World News: Apr 26, 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Most Expensive Etch-A-Sketch

The Most Expensive Etch-A-Sketch

The infamous ultrasound law for women considering an abortion might be
the best example of how Governor Bob McDonnell has imposed radical,
right-wing policies on the citizens of Virginia -- but it's not the
only one.

Now he's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to rehabilitate his
poll numbers.

Why the sudden concern? Because McDonnell is now one of the
front-runners for Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick. He and Romney
both know their positions are too extreme for the American people. So
they're launching slick, high-priced ad campaigns, and hoping folks
will forget come November.

Not so fast. Democrats will be out there reminding as many voters as
we can what these guys actually stand for.

A critical fundraising deadline is coming up this Monday, April 30th.
With each donation, we can reach more voters, and every vote is going
to count -- so please pitch in $5 or more today.

McDonnell should be best remembered for pushing through one of the
most anti-woman abortion laws in the country -- initially mandating a
radically invasive ultrasound, McDonnell "moderated" the bill by
allowing surface ultrasounds instead (and only after massive public
outrage).

He'd make a great pair with Mitt Romney's well-documented political
gymnastics. Most recently, Romney tried to distance himself from
Arizona's draconian, anti-immigrant law -- which he has embraced and
called a model.

Romney and the Republicans are going to spend over $800 million to
mislead the American people and try to wipe away the past three years
-- the most expensive Etch A Sketch ever. We need to push back hard,
on the ground and on the air.

Can you pitch in $5 today, before our April 30th FEC fundraising
deadline, to help tell voters the truth?

https://my.democrats.org/April-Deadline

Thanks,

Brad

Brad Woodhouse
Communications Director
Democratic National Committee

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Have a great day,
Tommy

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George Zimmerman is part Black

New post on Fellowship of the Minds

George Zimmerman is part Black

by Dr. Eowyn

In their rush to judgment, the media and Black race-baiters (including the President of the United States himself) painted Trayvon-shooter George Zimmerman as an anti-Black racist, never mind that our judicial system is predicated on the innocent-until-proven-guilty principle. Nor did the pack of hounds bother to find out about Zimmerman -- his racial-ethnic background; does he have a racist history; what led him to be a neighborhood watch volunteer.

A reporter for Reuters, Chris Francescani, has finally undertaken the investigative work that journalists are supposed to do. Based on extensive interviews with relatives, friends, neighbors, schoolmates and co-workers of Zimmerman in two states, law enforcement officials, and reviews of court documents and police reports, the Reuters report of April 25, 2012, paints a much more nuanced and truer picture of Zimmerman than as an angry racist vigilante. Among the facts uncovered is this:

George Zimmerman is not just bi-racial -- Latino (Peruvian) and "white" (Jewish), he has Black roots. His maternal great grandfather was an Afro-Peruvian.

Some of Reuters' other findings:

28-year-old Zimmerman comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather - the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him. Zimmerman's maternal grandmother, Cristina, lived with the family during Zimmerman's childhood. For several years she babysat for two black girls who ate their meals at the Zimmerman house and went back and forth to school each day with the Zimmerman children.

At age 18, George Zimmerman got a job at an insurance agency and began to take classes at night to earn a license to sell insurance. In 2004, Zimmerman partnered with a black friend and opened up an Allstate insurance satellite office.

In June 2011, a wave of break-in robberies rattled the gated community where Zimmerman lived -- Retreat at Twin Lakes, in Sanford, Florida. The homeowners association asked Zimmerman to launch a neighborhood watch. Zimmerman began to carry a Kel-Tec gun (for which he had received training) on his regular, dog-walking patrol of the neighborhood.

The series of break-ins in his neighborhood was committed by young Black men. A black female neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account: "Let's talk about the elephant in the room. I'm black, OK? There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood. That's why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin." The woman declined to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race.

At least eight burglaries were reported within Twin Lakes in the 14 months prior to the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to the Sanford Police Department. Yet in a series of interviews, Twin Lakes residents said dozens of reports of attempted break-ins and would-be burglars casing homes had created an atmosphere of growing fear in the neighborhood. In several of the incidents, witnesses identified the suspects to police as young black men. Twin Lakes is about 50% white, with an African-American and Hispanic population of about 20% each, roughly similar to the surrounding city of Sanford, according to U.S. Census data.

One morning in July 2011, a black teenager walked up to Zimmerman's front porch and stole a bicycle, neighbors told Reuters. A police report was taken, though the bicycle was not recovered.

But it was the August incursion into the home of Olivia Bertalan that really troubled the neighborhood, particularly Zimmerman. Shellie was home most days, taking online courses towards certification as a registered nurse. On August 3, Bertalan was at home with her infant son while her husband, Michael, was at work. She watched from a downstairs window, she said, as two black men repeatedly rang her doorbell and then entered through a sliding door at the back of the house. She ran upstairs, locked herself inside the boy's bedroom, armed herself with a pair of rusty scissors, and frantically called a police dispatcher. Police arrived just as the burglars - who had been trying to disconnect the couple's television - fled out a back door. After police left Bertalan, George Zimmerman arrived at the front door in a shirt and tie, she said. He gave her his contact numbers on an index card and invited her to visit his wife if she ever felt unsafe. He returned later and gave her a stronger lock to bolster the sliding door that had been forced open. "He was so mellow and calm, very helpful and very, very sweet," she said. "People were freaked out. It wasn't just George calling police ... we were calling police at least once a week." The Bertalans decided to move out, and left two days before the Trayvon Martin shooting.

