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Medina Press Release Prior To Debate Laced With Profanity
TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 01/30/2010 | John G. Winder

Posted on 01/30/2010 8:06:53 AM PST by Patriot1259

As the second debate among contenders for the GOP nomination for Governor of Texas was nearing its start Debra Medina issued a press release that really caught my eye. The title of the Press Release contained profanity, so did the body of the Press Release. There in the headline was a term used commonly in some circles throughout Texas. Medina used that term to describe one of Rick Perry’s positions which she called “BS”, only she didn't abbreviate.

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bs; debramedina; rickperry; texas

1 posted on 01/30/2010 8:06:54 AM PST by Patriot1259
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To: Patriot1259

Who cares if there is a little ‘salt’ in the words.
Where has the manicured, milquetoast RINO’s nicety nice Mr. Rogers tone led us to recently in this nation?


2 posted on 01/30/2010 8:13:47 AM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: Patriot1259
Oh for crying out loud! How ridiculous.

On the bad side, or at the very least, strange side, one could say that the use of such a term in a press release could be seen as the sign of an amateurish or ignorant candidate.

How about a REALLY angry candidate? I see Freepers say BS! all the time.

Honestly, I don't know anything about this race but I think being polite has sunk us more than once. Oh and, I don't like profanity and have seldom used any

3 posted on 01/30/2010 8:18:54 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Patriot1259
I guess on the side of arguing this could be a good thing, one could say that for the first time, perhaps in U.S. history, someone running for public office has used a term that genuinely describes much of the politics we see every day. I can’t argue with that.

No. Years ago ('88?) the Citizens Party (lefty) used the unabbreviated version in radio ads to get attention.
4 posted on 01/30/2010 8:27:41 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Frm wikipedia:

During the 1980 U.S. presidential campaign, the Citizens Party candidate Barry Commoner ran a radio advertisement that began with an actor exclaiming: “Bullshit! Carter, Reagan and Anderson, it’s all bullshit!” NBC refused to run the advertisement because of its use of the expletive, but Commoner’s campaign successfully appealed to the Federal Communications Commission to allow the advertisement to run unedited.[5]

So it was 1980.


5 posted on 01/30/2010 8:33:10 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana
What is the difference between an abbreviation and the word spelled out?

None!

6 posted on 01/30/2010 8:35:54 AM PST by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: Patriot1259

I’d put my money on KB Hutchison for having the worst “potty mouth” of the three candidates!

I saw the first debate and considered Medina to be a lightweight that only repeated her memorized talking points instead of answering the questions posed; same trick that Obama uses when not aided by his TOTUS script.

Missed the Friday night debate because the weekly TV schedule from the Dallas paper did not show it to be on.

Medina is a Libertarian and is being boosted in the polls by backers of Ron Paul and by Democrats. She has no executive or business experience (again, like Obama) and is only muddying the water in the GOP primary. Hopefully, her being the race will take votes away from KBH, the RINO that has been in D.C. for far too long to be trusted in Texas.


7 posted on 01/30/2010 8:41:47 AM PST by octex
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8 posted on 01/30/2010 8:52:27 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (Screaming in Agony they ran to the Government But then Realized from whence the Agony came !)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Commoner was one of those pseudo-scientists (”The Closing Circle”) into doomsday scenarios, and served as one of the great ALgore’s earliest ‘inspirations’.


9 posted on 01/30/2010 9:01:31 AM PST by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: Patriot1259

Medina and her campaign manager, Penny Langford Freeman, are former Ron Paul staffers.


10 posted on 01/30/2010 9:01:58 AM PST by Jane Long (Clean out Congress...give 'em term limits and their own dose of "government" healthcare.)
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11 posted on 01/30/2010 9:01:59 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (Screaming in Agony they ran to the Government But then Realized from whence the Agony came !)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

OOPS SORRY


12 posted on 01/30/2010 9:02:38 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (Screaming in Agony they ran to the Government But then Realized from whence the Agony came !)
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To: Patriot1259
Is there a link to the source of the actual press release on the article? If not, it is "Bovine Scatology".
13 posted on 01/30/2010 9:10:33 AM PST by GWConservative (It's ten a.m. in DC. Do you know where your Congress-critter is?)
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To: Patriot1259
Oh, give me a break. (Not you, Pat, the author)

I'm a soccer mom TEA party/We the People conservative, and even I wasn't offended by this--it's a debate between adults, not on during morning shows when kids could be watching (like the soap operas showing men kissing and having affairs!)--political correctness is fine--don't say it in church, or if there's a bunch of kids around. But in this setting? GO FOR IT, MEDINA. Call it (political rhetoric and outright LIES) for what it is! BS!!!

This writer is apparently a bit left leaning, if he was so easily offended by this. "Her ability to shine when Texans have the opportunity to see her, and her newfound popularity in the polls, are now diminished by the “BS” remark."?! Speaking of BS!!!

Anyone got a link to the actual press release? I want to see the actual "lacing of profanity" myself. Wanna bet there's only one or two 'horrifying' curse words in it???
14 posted on 01/30/2010 9:50:41 AM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: Patriot1259

Ann Richards?


15 posted on 01/30/2010 6:44:32 PM PST by Hattie
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To: DJ MacWoW
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What choice do we have?

Medina ad:

“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)

She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”

No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.

She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.

So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.

No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.

The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties

*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422

16 posted on 02/02/2010 6:45:12 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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So there are bigger issues than a candidate using “BS”.


17 posted on 02/02/2010 6:52:51 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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