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The AP headline on this Washington Post story?
"Romney Criticized for Hotel Pornography"
The story? Romney was on the board of directors of a hotel chain, Marriott, and failed to stop the chain's sale of in-room pay-per-view pornographic movies, a lucrative business for the chain.
Now, the story itself is a pretty weak critique; as Romney responds in defending the charge of hypocrisy in his larger critique of porn:
I am not pursuing an effort to try and stop adults from being able to acquire or see things that I find objectionable; that's their right. But I do vehemently oppose practices or business procedures that will allow kids to be exposed to obscenity.
Either way, however, the AP headline makes it sound like he got caught watching dirty movies in his hotel room. Nobody could think that's a fair headline.
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Do you really think the police catch crooks after their first crime.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
It's really sad how far the media elite in this country have fallen.
... when it comes to what is so regularly offered up by the "objective" news media.
Sad, but it is what it is. I'm glad for the outlets like this one (and so many others) that do get the correct stories out.
Jack
The World's Ruined
Now that Hillary has solidified her lead over Obama you can expect the trashing of republicans to commence.
If you think this piece about Romney is bad just wait until they start running stories on Fred Thompson's white supremacist role on Wiseguy. This cycle is gonna get very nasty.
NT.
job of misleading the people on the war nor would Democratic Party officials better mislead Americans on GOP candidates than the "journalists" at AP, etc
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Check out the headline from a paper called New West,
"Romney's Porno Problem"
KUTV goes with "Mitt Romney Criticized For Hardcore Hotel Porn"
Go to Google news and you'll find a bunch of different headlines, although must used the same as quoted above.
Bizarrely, the first headline that really captures the story, "Conservatives accuse Romney of taking little effort to stop pornography at Marriott", comes from Pravda.
...and wrong, I know. "Romney's Porno Problem" is hilarious though. So open-ended...er...if you will.
that the MSM and the left seeks not the truth, but rather, opportunities to obfuscate same by twisting language to advance perceived truths as either facts or insensitivity thats worse in their PC world.
In short, they are liars.
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didn't we?
As always, it bears repeating.
We've traded our National Sovereignty for cheap roofing and yardwork.
just a good sense of humour by the headline writers.
Lighten up.
but pray tell, why is Romney endorsing a "right" to view pornography? A right!
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Unfortunately there is such a right under current law. Acknowledging it doesn't mean endorsing it.
They that are with us are more than they that are against us.
to the enjoyment of wickedness, no matter what the robbed tyrants of the Supreme Court say. It's a small thing of course, but I'd like to see a smart guy like Romney prepared to resist the torturous machinations of Liberal orthodoxy.
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I understand your point of view, but is that something that you really want the President to take the power to start enforcing? With the Congress?
Run like Reagan!
Does that mean there is no 'right' to smoke, drink, have premarital sex, listen to rap music, or support 'progressive causes'.
There is a tremendous number of 'wicked' things that a person can do by right, because as I understand is people are free to chose their path.
Aside from that, this whole ‘wickedness’ discussion is for church and home not politics.
Any candidates who took up these views would be deader than those Leon forecasted to crash and burn over Iraq.
It was given to Adam, he chose poorly. Were we not created free moral agents? Most manmade laws are designed to curb our free moral agency. Granted, there are penalties to be paid up to death of the body by man, death of the soul by God.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
If in different circumstances he had said they don't have a right then the lie would have been "Romney captive to Religious Right", with suitable variations.
The cat's out of the bag, the hodgepodge, stitched together penumbra thing. It's a sad reflection on a mass society and media but some fights by candidates have to be avoided or minimized.
Either way or whatever course taken any Republican near prominence will have the news twisted on him.
Today's journalists are vermin and the main reason politics are fit matter for the toilet.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Apply the subject line of your comment to your own point: it doesn't matter that the media is biased. Or at least, we're used to that fact. And it is a fact. But still, Romney's endorsement of a right to pornography is rather revealing.
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What do you think the hotel rooms are really used for?
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
and whether or not you choose to address me by my name I would appreciate you not use a form popular in circles that neither you nor I frequent.
And of course it matters that the media is biased, I reiterate, it matters not what is said by Republican leaders, a way will be found to debauch their meaning and content.
In regards what is revealed, having said what I did in my first post I won't add much except to say that some battles are lost before they're fought. I don't approve of what he said and will let it go at that.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
I meant no disrespect. I'm afraid it may disappoint you, but that conversational formulation is decidedly part of my common parlance.
Anyway, I think we're pretty much in agreement: the media is populated mostly by brassbound Liberals, and even our GOP presidential candidates have in their own minds assented to Liberal orthodoxy on things like pornography. A sad state of affairs.
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and as always you're a gentleman. I confess to an overreaction on my part and so will close.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Friendly advice - try to use the "Reply To This" button. It makes these back-forths much easier to follow.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Romney also explained that Marriott Hotels had signed a ten year contract with the cable provider one year before he became CEO.
This was the standard deal with cable offering all their channels- including all their pay-per-view. (I mean, even my cable includes all those pay-per-view channels- I don't want them, never use them, but they come with the basic package that I purchased, and if I want my Fox News and History Channel and Disney Channel, I got to put up with programming my cable box to skip over those channels when channel surfing).
So Romney never even got a chance to make a decision on the issue, because he left Marriott after 8 years.
They just want to dirty Romney up because the media can't stand his squeaky clean family life. It's a rebuke to their own lives. So they think they can slander him with these outrageous headlines and make him pay for thinking a "boy scout" or "goody two shoes" could run for president.
Of course, it's only going to help Romney. People will see that headline, and stop to read the article, and after reading it will decide that Romney is sane and his detractors are crazy. If anything it will make him even more Teflon then he already is.
is the only candidate who is not afraid to bring up pornography in his stump speeches. While it can't be outlawed, we can begin a conversation that brings out porn for what it is.
Porn has ruined more marriages than most would recognize. New studies are now beginning to show the damaging effects porn has on the brain. Porn is addictive. Shooting Romney down over this is dumb move, especially for those who want to advance an anti-porn movement.
I really just can't see any other candidate making it an issue, except Huckabee and Brownback, neither of which have done so yet.
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Member of Romney for President Faith and Values Steering Committee-an unpaid advisory position, that does not require an endorsement.
So pretty soon we should be seeing a headline like:
Romney Criticized for Call Girl Rings
but I think I just besmirched the National Enquirer.
AP appears to be a dead-heat tie with Al Reuters for who is the most anti-American, anti-conservative, anti-unbiased outfit.
Al Jazeera comes in a distant third.
It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the
enemyDemocrats?