Less than two weeks later, another Twin Lakes home was burglarized, police reports show. Two weeks after that, a home under construction was vandalized.

In September, a group of neighbors including Zimmerman approached the homeowners association with their concerns. Zimmerman was asked to head up (as "captain") a new neighborhood watch. He agreed.

On February 2, 2012, Zimmerman placed a call to Sanford police after spotting a young black man he recognized peering into the windows of a neighbor's empty home, according to several friends and neighbors. "I don't know what he's doing. I don't want to approach him, personally," Zimmerman said in the call, which was recorded. The dispatcher advised him that a patrol car was on the way. By the time police arrived, according to the dispatch report, the suspect had fled. The "young black man" turned out to be Emmanuel Burgess (see below).

On February 6, the home of another Twin Lakes resident, Tatiana Demeacis, was burglarized. Two roofers working directly across the street said they saw two black men lingering in the yard at the time of the break-in. A new laptop and some gold jewelry were stolen. One of the roofers called police the next day after spotting one of the suspects among a group of male teenagers, three black and one white, on bicycles. Police found Demeacis's laptop in the backpack of 18-year-old Emmanuel Burgess, police reports show, and charged him with dealing in stolen property. Burgess was the same man Zimmerman had spotted on February 2. Burgess had committed a series of burglaries on the other side of town in 2008 and 2009, pleaded guilty to several, and spent all of 2010 incarcerated in a juvenile facility, his attorney said. He is now in jail on parole violations.

About two weeks after Burgess was arrested, Zimmerman noticed another young man in the neighborhood, acting in a way he found familiar, so he made another call to police. "We've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a real suspicious guy," Zimmerman said. The young man was Trayvon Martin. This time, Zimmerman was not so patient, and he disregarded police advice against pursuing Martin. Referring to the incident in February when the police had arrived late so that Emmanuel Burgess got away, Zimmerman muttered in an aside: "These assholes, they always get away." Moments later, Martin lay dead with a bullet in his chest.

Read the full Reuters article for yourself, HERE.

~Eowyn

Dr. Eowyn | April 26, 2012 at 10:01 am | Tags: black burglars, black robbers, residential burglaries, Retreat at Twin Lakes, Reuters, Trayvon Martin | Categories: crime, Culture War, Liberals/Democrats, Media, persecution, Race, United States, US Presidents | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-dU6

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An Echo, Not a Choice

An Echo, Not a Choice
by Sheldon Richman, April 26, 2012

With Mitt Romney's sweep of Tuesday's primaries, he will almost certainly be President Barack Obama's Republican opponent in November. Romney has vowed to make the economy the chief issue against Obama, and he is sure to portray the president as an enemy of free enterprise in order to draw a contrast with himself. How fit is Romney's claim to be a champion of economic freedom?

The former Massachusetts governor and private-equity capitalist speaks often about free enterprise and the need for government to let entrepreneurship pull the economy out of its current doldrums. This sort of rhetoric is common for Republicans, who then proceed to violate economic freedom.

President George W. Bush, in a weird Orwellian manner, took this contradiction to its final stage of absurdity when he said during the 2008 financial debacle, "I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." For Bush, the free-market system apparently is not constituted by free-market principles. But if that's the case, what is the system constituted by?

Republicans may not typically speak so bluntly, but to most of them "the free-market system" isn't a set of principles; rather it is an emotional slogan to be spoken, especially as an election approaches. It's a way of saying, "Vote for us because the other guys aren't good Americans like we are."

Romney likes to say, "We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy." But that must mean we now have -- and have had -- a free-market economy. Does he really mean that? If so, does he agree with Bush that free-market principles were "abandoned" with the bank bailouts like TARP (which Romney favored) and the GM and Chrysler rescues?

Another implication of his position is that the free market was responsible for the housing and financial debacle. We're not likely to hear Romney say this -- it would concede too much to Obama -- but it's logically implied by Romney's remarks.

This position diverges from what free-market advocates think happened. The essential story is this: Low-interest-rate money from the Federal Reserve, aggressive government policies to increase homeownership -- even among people with bad credit histories or low incomes (or both) -- and additional government intervention combined to create an unsustainable bubble in the housing industry, which in turn helped increase the fragility of the financial sector. Dubious mortgages became the foundation of widely held securities and derivatives, facilitated by government-sponsored enterprises -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- and a government-licensed rating cartel. Then the bubble burst.

Does Romney give even a hint that he understands this? If so, he wouldn't be talking as though the free market currently exists and as though we still have it to lose.

Beyond that, Romney expresses his orientation toward political economy when he says, "Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business." A free-market advocate would know this doesn't exhaust the alternatives. Government should be neither an ally nor an opponent of business, because both imply interference with private property and free exchange.

This may be harder to see in the case of a business-government alliance. One need only remember that we live in a world of scarcity. If government helps one industry or firm, it must do so by channeling scarce resources away from other uses. This disables the process by which entrepreneurs attempt to devote resources to purposes most favored by consumers. It's a form of government privilege, which many businessmen are all too happy to receive -- at the expense of others. There is a world of difference between being pro-market and being pro-business -- a distinction that apparently escapes Romney.

Of course, Obama could honestly say he agrees with Romney's statement about business and government. He too believes government should be business's ally. Just ask Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric, who chairs his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and Jim McNerney of Boeing (and formerly of GE), who chairs the President's Export Council. Romney and Obama's differences over the precise mix of government and business decision-making power should not fool anyone into thinking they have a fundamental disagreement.

Once again, the presidential election will present an echo, not a choice.

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Re: 23 facts you probably did not know...

