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RedStateLiberal

(1,374 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:07 PM Jul 2012

Faux and Friends shamelessly use little girls to attack Obama

Are these freaks totally desperate to attack our president or what?

'Fox And Friends' To Little Girls: Did The Government Help You Start Lemonade Stand?

"Fox and Friends" still has beef with President Obama's comments about small businesses. On Tuesday, the show turned to the ultimate source to prove its point: two little girls who run a lemonade stand.

Earlier this month, Obama said that businesses needed infrastructure investment to succeed. "If you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen," he said. Mitt Romney took the line out of context, and used it to attack the president for being anti-business.

On Tuesday, "Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade turned to four-year old Eliza and seven-year old Clara Sutton to ask if they had government help when they founded their lemonade stand.

"Who helped you start this business?" Kilmeade wanted to know. Later, he asked, "Clara, how do you feel about the President saying that you needed help to start this business? And just speak from, speak from within."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/fox-and-friends-lemonade-stand_n_1697665.html

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Faux and Friends shamelessly use little girls to attack Obama (Original Post) RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 OP
Geez. Ilsa Jul 2012 #1
Quite shameful isn't it. Solomon Jul 2012 #3
Thinking isn't allowed on Faux News. (nt) RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #7
Oh my god these people are fucking insane.... WCGreen Jul 2012 #2
Who built the ships that carried the lemons... gregoire Jul 2012 #4
Yeah, and who made sure those ingredients were safe to consume? (nt) RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #9
Wow. They really are soulless. Curtland1015 Jul 2012 #5
who gave them the idea?... lame54 Jul 2012 #6
well, you have to pander to the intelligence of your audience. spanone Jul 2012 #8
+10000! AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 #16
I bet the lemonade is a lie gregoire Jul 2012 #10
did they grow veganlush Jul 2012 #11
+1 Check this out for some irony RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #13
of course! lol n/t. veganlush Jul 2012 #14
A really stupid idea flakey_foont Jul 2012 #12
Would the women of Fox "News" be there without Women's Lib? UnrepentantLiberal Jul 2012 #15

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. Geez.
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:12 PM
Jul 2012

Yeah, I bet the govt helped pay for their education so they could learn to make change, as well as read and write their signs.

 

gregoire

(192 posts)
4. Who built the ships that carried the lemons...
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:16 PM
Jul 2012

to the roads that carried them to their local store? Republicans would probably say private industry knowing that they're lying.

veganlush

(2,049 posts)
11. did they grow
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:24 PM
Jul 2012

the lemons in their yard? or did their parents drive to a store located directly on a public road? Did the store grow the lemons, or did they get delivered to the store over public roads, bridges, tunnels, etc? Did they get the water from their pond or did it come from taxpayer subsidized city water system? Is the lemonade stand located on a public sidewalk or a public road? People take so much for granted when it comes to government, I just wish the democrats had the stomach to stand up for government. This is a conversation that we need to have. If the next Walmart wants to be free of taxpayer handouts it better be locating in the middle of a field, not served by a public road with a convenient driveway. They should get their power from self-generated sources and not from public utilities. They should be out of the public loop when it comes to police, fire, etc. They shouldn't have access to courts either. And all of their products would have to be unprotected by everything from UL underwriting to FDA to CDC which would open them up to all kinds of liability.

RedStateLiberal

(1,374 posts)
13. +1 Check this out for some irony
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:41 PM
Jul 2012

I was just flipping channels and caught Faux News mention that another lemonade stand somewhere else was robbed today. Of course, they called the police.

Here's the news story:
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/07/24/police-suspects-rob-11-year-old-girls-lemonade-stand/

flakey_foont

(3,338 posts)
12. A really stupid idea
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:25 PM
Jul 2012

whatever is the point they are trying to make?
Why not then ask the girls if they believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny

I am just guessing that their parents bought the lemonade mix, oh and pay the
water bills, and buy or rent the house they are living in, where they can put the lemonade stand
in the front - so, the answer would be no, they did not build that lemonade stand themselves!

 

UnrepentantLiberal

(11,700 posts)
15. Would the women of Fox "News" be there without Women's Lib?
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:49 AM
Jul 2012

Granted, they're as sexualized as it's possible to be without actually being a stripper... OK, maybe that's not a good example.

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