Glenn Beck’s ‘The Blaze’ Readers Spew Hatred and Racism at Michelle Obama

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A Washington DC police officer is in trouble today for making threatening comments toward First Lady Michelle Obama, and at Glenn Beck’s fake news site “The Blaze,” this is the cue for right wing commenters to spew torrents of hatred and racism: DC Metropolitan Police Department Officer Demoted to Desk Duty After Threatening to Shoot Michelle Obama | TheBlaze.com.

The article itself is fairly level-headed — but the comments read like what you’ll find at a neo-Nazi site like Stormfront, full of racial slurs, threats, and applause for the policeman, with racist comments posted right next to complaints that they’re being falsely labeled as racists.

Maybe he just wanted to do a porno shoot of her. I don’t know why anyone would but there are a lot of very sick videos on the Internet.

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Wookie porn?

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The cop tries to inject some humor and get’s demoted,he can count himself lucky if that’s all that happens to him. Barry‘s gay lovers were executed prior to his installation in 08 so the cop should be grateful he’s still vertical.

Marxist‘s like our bi president don’t take kindly to threats and both Obama’s have done grievous harm to our republic,and his firing is critical.

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Nothing that most folks think to themselves everyday…

Well except for PC White Guilt Obama Voting Morons and Wellfare Queens……

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Obama is like the Pied Piper and the left are the rodents being taken to their own destruction not realizing the danger this man has put the country in. What will happen when God removes his blessings , I shudder to think.

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I can’t say that I blame this guy for his feelings about the Obummers.

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I bet there are thousands, if not millions who secretly feel the same as this guy about the Obummers. He said what a lot of people are thinking.

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Millions of US tax payer dollars wasted on her grandiose vacations… she is ghetto-rich, she thinks she won the lotto and as long as she’s in the WH she is spending it like water

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Odummy and Moochelle are your typical renters. Once they are put on the street by the Landlords in November, they will tear the White House up and steal everthing they can get their grubby hands on. They will be PO’d at everyone and everything, they will let OUR house go to pot and become thieves. Remember the pics of Barry with his feet on the desk? It’s just another Section 8 dwelling to them.

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There have been reports from Secret Service how she treats them like her slaves. She is running a race to see how much she can spend of taxpayers’ monies before she is run out of the White House.

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The lying fat A** liberal bit*c has no right to demand dignity and or respect both are earned. She is nothing but a racist loud mouth.wanta to be. It will take months to get her stench out of the white house when her racist husband is voted out.

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They will eagerly go to Kenya or some other African or muslime country where those folks will take care of their business with the obamamama clan. Better still, they have a face-to-face scheduled with GOD. Would love to see that, but I have my own to worry about….

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more like Flotus the prize sow from out in the hog lot out back. spoiled and pampered. until the November day she becomes sausage, loins, chops, bacon and hams.

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carry on nothing to see..if 2012 dosn’t help someone from a grassy knoll might..

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Now if we could get moochelle and the moochetes to stop spitting watermelon seeds and thowing chiken bones on the whitehouse lawn then things should start to settle down.

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Aren’t the silver back gorillas endangered?

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108 comments
1 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:29:18am

He only got demoted to desk duty after talking about shooting the first lady? The fuck. I love how they're trying to paint the Obamas as the bad guys here though. Hey assholes, Mrs. Obama isn't the one who threatened someone here, this prick did. I know it sucks being an angry white prick who can't stand it that our country elected a black man president but get the fuck over yourselves.

2 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:29:38am

Always nice to get a reminder on why I left the conservatives.

3 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:32:31am

Sorry to derail the thread so early but move over bacon - here comes the Bain train!:

Now that he’s running for president, Team Romney has repeatedly said he left the company after 1999, a claim that was called into question by yesterday’s Boston Globe report revealing Mr. Romney signed documents identifying him as chief executive and chairman of Bain Capital as late as 2002. Mr. Romney being on a ”leave of absence” would explain the discrepancy and it doesn’t mean he played any role in managing the company, however, according to at least one former Bain Capital executive, during a prior leave of absence, Mr. Romney still remained in a very active role with the company.

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Prior to taking leave to run the Olympics in 1999, Mr. Romney took a leave of absence from Bain Capital during his 1994 Senate campaign. Another Globe article published in 2002 contains a quote from a former Bain Capital executive named Marc B. Wolpow who said Mr. Romney remained in a very active role at Bain Capital while he was supposedly on a leave of absence for his Senate race.