Hey PlainOl'!

Are you in Tennessee? I guess I knew that, but had somehow misplaced that information. I guess you can't be all that bad, just confused from time to time and on occasion! <Grin>!

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:

in my backyard

At 256 feet, Fall Creek Falls is said to feature the highest vertical
drop of any waterfall east of the Mississippi. (The highest vertical
drop in the west is Yosemite Creek Waterfall in California at 2,425
feet; Niagara Falls in New York state has vertical drop of but 180
feet.)

http://tn.gov/environment/parks/FallCreekFalls/gallery/nature/index.shtml

On Apr 26, 10:39 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *You're** **gonna say "I didn't know that!" at
> least 5 times.** **Really neat stuff here**. *
>
> *
> **More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .
> *
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Amazon*
>
> *
> **The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
> of the world's oxygen supply.*
>
> *The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more

> than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh
> water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater
> than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times

> the flow of all rivers in the United States . *
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Antarctica*
>
> *
> **Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any

> country..
> Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .
> This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the
> world.
> As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
> the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.
> Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.),
> Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,

> with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Brazil*
>
> *
> **Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.*
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Canada*
>
> *
> **Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an
> Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Chicago*
>
> *
> **Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population
> in the world.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Detroit*
>
> *
> **Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
> so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Damascus , Syria*
>
> *
> **Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years

> before Rome was founded in 753 BC,

> making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.*
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Istanbul , Turkey*
>
> *
> **Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world
> located on two continents.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Los Angeles*
>
> *
> **Los Angeles ' full name is:

> El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula

> -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **New York City*
>
> *
> **The term 'The Big Apple' was coined

> by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s
> who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.
> Therefore, to play New York City
> is to play the big time - The Big Apple.
>
> There are more Irish in New York City
> than in Dublin , Ireland ;
> more Italians in New York City
> than in Rome , Italy ;
> and more Jews in New York City

> than in Tel Aviv , Israel .*
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Ohio*
>
> *
> **There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , every one is manmade.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Pitcairn Island*
>
> *
> **The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn
> in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Rome*
>
> *
> **The first city to reach a population of 1 million people

> was Rome , Italy in 133 B.C.

> There is a city called Rome on every continent.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Siberia*
>
> *
> **Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **S.M.O.M.*
>
> *
> **The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world

> is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M).
> It is located in the city of Rome , Italy ,
> has an area of two tennis courts
> and, as of 2001, has a population of 80
> -- 20 less people than the Vatican ..
> It is a sovereign entity under international law,

> just as the Vatican is.*
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *
>
> **
> **Sahara Desert*
>
> *
> **In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria ,

> which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
> Technically though, the driest place on Earth
> is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island .

> There has been no rainfall there for two million years.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **Spain*
>
> *
> **Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **St. Paul , Minnesota*
>
> *
> **St. Paul , Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye

> after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant

> who set up the first business there.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Roads*
>
> *
> **Chances that a road is unpaved:

> in the U.S.A.. = 1%;

> in Canada = ...75%*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Russia*
>
> *
> **The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the

> Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia .
> It reached a depth of 12,261 meters
> (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles).
> It was drilled for scientific research
> and gave up some unexpected discoveries,
> one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen
> - so massive that the mud coming from the hole

> was boiling with it.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **United States*
>
> *
> **The Eisenhower interstate system requires

> that one mile in every five must be straight.
> These straight sections are usable as airstrips

> in times of war or other emergencies.*
> ------------------------------
>
> *
> **
> **Waterfalls*
>
> *
> **The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela

> drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).

> They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .*
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Re: Gail Collins: The End of Newt

Despite the hatred from the likes of Lole Kiethie, and the fact that
Kiethie loves to join in Wingnut singalongs, this is a victory.
Kieth falsely proclaimed that Gingrich would be the next president.
Kieth will kind of sort of support Romney, only because he now has no
other choice, but Romney
is no future president...... OBAMA 2012!

