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kairos12

(12,862 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 06:21 PM Nov 2015

Gretchen Carlson says President Obama should listen to TV Program Homeland to beat ISIS.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/gretchen-carlson-says-obama-should-listen
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On Fox News' The Real Story, Gretchen took it a step further and complained that eight air bombings a day wasn't really enough of an effort by the administration to go after ISIS and then went into lala land by quoting a character from Showtime's series Homeland, who sounds like most radical conservatives when it comes to war.

I don't know if it's scary or if there's another adjective to describe it, but Showtime a show called Homeland and one of their characters actually seems to sometimes know more about this war on terror and ISIS than possibly this administration

The character they quoted was a black ops assassin named Peter Quinn, played expertly by Rupert Friend, who wants the US to bomb Syria and the jihadist into kingdom come or as he states, pound them into a parking lot.

She later referenced getting help from Ironman, James Bond, Transformers, Indiana Jones, and Spiderman. Faux News personal superhero Liarman is apparently tied up with the Rethug primary.
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Gretchen Carlson says President Obama should listen to TV Program Homeland to beat ISIS. (Original Post) kairos12 Nov 2015 OP
Homeland is a great show, but it is HOLLYWOOD...this shows us randys1 Nov 2015 #1
I amsure that JFK learned how to deal with the Russians hifiguy Nov 2015 #2
Wow... deathrind Nov 2015 #3
Gretchen is just doing what her mommy taught her to do Wellstone ruled Nov 2015 #4
Homeland is fiction. Blue_In_AK Nov 2015 #5

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Homeland is a great show, but it is HOLLYWOOD...this shows us
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 06:25 PM
Nov 2015

just how fucking stupid ANY and ALL cons would be if in charge

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
2. I amsure that JFK learned how to deal with the Russians
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 06:26 PM
Nov 2015

from the Ian Fleming Bond novels that he enjoyed as recreational reading.

Need I add ?

Jebus on a unicycle. Only Faux.

deathrind

(1,786 posts)
3. Wow...
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 06:38 PM
Nov 2015

So now our foreign policy should be modeled after a TV show...

Simple minds....

The disrespect shown to President Obama by the right is simply astonishing. The second guessing of bush jrs policy of "premptive strikes" against "potential" future threats i.e. Iraq to the US was deemed "un-patriotic" or even "seditious" by this same group of people. Every day this government/country inches closer to becoming a real world version of the government/country depicted in the comedy "Idiocracy". It is truly terrifying.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Gretchen is just doing what her mommy taught her to do
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 07:15 PM
Nov 2015

and that is,just do the Stupid and you will get a pay check. Show lots of skin like mommy did.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
5. Homeland is fiction.
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 07:18 PM
Nov 2015

Where is Quinn when you need him? I'm an avid viewer of Homeland, but I don't remember Quinn saying anything about bombing Syria to Kingdom Come except maybe in moments of frustration. He does lead a pretty exhausting life.

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