“I reported directly to Mitt Romney . . . You can’t be CEO of Bain Capital and say, `I really don’t know what my guys were doing,’” Mr. Wolpow said of Mr. Romney role at the company during his leave.

4 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:33:35am

Barry‘s gay lovers were executed prior to his installation in 08

Well, I'll admit this is news to me. //

5 Targetpractice  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:34:37am

But all news boards get stupid comments like this! You can't judge a site by such comments!

6 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:35:26am
carry on nothing to see..if 2012 dosn’t help someone from a grassy knoll might..

But don't call them violent racists...

7 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:35:32am

Odummy and Moochelle are your typical renters.

Someone gave the writer of this a mortgage?

8 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:37:06am

Now if we could get moochelle and the moochetes to stop spitting watermelon seeds and thowing chiken bones on the whitehouse lawn then things should start to settle down.

More good Christian love for the children. //

9 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:37:44am

"They will eagerly go to Kenya or some other African or muslime country where those folks will take care of their business with the obamamama clan. Better still, they have a face-to-face scheduled with GOD. Would love to see that, but I have my own to worry about…."
Two things, Kenya is over 80% Christian, second thing, basically saying he wants them dead, classy but I bet he cries like a little kid whenever one of his political heroes is criticized.

10 leftynyc  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:39:07am

How many of the human examples of excrement there consider themselves religious people? I'm betting the vast majority of them. Pres Obama being re-elected is going to send them even further over the edge.

11 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:40:17am

i present you with a few minutes of fun

[Link: en.wikiquote.org...]

12 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:41:36am

re: #11 SpaceJesus

i present you with a few minutes of fun

[Link: en.wikiquote.org...]

What is this "mac and cheese"? Is that a black thing?
Hahaha.
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."

13 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:44:12am

Will anything be able to survive the Mittskrieg?

Mitt Romney To Give Interviews To Major Networks

Mitt Romney, beating back a wave of new reports and political attacks concerning his record at Bain Capital, is making a primetime media blitz Friday. He plans to give interviews to all three major networks, plus two cable networks.

Romney will speak from Laconia, New Hampshire with reporters for CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News and CNN Friday afternoon, with each segment possibly airing as soon as that night’s broadcast, the Romney campaign confirmed to TPM. Romney has typically been cautious in granting interviews, making his first appearance this election cycle on a non-FOX Sunday show just last month.

14 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:44:41am

re: #12 HappyWarrior

that was my favorite. runner up:

"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."

15 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:45:13am

the 700 club broadcasts to over a million conservatives every single day. this is literally what the right believes.

16 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:46:27am

re: #13 Kragar

happy hour on a friday will defeat the mittskrieg

17 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:46:38am

re: #15 SpaceJesus

the 700 club broadcasts to over a million conservatives every single day. this is literally what the right believes.

Fundamentalist Christianity is a cult.

18 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:48:14am

re: #11 SpaceJesus

"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist." -- Pat Robertson, 1991

And today...

Episcopal Church now belongs to Satan

19 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:49:42am

re: #18 Kragar

And today...

Episcopal Church now belongs to Satan

As an Episcopalian, I welcome Yousef's hatred.

20 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:49:46am

re: #16 SpaceJesus

happy hour on a friday will defeat the mittskrieg

"He said 'those people'! DRINK!"

21 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:50:31am

re: #18 Kragar

And today...

Episcopal Church now belongs to Satan

Explains why there's such a pedophila problem in churches that don't treat homosexuality like it's the devil's work. Oh, wait.

22 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:50:41am

Episcopalians are in league with Islam, the devil, and feminist Marxists to destroy Pat Robertson's America.

23 allegro  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:51:29am

re: #22 SpaceJesus

Episcopalians are in league with Islam, the devil, and feminist Marxists to destroy Pat Robertson's America income.

fxt

24 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:51:38am

re: #22 SpaceJesus

Episcopalians are in league with Islam, the devil, and feminist Marxists to destroy Pat Robertson's America.

And the radical secular humanist gay Muslims.

25 Varek Raith  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:52:00am

re: #24 Bulworth

And the radical secular humanist gay atheist Muslims.

26 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:52:07am

Would it shock anyone who doesn't know this that Pat Robertson's Dad was a huge segregationist when he was a Senator..

27 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:53:48am
"If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more."

Of course, years were shorter then...

