Insensitivity, gaffes dog Romney

Narrative from Irish Times

AMERICA: MITT ROMNEY, who is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee, is hounded by the memory of Seamus the Irish setter.

My friend Orla reminded me of the story when I was in New Hampshire this week. It was history, I thought, underestimating the doggedness of US reporters.

Rachel Maddow devoted a long segment of her Thursday-night show on MSNBC to Seamus. The Dogs Against Romney website, founded in 2007, has been revived and is hawking T-shirts stamped with paw prints and the slogans “Mitt is mean!” and “Never Forget Crate Gate”. The subject is again being addressed by serious newspapers.

The incident occurred in 1983, and was first reported by the Boston Globe in June 2007, when Romney made an earlier bid for the presidency.

As recounted by the Globe , Romney, his wife and five sons set out in their Chevy station wagon on a 12-hour holiday journey to Ontario, Canada. Romney placed the family pet, Seamus, in a dog carrier, which he strapped to the roof of the car.

The eldest son, Tagg, watched out the rear window, “where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ‘Dad!’ he yelled. ‘Gross!’ A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

“As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station,” the Globe report continued. “There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back on to the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”

Romney’s detractors have created a “Google bomb”, a method of redefining a name and pushing it to the top of Google searches. If you enter “spreading Romney”, the first thing that pops up is: “(rom-ney) v. 1. to defecate in terror”.

In August 2007, Fox News presenter Chris Wallace asked Romney how he could do such a thing. “This is a completely airtight kennel and mounted on the top of our car,” Romney said. “Love my dog. We’ve had a lot of dogs over the years. Love them. Seamus, as his name is, climbed up there all by himself, enjoyed his ride . . . it was a good ride.”

Wallace failed to ask the obvious follow-up question: why Romney put Seamus back on the roof after the dog’s distress became apparent.

New York Times columnist Gail Collins has retold the Seamus story more than 30 times in five years, and the Wall Street Journal recently asked Romney to rebut Collins’s insinuations. “Uh . . . Love my dog,” Romney replied. “That’s all I’ve got for ya.”

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666 is mark of the beast

Gathered from some pretty disreputable places around the Net

Dear Urban Legends:

To prove that Barney is Satan:

1. 1. Given the obvious:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2. 2. Now, as in the greek alphabet change all U’s to V’s:
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3. 3. Extract all Roman Numerals:
C V V L D I V

4. 4. Convert to decimals:
100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5. 5. Add them together to get:
666

~~ Moron in FL

Oh Wait, It’s Dubya

Notice any similarity?

Absolute Proof it is Obama

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Re: UNDENIABLE PROOF that Obama is the antichrist Quote [+] #

Let’s review…

It’s Obama, not Reagan, not Prince Charles, Not Prince William, not Bill Clinton, not the baby born on 1/1/11 at 11:11, not Giffords, not the Pope… uh…. who else is it not? I like to keep track of these things, just a little bit of OCD as far as the AC is concerned…
~~ Smart Lady on Godlike

You Want More Proof?

Re: UNDENIABLE PROOF that Obama is the antichrist Quote [+] #

OP, you’re quite WRONG! President Obama is actually very godly. Even FOX(666) News reported last month, “Jesus would be a Liberal Democrat”.

The name ‘Lucifer’ is Latin for the Planet Venus: the ‘light-bearer’, Morning Star/Evening Star. Like the word ‘English’(7,74), ‘Lucifer’ has 7 letters and a gematria(8,74) sum of 74 (L12+u21+c3+i9+f6+e5+r18. Morning7 Star4).

Evil in the form of an individual deity is properly referred to as ‘Satan’ or the ‘Devil’ (d’evil). Lucifer is incorrectly applied to ‘evil incarnate’. Of course, the Bible refers to the “1st Beast” 666 & “2nd Beast”. Ronald(6 letters) Wilson(6) Reagan(6) was the “1st Beast whose actions were the opposite of the Christ, was ruler(74) of the world, lied to all nations, and was wounded yet lived.” – The Revelation Ch 13. George Walker Bush Jr was/is the “2nd Beast who imitated the 1st Beast and made ‘fire come down from the heavens’ with the ‘destruction of Babylon’(War in Iraq)” – Rev Ch 14, 16, 17, & 18.
~~ Anon Poster on Godlike

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Faux News Hires Joel Richardson

Thanks to Heather on Crooks and Liars for providing an accessible video of Rachel’s story. As the above entries show there is a good deal of confusion about the real Anti-Christ. Is it Barney, Dubya, Obama, Microsoft, Charley Sheen? Fortunately, Faux News has hired a consultant to sort it all out. Richardson’s creds include time at WorldNetDaily. Sorry, almost said Weekly World News which I really miss at the supermarket checkout queue. It was the only reliable newspaper.

