DEBATE THIS!
Posted on 10/05/2012 5:40:30 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
The presidential debate Wednesday night was the most tweeted about event in political history, and, it's still being talked about this morning.
Jon Stewart, appearing on Good Morning America today to tout his own upcoming debate (Saturday in Washington) with Bill O'Reilly, assessed President Obama and Mitt Romney.
"I think we can all be satisfied in this election that no matter what happens, we're going to have an incredibly good-looking president," cracked Stewart. "That was some beefcake up there last night. The two of them. And when they take this thing into the swimsuit competition...."
He continued: "There's not a country in the world ... put those two up against what? (German Chancellor Angela) Merkle?"
He added that now, "Obama realizes, 'Oh, pre-season's over. I should probably familiarize myself with my presidency and learn some of the various numbers and things that go along...' I thought he had a very difficult night. And I'm concerned he may not re-elect us."
The debate night was the most tweeted about event in political history, and stars weighed in.
Alec Baldwin: "Obama is a potentially great man who remains mildly uncomfortable in public life. Mitt is a gifted off-shore money tycoon and tax preparer." And, "2 judge these men from these debates is ridiculous. Obama is a 21st Century Democrat. He wants as much change as corp America will allow."
Mia Farrow: "I love great schools I love Big Bird I like coal Not feeling the coal-love"
Lady Gaga: "I believe its important to note before this begins that Romney is a millionaire and paid well below the average tax rate, paying only 13.9%."
Samuel L. Jackson: "What future generations is Mitt the guardian of?! I think dude just wants to add Leader Of The Free World to his resume'!"
Dean Cain, who tweeted a lot about the debate: "Romney looks like the next President to me. I'm looking forward to next year. #Romney"
Michael Moore: "Ok, here's my optimistic tweet: Romney didn't convince a single Obama voter to change their vote. But O needed to fire up the base. Not done."
Bill Maher: "my rating: Romney won the debate, Obama had the facts on his side, and Lehrer sucked. Next debate, get @SethMacFarlane to host!"
Rob Lowe: "Watched a lot of debates, that was a real blood-letting. #POTUSwiffs#Mittenssticks
Just as Big Bird became a trending topic the instant Mitt Romney brought him up, moderator Jim Lehrer got his share of attention, from criticism to parody to sympathy.
Tweeted Chris Rock: "Both candidates debated poorly. Obama is thinking about his anniversary. Romney is nervous near a black man. Jim Lehrer is made out of clay."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: "What r u doing, Jim Lehrer? What r u doing?!"
Al Roker cracked: "I hope Jim Lehrer gets the license plate of the truck that drove over him in this debate."
FunnyorDie noted: "'Poor Jim' is trending worldwide. So at least Jim Lehrer has that going for him. #debate2012"
Said Andy Cohen: "I sympathize with Jim Lehrer - sometimes its hard getting control over passionate people! #RH"
And emerging during it all was @Silent Jim Lehrer page, which included tweets such as, "um... I..."
Here are 25 of our favorite debate-related tweets:
W. Kamau Bell -- The media is promoting the #debates like a full on sports event. People are going to be real disappointed when it's just 2 dudes talking.
Linnéa Sandström -- Romney has a bigger US flag pin than Obama. The debate is over? #debates
Sarah Littman -- Mitt: "I like coal" Poor people will find it in their stockings if I am President. #debates
Rachel Lichtman -- So far the only Zingers are in Chris Christie's glove compartment. #debates
Todd Barry -- These guys are both feeding off the energy of the crowd. #debates
Marc Lombardi -- The debate would be much more interesting & informative if a buzzer went off every time an untrue statement was made. #debates
Kathleen Madigan -- So far, this is as exciting as lunesta. Which I love. #mockthevote
Aaron Blitzstein -- "It's time for my second question." - Jim Lehrer at 3pm tomorrow
Indecision -- This campaign to re-elect Bill Clinton is going really well. #debates
Storify: Big Bird and the presidential debate
Kristi Harrison -- I have to admit they're both pretty handsome. I'm waiting for the swimsuit competition to decide. #debates
Fired Big Bird -- Somewhere Paul Ryan is kicking over trash cans in hopes of smoking out Oscar the Grouch
Jim Sterling -- Obama is winning in the "Looking amazingly condescending when the other guy talks" race. #debates
Danny Sullivan -- Sorry, that was Obama spending five seconds arguing that he's owed five more seconds to argue #debates
Phil Plait -- After reading all the variations of the debate drinking games, I have decided to simply remove my liver and set it on fire.