28 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:53:51am

re: #26 HappyWarrior

Would it shock anyone who doesn't know this that Pat Robertson's Dad was a huge segregationist when he was a Senator..

That's OK. Pat's dad was just trying to protect America from the Communist Socialists. /

29 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:55:22am

re: #28 Bulworth

That's OK. Pat's dad was just trying to protect America from the Communist Socialists. /

Damn commies with their belief in racial equality.

30 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 11:56:42am

re: #1 HappyWarrior

He only got demoted to desk duty after talking about shooting the first lady?

Yeah, that's kind of bizarre.

31 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:01:05pm

new obama ad

Youtube Video
32 makeitstop  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:02:38pm

re: #31 SpaceJesus

new obama ad

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Ooh, slappage!

They'll be whining about this one in 3...2...1...

33 SpaceJesus  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:04:29pm

i have a feeling this is going to stick and the more mitt comes out trying to parse his involvement, the more he is going to look like a flip flopping corporate fat cat

34 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:04:44pm

re: #31 SpaceJesus

new obama ad

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That sound you hear is the Romney campaign crying it's not fair, it's not fair.

35 Minor_L  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:04:45pm

Can you imagine the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth on the right if someone had threatened Laura Bush's life?

36 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:04:45pm

re: #19 Bulworth

As an Episcopalian, I welcome Yousef's hatred.

Amen!

37 The Ghost of a Flea  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:06:21pm

WND: Blacks Lazy, Shiftless, ‘Should Be More Like Jews’

No way in hell am I linking to the original article. The link goes to Wonkette.

I have interviewed some of the most successful Jews in the world, people who emerged from the Holocaust or started out with nothing and who today are on Forbes’ list of billionaires. There is an underlying theme to their success stories: They got out of bed, worked hard and pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Even Mayor Bloomberg recounted to me how in his youth he made money by parking cars and told me the trick to his success was merely getting up earlier and working harder than the next guy. Mark Cuban told me he started out selling garbage bags door to door. The Jews, the most persecuted people in history know one thing from their pan-generational sufferings: God helps those who help themselves.

If Barack Obama really cared for the black community more than he cares for himself he wouldn’t point to the rich to invoke class envy – he’d be pointing to them and say, “OK, let’s learn from their success and then do as they do.” Instead of demanding that the wealthy pay their fair share, he would demand that welfare recipients pull their own weight.

38 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:06:24pm

re: #33 SpaceJesus

i have a feeling this is going to stick and the more mitt comes out trying to parse his involvement, the more he is going to look like a flip flopping corporate fat cat

The fact is, your average voter doesn't care about the legalistic details. If you're the CEO, managing director and sole shareholder, and you're getting paid six figures a year for something, plus millions of dollars in a retirement account, you work for that company.

39 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:06:32pm

re: #35 Minor_L

Can you imagine the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth on the right if someone had threatened Laura Bush's life?

I'm wondering if he would still have a job if he threatened to shoot the police chief, or if that would have only merited a demotion.

40 Jan Smiddy  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:06:36pm

I consider the Blaze to be a peek under the tent at the true opinions of the LDS kommentariat.

Demons of the id.

41 makeitstop  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:07:48pm

re: #33 SpaceJesus

i have a feeling this is going to stick and the more mitt comes out trying to parse his involvement, the more he is going to look like a flip flopping corporate fat cat Killgore Trout

ftfy

42 bratwurst  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:07:52pm

Gary Bauer has it all figured out!

Gay Marriage Stands in the Way of Reducing Crime in Chicago

43 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:08:47pm

re: #35 Minor_L

Welcome, hatchling.

44 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:09:01pm

re: #37 The Ghost of a Flea

WND: Blacks Lazy, Shiftless, ‘Should Be More Like Jews’

No way in hell am I linking to the original article. The link goes to Wonkette.

I am so fucking sick of hearing that wanting the rich to pay a honest share is class envy especially when many of the wealthy use loopholes to avoid paying higher taxes. WND can go fuck themselves for this piece.

45 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:09:05pm

re: #37 The Ghost of a Flea

WND: Blacks Lazy, Shiftless, ‘Should Be More Like Jews’

No way in hell am I linking to the original article. The link goes to Wonkette.

Make some jobs available and we'll see how it goes.

46 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:09:39pm

re: #42 bratwurst

Gary Bauer has it all figured out!

Gay Marriage Stands in the Way of Reducing Crime in Chicago

This is hilarious but now I remember hearing that Rick Perry who is the nation's longest tenured governor blaming gay marriage for the economic troubles.