Crooks and Liars Video of TRMS

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Reality Show Material?

G4 Network Announces New Series – Bomb Patrol Afghanistan

The article is from Broadcasting and Cable Magazine. I think the show, approved by the United States Navy represents a new low in tastelessness. What happens if one of our troops is killed on live tv? I am writing my congressional representative to protest. This series presents war as entertainment all for the sake of making a few bucks.

Robert E. Lee got it right when he said

It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Thanks to The Rachel Maddow Show for bringing this to our attention.

See also Navy OKs EOD Reality Show

From that article is the following

The announcement avoided any details surrounding how the show intends to deal with possible EOD casualties, and a G4 spokeswoman told Military.com that she did not know how the company would handle those situations.

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Marilyn rambled all the way to New York’s 23rd Congressional district to endorse a candidate who does not live there. See the video for details.

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News about the ACORN Act which is different from the defund
ACORN Act. Goes with the Rachel Maddow Show continuing series about the war against ACORN

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I for one am glad to see Marilyn Musgrave resurface this way. Some people express disappointment that Betsy Markey seems to be more of a conserv-a-dem than they would like.

Well, having Musgrave resurface this way just reinforces Gypsy Chief’s take that conserv-a-dem or not Markey is vastly superior to the congressperson she replaced.

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Rachel said it best. Poor Congresswoman Jane Harmon [D-CA]
we feel so sorry for her. She supported the Bush Administration program of warrantless wiretapping. Now the shoe is on the other foot. See the video for the story…

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The End of Days

Tim LaHaye, co-author of the popular Left Behind series of novels appeared on Friday, Febuary 27, 2009 on the Rachel Maddow Show. Tim and Rachel discussed our new president Barack Obama and the assertion that he is moving the U. S. toward socialism. Mr. LaHaye said the Obama is definitely not the Anti-Christ because he is not popular enough.

By this measure, certainly Microsoft Corporation must be the Anti-Christ as many in the open source software movement suspected all along.

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Bites Reporter

Rachel Joins Conspiracy

“We just couldn’t have children believe that their dinosaur
friend would ever bite anyone, much less a white house
correspondent”. This amazing admission was leaked from
the April D. Ryan Cell, a radical feminist group loosely
aligned with the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. The leak was
made public by Students and Teachers Against Barney – STAB -
a public interest organization dedicated to making Barney go away
for good.

STAB sources, speaking on condition of anonyminity, revealed
details of a conspiracy to protect children from the truth.

Barney, an imaginary purple dinosaur (IPD)
was cavorting on the White House south lawn when he was
approached by a reporter. An incident ensued. There are no
photographs since existing cell phone technology does not
provide for photographs of IPDs, though such creatures do
appear on television from time to time.

STAB revealed how the conspiracy got started. A quick thinking
April D. Ryan operative substituted stock footage of
the White House pooch, fortunately also named Barney.
The reporter’s finger was bandaged even though it wasn’t
the same finger that was shown on the widely circulated
video. A hand written note from first lady Laura Bush was
another part of the conspiracy. The Reuters News reporter
appeared on the Rachel Maddow show recently to complete
the scam.

STAB said that Barney was at the White House to hitch a
ride to Crawford, TX when the Bush family leaves town.
Barney will work on restoring George W. Bush’s reputation
as a great statesman and patriot. Only children would
believe this at the moment. These children will grow up
and thus within the space of one generation the Bush legacy
will be restored thanks to help from Barney.

STAB officials were devastated by these developments.
“We have done everything to rid the world of Barney
once and for all. We even tried pounding a wooden stake
through his heart.” This tactic was unsuccessful since
Barney is known to wear his heart on his sleeve.

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