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Smilo

(1,944 posts)
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 01:51 PM Oct 2012

The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh

Matt Taibbi, for one, loved the way Biden gave it to Ryan, arguing that the Republican ticket has been begging to be called on its malarkey:

Biden did absolutely roll his eyes, snort, laugh derisively and throw his hands up in the air whenever Ryan trotted out his little beady-eyed BS-isms.

But he should have! He was absolutely right to be doing it. We all should be doing it. That includes all of us in the media, and not just paid obnoxious-opinion-merchants like me, but so-called "objective" news reporters as well. We should all be rolling our eyes, and scoffing and saying, "Come back when you're serious."

The load of balls that both Romney and Ryan have been pushing out there for this whole election season is simply not intellectually serious.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-vice-presidential-debate-joe-biden-was-right-to-laugh-20121012?stop_mobi=yes

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The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh (Original Post) Smilo Oct 2012 OP
Damn Skippy! FirstLight Oct 2012 #1
I was laughing at Ryan along with him. bushisanidiot Oct 2012 #2

FirstLight

(13,362 posts)
1. Damn Skippy!
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 02:06 PM
Oct 2012

I hope that our Liberal friends in the Media, those running for Congress, and Pres Obama's Camp sit up and take notice here... Good Old Joe has paved the way for us all to handily call "malarkey!" when warranted by the RW machine... Time for us ALL to grow a pair and KEEP IT REAL!

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