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Marzupialis

(398 posts)
Mon May 7, 2012, 12:54 PM May 2012

Conservative talk-show host/CNN contributor calls Sarah Palin dumb

Dana Loesch is a Breitbart.com editor, CNN contributor and hosts a radio talk show. She is a conservative. The other day, she tweeted the following about Joe Biden: "I think Biden could debate a podium and lose." https://twitter.com/#!/DLoesch/status/197853698288910336

But by claiming that Biden is so dumb he could lose to a podium, Loesch involuntarily called Sarah Palin dumber-than-Biden and dumber-than-a-podium, since Biden won his debate against Palin in 2008 according to a scientific poll among those who watched it.

CNN.COM (OCTOBER 3, 2008): The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. said 51 percent of those polled thought Biden did the best job, while 36 percent thought Palin did the best job.
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-10-03/politics/debate.poll_1_debate-poll-delaware-senator-biden?_s
Contact @dloesch and let her know how stupid and unfunny her tweet was.
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Conservative talk-show host/CNN contributor calls Sarah Palin dumb (Original Post) Marzupialis May 2012 OP
that's a real distant argument you try to make, and making it, ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #1
I stretched it into something that IS Marzupialis May 2012 #2
dumbe? she turned stupid John Mccain's election losing mistake into a $$$ gold mine lol nt msongs May 2012 #3
Too bad Dana Loesch is so dumb, she thought Palin won that debate(n/m) ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2012 #4
Dana Lush's boss Breitbart once debated syphilis... Erose999 May 2012 #5

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
1. that's a real distant argument you try to make, and making it,
Mon May 7, 2012, 01:14 PM
May 2012

it comes across rather lame. She did NOT say that, she did NOT refer to the Palin Biden debates, and she did NOT mention how badly Palin came across in that debate. She DID say that she thinks that the vice president of this country is dumb.

That should be the story, and that should be the starting point of a thread, not some lame comparison that did not exist. When lame arguments like this are made, the underlying issue, the insulting attack on the VP of our country gets lost in the weeds.

It is so easy to attack Loesch's tweet directly, and it would have far more impact than your gamesmanship. Why stretch it into something that it isn't?

 

Marzupialis

(398 posts)
2. I stretched it into something that IS
Mon May 7, 2012, 01:23 PM
May 2012

Logic.

If Biden is dumber than a podium and Palin couldn't beat Biden in a debate, then Loesch said what I said she said, because logic also said so.

You are invited to start your threads in the ways you believe a thread should be started. In the meantime, I will do it my way.



Dana Loesch called Sarah Palin dumb.

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