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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:25 PM Jun 2014

Fox Panelist: World Cup Is A Way For Obama To 'Distract People'

CATHERINE THOMPSON – JUNE 26, 2014, 2:34 PM EDT

It was only a matter of time before a Fox News panelist suggested the FIFA World Cup presented a convenient distraction from the problems facing President Barack Obama.

"I'm suspect," Dr. Keith Ablow said Thursday on "Outnumbered" as the US men's national team faced off against Germany. "I am suspect because, here's the thing. Why, at a time when there are so many national and international issues of such prominence -- I'm a little suspicious of yet another bread-and-circus routine. Let's roll out the marijuana, pull back the laws, and get people even more crazy about yet another entertainment event."

Ablow's four female co-hosts weren't buying it, interrupting him with protests of "what?" and "what's wrong with you?"

"This is a way to distract people," Ablow continued. "This is like Rome. I can see why Obama would love the World Cup --"

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el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
3. Well as the Anti-Christ, Obama does have magic powers.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:30 PM
Jun 2014

He probably went back in time to 1904 when FIFA was founded and arranged for them to hold the matches every 4 years, timed just perfectly to coincide with the distraction he needed now. I mean, sure he lost a little time explaining how a black man could actually be President of the United States, but I'm sure at this point he's used to having to explain that.

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tularetom

(23,664 posts)
4. If Obama were capable of even 1% of the crap they accuse him of
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:31 PM
Jun 2014

he would have already declared himself Emperor for Life and sent every one of his opponents to FEMA camps.

If he's such an evil genius why is fox news still on the air? Why is "Dr." A-Blow still running around loose.

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
12. Maybe he could wake-up Congress to all those terrible problems being
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 04:10 PM
Jun 2014

ignored by Obama and get them to do something.

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