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Marzupialis

(398 posts) Sun Aug 12, 2012, 11:12 AM Aug 2012

Maureen Dowd on Obama's "chuckleheaded" "You didn't build that" remark

MAUREEN DOWD (8-12-12): Yet voters see something genuine, and that is why Obama seems to be surviving the stalled economy and his own chuckleheaded remark: “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-likability-index.html?ref=todayspaper

Dowd misleads in today's column without mentioning Obama's remark was accurate, as he referred to the support that infrastructure (bridges and road) lend to businesses: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-likability-index.html?ref=todayspaper

The Daily Howler has more details on the misleading comment by Dowd, who is not the brighest lightbulb in the MSM: http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/08/beating-his-wife-dowd-quotes-obama.html

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Maureen Dowd on Obama's "chuckleheaded" "You didn't build that" remark (Original Post) Marzupialis Aug 2012 OP

She's useless. Quit reading her a long time ago. Faygo Kid Aug 2012 #1

I can't stand this woman, and I don't get why Democrats like her, especially after she went after Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2012 #2

Yet another reason why the NYTimes will never see another penny from me. (Cancelled coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #3

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)

1. She's useless. Quit reading her a long time ago.

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Aug 12, 2012, 11:16 AM

Aug 2012

I'll stick with Rachel, who makes sense.

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)

2. I can't stand this woman, and I don't get why Democrats like her, especially after she went after

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Aug 12, 2012, 11:16 AM

Aug 2012

Gore, Kerry and Edwards.

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)

3. Yet another reason why the NYTimes will never see another penny from me. (Cancelled

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Aug 12, 2012, 11:26 AM

Aug 2012

my sub in 2003 after the lies of Operation Shocking and Awful and have never looked back.)

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