On Apr 26, 12:57 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Despite the hatred from the likes of Gail Collins, and the fact that
> PlainOl loves to join in Moonbat singalongs, this is a shame. Newt
> Gingrich was the ONLY candidate that could have pulled the United States
> out of this communistic funk. No doubt, I will support Romney, but Romney
> is no Newt......
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > The End of Newt
> > ---
>
> >http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sites/lawrencehallofscience.org/...
>
> > On Apr 26, 12:06 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The End of Newt
> > > By GAIL COLLINS
>
> > > Well, the results of the latest wave of primaries are in. The people
> > > have spoken, decisively. All 10 of them.
>
> > > Earl Wilson/The New York Times
> > > Gail Collins
>
> > > Go to Columnist Page »The Conversation
> > > David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns.
>
> > > I am exaggerating. In Rhode Island, well over 3 percent of the
> > > eligible voters flocked to the polls on Tuesday, as the overwhelming
> > > majority declared their enthusiasm for Mitt Romney as the Republican
> > > presidential nominee. We are totally talking mandate.
>
> > > And I cannot tell you how much excitement there was in New York. Six
> > > percent turnout! In my neighborhood, the atmosphere was electric.
> > > Voters had not been so politically exercised since that year we had a
> > > primary pitting a recently deceased congressman and a member of a
> > > cultlike group led by a Marxist psychotherapist.
>
> > > And, wow, no more Newt Gingrich.
>
> > > Newt is reportedly planning to drop out of the presidential race on
> > > Tuesday. The crushing blow was the Delaware primary, where the
> > > Gingrich campaign had hoped to win a dramatic come-from-behind victory
> > > under the theory that only a couple of Republicans would actually vote
> > > and that they would be the same people who once nominated Christine
> > > O'Donnell for the Senate.
>
> > > Unfortunately, a whopping 16 percent of the eligible electorate showed
> > > up, way too big a crowd for the fragile Gingrich candidacy to
> > > withstand. This has been a terrible month for Newt. His campaign is
> > > millions in debt. His pet billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, seems to have
> > > deserted him. He was bitten by a penguin at the St. Louis Zoo. And now
> > > this.
>
> > > Did you ever notice how many of the Republican candidates seemed to
> > > have animal issues? Rick Perry shot that coyote, and Jon Huntsman got
> > > bitten by a goat — really, that was the high point of the Huntsman
> > > campaign. Also, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, the veep front-runner,
> > > recently imitated a chicken on television. You will be hearing more
> > > about this incident because I think I speak for the entire national
> > > media when I say that we are planning to discuss possible Republican
> > > vice presidential candidates nonstop through the spring and summer.
>
> > > And the winner is the guy who drove to Canada with the family dog
> > > strapped to the roof of the car!
>
> > > "My guess is you'll see a dramatic difference in the youth vote this
> > > time — part of it is you have a younger, more dynamic Republican
> > > candidate," said a Romney surrogate, former Senator Hank Brown.
>
> > > Take that, young Americans. You can't find jobs because the baby
> > > boomers are never going to retire. The Republicans in Congress want to
> > > raise the price of student loans. And, in politics, 65-year-olds get
> > > to be the youth candidate.
>
> > > We are now in for six months of Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, and
> > > with the polls showing the race to be very close, you could argue that
> > > it is going to be really exciting. Except for the fact that it's Mitt
> > > Romney versus Barack Obama.
>
> > > Ignore the polls, I beg you. It will just make you nervous and crazy
> > > for no good reason. When it comes to their political preferences, the
> > > American people are like a bunch of middle school students picking
> > > their best friend on Facebook. Do you know who one of the most popular
> > > political figures in the United States is right now? Hillary Clinton!
> > > Nearly two-thirds of Americans are crazy about Hillary Clinton, and
> > > only 27 percent view her unfavorably. Do you remember when she was the
> > > most polarizing name in politics? Do you remember when she lost to
> > > Barack Obama and we all said it was like the cool popular guy versus
> > > the hard-working student council treasurer? Barack Obama would kill
> > > for Hillary Clinton's favorability ratings now.
>
> > > Romney is now busy with a passel of closed-door fund-raisers in states
> > > like New Jersey and New York, which he will never, ever, visit for any
> > > other reason than closed-door fund-raisers. Newt's future plans are
> > > unknown. Perhaps he will go back to that great job he had before,
> > > getting $300,000 fees for his advice as a historian to corporations
> > > with big financial interests pending in Congress. And what about Rick
> > > Santorum? You can't spend the rest of your life not endorsing Mitt
> > > Romney. The only guy who seems to have his future plotted out is Ron
> > > Paul, who is apparently planning to continue running for president
> > > while we all ignore him.
>
> > > So many surprises to look forward to. What humanizing interchange will
> > > Mitt have with the public next? Will it be as good as the last one,
> > > when he insulted the cookies at a Pittsburgh community center? Will he
> > > win over the loser Republicans' billionaires? Their celebrity
> > > supporters? Rich guys are one thing, but Gary Busey will take some
> > > wooing.
>
> > > Will he ever release all his tax returns? Will he keep the Kid Rock
> > > theme song for his campaign? Have we ever had a presidential nominee
> > > who walks on stage to a song that seems to suggest he is "wild, like
> > > an untamed stallion?" When we did, would you have imagined it would be
> > > Mitt Romney?
>
> > > More:
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/opinion/collins-the-end-of-newt.htm...
>
> > > --
> > > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > > Have a great day,
> > > Tommy
>
> > > --
> > > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > > Have a great day,
> > > Tommy
>
> > --
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Re: Gail Collins: The End of Newt

Hey Michael,

I am quite familiar with Keynesian economic theory and policy. I have yet to hear any Republican advocate for Keynesian economic theory, just the opposite. This is a big, big, really big distinction between conservatives and "Progressives".

See Paul Krugman, President Obama, as compared to Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul.

Please, no "cut and paste" definitions; could you please explain, in your own words, what the definition of Fascism is?

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:03 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

ROTFLMAO!
If Newt's FASCIST track record is any indication (which is all we actually have), then Newt would have been no different from Obama ... Bush ... Mr. Bill ....

We need someone who is going to GUT .... just as Harding did in 1920 ... NOT more of this failed, Keynesian nonsense we have endured since at least Roosevelt.

Regard$,
--MJ

"Gingrich backed Rockefeller over Goldwater in 1964, backed Ford over Reagan in 1976, voted to create the Department of Education in 1979, wrote a book advocating a gigantic expansion of NASA, backed cap and trade, backed the individual mandate, long trumpeted FDR as the greatest president of the 20th century, and in general has always been a lefty. -- Kevin Gutzman

At 01:57 PM 4/26/2012, you wrote:

Despite the hatred from the likes of Gail Collins, and the fact that PlainOl loves to join in Moonbat singalongs, this is a shame. Newt Gingrich was the ONLY candidate that could have pulled the United States out of this communistic funk. No doubt, I will support Romney, but Romney is no Newt......

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM, plainolamerican < plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:

The End of Newt

---

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sites/lawrencehallofscience.org/files/stories/newt_5.jpg

On Apr 26, 12:06 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The End of Newt

> By GAIL COLLINS

>

> Well, the results of the latest wave of primaries are in. The people

> have spoken, decisively. All 10 of them.