47 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:10:07pm

re: #37 The Ghost of a Flea

WND: Blacks Lazy, Shiftless, ‘Should Be More Like Jews’

No way in hell am I linking to the original article. The link goes to Wonkette.

Yeah well, if you read YNet and Haaretz and Jewish Daily Forward, they're starting to call a certain group of Jews "lazy, shiftless."

48 bratwurst  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:10:28pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

This is hilarious but now I remember hearing that Rick Perry who is the nation's longest tenured governor blaming gay marriage for the economic troubles.

Gay marriage: is there a social ill that it doesn't cause?

49 researchok  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:11:57pm

re: #42 bratwurst

Gary Bauer has it all figured out!

Gay Marriage Stands in the Way of Reducing Crime in Chicago

Clearly, Mr Bauer is a connoisseur of fine drugs.
/

50 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:13:54pm

re: #48 bratwurst

Gay marriage: is there a social ill that it doesn't cause?

I don't know. I've heard it blamed on anything from pedophila to satanism. Bauer really is showing why the religious right is one of the worst parts about this country. I wish they'd be regarded as a fringe movement of lunatics.

51 Someone Please Beam Me Up!  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:13:59pm

re: #31 SpaceJesus

new obama ad

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And if you google "new Obama ad," the first thing you'll see is "New Romney TV Ad Accuses Obama of Lying."

Media bias? NO WAY!!!!!

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52 allegro  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:15:01pm

re: #42 bratwurst

Gary Bauer has it all figured out!

Gay Marriage Stands in the Way of Reducing Crime in Chicago

If that ain't a plaintiff plea for the continuing privilege of being white, male, and straight. Whaaa! Single women, gays, and Democrats are taking away his Murika.

53 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:15:53pm
Remember the pics of Barry with his feet on the desk? It’s just another Section 8 dwelling to them.

Image: desk2.jpg
Image: desk3.jpg
Lowlifes.

54 Minor_L  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:16:38pm

re: #43 wrenchwench

Thank you! I've been lurking for months, and finally had to comment. :-)

55 Achilles Tang  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:17:17pm

I've been keeping an eye on WND now and then and there is plenty of the same there, often with a heavy paranoid religious bent, and often with implied violence, sometimes explicit. There is some pushback sometimes, but it appears to be mostly from visitors not regulars.

56 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:17:42pm

It is Wildly Inappropriate (as opposed to Mildly Inappropriate, or Suspect) for a police officer to talk about shooting anyone seriously, and anyone other than convicted child molesters half-seriously.

57 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:20:48pm

re: #54 Minor_L

Thank you! I've been lurking for months, and finally had to comment. :-)

And look! You got updings for it!

58 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:21:29pm

re: #53 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

Welcome, hatchling. I missed your first crack last night.

59 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:23:54pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

Thanks. I happened to pop my head in when the traffic was sparse. Sort of like the White House waiting for Friday afternoon to release information it wants the news media to ignore.

60 GunstarGreen  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:24:59pm

Quoting one of the comments from the Blaze thread, emphasis mine:

Obama is like the Pied Piper and the left are the rodents being taken to their own destruction not realizing the danger this man has put the country in. What will happen when God removes his blessings , I shudder to think.

As has been said before in other threads, but bears repeating: These people cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be subjected to any amount of facts or evidence that will change their minds; they will reject everything that does not comport with their world view. As far as they are concerned they are fighting a holy war, and any amount of compromise means that the US loses its status as God's Favorite Country, which means armageddon.

61 palomino  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:25:48pm

Maybe Mitt can put the issue to rest in tonight's interviews with clear explanations. But I kind of doubt it. What's he gonna say? That the "bad" stuff Bain (the company he started and staffed) did all happened after he left in 1999? That sounds risky, throwing your own company under the bus.

Or will he try to defend everything Bain did even after 99 because of his close relationship with the company. That's a tough sell too.

My guess is that he won't really answer the questions. Instead he'll recite a list of talking points and use diversionary tactics, despite the fact he's the one who suddenly agreed to these interviews to deal with the Bain issue.

62 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:26:51pm

re: #60 GunstarGreen

What I can't tell is whether God has already withdrawn His blessings, or hasn't yet but is threatening to. You'd think that if the blessing made any difference, it wouldn't be hard to figure this out.

