Juan Williams stuns Fox News panel: Ann Romney just a ‘corporate wife’

[kpete]

Williams apparently wasn’t impressed, saying that she “looked to me like a corporate wife.”

“The stories she told about struggles, it’s hard for me to believe,” he explained. “I mean, she’s a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.”

“Wow, OK,” panel host Brett Baier replied.

“What does that mean, corporate wife?” Megyn Kelly pressed.

“It looks like a woman whose husband takes care of her and she’s been very lucky and blessed in this life,” Williams observed. “She’s not speaking, I think, for the tremendous number of single women in this country or married women or separated — she did not convince me that, ‘You know what? I understand the struggles of American women in general.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/29/juan-williams-stuns-fox-news-panel-ann-romney-just-a-corporate-wife/

[CountAllVotes]

1. Ann Rmoney is a corporate wife

Blond hair, blue-eyed Barbie doll/Stepford wife au complete!

[closeupready]

19. Kept thinking that last night, watching her recite her lines.

(From a teleprompter, no doubt.)

[COLGATE4]

2. Careful Juan or Rupert may decide that he

needs another in-house Uncle Tom. Harold Ford is said to be available.

[Bainbridge Bear]

18. I'm a bit surprised by this as well.

Apparently, there is a little bit of NPR left in Juan.

[bullwinkle428]

27. "Um...hello, NPR? Are you guys hiring? Errr...I mean, RE-hiring?"

[rox63]

3. That's exactly what she is

Wow, someone on Faux actually telling the truth?

[Enrique]

4. Brit Hume had to lay it on extra-thick after that n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Brit ... Brit ... Brit (Hume) ...

“I think that was the single most effective political speech I’ve ever heard given by a political wife,” Hume insisted. “I think a lot of women would look at her — particularly mothers, married women — and find her utterly admirable and utterly credible.”

Though I did not hear her speech, how is a "political" wife any different from being a "corporate" wife, especially when that "whatever" wife has NO individual accomplishments outside of the home that was provided FOR her by her "corporate" husband?

Secondly, anne being "utterly admirable and utterly credible" does not argue against Williams' point; which was that her life is not relatable to the majority of American women.

[Bainbridge Bear]

17. Are you saying that the majority of

American women don't own and keep a $77,000 dressage horse? Oh, the poor dears!

[XemaSab]

6. To be fair

being a corporate exec's wife and being a mom of 6 kids are both full-time jobs, but having access to party planners and caterers and nannies and other staff members is not the experience of most women.

[grantcart]

7. yesterday Juan stunned them by saying that Romney was playing the

Race card.

I guess Juan has HBO too.

[DallasNE]

8. If Times Are Tough, Love More Deeply

That is a rough translation of what Ann Romney said. But that doesn't put food on the table, pay the rent or take care of the sick kid. The Romney's are incapable of relating to ordinary Americans so they may as well stop trying.

[beac]

9. Don't forget that they "ate tuna fish and pasta"...

paid for by selling stocks, just like a regular ol' average American family.

Does ANYONE believe that woman EVER "struggled"?

[valerief]

11. You just can't appreciate the struggles she's gone through with

shipping Rafalca from exotic port to exotic port for dressage competitions. Oh, the agony!

[JDPriestly]

20. "ate tuna fish and pasta"? was some sort of proof of poverty?

That's what we eat now except we eat sausage instead of tuna fish because the tuna fish has been polluted. (I know, sausage isn't good for you either, but that's reality.)

What are the Romneys eating these days? I mean when they are at home, not when they are campaigning.

[bongbong]

29. answer

> What are the Romneys eating these days?

Poor people, braised in $100 bills.

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21. Do you mean this? The struggling college years, the heartbreak of selling stock in order to eat

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/21/1085384/-Another-hard-luck-Romney-Story-The-College-Years

"They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. It was tiny. And I didn’t have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.

We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year—it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.

Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons.

[beac]

23. "No income"...

except the dividends from their stocks and the profits from the sale thereof, of course.

And, to her, that's a hard luck story of 'struggle." She is beyond out-of-touch.

[avebury]

10. That is a spot on analysis. nt

[wiggs]

12. She has said she 'doesn't feel rich'. I doubt many women/people outside the 1% can relate to her.nt

[mlevans]

14. So she's not only rich, but unfeeling as well.

And if she can't feel her own condition, how could she possibly feel anyone else's?

[ozsea1]

13. Hey Juan

Better update your resume. Any chance you could replace Anderson Cooper?

[librechik]

15. wake up America--if you opened your eyes you would see it too! n/t

[DainBramaged]

16. Ann Robme is a douchecaptain

[magnifisense]

22. Why would any putative Democrat work for FOX?

Notice I said putative.

[progree]

24. Mitt probably thinks of her as a domestic prostitute considering his attitude to stay-at-home moms

And an expensive one at that with the dancing horses and so on.

Ann Romney, working woman? by Katha Pollitt, The Nation 5/7/12:

When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work -- difficult, sacred, noble work. When performed for pay, however, this supremely important, difficult job becomes low-wage labor that almost anyone can do -- teenagers, elderly women, even despised illegal immigrants. And now here is the real magic: when performed by low-income single mothers in their own homes, those same exact tasks -- changing diapers, going to the playground and the store, making dinner, washing the dishes, giving a bath -- are not only not work; they are idleness itself.

Just ask Mitt Romney, [font color="brown"] "85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless,’ and I said ‘No, no, I’m willing to spend more giving daycare to allow those parents to go back to work. It’ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.’” [/font]

In 1994 he said, [font color = "brown"]"we will do everything in our power to make sure that people who are on welfare have an opportunity and an obligation to go to work, not after 2 years but from day one if we could".[/font]

We talk about employment or staying home as a matter of choice, which obscures what it takes to make that choice -- a mate with money.

Read more at: http://www.thenation.com/article/167456/ann-romney-working-woman

[Initech]

25. The Romneys are wealthy elitists - they just do not get what it's really like to struggle.

[MADem]

26. There comes a point when even a tool-shill has to live with their own self.

Maybe ole Juan has reached that point. The shame is just too great...

[bongbong]

28. question

> “What does that mean, corporate wife?” Megyn Kelly pressed.

Here's my question to Megyn: "What do you call a TV reporter who strips for a magazine?"

(she stripped in GQ magazine a while ago)

[Kennah]

30. Juan Williams, you dumbass, EVERYONE has a car elevator!