with this bust of Churchill that we hate?" (It could be wacky)  Or "We are going to see the Queen, what shall we bring her?" (They could lift the i-pod off one of the Secret Service guys on the way to the palace).  There would be no end to the hilarity I tell ya!

I'm sure we could convince Michael Moore to come up with

a good one ;-)  He'll jump right on it - NOT ;-)

Great idea, slick! 

As a resident of that bluest of blue states, we have read VERY little about auntie and her ability to cut in front of LEGAL AMERICANS in need of public housing.  Seems our governor and  president are old friends from Harvard days - can't imagine that had anything to do with it.  And...can you imagine...the Boston Globe/tv stations just don't seem to want to investigate how she managed to obtain public housing as an illegal alien...why she was even working in the housing office for a little walking around money...wonder if she has been collecting welfare from the state, too.  And we wonder why the state is close behind California in going broke!  I doubt seriously that her nephew has contributed to her subsistence, after all that would have been reportable income.  No one even knows if she is still illegally occupying public housing in Boston or if she went back to her friends/family in Ohio.

Following that line of thought, did ANYONE see a picture of any of Obama's relatives who supposedly attended his inauguration?  Didn't his grandmother come from Kenya?  And his bad-actor half-brother was able to fly from his connection in England (just couldn't spend anytime out of the airport ;-)  Why no pictures???

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

Hussein really should pardon his auntie if a prez can pardon

a foreigner

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Obama's auntie needs no pardon.

Any ICE agent that even looks at her crosseyed is going to find himself manning a border crossing in Nome, AK.

(insert tasteless 'ICE' pun here)

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

unlike ron paul

she is smart enough to stay out of motel rooms with borat.....

Don't blame me....I voted for Palin...

so poppie

hows that new alliance with Kos working out?

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

What Alliance?

Kos are a bunch of delusional socialist nut-jobs.

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57 states 3 to go

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The libs are losing

Even worse than the 2008 election, the libs have tipped their hand here severely. 

They're losing and they know it.

 

"Please get your facts right, then you may distort them as you please"  -Mark Twain

"Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"

Excuse me Lord Erond???

I thought the Dems won the 2008 election along with the 2006 election?

"They're losing and they know it." 

I'm trying to figure out your logic on how they are losing.

 

He had my vote

shawn228...

I'm anxiously awaiting Lord Erond's response to this.  I want to see a good debate, because all I have had the chance to read tonight has been garbage from a person named Cyrano. 

 

You can destroy the Constitution when I'm dead and gone, and unable to defend it. 

Until then, back off, you liberal jackasses.

Hi db

Me too. I promise I will try to have my spelling and grammar in order as well :-)

He had my vote

.....shawn...

smart-a*s.

Ha!

Alas, it appears I must away now.  Bummer that.  I was so hoping to watch you in action.  (ooh, that sounded really wrong, didn't it?  Yikes!)

Anyhoos, later shawn.  Good luck and happy debating if Lord Erond returns.

You can destroy the Constitution when I'm dead and gone, and unable to defend it. 

Until then, back off, you liberal jackasses.

lol

Looks like he has not returned yet, I'm sure  he has a very reasonable explanation (sarc)

He had my vote

Can't resist

Was 2008 the last election we'll ever have or is there one scheduled for 2010?   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Not anymore...it's been

Not anymore...it's been suspended as part of Obama's "Master Plan for Permanent Rule".

Jer

I THINK that was meant to be hyperbolic....

 ...but it's only partially humorous.

You might have noticed that I don't cut Obama a lot of slack or allow him or his minions the benefit of the doubt.

That's because he's spent his life studying Marx and Alinsky, Wright, Ayers and Frank Marshall Davis.

Having memorized their script, I must assume that Obama knows exactly what he's doing...and that his likeminded appointees are following his exact orders.

But even I don't believe Obama intends to 'rule permanently'. 

I believe Obama understands his mission as installing a socialist infrastructure into this country's system of government that cannot easily be removed and must be fed, like a monster, by any future administration.

The Democrat who follows him will have the machinery of tyranny already in place, as Obama had the benefit of ACORN, the liberal media and millions of left-indoctrinated young adults.

Obama will not rule forever, but he'll make damn sure socialism will.

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

Can't resist back

The poster said the Libs are losing worse than the 08 election.

btw,

well played Jer :-)

He had my vote

BTW

BTW, well played shawn! LOL! Is ths fun or what? Have a great evening friend.     : )

 

Gary

All the oil is in Texas and the dipsticks are in D.C.!

Can't resist back back

Are you being a pedant?

I think I understand what Lord Erond is saying; it may have come out garbled is all.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

1/2 Sister-in-Law

 I've been scracthing my head, how do you get a 1/2 sister-in-law, and so, who got the other 1/2??!!~~!!

Palin is being tested by a cruel fire, if she survives and chooses to run for national office i think she will be unstopable. First she has to survive, not only the sub-slime media, the lib pervs, and the faint hearted of the cons. If she survives she will be hard as nails and tougher than whang leather. With strength of character and a vision of where and how to lead this country she will be hard to beat after coming through the fire she has been subjected to. It remains to be seen? I would'nt blame her if she chose to say the hell with it and returned to private life.

kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

NB MODS: Is there any way PT's account can be modified...

...so that anytime he posts on a thread that contains the name Palin that, no matter what he types or pastes, we will all see it as this?

I am an (  )o(  ) of the first order.

-Dave

This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.

Dave, it would help a lot

Dave, it would help a lot if people would just let him post his pathetically predictable comments and not respond to him every time.

As the saying goes:  Don't ever mud wrestle with a pig.  You both get dirty. 

And the pig likes it.

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

motherbelt,

LOL-I know. I usually try to avoid him.

Its just I have to put up with him on not just this site, but HotAir as well.

It just ain't fair.  :-(

-Dave

This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.

Join the Collective!

If you do not think like us, you will not be allowed to speak.

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No PT ~ he is merely stating the obvious. Of course you may

self destruct in front of us.

You support Censorship?

Free Speech has nothing to do with "Feelings"

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Who said anything about 'thinking'?

  What you call 'thinking' is similar to the function of a pressure relief valve on a fermentation vat in a sewage treatment facility.

And the result smells the same.  

NOLI PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE

I'm still trying to find

I'm still trying to find out if the durn contractors have shown up yet to patch up obamas brothers cracked mud hut walls!

They should have been there by between 1100 & 1500 hrs this past Thursday!

If a president's brother can't get his mud hut walls fixed who can?

Trotted out......

During the campaign, whenever Palin's family members made an appearance, many of the CNN and MSNBC anchors/reporters said they were being "trotted out," which has a cynical tone to it.  Palin trotted out her little baby, Trig.  She trotted out Levi Johnson.  She trotted out her pregnant teenage daughter.  She trotted out Piper.  She trotted out "The First Dude."  Everyone from her family was "trotted out," according to CNN and MSNBC.  I never once heard a media person say that Barack Obama trotted out his two daughters, or that he trotted out his wife.  The coverage of Sarah Palin was disgusting...and it goes on.

Slightly off topic, but thought some might want to read it.

A.B. Culvahouse Praises Sarah Palin 
April 17, 2009

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can still count A.B. Culvahouse Jr. as one of her defenders in the Lower 48.

Culvahouse, O’Melveny & Myers’ chairman and the leader of the team that vetted Palin before Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his running mate last summer, spoke about Palin this morning at the Republican National Lawyers Association’s policy conference at the National Press Club.

[...]

He offered some insight into the vetting process as well.

[...]

 

CNN

Jessie R. Hamby                      If CNN keeps going like this Sara Palin will be the next president...............