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tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 09:45 AM Aug 2012

Chris Wallace Gets Romney Campaign to Admit It!




they have Nooooo functional plan - WHATSOEVER, and Romney wants to raise the eligibility age of Medicare so you won't even see these magical 'vouchers' till YEARS later. And you'll be paying through the nose along with waiting longer for these vouchers to become available.

I won't go into too much detail as this video speaks for itself, but just watch as the weasel-in-chief of the Romney/Ryan campaign - Ed Gillespie - tries to twist and wriggle his way out from under direct questions. He tries joking. Changing the subject. Mentioning Bill Clinton. Talking about Steve Martin.

ANYTHING but answering the question. His only specific? Mitt Romney wants to do 'reforms'. And what is one of those 'reforms'? Raising the age at which you become eligible for Medicare benefits that you have been putting money into all your life.

Caution. Do not watch within reach of a brick or you will certainly toss that puppy right at your screen after listening to how Romney's campaign adviser finally answers the question of facts put to him by Chris Wallace.

It's sickening.

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Chris Wallace Gets Romney Campaign to Admit It! (Original Post) tomm2thumbs Aug 2012 OP
What is going on here? BlueStreak Aug 2012 #1
But Wall St. $$ is going to RMoney. Jackpine Radical Aug 2012 #3
Good thing the Worlds going to end Dec 21.2012 otherwise we would all be screwed Heather MC Aug 2012 #2
He pulled that line out of his 'break glass in case of emergency' kit tomm2thumbs Aug 2012 #4
The Stooge!!! DMNinFL Aug 2012 #5
 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
1. What is going on here?
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:06 AM
Aug 2012

There have been several cases recently where Fox has been the most fact-based, and that NEVER happens.

Evidently Roger Ailes is giving at least Chris Wallace a green light to go forward with objective reporting. I can think of 2 possible explanation for Roger Ailes' possible green light:

1) He has concluded that Romney doesn't have any path to victory in the electoral college (I don't agree with that)

2) The Wall Street guys, as much as they hate Democrats for the perception that Democrats are tougher on regulations (which isn't all that true), realize that they make the most money when a Democrat is in the White House. Every time a Republican get in there, we end up with a recession. In fact, the combination that makes them the most money, by a long shot, is a Democrat as president and one of the houses of Congress in Republican hands.

We'll see if Wallace is on his own or if the other nitwits on that network join him in the network's new-found appreciation of facts.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
3. But Wall St. $$ is going to RMoney.
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:23 AM
Aug 2012

I can almost smell a setup to dump rMoney at the last minute. Ya gotta know that Fux is responding to some dark agenda from somewhere.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
2. Good thing the Worlds going to end Dec 21.2012 otherwise we would all be screwed
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:19 AM
Aug 2012

I really love the face twitch at mark 2:13 when he realizes this isn't the usual easy softball Faux news interview he was prepared for.

Oh and to end with we reject the analyst of the findings of a non partisan watch dog, LOL then what's the point.

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
4. He pulled that line out of his 'break glass in case of emergency' kit
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:26 AM
Aug 2012

'We reject that in our analysis, and don't believe that that is accurate'

You can tell how his personality changed when he spits it out at the end that he tossed it out from practice of being cornered by facts before -- it was rehearsed and practiced. It came out almost as easily as 'no comment' comes out of a caught-criminal being probed by the police.

DMNinFL

(105 posts)
5. The Stooge!!!
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 11:37 AM
Aug 2012

Ed Gillespie is a Republican stooge and always has been.
What really bothers me is that BOTH Democrat and Republican
spokespeople who get on the tube don't have a clue how
Medicare operates. Then there is Medicaid. Anybody here have
a clue how middle class families are going to be royally screwed
by the Romney-Ryan changes to Medicaid? That is MIDDLE class
families under 55 and above 55.

I just watched Ryan's speech in Manchester NH. These two
guys scare the crap out of me. Anyone who is informed should
be scared down to their socks.

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