>

> Earl Wilson/The New York Times

> Gail Collins

>

> Go to Columnist Page »The Conversation

> David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns.

>

> I am exaggerating. In Rhode Island, well over 3 percent of the

> eligible voters flocked to the polls on Tuesday, as the overwhelming

> majority declared their enthusiasm for Mitt Romney as the Republican

> presidential nominee. We are totally talking mandate.

>

> And I cannot tell you how much excitement there was in New York. Six

> percent turnout! In my neighborhood, the atmosphere was electric.

> Voters had not been so politically exercised since that year we had a

> primary pitting a recently deceased congressman and a member of a

> cultlike group led by a Marxist psychotherapist.

>

> And, wow, no more Newt Gingrich.

>

> Newt is reportedly planning to drop out of the presidential race on

> Tuesday. The crushing blow was the Delaware primary, where the

> Gingrich campaign had hoped to win a dramatic come-from-behind victory

> under the theory that only a couple of Republicans would actually vote

> and that they would be the same people who once nominated Christine

> O'Donnell for the Senate.

>

> Unfortunately, a whopping 16 percent of the eligible electorate showed

> up, way too big a crowd for the fragile Gingrich candidacy to

> withstand. This has been a terrible month for Newt. His campaign is

> millions in debt. His pet billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, seems to have

> deserted him. He was bitten by a penguin at the St. Louis Zoo. And now

> this.

>

> Did you ever notice how many of the Republican candidates seemed to

> have animal issues? Rick Perry shot that coyote, and Jon Huntsman got

> bitten by a goat — really, that was the high point of the Huntsman

> campaign. Also, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, the veep front-runner,

> recently imitated a chicken on television. You will be hearing more

> about this incident because I think I speak for the entire national

> media when I say that we are planning to discuss possible Republican

> vice presidential candidates nonstop through the spring and summer.

>

> And the winner is the guy who drove to Canada with the family dog

> strapped to the roof of the car!

>

> "My guess is you'll see a dramatic difference in the youth vote this

> time — part of it is you have a younger, more dynamic Republican

> candidate," said a Romney surrogate, former Senator Hank Brown.

>

> Take that, young Americans. You can't find jobs because the baby

> boomers are never going to retire. The Republicans in Congress want to

> raise the price of student loans. And, in politics, 65-year-olds get

> to be the youth candidate.

>

> We are now in for six months of Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, and

> with the polls showing the race to be very close, you could argue that

> it is going to be really exciting. Except for the fact that it's Mitt

> Romney versus Barack Obama.

>

> Ignore the polls, I beg you. It will just make you nervous and crazy

> for no good reason. When it comes to their political preferences, the

> American people are like a bunch of middle school students picking

> their best friend on Facebook. Do you know who one of the most popular

> political figures in the United States is right now? Hillary Clinton!

> Nearly two-thirds of Americans are crazy about Hillary Clinton, and

> only 27 percent view her unfavorably. Do you remember when she was the

> most polarizing name in politics? Do you remember when she lost to

> Barack Obama and we all said it was like the cool popular guy versus

> the hard-working student council treasurer? Barack Obama would kill

> for Hillary Clinton's favorability ratings now.

>

> Romney is now busy with a passel of closed-door fund-raisers in states

> like New Jersey and New York, which he will never, ever, visit for any

> other reason than closed-door fund-raisers. Newt's future plans are

> unknown. Perhaps he will go back to that great job he had before,

> getting $300,000 fees for his advice as a historian to corporations

> with big financial interests pending in Congress. And what about Rick

> Santorum? You can't spend the rest of your life not endorsing Mitt

> Romney. The only guy who seems to have his future plotted out is Ron

> Paul, who is apparently planning to continue running for president

> while we all ignore him.

>

> So many surprises to look forward to. What humanizing interchange will

> Mitt have with the public next? Will it be as good as the last one,

> when he insulted the cookies at a Pittsburgh community center? Will he

> win over the loser Republicans' billionaires? Their celebrity

> supporters? Rich guys are one thing, but Gary Busey will take some

> wooing.

>

> Will he ever release all his tax returns? Will he keep the Kid Rock

> theme song for his campaign? Have we ever had a presidential nominee

> who walks on stage to a song that seems to suggest he is "wild, like

> an untamed stallion?" When we did, would you have imagined it would be

> Mitt Romney?

>

> More: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/opinion/collins-the-end-of-newt.htm. ..

>

> --

> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.

> Have a great day,

> Tommy

>

> --

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> Have a great day,

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Re: Gail Collins: The End of Newt

Despite the hatred from the likes of Gail Collins, and the fact that PlainOl loves to join in Moonbat singalongs, this is a shame. Newt Gingrich was the ONLY candidate that could have pulled the United States out of this communistic funk. No doubt, I will support Romney, but Romney is no Newt......

