CNN airs the most ridiculous statements yet on Romney.

[KurtNYC]

And how is Mike Bush related to the Bush dynasty?

[div class="excerpt"When a friend tweeted me about a line from CNN’s Romney Revealed documentary, I thought he must have misheard or paraphrased it, but as it turns out, Gloria Borger‘s narration of the Mitt Romney profile really did contain the most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever heard on television, so ridiculous that I’m half-suspicious CNN is actually a cabal of master satirists who are making fun of the Republican presidential candidate.

The portion of the documentary in question covers Mitt Romney’s stint as a door-to-door Mormon recruiter in 1968 France, a duty which helped him to avoid military service in Vietnam. Earlier in the doc, narrator and interviewer Gloria Borger glossed over the fact that Romney sought, and received, four deferments during the Vietnam War (and later lied about it), instead saying simply that he was “exempt as a student, and with a high draft number.
...
Perhaps to avoid charges of bias, the documentary steers clear of these contradictions, but then takes the whitewashing to blindingly absurd levels by introducing the next segment with the aforementioned most ridiculous statement I’ve ever seen on television. “In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American,” Borger says, “but Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it.”

That’s right, in 1968, the year in which the highest number of American deaths in Vietnam were reported (16,592), France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American who was avoiding service in Vietnam. Aside from the constant danger of having one’s eye put out by an errant baguette, what hardships did Mitt Romney face while he was “in country?”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-airs-the-most-ridiculous-statement-ive-ever-seen-on-television/

More with video at link.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Does Bain own part of CNN?

[Auntie Bush]

5. She also said Romney borrowed SOME government money to help make the Olympics as success..

Actually he borrowed many hundreds of millions. Why didn't she say that if she wasn't trying to make Romney seem more successful than he was?

[The Wielding Truth]

24. " 2002 Winter Games in SLC blew the doors off the Treasury—taxpayers paid $1.5 Billion to bail out "

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/07/18/how-mitt-saved-the-olympics/

[Auntie Bush]

30. 1.5 Billion!

No wonder he had a successful Olympics! The only thing he was/is good at is extracting money from the Government or someone else and then putting it in his own greedy pockets/Swiss bank account ect. The man is a total fraud and blight on our country.

[KurtNYC]

35. To Mitt I say: "Those Olympic venues in Salt Lake -- you didn't build that"

SLC had to use sweetheart real estate deals (bribes) and prostitutes to get a deal THAT bad form the IOOC ?!

[sellitman]

2. I watched that piece and didn't know how hard poor Mitt had it.

A profound new respect materialized in me for that brave young Chickenhawk.

[KurtNYC]

26. What terrible luck this guy has...avoided Nam but woound up in dangerous France

[el_bryanto]

3. Why say Missionary when you can say "door-to-door Mormon recruiter?"

I mean one definitely makes Mormons seem more alien and extreme, right?

Bryant

[jsr]

4. Fine French wines are definitely dangerous

even to this day.

But, we don't know how much he drank.

[bullwinkle428]

6. The most danger he had to face in France was being told "FUCK OFF" in French

by people that didn't want to give up drinking wine just to satisfy his own little ridiculous belief system.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Did he demand they serve him "Freedom Fries"?

[Brickbat]

8. L'horreur. L'horreur.

[Javaman]

25. I love the smell of Brie in the morning...

It smells like deferment.

[Brickbat]

29. Paris....shit.

I'm still only in Paris. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in Bordeaux.

[Frustratedlady]

9. Maybe she's referring to his car accident.

We have those here, as well.

Glad I don't watch CNN.

[KurtNYC]

31. this one...

'I was frightened of driving a car (and) had a sense of vulnerability that I had not experienced before' -Mitt Romney

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085412/The-shocking-pictures-Mitt-Romney-died-young-Mormon-missionary.html#ixzz26kNMXFhT

[sinkingfeeling]

10. The only thing that happened in France in 1968 was the general strike. Maybe all

those 'socialists' just frightened little Mitt.

[Art_from_Ark]

42. France was a little more tumultuous than that in 1968

At least, Paris was.

http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/paris_1968.html

[Hubert Flottz]

11. He was just lucky he never caught VD over there!

I wonder how many wives he added to his GAGgle?

Edit...I wonder if Mitt was hanging out with Joachim Peiper?

[Ikonoklast]

12. "But, it was drafty in the castle late at night!"

"And sometimes, the staff could be a tad surly when asked to make the crepes just how I liked them!"

[gordianot]

13. America could also be dangerous place.

My Mother in law told the story of her land lady who kept a bucket of water by the door just for Mormon Missionaires and Jehovah Witness, they were not to popular during WWII.