63 palomino  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:28:52pm

re: #60 GunstarGreen

Quoting one of the comments from the Blaze thread, emphasis mine:

As has been said before in other threads, but bears repeating: These people cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be subjected to any amount of facts or evidence that will change their minds; they will reject everything that does not comport with their world view. As far as they are concerned they are fighting a holy war, and any amount of compromise means that the US loses its status as God's Favorite Country, which means armageddon.

It's as if these people don't realize that Canadians, Australians, many Europeans, etc. live happily in systems that have programs like Obamacare. Their countries, as anyone who's visited Canada or most of Europe knows, have not turned into the tyrannical hellscapes the right likes to depict. In fact, many of these nations rank much higher on overall quality of life indicators than the US.

64 Mocking Jay  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:29:42pm

re: #61 palomino

Maybe Mitt can put the issue to rest in tonight's interviews with clear explanations. But I kind of doubt it. What's he gonna say? That the "bad" stuff Bain (the company he started and staffed) did all happened after he left in 1999? That sounds risky, throwing your own company under the bus.

Or will he try to defend everything Bain did even after 99 because of his close relationship with the company. That's a tough sell too.

My guess is that he won't really answer the questions. Instead he'll recite a list of talking points and use diversionary tactics, despite the fact he's the one who suddenly agreed to these interviews to deal with the Bain issue.

He'll repeat, ad nauseum, that he had nothing to do with the company after '99. I seriously doubt he'll go so far that he actually condemns what they did, though.

65 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:30:33pm

re: #63 palomino

In fact, many of these nations rank much higher on overall quality of life indicators than the US.

IT IS ONLY BY DEALING WITH SATAN THAT OUR GODLESS FOES HAVE APPARENTLY SURPASSED THE NATURAL LIMITS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

66 Mocking Jay  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:31:50pm

Chill out, everybody. Mitt's got this.

Personal favorite: [Link: s3.amazonaws.com...]

67 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:34:37pm

re: #66 It's a cookbook!

Chill out, everybody. Mitt's got this.

Personal favorite: [Link: s3.amazonaws.com...]

I always enjoy going back to Michigan because the mercury in the thermometers is just the right height.

68 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:34:39pm

re: #59 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

Thanks. I happened to pop my head in when the traffic was sparse. Sort of like the White House waiting for Friday afternoon to release information it wants the news media to ignore.

Or the Romney campaign, for that matter.

After an especially bad day in the crossfire over his time at Bain Capital, Mitt Romney has agreed to a slew of rare sit-down interviews with five major news networks on Friday afternoon.

The presumptive GOP nominee will tape separate interviews with Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS on Friday afternoon, an unusual move for a candidate who has shied away from news cameras. The interviews are set to air later tonight, most likely during the early evening newscasts, though the exact timing is unclear.

[...]

69 Achilles Tang  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:34:57pm

re: #60 GunstarGreen

Quoting one of the comments from the Blaze thread, emphasis mine:

As has been said before in other threads, but bears repeating: These people cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be subjected to any amount of facts or evidence that will change their minds; they will reject everything that does not comport with their world view. As far as they are concerned they are fighting a holy war, and any amount of compromise means that the US loses its status as God's Favorite Country, which means armageddon.

Yes, I've seen a lot of that, including strong beliefs that the end times is coming soon, like this lifetime. That latter part can make people do the things that they threaten, on open blogs yet. I hope the FBI DOES spy on some of this stuff.

70 Achilles Tang  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:37:30pm

re: #64 It's a cookbook!

He'll repeat, ad nauseum, that he had nothing to do with the company after '99. I seriously doubt he'll go so far that he actually condemns what they did, though.

I'm wondering how Bain's business is these days. I don't think all this publicity is very good for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a few other corporate names they can operate under, and do.

71 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:37:48pm

FAIR Misleads Sheriffs, Says ‘Border School’ OK’d by Feds

In an invitation E-mailed to an unknown number of sheriffs earlier this month, FAIR wrote that its “border school” had been approved by the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA), a program of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that facilitates cooperation among local, state and federal law enforcement officials. A flier distributed by FAIR bears HIDTA’s official logo, and FAIR notes in the invitation that travel and lodging costs associated with the Sept. 21-22 event in El Paso “may be covered by your agency’s HIDTA funding.”

But a spokesperson for the ONDCP says that no approval has been granted.

“In no way is the ‘border school’ sanctioned, co-hosted, or endorsed by the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program,” Rafael Lemaitre, ONDCP’s associate director for public affairs, told Hatewatch.

