MSNBC bringing up Obama cocaine use, Clinton "inhaling"...to offset Romney's prep school bullying

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Last edited Fri May 11, 2012, 10:56 AM - Edit history (1)

Richard Lui made the remarks, filling in today on "Jansing & Co." His two guests aren'y buying it. Steve Kornacki from Salon was one of them.

The guests basically said when you take Romney's prep school shit, tying the dog to the roof, liking to fire people...when you look at the "big picture," there's a consistency. It's not like he was a bully in high school and got over it.

Looks like today is "Defend Mitt Romney Day" on MSNBC.

On edit: Richard Lui made the remarks, filling in today on "Jansing & Co."

[uponit7771]

1. NPR is calling gay "efiminate" now!!!

[yardwork]

2. There is no comparison. It's offensive to suggest that there is.

[Zorra]

9. +1. And disingenuous as well. nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Clinton got high and NO ONE GOT HURT.

You're absolutely right, it WAS offensive. But so far, that's the tone so far on MSNBC today...two shows in a row have stepped up to defend Romney.

[GoCubsGo]

3. I hope someone asks them who Obama, Clinton and Dumbya hurt with their drug/booze use.

I'm glad to see some aren't buying this current false equivalency.

[Arkana]

4. Big difference with the other three.

Obama trying coke, Clinton smoking weed, and even (yes) Dubya's drinking didn't physically hurt anyone else.

Romney committing assault and battery, on the other hand?

[newspeak]

23. oh, the media "bless their little hearts"

wasn't little boots alcohol and cocaine use. I read he was a bully drunk. But, it's like comparing apples and oranges. Did any of them constantly publicly heckle someone, humiliate them and then get all physical on the victim?

What the corporate media has accomplished in the past thirty years, besides dumbing down the populace, has thrown logic out the window.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Think how smart our President was to get all his stuff out in his book so it is now old news

No new bombshells from the past coming out every week like it is going to be for Romney.

Just wait until this starts to get good.

Don

[rurallib]

6. They gotta have a horse race to sell their diet plans and smoking cures

so they gotta work hard for probably the worst presidential candidate ever.

[seabeyond]

7. difference. one hurts self. one hurts another. HUGE

Difference

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Obama WAS bullied for being different

Romney did the bullying.

That's the plain truth of the matter.

Over lunch, Barry, who was 9 at the time, sat at the dining table and listened intently but did not speak. When he asked to be excused, Ann directed him to ask the hostess for permission. Permission granted, he got down on the floor and played with Bryant’s son, who was 13 months old. After lunch, the group took a walk, with Barry running ahead. A flock of Indonesian children began lobbing rocks in his direction. They ducked behind a wall and shouted racial epithets. He seemed unfazed, dancing around as though playing dodge ball “with unseen players,” Bryant said. Ann did not react. Assuming she must not have understood the words, Bryant offered to intervene. “No, he’s O.K.,” Ann said. “He’s used to it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/magazine/mag-24Obama-t.html?pagewanted=all

[Woody Woodpecker]

10. Ah now, maybe they'll bring marijuana legalization in the front burner.

Obama can win a LOT of pro-pot folks and Liberterians by just rescheduling cannabis to the same schedule alcohol and tobacco are.

[kestrel91316]

19. That would be REMOVING MJ from the schedule of controlled

substances, because alcohol and tobacco aren't even ON it.

[get the red out]

11. It's called a TRACK RECORD

Romney's got one. Of course they will just try to put it off as a mere series of isolated incidents of Willard accidentally being a complete jerk.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Lui's GUESTS brought that up, and Lui attempted to side-step it.

Lui leaned hard on the "isolated incidents" concept. His GUESTS said "No, this is a PATTERN."

[shcrane71]

14. MSM is so out-of-touch.

It's sad.

[yardwork]

15. Not out of touch. Paid by advertisers to read right-wing scripts.

[shcrane71]

22. I hope cable subscriptions plummet,

and they realize that no one is buying what they're peddlin'.

[ellisonz]

16. Just mad because Obama was one of the cool kids...

...and Mitt Romney was a turd blossom.

[Hatchling]

17. Abusing one's self does NOT equal abusing others.

That's assuming that one considers using drugs to be self abuse. Which I don't regarding marijuana, And my god, in the 80"s nearly everyone I knew had at least tried cocaine, it was the prevailing culture.

[kestrel91316]

18. Of course, because there is absolutely NO difference between

personal recreational drug use and the hate crime of physical assault on a gay person.......

[Life Long Dem]

20. Saw that

That's when I said they want to keep Romney in the race for a close race. But my first reaction was what the hell does pot or cocaine have to do with bullying?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. Well if it keeps people talking about Mitt's viscious misbehavior that's what counts

Any rational person can see through the comparisons and understand that Romney's behavior is sick and hurtful to others. And for those incapable of rational thought, they have made up their minds even before the comparisons to Clinton and Obama. I want this story to be repeated ad infinitum until it becomes permanently tattooed to Romney's public image.