The more entertaining debate
The presidential debate, for all the drama, was not exactly exciting. Tonight, Monday night, we should all tune in for the Senate debate between Tim Kaine and George Allen. If that proves equally dull, check out the debate you likely missed over the weekend.
Jon Steward and Bill O’Reilly went head-to-head in Washington on Saturday. You can watch the fireworks and laughs below.
October 8, 2012 - 7:38 PM
Holy crap, Kaine comes out the gun sayings he’s not going to cut PBS or kill big bird. What a joke. First remark opening statement.
Actually, it was a brilliant stroke to show the TP/R disconnect that knows we need to cut billions going after PBS and Big Bird’s pittance instead of any substantive admissions of the hard stuff we need to do.
The Stewart v O’Reilly matchup was…funny and sad.
#3 – Your right, Sandi, we need to cut hard stuff. I’m sure you would agree that eliminating welfare as a way of life and reforming the food stamp program are good places to start.
The disconnect is with liberals concerning Big Bird. Big Bird is one of the 1%.
Obama gets utterly destroyed in the debate and comes back with Big Bird and Romney told fibs. If that’s all Obama can come up with then it’s over.
I hope you are right JimW. IMHO, Romney more than deserves to have to deliver on those lies and impossible promises!
7. What do you call it when people lie about lies. Romney was correct. Out of desperation people will repeat the same talking point strategy over and over and over again until it takes. Well, fortunately, it’s not going to work this time.
Yes, those pesky fact checkers just make things up to inconvenience the great people in our society. It was ever so. No doubt facts and truth are irrelevant to a large sector of this nation, it is what Romney is counting on.
#9 – “No doubt facts and truth are irrelevant to a large sector of this nation, it is what Romney is counting on.”
Just look how far it’s gotten Obama!
Who are those pesky so called “fact checkers”…..Someone at Huffpo I guess.
No Jim W.
There’s this one:
http://www.factcheck.org/tag/mitt-romney/
And this one:
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/apexchange/2012/10/09/bc-us–romney-fact-check.html
And this one:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/fact-checker-fact-or-fiction/
Just to name a few.
Romney is not more honest than Obama.
Romney is not more forthcoming than Obama.
Romney is not more detailed than Obama.
Romney is not much different than Obama.
Sandi,
It looks like you need a fact checker for your fact checker…LOL.
http://www.matchdoctor.com/blog_141905/Factcheck_org_–_A_Fraudulent_Fact_Check_Site_Funded_By_Biased_Political_Group.html
BTW, Romney and Obama are very different, even stark, choices.
Apparently the debates need to be entertaining, snarky and without substantive content to get our attention? No wonder we got problems. Anyway, Romney’s big bird comment was appropos in its PRINCIPAL that the government has no business in funding so much of what it’s currently funding. Once again liberals misconstrue or just plain miss the point.
@13 – Your refute of Factcheck.org is a blog on a singles dating site. The author is a member of the dating site. The only “proof” offered in the blog is a link to another blog written by an unnamed person. That author’s evidence is that Factcheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, which is funded by the Annenberg Foundation. And then through a series of six-degrees-to-Kevin-Bacon’esque hoop jumping comes to the conclusion that it must be biased because Obama and Bill Ayers were part of a project that was funded by a grant from the Annenberg Foundation in Chicago Public Schools from 1995-2001. The Annenberg Foundation sponsors (and has sponsored) a great deal of projects and initiatives in education, science, performing arts, community development, public policy, and journalism to name a few. It’s preposterous to claim that Factcheck.org is biased because their supporting foundation once gave a grant to a public school district in 1995 for an educational project that had some board members who are liberals.
JimW #13, that is just truly embarrassing. No wonder the nation is in the shape it is in!
No Jim, we do not miss the point, the fellow choosing “Big Bird” out of all of the “wasteful” spending this nation has routinely engaged in for decades is the one missing the point. It is literally laughable.
It is like Popeye beating up on a first grader and bragging about it. He could have mentioned some of those fantasy tax deductions he is going to take away. He could have mentioned subsidies and tax abatement that the Fortune 200 will lose. He could have mentioned that folks like himself will be paying at least as much in taxes as the surgeon who helps the sick heal. He could have mentioned the crony capitalism that has enriched many of his friends will come to an end.
Romney chose Big Bird and he will have to live with that choice.
Did Romney specifically say he was going to take away from Big Bird? No, he didn’t. He said he was going to defund PBS.
YOUR party specified Big Bird.
Jesus…the world is catching fire in the Mideast and it’s being ignored over freakin’ Sesame Street.
A better example of Obama being a failure would be hard to find right now.