“Any use of the program’s logo to imply support for this conference is unacceptable, and the local HIDTA director has asked for this to be corrected as soon as possible,” Lemaitre said. “Additionally, at no time have any HIDTA training funds been requested or been approved for use in association with this conference.”

72 darthstar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:39:27pm

Romney's leave of absence strategy didn't work for him in 1994 when he ran against Kennedy (and lost) for the Senate.

73 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:39:34pm

JPMorgan traders may have hidden derivatives losses

JPMorgan Chase & Co said its traders may have deliberately hidden losses that have since climbed to $5.8 billion for the year, in a development that may result in criminal charges against traders at the bank.

74 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:42:36pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

Or the Romney campaign, for that matter.

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Here's Anderson Cooper discussing Bain on CNN

Youtube Video

(skip to about 2:30 past all the "he said/she said" reporting to the analysis.)
This is a good time for Mitt to make the rounds on MSM networks. The Bain attacks have gone too far, Mitt has a strong case and the MSM is going to be fairly receptive. I think the latest round of Bain attacks is going to work in his favor. He gets to skip all the serious questions, policy stuff and gets to talk a lot about the factual inaccuracies of the attacks.
75 Targetpractice  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:43:21pm

re: #73 Kragar

JPMorgan traders may have hidden derivatives losses

Wait, you mean bankers are lying to us about how badly they screwed up?

Surely you jest!

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76 Mocking Jay  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:43:50pm

re: #72 darthstar

Romney's leave of absence strategy didn't work for him in 1994 when he ran against Kennedy (and lost) for the Senate.

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It's become obvious to me that this man is not willing to make any kind of sacrifice to run for public office. Just look at the Swiss bank accounts. Man's been running for President for over five years and the thought never occurred to him that they might look a little bad until very recently. He just doesn't want it bad enough. Well, bad enough to pay lip service to any interest that might be able to produce some votes for him, but not enough to shave a little money off of his meager savings.

77 Mocking Jay  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:44:35pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Here's Anderson Cooper discussing Bain on CNN

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(skip to about 2:30 past all the "he said/she said" reporting to the analysis.)
This is a good time for Mitt to make the rounds on MSM networks. The Bain attacks have gone too far, Mitt has a strong case and the MSM is going to be fairly receptive. I think the latest round of Bain attacks is going to work in his favor. He gets to skip all the serious questions, policy stuff and gets to talk a lot about the factual inaccuracies of the attacks.

You're delusional.

78 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:46:50pm

re: #70 Achilles Tang

I'm wondering how Bain's business is these days. I don't think all this publicity is very good for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have a few other corporate names they can operate under, and do.

It's hard to say. It might actually be good for them. If they were selling shoes or snuggly toys it might hurt their public image but they are dealing in hard finance. People who want to make money. There is a lot of debate but the one thing Bain does very well is make money, nobody is disputing that. In the CNN clip at #74 the reporter had some dealings with Bain and spoke very highly of them. It was practically a commercial for Bain.

79 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:47:07pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Here's Anderson Cooper discussing Bain on CNN

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(skip to about 2:30 past all the "he said/she said" reporting to the analysis.)
This is a good time for Mitt to make the rounds on MSM networks. The Bain attacks have gone too far, Mitt has a strong case and the MSM is going to be fairly receptive. I think the latest round of Bain attacks is going to work in his favor. He gets to skip all the serious questions, policy stuff and gets to talk a lot about the factual inaccuracies of the attacks.

That's your non-partisan opinion, is it?

80 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:47:37pm

Ten years after Enron and people are still buying the Ken Lay defense.

Amazing.

81 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:47:42pm

re: #78 Killgore Trout

It's hard to say. It might actually be good for them. If they were shoes or snuggly toys it might hurt their public image but they are dealing in hard finance. People who want to make money. There is a lot of debate but the one thing Bain does very well is make money, nobody is disputing that. In the CNN clip at #74 the reporter had some dealings with Bain and spoke very highly of them. It was practically a commercial for Bain.

Vote Romney! He'll make super-rich folks even super-richer!

82 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:48:07pm

Senate GOP kills small-business tax cut bill

83 makeitstop  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:48:36pm

re: #78 Killgore Trout

In the CNN clip at #74 the reporter had some dealings with Bain and spoke very highly of them. It was practically a commercial for Bain.

Your Liberal Media at work.
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84 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:49:20pm

re: #79 iossarian

That's your non-partisan opinion, is it?

