The weekend "debates"
The weekend "debates"
Neal Boortz
Jan. 9, 2012
We had two so-called “debates” over the weekend. They’re not really debates .. they’re joint press conferences. Anyway ... as long as we continue to allow the ObamaMedia, proggie establishment to moderate these debates, they will continue to be a waste of time. It seems that they are becoming more and more ridiculous, and this weekend was no exception, particularly the ABC debate on Saturday night.
We have a Marxist in the White House -- overseeing the decline of American exceptionalism -- while growing our hideous federal government at an alarming rate. Our entire federal budget is on the cusp of being consumed by entitlement spending alone. Millions of Americans have simply given up looking for work and millions more are under employed. We have more Americans on food stamps than ever before. Gas prices are at record levels. We have a mad-mullah about to obtain nuclear capability while threatening to shut off one sixth of the world’s oil supply. We have businesses drowning in burdensome government regulations, fearful of higher taxes and the uncertainty of legislation like ObamaCare.
That is just a smattering of the issues we are facing, and it takes George Stephanopoulos, Diane Sawyer and producers at ABC over an hour to really get into the issue of the economy? What did they choose to talk about along the way?
Gay marriage
Ron Paul newsletters from 20 years ago
Which candidate is a real conservative
Iraq
Should a state be able to make contraceptives illegal?
What else would you be doing on a Saturday night?
Contraceptives? Yeah ... you didn’t misread that. Former Clinton operative and journalist hack actually wasted valuable time with a completely asinine line of questioning about contraception: Yup ... I’m talking about George Stephanopoulos, who spent almost five minutes grilling Mitt Romney over whether or not he agreed with a Supreme Court ruling from 1965 that bars states from banning contraception. Are you freaking kidding me? The question was so out of left-field and absurd that the audience at one point booed when Stephanopoulos insisted on Romney answering his hypothetical question and then cheered when he finally moved on from the subject.
Now just why in the world did Stephanopoulos ask this idiotic question? There is not one single state in this nation that is at present considering a law banning the use of contraceptives. Not one. This is NOT an issue -- ANYWHERE. So why take time - with all of the REAL problems we face in this nation -- why take time to ask this absurd hypothetical question? The answer is simple. Even though this is absolutely NOT an issue anywhere, Stephanopoulos hoped to get one of these GOP candidates to make some sort of a statement in favor of a contraceptive ban -- or something close to it -- in order to demonize them in the minds of independent voters. It was a cheap tactic from a partisan hack that ABC continues to try to pawn off on the American people as a “journalist.”
Perhaps the only good thing to come out of that absurd question was yet another stellar moment from Newt Gingrich. As the line of questioning expanded to the issue of gay adoption … again, why is this a pressing issue?? … Newt Gingrich was the only person to really call out the ObamaMedia for their slanted questions. You can watch the video here, but here’s a transcript of what he had to say.
I just want to raise, since we just spent this much time on these issues, I just want to raise a point about the news media bias. You don't hear the opposite question asked. Should the Catholic Church be forced to close its adoption services in Massachusetts because it won't accept gay couples? Which is exactly what the state has done.
Should the Catholic Church be driven out of providing charitable services in the District of Columbia because it won't give in to secular bigotry? Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration in a key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? The bigotry question goes both ways, and there's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side, and none of it gets covered by the liberal media.
Mark Steyn seems about as sick to damn death of all of this as I am. He writes, “This country is broke, and the unprecedented scale of its brokeness is an existential threat. Yet, with the exception of Newt’s occasional flashes of contempt for the questioners, everyone else plays along with this absurd game. It’s not merely that the GOP is letting the left frame the contest but that a party willing to dignify this pitiful charade is sending a broader message about the likelihood of its mustering the determination to stand up to a Democrat-media establishment once in office and effect meaningful course correction.”
By the way, did you realize that we’ve now gone four full weeks, and three hours and forty-five minutes of debate time, without a single question on ObamaCare? Can you believe that? And surely you know why there haven’t been any questions on ObamaCare. That is because these leftist, ObamaMedia footstools don’t want to give any of these GOP candidates to attack their precious ObamaCare in front of a national audience.
Anyway, the debate on Sunday morning was nothing more than the grand finale … the final attempts of the candidates to throw all of their darts at Mitt Romney and hope that one of them makes impact. I’m not sure that last ditch effort will be enough to deter the Romney campaign at this point.
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