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lapfog_1

(29,204 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:15 AM Sep 2012

So Faux is trying to sell some false equivalency

audio tape of Obama (then a state senator, so probably nearly a decade old) where Obama says "redistribution". It's a fairly short clip, so I suspect it's taken completely out of context.

And then Faux goes on to say "The polls are nearly tied, Obama is only leading by 1 point" and "1 in 5 voters are still up for grabs"...

Holy Crap I hate these people.

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So Faux is trying to sell some false equivalency (Original Post) lapfog_1 Sep 2012 OP
its actually fourteen years old. spanone Sep 2012 #1
It was Drudge that dragged out that old audio clip pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #2
Rmoney campaign manager and Drudge earthside Sep 2012 #7
Yeah with a video that was made 14 years ago and was "exposed" in 2008 too gollygee Sep 2012 #3
Just another typical day at FOX. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #4
I am convinced that half of Fox's audience (or more) is Dems KurtNYC Sep 2012 #5
Count me in that half Brainstormy Sep 2012 #8
Well, Obama believes in the wealthy paying their fair share. Jennicut Sep 2012 #6

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
2. It was Drudge that dragged out that old audio clip
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:21 AM
Sep 2012

Now, it's even being aired on CNN, and Romney is talking about it as much as he can.

earthside

(6,960 posts)
7. Rmoney campaign manager and Drudge
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:34 AM
Sep 2012

I heard somewhere on the television machine this morning that Drudge and Rmoney campaign manager Matt Rhoades have a "close" relationship.

So, the reappearance of this clip on Drudge yesterday and Rmoney's reference to it today is not a coincidence.

Well, the charge is so lame -- we all participate in "redistribution". When you get any kind of insurance policy you are engaging in redistribution ... health people's premiums pay for the care of sick folks; people's whose house never burn down pay for replacing the houses of people whose do burn down; etc.

People who pay into Social Security but die young end-up funding Social Security for people who live a long life.

The property taxes of people in rich neighborhoods help pay for schools in neighborhoods with low property values.

Frankly, this will be used by a desperate Rmoney campaign to try and paint Obama as a European socialist Marxist -- and it will go nowhere because it is over-the-top and simply not supportable by anything Pres. Obama has done (big surprise).

But speaking of redistribution -- if Rmoney didn't pay any federal income taxes in the last ten years, then he must be a 47 per center freeloader, too, right?

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
3. Yeah with a video that was made 14 years ago and was "exposed" in 2008 too
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:23 AM
Sep 2012

and got no attention then either.

Any government that taxes AND has services does some amount of redistribution. The suggestion is that he's a socialist. That socialist charge hasn't been working except with the extreme right-wing. I don't think this is much to worry about. Look how young he is in it - it's very obviously really old.

Brainstormy

(2,380 posts)
8. Count me in that half
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:43 AM
Sep 2012

But I watch sometimes just to be amazed at what their take is going to be on an issue. It's that same phenonomena that makes you look at a car crash. Horrible, but you're curious.

Jennicut

(25,415 posts)
6. Well, Obama believes in the wealthy paying their fair share.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:32 AM
Sep 2012

Nothing new there to me.
Mittens detests half the country.

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