Yes. I'll bet the majority of the interviews are going to be about the factual inaccuracies of the Bain attacks.

85 allegro  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:50:36pm

Do we yet know any of those who will be doing the interviewing?

86 Achilles Tang  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:50:45pm

re: #73 Kragar

JPMorgan traders may have hidden derivatives losses

I heard someone interviewed on NPR comment that this is not public money and not investors money, without challenge.

So, who's money was it then? Romney's?

87 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:51:13pm

re: #84 Killgore Trout

Yes. I'll bet the majority of the interviews are going to be about the factual inaccuracies of the Bain attacks.

Factual inaccuracies such as the claim that Romney was the CEO of Bain from 1999 to 2002, and was paid six figures a year for services rendered?

88 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:51:38pm

re: #84 Killgore Trout

Yes. I'll bet the majority of the interviews are going to be about the factual inaccuracies of the Bain attacks.

Because we'll all learn so much if the journalists stick to the script the Romney campaign hands them.

89 Targetpractice  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:53:06pm

re: #88 Kragar

Because we'll all learn so much if the journalists stick to the script the Romney campaign hands them.

"It says here I'm supposed to thank you for coming on, reading your prepared statement, and compliment you on being such an exemplar of manliness. Can I get paid now?"

90 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:53:34pm

Reid: Romney basically paid no taxes for 12 years

91 darthstar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:53:39pm

re: #76 It's a cookbook!

It's become obvious to me that this man is not willing to make any kind of sacrifice to run for public office. Just look at the Swiss bank accounts. Man's been running for President for over five years and the thought never occurred to him that they might look a little bad until very recently. He just doesn't want it bad enough. Well, bad enough to pay lip service to any interest that might be able to produce some votes for him, but not enough to shave a little money off of his meager savings.

He's hedging his bets. Bringing his money back onshore would cost him too much. If he can keep it offshore and win the election, he can get laws passed to forgive any taxes he might face. Sucks to have all that money off-shore and not be able to touch it.

92 Bulworth  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:55:34pm

So Mitt's going to submit to an interview from a non-Faux news outlet? Amazing.

93 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:56:40pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Here's Anderson Cooper discussing Bain on CNN

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(skip to about 2:30 past all the "he said/she said" reporting to the analysis.)
This is a good time for Mitt to make the rounds on MSM networks. The Bain attacks have gone too far, Mitt has a strong case and the MSM is going to be fairly receptive. I think the latest round of Bain attacks is going to work in his favor. He gets to skip all the serious questions, policy stuff and gets to talk a lot about the factual inaccuracies of the attacks.

I watched the whole thing.

Gergen, after practically apologizing for being a big Bain booster, said the more attention this gets, the better it is for the Obama campaign. Then he attacks Obama for playing "rough politics", and says, "is this what we were promised?" What a goofball.

I don't think the facts matter. Romney's going to look bad for having a complicated, extremely rich man's set of problems, whether he's at fault for them or not.

94 palomino  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:57:07pm

re: #92 Bulworth

So Mitt's going to submit to an interview from a non-Faux news outlet? Amazing.

That's how you know the Romney camp thinks this is a big problem.

95 darthstar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:57:16pm

re: #92 Bulworth

So Mitt's going to submit to an interview from a non-Faux news outlet? Amazing.

As soon as they agree to the list of questions his campaign provides, and promise not to go off script or ask follow-ups.

96 darthstar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:57:50pm

re: #94 palomino

That's how you know the Romney camp thinks this is a big problem.

We don't only talk to Fox...look! Mitt just interviewed with Elmo on Sesame Street.

97 iossarian  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:59:08pm

re: #96 darthstar

We don't only talk to Fox...look! Mitt just interviewed with Elmo on Sesame Street.

Elmo: I love flowers. Do you love flowers too, Mr. Romney?

Romney: Well, Elmo, let me tell you something about how black people are freeloaders.

98 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:59:24pm

re: #84 Killgore Trout

Yes. I'll bet the majority of the interviews are going to be about the factual inaccuracies of the Bain attacks.

Which factual inaccuracies would those be?

Marc Wolpow's statement regarding Mitts leave in 1994 was “I reported directly to Mitt Romney . . . You can’t be CEO of Bain Capital and say, `I really don’t know what my guys were doing.’” Romney's statement to the election board in 2002 was that he intended to return to Bain when he left in 1999 and only changed his mind much later.

