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ck4829

(35,038 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:56 AM Jun 2014

Fox News's Dr. Keith Ablow: World Cup is distraction from Obama scandals

Fox psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow’s conspiracy theory that the World Cup Soccer excitement is little more than a sick or sinister distraction from serious issues (read: Obama’s troubles) was too crazy for his fellow co-hosts on Outnumbered today.

Ablow, who was the show’s “one lucky guy,” said this about the World Cup:


I’m suspect. I’m suspect because here’s the thing: Why at a time when there are so many national issues and international issues of such prominence? I’m a little suspicious - yet another bread and circus routine. Let’s roll out the marijuana, pull back the laws and people even more crazy about yet another entertainment event.

…I think this is a way to distract people. …This is like Rome. I can see why Obama would love (it). …I think it’s interesting that at a time when there’s so much to pay attention to of such great import, people are playing games more than ever.


http://www.newshounds.us/fox_s_dr_ablow_suspects_world_cup_soccer_some_kind_of_conspiracy_designed_to_distract_from_obama_s_troubles_06262014

Taste the crazy!
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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,589 posts)
1. Never mind the fact that the World Cup games started in 1930
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:03 AM
Jun 2014

and that soccer has been played professionally since 1870 or thereabouts - obviously the World Cup is the diabolical creation of the all-powerful evil mastermind Obama who has controlled FIFA for his own nefarious purposes since 1930, just waiting for the perfect time to spring the competition on the unsuspecting world so no one would notice that he tried to get health insurance for poor people, or something. Bwahahahaha.

singingbiscuit

(114 posts)
9. A doctoral degree that doesn't require
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:36 PM
Jun 2014

one to know the difference between "suspect" and "suspicious." I think he was right the first time: He IS suspect.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. This one needs a super duper dose of reality.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:49 AM
Jun 2014

The FAUX listeners can run with this one, can't wait to hear this tale through their eyes. Guess this is where coulter was trying to go.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
10. "people are playing games more than ever."
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:34 PM
Jun 2014

Damn those people and their games!

The only reason sports have ever been televised is to distract from Benghazi. Makes you wonder why Obama ever asked Benghazi to crash the economy and fire all those coal miners in the first place.


nxylas

(6,440 posts)
14. Or Liberty University
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 05:43 PM
Jun 2014

His doctoral thesis argued that falling for Jesus's little trick of burying dinosaur bones in order to test our faith should be classified as a mental illness. OK, I made that up, but it could have been.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
12. Curses! He's seen through the plot that was hatched YEARS ago!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 02:39 PM
Jun 2014

*wringing hands*

These Republicans, they're just too smart for us!!!

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
16. Let me explain something to this moron, the World Cup is the largest sporting event in the world.
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 10:00 AM
Jun 2014

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Billions of people watch football (the real name for soccer and a sport that precedes American football). All activity stops in many countries when their team plays. It's a sport that is so popular because anyone can play it, from a poor kid in a slum to the wealthiest child. There's very little equipment needed. There's always someone who has a ball, and if they are too poor to buy one, they make one with rags and string. The kids will play barefoot if they have to, the whole point is to kick that ball.

Is this idiot so American centric that he thinks this is a world conspiracy to distract the American public from Obama's "problems"?????

Let me also inform the kind doctor that most of the world couldn't give a rat's ass if we participate in the Cup. We have become better in the last events, but we are no threat to any of the major teams.

Physician heal thyself.




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