[global1]

14. Second Hand Smoke At The French Restaurants.....nt

[LiberalEsto]

15. and escargots nt

[Arugula Latte]

23. Also, a rogue red balloon might have obscured your field of vision

causing you to trip and tumble down the steps of Montmarte.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Wing nuts need to know that Romney speaks French and loves the French. nt

[joeybee12]

17. Gloria Borger is one of the worst, most blatantly pro-repuke reporters out there...

I'm surprised she's not called on it more.

[James48]

18. it was the cheese....

nothing like a spoiled Camenbert that says "peptro-bismol" in the morning.




http://www.cheese-france.com/cheese/camembert.htm

[valerief]

19. I guess when you're a greedy proselytizing asshole, any place can be dangerous for you. nt

[pinboy3niner]

20. Vietnam vets feel for Mitt, being in the middle of it like that and all...

Fortunate Son
Recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Written by John Fogerty

Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no

Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh
But when the taxman comes to the door
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! More! More! yoh

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no

[ejbr]

21. I'll tell you what other dangers...

finding a place that served decent escargot, for Pete's sake.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. Sharing the road on a bicyle with French drivers is as dangerous as it got.

The manservant peddling around behind his limo was risking life and limb.

[caseymoz]

27. From left wing terrorists.

Every country in Western Europe then had Communist anti-American factions. Some of it due to Vietnam War. France had the Action Directe.

In Italy, the Red Brigades actually kidnapped and murdered a former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro.

In West Germany, the Red Army Faction.

However, as far as I know, this never stopped American Tourism to Europe. And it wasn't anywhere near as dangerous as going to Vietnam. But if you had to go around France and knock on doors as an American, you would make a more satisfying target than average.

[Warren Stupidity]

33. oh what nonsense that is.

"wasn't anywhere near as dangerous as going to Vietnam." well yes that would be correct, where on a scale of danger from 1 - 10, France would be a 1 and Vietnam would be a 10.

The red army faction, oddly enough, was not targeting american kids in europe, nor were they doing anything in France, door to door mormons or otherwise.

[caseymoz]

36. I'm just saying

since danger was there at all, CNN could bullshit without lying. Any American city at that time was much more dangerous than anywhere in France. New York would probably rate a 2 on your scale overall. Some sections were probably a 3.

In hindsight, yes, it's clear that they weren't targeting American kids. At the time, however, you didn't know what strategy they'd follow, nor where and how they'd strike.

I'm just saying, CNN told a little of the truth, perhaps enough to keep their consciences from feeling soiled.

[Warren Stupidity]

37. I was there at the time.

I knew exactly who "they" were targeting. It wasn't a mystery.

[caseymoz]

38. They could have always changed strategies,

. . . and not told you. As I said, it's only in hindsight you can see how safe you were, you couldn't know it at the time.

But why are we arguing this? We both agree that CNN gave a line bullshit. It had a little truth to it, but the best lies always do.

[Warren Stupidity]

39. You are being ridiculous.

We are arguing because you keep insisting that there was some credibility to the statement, and your argument appears to be "sure, there was no threat to american tourists in europe, but in some alternate universe there could have been". The statement was utter palpable bullshit.

[caseymoz]

41. No, that wasn't my argument.

The OP asked what "danger" could have possibly referred to. I gave him an example. A "threat" I remembered reading about at the time. If you didn't know I was answering that direct question, then I can understand how you got that idea. Otherwise, I don't understand why you got a chip on your shoulder about this.

The only way you could say, with the information available at the time, there was no trace of a threat to US citizens is to claim those Leninist, anti-American groups did not exist. Those groups had no reason to be honorable to the capitalist pigs. Because we had been ratty on foreign policy.

If you understand the term "in hindsight" as a comparison to an alternate universe, then your concept is invalid, pure and simple. That's not what it means. Those are two utterly different concepts and neither one implies the other.

Therefore, if that's what you think I meant, then you base it on a conceptual error. Pressing it any further now is simply forcing a straw man. I won't get drawn into it.

But you're antagonism makes me suspicious that maybe the subject at hand isn't what pisses you off. I begin to think this is personal.

[liberal N proud]

28. Must have been tough dodging those crepe grenades.

[Warren Stupidity]

32. In 68 France was a fucking great place to be if you were an american kid

unless of course you were a total Neidermeyer dickwad like rMoney.

[Lint Head]

34. I heard there was a big food fight back then envolving du fromage, du pain and a nice bordeaux.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. Good God, in 1968 I was a freshman at the American College in Paris

along with several hundred other Americans. I went everywhere, into all kinds of music clubs at all hours of the night and nothing ever happened. It was a lot safer looking than the downtown section of the average American city.