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:

The End of Newt
---
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sites/lawrencehallofscience.org/files/stories/newt_5.jpg

On Apr 26, 12:06 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The End of Newt
> By GAIL COLLINS
>
> Well, the results of the latest wave of primaries are in. The people
> have spoken, decisively. All 10 of them.
>
> Earl Wilson/The New York Times
> Gail Collins
>
> Go to Columnist Page »The Conversation
> David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns.
>
> I am exaggerating. In Rhode Island, well over 3 percent of the
> eligible voters flocked to the polls on Tuesday, as the overwhelming
> majority declared their enthusiasm for Mitt Romney as the Republican
> presidential nominee. We are totally talking mandate.
>
> And I cannot tell you how much excitement there was in New York. Six
> percent turnout! In my neighborhood, the atmosphere was electric.
> Voters had not been so politically exercised since that year we had a
> primary pitting a recently deceased congressman and a member of a
> cultlike group led by a Marxist psychotherapist.
>
> And, wow, no more Newt Gingrich.
>
> Newt is reportedly planning to drop out of the presidential race on
> Tuesday. The crushing blow was the Delaware primary, where the
> Gingrich campaign had hoped to win a dramatic come-from-behind victory
> under the theory that only a couple of Republicans would actually vote
> and that they would be the same people who once nominated Christine
> O'Donnell for the Senate.
>
> Unfortunately, a whopping 16 percent of the eligible electorate showed
> up, way too big a crowd for the fragile Gingrich candidacy to
> withstand. This has been a terrible month for Newt. His campaign is
> millions in debt. His pet billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, seems to have
> deserted him. He was bitten by a penguin at the St. Louis Zoo. And now
> this.
>
> Did you ever notice how many of the Republican candidates seemed to
> have animal issues? Rick Perry shot that coyote, and Jon Huntsman got
> bitten by a goat — really, that was the high point of the Huntsman
> campaign. Also, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, the veep front-runner,
> recently imitated a chicken on television. You will be hearing more
> about this incident because I think I speak for the entire national
> media when I say that we are planning to discuss possible Republican
> vice presidential candidates nonstop through the spring and summer.
>
> And the winner is the guy who drove to Canada with the family dog
> strapped to the roof of the car!
>
> "My guess is you'll see a dramatic difference in the youth vote this
> time — part of it is you have a younger, more dynamic Republican
> candidate," said a Romney surrogate, former Senator Hank Brown.
>
> Take that, young Americans. You can't find jobs because the baby
> boomers are never going to retire. The Republicans in Congress want to
> raise the price of student loans. And, in politics, 65-year-olds get
> to be the youth candidate.
>
> We are now in for six months of Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, and
> with the polls showing the race to be very close, you could argue that
> it is going to be really exciting. Except for the fact that it's Mitt
> Romney versus Barack Obama.
>
> Ignore the polls, I beg you. It will just make you nervous and crazy
> for no good reason. When it comes to their political preferences, the
> American people are like a bunch of middle school students picking
> their best friend on Facebook. Do you know who one of the most popular
> political figures in the United States is right now? Hillary Clinton!
> Nearly two-thirds of Americans are crazy about Hillary Clinton, and
> only 27 percent view her unfavorably. Do you remember when she was the
> most polarizing name in politics? Do you remember when she lost to
> Barack Obama and we all said it was like the cool popular guy versus
> the hard-working student council treasurer? Barack Obama would kill
> for Hillary Clinton's favorability ratings now.
>
> Romney is now busy with a passel of closed-door fund-raisers in states
> like New Jersey and New York, which he will never, ever, visit for any
> other reason than closed-door fund-raisers. Newt's future plans are
> unknown. Perhaps he will go back to that great job he had before,
> getting $300,000 fees for his advice as a historian to corporations
> with big financial interests pending in Congress. And what about Rick
> Santorum? You can't spend the rest of your life not endorsing Mitt
> Romney. The only guy who seems to have his future plotted out is Ron
> Paul, who is apparently planning to continue running for president
> while we all ignore him.
>
> So many surprises to look forward to. What humanizing interchange will
> Mitt have with the public next? Will it be as good as the last one,
> when he insulted the cookies at a Pittsburgh community center? Will he
> win over the loser Republicans' billionaires? Their celebrity
> supporters? Rich guys are one thing, but Gary Busey will take some
> wooing.
>
> Will he ever release all his tax returns? Will he keep the Kid Rock
> theme song for his campaign? Have we ever had a presidential nominee
> who walks on stage to a song that seems to suggest he is "wild, like
> an untamed stallion?" When we did, would you have imagined it would be
> Mitt Romney?
>

> More:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/opinion/collins-the-end-of-newt.htm...

>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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Re: Fox News Lies

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Fox News Lies

If you've come here looking for examples that Fox News Lies, you're in
the right
place. This web site reveals the unvarnished truth that fox news
frequently lies.

Go Here:

www.foxnewslies.net

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Re: Fox News Lies

You really should seek some help for that vile hatred and nasty spew that you generate each and every day Lil' TommyTomTom! It's unbecoming!

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Keith In Tampa <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:

Geesh Lil' Tommy! That is the best that you and the hate site, FoxNewsLies.com could come up with? That Steve Doocy lied about President Obama making the "silver spoon" comment? Well, President Obama did make the comment, and FOX News clarified the quote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/fox-corrects-record-on-obama-silver-spoon-quote/2012/04/24/gIQABqCQeT_blog.html

Fox News's Steve Doocy has set the record straight on his mangling of President Obama's "silver spoon" quote of last week. Whereas President Obama, in an appearance in Ohio, said this: "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth," Doocy phrased it differently in an interview last Thursday with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: "Unlike some people, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth."

Wrong: Doocy's prefatory handiwork makes the remark appear as an unequivocal — not to mention petty — attack on Romney.
This morning Doocy had this to say about the episode (with footnotes added to facilitate commentary):

Last week President Obama talked about not being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. That was interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney (1). When I was interviewing Gov. Romney on this show, I asked him about it. However, I did some some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote (2) the president. So to be clear, the president's exact quote was, "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth." (3) And I hope that clears up any confusion.

