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The Spectacle Blog
Both Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos are being incredibly annoying. Sawyer is being annoying with the gay marriage questions (and I say that as someone who supports gay marriage) while Stephanopoulos kept pestering Romney with an irrelevant question about outlawing contraception. Huntsman had an amusing quip about getting away from the contraception when he mentioned he was father of seven.
Newt rightly took Sawyer and Stephanopoulos to task for their questions and noted that “bigotry cuts both ways” citing how Catholic Charities here in Massachusetts no longer provides adoption services because of its opposition to same sex adoption.
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Clint| 1.7.12 @ 10:20PM
The Patrician Haaaavaaaad Law School Elitist Romney Stumbled And Stuttered And Tap Danced And Couldn't Seem To Figure Out The Interstate Commerce Clause, Among Other Issues.
Dr. Ron Paul, Who Never Went To Haaaavaaaad or Law School Had To Explain It To The Haaaaavaaad Law Boy.
Pete| 1.7.12 @ 11:33PM
You know, I liked Ron Paul's performance tonight, then I read your posts and I can't stand him once again.
Clint| 1.8.12 @ 12:03AM
Dr.Ron Paul Doesn't Need Your Vote, Little Peter.
Aaaand, You're Still An Asshole.
Clint| 1.7.12 @ 10:34PM
Little Ricky Lobby Boy- I'll Sell Ya A Bridge To Nowhere Santorum Is Now Bullcrappin' About How He's Gonna Turn The Economy Around.
somnolence| 1.7.12 @ 10:50PM
Perry is through, folks. Believe me, he is through. Go back into Iraq, yeah, try selling that one. No wonder he is at 5% in S.C.
bill| 1.7.12 @ 10:56PM
You like Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood. You hate America, I got it.
bill| 1.7.12 @ 10:54PM
MSM are pathetic.
Romney was robotic.
Santorum got lost.
Gingrich seemed to me never wanted to win the race.
Ron Paul was articulate and confusing.
Huntsman was radiculus.
Rick Perry was articulate and honest. He will win in NH. A huge surprise !
Pete| 1.7.12 @ 11:34PM
you forgot that you are biased.
Clint| 1.7.12 @ 10:59PM
" Gingrich Super PAC to attack Romney for Bain Capital work?
The effort to derail Mitt Romney’s presidential quest heightened dramatically on Friday when a super PAC associated with Newt Gingrich outbid all comers for the rights to a scathing 30-minute attack video depicting Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate raider “more ruthless than Wall Street.”
In a season filled with negative ads and rhetorical crossfire, the striking feature of the film, aside from its mini-documentary length, is its authorship. The film was made by Jason Killian Meath, a former associate of Romney’s top strategists, Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer. Meath had worked for the Romney campaign in 2008, creating much of the ad content for that failed effort. He left Stevens and Schriefer’s firm, SSG, in 2010. Meath declined to comment on his project, referring inquiries to the pro-Gingrich PAC Winning Our Future…
“A story of greed,” the narrator intones. “Playing the system for a quick buck. A group of corporate raiders, led by Mitt Romney. More ruthless than Wall Street. For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town.”
The Tea Party Rebellion Is On The East Coast.
darcy| 1.7.12 @ 11:01PM
You support gay marriage? Mr. Goldstein supports gay marriage. You do know, of course, that once gay marriage is the law of the land that there is no more free exercise of religion? that our First Amendment Rights are gone forever? that to speak in the pulpit or anywhere else that homosexuality is a sin will be considered a hate crime? that there will be no legal basis on which to deny "marriage" to man - boy relationships? or to two men and one woman? or two women and one man? You do know all this, do you not? You do know that there is nothing "conservative" about endorsing a social arrangement that upends five thousand years of human history and social order?
I'm really very put out that American Spectator countenances the work of a writer whose viewpoint is nothing if not blatantly "progressive." Do we really need a supposedly conservative website that permits writers who are not conservative yet another forum in which to sling bricks at our Western culture, this culture steeped in the ethics of the Christian worldview?
There are so many websites that welcome the viewpoint expressed by Mr. Goldstein, that delight in their "new" way of thinking about social arrangements. Let Mr. Goldstein write there, because the truth of the matter is that once he tells us he is for gay "marriage," I have no interest, and less trust, in anything else he might have to say.
JR| 1.8.12 @ 1:21AM
Amen Darcy! Marriage has never in its 1000s of years of existence been between two men or two women. So how can it be discrimination if it remains between two of the opposite sex? Besides marriage isnt a right and no one is saying gay people cant get married. Just that we dont want to change the definition of marriage just to make them happy.Next they will want birth certificates to list the mother and mother or father and father instead of the biological parents of said child. A basic biological fact is sexual attraction is for sexual reproduction and if your attracted to the same sex then you are a biologically inferior human. I'm not saying you dont deserve to have human rights just that we shouldnt change the fundamental definition of sexual relationships to just to make homosexuals feel better about their biological dysfunction.
Margie| 1.7.12 @ 11:54PM
I thought Diane Sawyer was high or something. She looked like she was about to throw herself onto the audience physically at one point, like she was at a rave concert??
Clint| 1.8.12 @ 12:00AM
" Q: If elected will you support a federal marriage amendment, and what else will you do to protect the institution of marriage?
DR. RON PAUL: ...I do not see any need for another constitutional amendment. I think we have fallen into a trap where we have to redefine marriage. We're on the defensive trying to redefine marriage. Why don't you look it up in the dictionary and find out what marriage says. For federal legal purposes the Defense of Marriage Act is proper and it takes care of all the problems. If you have to have rules and regulations, put it at the state level like the Constitution says. "
The Tea Party Rebellion Is On The East Coast.
