Mittenspalooza World Tour 2012: The MegaMormonThread!

[Razgovory]

What has Grumbler just sorta merged with Berkut or something?

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, you don't drag Dear Old Dead Dad into the picture. That's was a yellow card right there,

What now?

[Martinus]

"Kiss my ass. This is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect." Then he told a Politico reporter to "Shove it."

Other than implying, by a bad choice of words, that his ass is a holy site for the Polish people, I think this is seriously overblown. Sort of gotcha journalism at its worst.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, you don't drag Dear Old Dead Dad into the picture. That's was a yellow card right there,

What now?

Harry goofed, Mittens called him on it, but then he dropped the ball.  The calls for his disclosures aren't going anywhere.

[Sheilbh]

"Kiss my ass. This is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect." Then he told a Politico reporter to "Shove it."

Other than implying, by a bad choice of words, that his ass is a holy site for the Polish people, I think this is seriously overblown. Sort of gotcha journalism at its worst.

What's the difference between gotcha jounali and journalism?

Also I think what makes that so beautiful is the sentence starts 'kiss my ass' and ends 'show some respect'

[dps]

"Kiss my ass. This is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect." Then he told a Politico reporter to "Shove it."

Other than implying, by a bad choice of words, that his ass is a holy site for the Polish people, I think this is seriously overblown. Sort of gotcha journalism at its worst.

What's the difference between gotcha jounali and journalism?

Also I think what makes that so beautiful is the sentence starts 'kiss my ass' and ends 'show some respect'

Yeah, definately some dissonace between the 2 parts of what he said to the press.

"Gotcha journalism" basically consists of waiting for a public figure to mis-speak, or use inappropriate language, and then pretending that the mis-statement is actually newsworthy.  I'm not entirely sure this is a good example.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, definately some dissonace between the 2 parts of what he said to the press.

Rick Gorka, like so many other people on Romney's campaign, has consistently been in over his head from the moment Mittens announced his candidacy.

I mean, I get how difficult it must be to be a press secretary and chief message-carrier for a campaign that has no message, but he's been a total lightweight.  I doubt his forced sabbatical for a while will change things.

Pfft.  UNLV grads.

[dps]

Yeah, definately some dissonace between the 2 parts of what he said to the press.

Rick Gorka, like so many other people on Romney's campaign, has consistently been in over his head from the moment Mittens announced his candidacy.

I mean, I get how difficult it must be to be a press secretary and chief message-carrier for a campaign that has no message, but he's been a total lightweight.  I doubt his forced sabbatical for a while will change things.

Pfft.  UNLV grads.

Given how so many modern journalists are nothing more than parasites, I have a good bit of sympathy for anyone whose job requires them to work with them a lot.

[Admiral Yi]

Also keep in mind that for a press secretary on the GOP side every game is an away game.

[CountDeMoney]

Given how so many modern journalists are nothing more than parasites, I have a good bit of sympathy for anyone whose job requires them to work with them a lot.

Doesn't matter;  your job in working with assholes in the public eye isn't to be one.  You know better than that.

[dps]

Given how so many modern journalists are nothing more than parasites, I have a good bit of sympathy for anyone whose job requires them to work with them a lot.

Doesn't matter;  your job in working with assholes in the public eye isn't to be one.  You know better than that.

Sure, not saying otherwise. 

[Razgovory]

Also keep in mind that for a press secretary on the GOP side every game is an away game.

Yeah, that's why GOP guys fuck up.  A conspiracy.

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, that's why GOP guys fuck up.  A conspiracy.

We've been over the conspiracy talking point about 6 times already.

[derspiess]

No conspiracy-- just simple bias.

[grumbler]

No conspiracy-- just simple bias.

Like the crowd at an away game, which is the analogy Yi made.  There is no "conspiracy" to assemble a crowd hostile to the away team - that's just the way it is.