(1) Technically correct: It was interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney, especially by the people at Fox News. Others, citing Obama's extensive use of the silver spoon remark long before Romney 2012, didn't share that interpretation.

(2) There was no "seeming" involved here. The tape shows conclusively that Doocy misquoted the president. Had he not misquoted the president, surely he wouldn't have taken time out of his day to issue this crow-eating correction.

(3) Good that Doocy detailed the president's quote. Yet without repeating the preface that he attached to it, the quote doesn't do much for viewers; it may cause as much confusion as it resolves.
And it's too bad Doocy didn't address the telltale smirk that accompanied his question to Romney.

Those are quibbles, however. Fox News did the right thing here. Though it could have been better articulated and more complete, Doocy's correction was delivered directly to viewers, in the same medium where the mistake originally occurred. Wish we could say the same thing about NBC.

By Erik Wemple | 10:47 AM ET, 04/24/2012

=========================

It just shows, that far left hate sites like "FoxNewsLies.com", along with most of where you get your news, are really and truly the liars.

You should be ashamed Lil' Tommy!

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Wrong.

There are piles of lies from each of them.

Faux Noise Lies!

Dig deep:

www.foxnewslies.net

On Apr 25, 2:57 pm, Irie <irie.more.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> LOL....not one "lie" from Beckle, Williams, Kohn, or Powers.....hmmmmm
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:21:01 PM UTC-5, Tommy News wrote:
>
> > Fox News Lies
>
> > If you've come here looking for examples that Fox News Lies, you're in
> > the right
> > place. This web site reveals the unvarnished truth that fox news
> > frequently lies.
>
> > Go Here:
>
> >www.foxnewslies.net
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,

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Re: Gail Collins: The End of Newt

The End of Newt
---
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sites/lawrencehallofscience.org/files/stories/newt_5.jpg

On Apr 26, 12:06 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The End of Newt
> By GAIL COLLINS
>
> Well, the results of the latest wave of primaries are in. The people
> have spoken, decisively. All 10 of them.
>
> Earl Wilson/The New York Times
> Gail Collins
>
> Go to Columnist Page »The Conversation
> David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns.
>
> I am exaggerating. In Rhode Island, well over 3 percent of the
> eligible voters flocked to the polls on Tuesday, as the overwhelming
> majority declared their enthusiasm for Mitt Romney as the Republican
> presidential nominee. We are totally talking mandate.
>
> And I cannot tell you how much excitement there was in New York. Six
> percent turnout! In my neighborhood, the atmosphere was electric.
> Voters had not been so politically exercised since that year we had a
> primary pitting a recently deceased congressman and a member of a
> cultlike group led by a Marxist psychotherapist.
>
> And, wow, no more Newt Gingrich.
>
> Newt is reportedly planning to drop out of the presidential race on
> Tuesday. The crushing blow was the Delaware primary, where the
> Gingrich campaign had hoped to win a dramatic come-from-behind victory
> under the theory that only a couple of Republicans would actually vote
> and that they would be the same people who once nominated Christine
> O'Donnell for the Senate.
>
> Unfortunately, a whopping 16 percent of the eligible electorate showed
> up, way too big a crowd for the fragile Gingrich candidacy to
> withstand. This has been a terrible month for Newt. His campaign is
> millions in debt. His pet billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, seems to have
> deserted him. He was bitten by a penguin at the St. Louis Zoo. And now
> this.
>
> Did you ever notice how many of the Republican candidates seemed to
> have animal issues? Rick Perry shot that coyote, and Jon Huntsman got
> bitten by a goat — really, that was the high point of the Huntsman
> campaign. Also, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, the veep front-runner,
> recently imitated a chicken on television. You will be hearing more
> about this incident because I think I speak for the entire national
> media when I say that we are planning to discuss possible Republican
> vice presidential candidates nonstop through the spring and summer.
>
> And the winner is the guy who drove to Canada with the family dog
> strapped to the roof of the car!
>
> "My guess is you'll see a dramatic difference in the youth vote this
> time — part of it is you have a younger, more dynamic Republican
> candidate," said a Romney surrogate, former Senator Hank Brown.
>
> Take that, young Americans. You can't find jobs because the baby
> boomers are never going to retire. The Republicans in Congress want to
> raise the price of student loans. And, in politics, 65-year-olds get
> to be the youth candidate.
>
> We are now in for six months of Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, and
> with the polls showing the race to be very close, you could argue that
> it is going to be really exciting. Except for the fact that it's Mitt
> Romney versus Barack Obama.
>
> Ignore the polls, I beg you. It will just make you nervous and crazy
> for no good reason. When it comes to their political preferences, the
> American people are like a bunch of middle school students picking
> their best friend on Facebook. Do you know who one of the most popular
> political figures in the United States is right now? Hillary Clinton!
> Nearly two-thirds of Americans are crazy about Hillary Clinton, and
> only 27 percent view her unfavorably. Do you remember when she was the
> most polarizing name in politics? Do you remember when she lost to
> Barack Obama and we all said it was like the cool popular guy versus
> the hard-working student council treasurer? Barack Obama would kill
> for Hillary Clinton's favorability ratings now.
>
> Romney is now busy with a passel of closed-door fund-raisers in states
> like New Jersey and New York, which he will never, ever, visit for any
> other reason than closed-door fund-raisers. Newt's future plans are
> unknown. Perhaps he will go back to that great job he had before,
> getting $300,000 fees for his advice as a historian to corporations
> with big financial interests pending in Congress. And what about Rick
> Santorum? You can't spend the rest of your life not endorsing Mitt
> Romney. The only guy who seems to have his future plotted out is Ron
> Paul, who is apparently planning to continue running for president
> while we all ignore him.
>
> So many surprises to look forward to. What humanizing interchange will
> Mitt have with the public next? Will it be as good as the last one,
> when he insulted the cookies at a Pittsburgh community center? Will he
> win over the loser Republicans' billionaires? Their celebrity
> supporters? Rich guys are one thing, but Gary Busey will take some
> wooing.
>
> Will he ever release all his tax returns? Will he keep the Kid Rock
> theme song for his campaign? Have we ever had a presidential nominee
> who walks on stage to a song that seems to suggest he is "wild, like
> an untamed stallion?" When we did, would you have imagined it would be
> Mitt Romney?
>
> More:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/opinion/collins-the-end-of-newt.htm...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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Re: Amazing Romney News