Dai Alanye | 1.8.12 @ 3:06AM
One of Paul's more idiotic answers. Marriage is marriage, while so-called homosexual marriage is simply friendship plus a certificate.
Lincoln supposedly once asked a man, "If you called a dog's tail a leg, how many legs would a dog have?" The answer, of course, is four, since calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one. So it is with homosexual "marriage."
Clint| 1.8.12 @ 9:15AM
Aaaaand, That Crap Is Exactly Why Dai Job Is Another Israel Firster Serial Smear Bund Horse's Tail.
Margie| 1.8.12 @ 12:03AM
darcy,
AmSpec seems to have a Libertarian slant for sure. It reflects the way of the World without a doubt in so far as the different leanings of its authors.
It isn't a conservative magazine anymore.. I remember when I subscribed to it in the early 90's and it was a lot more conservative. It's been taken over by Libertarians for the most part.
I'm also curious about Tyrrell.. he seems to have gone that way too, if I'm not mistaken??
Anyhow, I love your posts.
darcy| 1.8.12 @ 12:43AM
Margie:
I don't know about Tyrrell himself, libertarian-wise. He may be all puffed up about how open-minded he is to welcome libertarian writers here, but if he -- with this significant and prominent website -- had a mind to please God rather than to win the applause of men, he would be more careful to ensure that at least there were certain conservative standards that his writers met before linking his name with theirs here. At the very least, traditional marriage is the most basic of conservative values; if anything, AmSpec should -- by virtue of its supposedly conservative leanings -- uphold it rigorously, lest it seeks to join the world in its denunciation of traditional morality, which is the bedrock of our historic liberties.
God bless you this New Year.
Margie| 1.8.12 @ 12:48AM
I don't think he owns AmSpec anymore, but I'm not sure .. isn't Regnery owner? Anyhow, You are absolutely correct!
God bless you too.
Warrior | 1.8.12 @ 9:36AM
Libertarian, no. Maverick McCain type of liberal Republican seems a better definition.
RJ| 1.8.12 @ 1:34AM
I really wish the GOP would not consent to debates with questions coming from biased media pundits, one of whom was a shill for Bill Clinton. This gives the liberal media the chance to take the debate off topics we are interested in and let them ask questions which they think will help Obama. They clearly are not objective, nor reporters.
Earlier in the campaign, there was a debate moderated by Wolf Blitzer with the questions being asked by members of The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. The questions were much more meaningful than what we got tonight.
naksuthin| 1.8.12 @ 1:49AM
Yeah. They should only have to answer questions like "Why I love American" and "How my mother told me I should be President",...cause once they are President, they don't have to answer any more press questons
RJ| 1.8.12 @ 2:11AM
They should be asked hard questions, but Diane Sawyer's question about how would you spend your Saturday night if you weren't here was a waste of air time. We have very pressing issues facing this country. Questions about whether states can ban contraception are not directed to what concerns the public these days. Compare the questions asked by the pundits as opposed to those from think-tanks or citizens in other debates. In fact, Mike Huckabee had three state attorney generals questions the candidates. They were much more informative questions; not softballs.
Warrior | 1.8.12 @ 9:29AM
How about these same "journalists" pressing a democrat to give an answer on these questions. One example that I would like to see, Mr. Obama, as a state senator you supported allowing living babies, who survived a botched abortion to be left alone to die, at what point to you actually believe life begins?
Mark| 1.8.12 @ 9:00AM
Ah! The "Lame-stream" News Media (Paul LaPage - Governor of Maine) rears its ugly head, again. Now I know why I never watch ABC News. Sawyer and Stephanopoulos appeared thoughtless and out of touch during this debate.
martin j smith| 1.8.12 @ 9:09AM
I congratulate Gingrich for he too debated the Socialist Inquisitors. But again there needs to be more of this. The debate should include at least 50% challenging the actual basis of the Socialist Inquisitor's questions and the other 50% debate among the candidates but lets include Romney a bit more. Heh ?
Wheelerdude| 1.8.12 @ 9:58AM
Clearly Geoge has a Condom Conundrum. For some reason he seems to be worried that condons will be banned. Therefore, to show our sympathy for George's Conundrum, we should send George a condom!
Mark| 1.8.12 @ 10:16AM
Agreed! This would help control his ability to reproduce and limit the spread of his genetic predisposition. Good Lord! Can you imagine the nature of the pathetic offspring erupting from a union between the dolt Stephanopoulos and a smarmy Sawyer?
edie condom| 1.8.12 @ 5:32PM
Re-elected the Obamanation and you'll have these
shit heads for four more years
edie condom| 1.8.12 @ 5:38PM
Is Sawyer an X tunnel bunny?
AVCurmudgeon| 1.9.12 @ 3:06PM
They are both annoying (on their better days), but Stephanopoulos did us a favor by raising Griswold v Connecticut and the "right to privacy." Griswold was an abomination; it was William O Douglas' paean to himself, notwithstanding the fact that just the year before the SCOTUS had renounced any claim that the 4th Amendment rests on a right to privacy (Katz v United States).
There is no objective Constitutional basis for a "right to privacy", so yes, the decisions should be left to the states. Someone among this motley crew needs to have the guts to say as much.
Sac a main Prada | 1.10.12 @ 4:28AM
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Haine online | 9.13.12 @ 6:03AM
In a season filled with negative ads and rhetorical crossfire, the striking feature of the film, aside from its mini-documentary length, is its authorship. The film was made by Jason Killian Meath, a former associate of Romney’s top strategists, Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer.
Jocuri Noi | 9.13.12 @ 8:23AM
There is no objective Constitutional basis for a "right to privacy", so yes, the decisions should be left to the states. Someone among this motley crew needs to have the guts to say as much.
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