You really are remounting the Ken Lay defense, that as CEO, Chairman, President and sole stockholder Mitt bore no responsibility for the deals he signed off on or the business conducted by his underlings in his name.

99 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 12:59:42pm
Glenn Beck’s ‘The Blaze’ Readers Spew Hatred and Racism at Michelle Obama

Wouldn't it be closer to the truth if the headline read...

Glenn Beck’s ‘The Blaze’ Readers Defecate Hatred and Racism at Michelle Obama

I'm just asking a question here...?

100 Kragar  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:01:28pm

actor Michael Clarke Duncan hospitalized

Celebrity website TMZ reported that Stallworth discovered early Friday that Duncan had suffered a heart attack and was in cardiac arrest. She revived him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation before he was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ reported.

101 gwangung  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:05:06pm

re: #98 goddamnedfrank

Which factual inaccuracies would those be?

Marc Wolpow's statement regarding Mitts leave in 1994 was “I reported directly to Mitt Romney . . . You can’t be CEO of Bain Capital and say, `I really don’t know what my guys were doing.’” Romney's statement to the election board in 2002 was that he intended to return to Bain when he left in 1999 and only changed his mind much later.

You really are remounting the Ken Lay defense, that as CEO, Chairman, President and sole stockholder Mitt bore no responsibility for the deals he signed off on or the business conducted by his underlings in his name.

You know what would actually take the teeth out of these attacks? Documentation given to the SEC that Romney delegated his authority to a specific person. Because, after all, that's what you're supposed to do in order to comply with the law.

Kilgore's arguing that the laws apply to me and thee, but not to Romney...

102 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:06:20pm

I think Charles hit the nail squarely on the head with this comment.

Everyone who makes a living in the media wants this to be a closer race than it is. They don't want Romney to go down the tubes so early, so they're trying to minimize the damage from this Bain story.

103 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:08:08pm

re: #93 wrenchwench

I don't think the facts matter. Romney's going to look bad for having a complicated, extremely rich man's set of problems, whether he's at fault for them or not.

I still can't get over the $100 million plus I.R.A. thing, sure it has been "explained" as to how he managed to fund it to that level thru loopholes us peons with our $6000 per year contribution limits have no hope of ever being able to access. But still...he has over a freaking $100 million in just his IRA!, WTFF?

104 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:08:32pm

From Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics UC Berkeley:

Come 2002, Mitt Romney decided that he was going to run for Governor of Massachusetts. So come 2002 Romney decides that he had retired from Bain Capital back in 1999. Yes. As Glenn Kessler says: "when Romney decided to run for governor in 2002, he received a retirement package that was dated Feb., 1999".

Now comes Glenn Kessler. What Glenn Kessler should be saying today is:

Back in January, Mitt Romney's people convinced me: (a) that Romney retired from Bain in February 1999, (b) that afterwards he was merely a passive investors, and (c ) that Romney bears no responsibility--credit or blame--for any Bain business decisions after February 1999. They snookered me. The situation is much more complicated. From February 1999 to 2002, Romney was focused on the Salt Lake City Olympics, and his subordinates at Bain Capital in Massachusetts were expecting him to return full-time and so were anxious to make decisions he approved.

Would that be so hard?

But for a Washington Post reporter to admit error is an extremely rare thing. Much better, Glenn Kessler thinks, for him to double down and hope to brazen things out.

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

105 researchok  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:11:44pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

I think it's institutional in the sense the media doesn't want any election called too early.

106 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:11:49pm

re: #103 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You

I still can't get over the $100 million plus I.R.A. thing, sure it has been "explained" as to how he managed to fund it to that level thru loopholes us peons with our $6000 per year contribution limits have no hope of ever being able to access. But still...he has over a freaking $100 million in just his IRA!, WTFF?

You sound like one of those nails ladies or babysitters. You just don't get it.

107 wrenchwench  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:13:02pm

re: #105 researchok

I think it's institutional in the sense the media doesn't want any election called too early.

Exactly. They need eyeballs. Boring race=folks outside watching clouds instead.

108 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:18:14pm

Brad DeLong again:

It would be very unusual for somebody to have the titles of not just "CEO" but "President", "Chairman of the Board" and be "sole stockholder" and to have no responsibilities whatsoever. In fact, I defy Glenn Kessler to come up with any example of anybody anywhere--save for Mitt Romney--who has been characterized to the SEC as "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president" and also claimed to have no responsibilities whatsoever and to have merely been a passive investor.


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