There is a large element of truth in this satire. Opinions, anyone?

On Apr 25, 1:20 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From Andy Borowitz
>
> Warning: Strong language
>
> NEW 2012 POLL:
> Majority of Republicans Guess They Have to Support Fucking Romney
> Lack of Other Option Cited
>
> NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In what Romney campaign insiders are
> hailing as a sign that the party faithful are rallying around the
> former Massachusetts governor, a new poll released today shows that a
> majority of Republican voters agree with the statement, "I guess I
> have to support fucking Romney."
>
> When asked why they were now ready to cast their vote for Mr. Romney,
> a majority of those Republicans polled "strongly agreed" with the
> statement, "Why do you think? No one else is fucking running anymore.
> Stop asking such stupid fucking questions. I don't need this shit."
>
> Underscoring the sense that he is now the presumptive nominee, the
> Romney campaign unveiled a new slogan this morning, "You Have No Other
> Options Anymore. Start Dealing With It, Losers."
>
> After sweeping five primary states Tuesday night, Mr. Romney was
> exultant, telling supporters in Manchester, N.H., "I love American
> democracy. I'm good friends with the owners of it."
>
> The wins by Mr. Romney forced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to
> suspend his campaign, telling reporters that he was leaving the race
> "to spend more time with my families."
>
> As for former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, he offered Mr.
> Romney this endorsement during an appearance on CNN: "Yeah, I guess I
> support him, because, well duh, I have absolutely no other choice.
> Right? I mean, really, Piers, what kind of moronic question is that?
> I guess this goes to show that you can be a total douchebag and still
> win the nomination if you have the most dough. I mean come on -- this
> whole situation makes me want to throw up. My only consolation is
> that on Judgment Day I'm going to Heaven, and we'll have to see what
> happens to Mr. Magic Underpants. Haha. Yeah. Sweet."
>
> More:
> Borowitzreport.com
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
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> Have a great day,
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Re: Fox News Lies

Geesh Lil' Tommy! That is the best that you and the hate site, FoxNewsLies.com could come up with? That Steve Doocy lied about President Obama making the "silver spoon" comment? Well, President Obama did make the comment, and FOX News clarified the quote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/fox-corrects-record-on-obama-silver-spoon-quote/2012/04/24/gIQABqCQeT_blog.html

Fox News's Steve Doocy has set the record straight on his mangling of President Obama's "silver spoon" quote of last week. Whereas President Obama, in an appearance in Ohio, said this: "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth," Doocy phrased it differently in an interview last Thursday with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: "Unlike some people, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth."

Wrong: Doocy's prefatory handiwork makes the remark appear as an unequivocal — not to mention petty — attack on Romney.

This morning Doocy had this to say about the episode (with footnotes added to facilitate commentary):

Last week President Obama talked about not being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. That was interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney (1). When I was interviewing Gov. Romney on this show, I asked him about it. However, I did some some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote (2) the president. So to be clear, the president's exact quote was, "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth." (3) And I hope that clears up any confusion.

(1) Technically correct: It was interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney, especially by the people at Fox News. Others, citing Obama's extensive use of the silver spoon remark long before Romney 2012, didn't share that interpretation.

(2) There was no "seeming" involved here. The tape shows conclusively that Doocy misquoted the president. Had he not misquoted the president, surely he wouldn't have taken time out of his day to issue this crow-eating correction.

(3) Good that Doocy detailed the president's quote. Yet without repeating the preface that he attached to it, the quote doesn't do much for viewers; it may cause as much confusion as it resolves.

And it's too bad Doocy didn't address the telltale smirk that accompanied his question to Romney.

Those are quibbles, however. Fox News did the right thing here. Though it could have been better articulated and more complete, Doocy's correction was delivered directly to viewers, in the same medium where the mistake originally occurred. Wish we could say the same thing about NBC.

By Erik Wemple | 10:47 AM ET, 04/24/2012

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It just shows, that far left hate sites like "FoxNewsLies.com", along with most of where you get your news, are really and truly the liars.

You should be ashamed Lil' Tommy!

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Wrong.

There are piles of lies from each of them.

Faux Noise Lies!

Dig deep:

www.foxnewslies.net

On Apr 25, 2:57 pm, Irie <irie.more.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> LOL....not one "lie" from Beckle, Williams, Kohn, or Powers.....hmmmmm
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> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:21:01 PM UTC-5, Tommy News wrote:
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> > Fox News Lies
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> > If you've come here looking for examples that Fox News Lies, you're in
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> > place. This web site reveals the unvarnished truth that fox news
> > frequently lies.
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> > Go Here:
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> >www.foxnewslies.net
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> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
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> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,

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