Mo Mandel -- This is the worst SNL skit of all time. #debates
Tara Ariano -- Frankly, neither candidate is working hard enough to land the immigrant feminist small business owner non-voting socialist vote. #debate
Fired Big Bird -- If you don't vote Obama, Mitt Romney is going to be eating me by the end of November. Show your support. #BigBird2012
Dave Weigel -- This is like watching a tax law professor debate an investment advice infomercial host
Silent Jim Lehrer -- ...I...so, I...guys...
Patton Oswalt -- Hey Obama -- TRAIN WITH HILLARY. This is ROCKY III and she's your Apollo Creed. #eyeofthetiger
Nisha Chittal -- where is the orchestra from the Emmys when you need them! #debates
Crystal Bruce -- Whoever dances off stage horse riding style to Open Gangnam --- wins! #debates2012
Doug Benson -- 14 minutes until we can all go back to preferring the candidate we liked when the debate started. #debate
Are You Italian? -- The debates in my house are much louder. #2012debate
Dennis Miller Show -- Obama better hope a Kicked A** is covered under Obamacare
Murphy, a furniture dealer from Dublin, decided to expand the line of furniture in his store, so he decided to go to Paris to see what he could find.
After arriving in Paris , he visited with some manufacturers and selected a line that he thought would sell well back home. To celebrate the new acquisition, he decided to visit a small bistro and have a glass of wine.
As he sat enjoying his wine, he noticed that the small place was quite crowded, and that the other chair at his table was the only vacant seat in the house.
Before long, a very beautiful young Parisian girl came to his table, asked him something in French (which Murphy could not understand), so he motioned to the vacant chair and invited her to sit down.
He tried to speak to her in English, but she did not speak his language. After a couple of minutes of trying to communicate with her, he took a napkin and drew a picture of a wine glass and showed it to her. She nodded, so he ordered a glass of wine for her.
After sitting together at the table for a while, he took another napkin, and drew a picture of a plate with food on it, and she nodded. They left the bistro and found a quiet cafe that featured a small group playing romantic music.
They ordered dinner, after which he took another napkin and drew a picture of a couple dancing. She nodded, and they got up to dance. They danced until the cafe closed and the band was packing up.
Back at their table, the young lady took a napkin and drew a picture of a four-poster bed. To this day, Murphy has no idea how she figured out he was in the furniture business.
It’s quite clear from this story that Murphy was not a true Irishman.
An Irishman would have drawn a picture of a pint of ale.
Three scotswomen are walking home at night (they are neighbors) and find a scotsman passed out partially under a wagon. His upper body is under the wagon and they can’t see who he is; however, they would like to help him get home.
The first woman looks under his kilt and says, “It’s not my husband”. The second woman looks under his kilt and says, It’s not my husband”. The third woman looks under his kilt and says, “Why he’s not even from our village!”
an englishman, a scotsman and an irishman sit down in a pub and each order a pint of bitters. unfortunately each pint has a fly in it.
the englishman pushes his pint back, and demands a fresh one without a fly.
the scotsman removes the fly and proceeds to drink his pint.
the irishman pulls the fly out, hits it and screams, “spit it out ye wee bastard!!”
YUP : )
20 Clever Words
Read Slowly & You Will See the Light
1. ARBITRATOR
A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonalds
2. AVOIDABLE
What a bullfighter tries to do
3. BERNADETTE
The act of torching a mortgage
4. BURGLARIZE
What a crook sees with
5. CONTROL
A short, ugly inmate
6. COUNTERFEITERS
Workers who put together kitchen cabinets
7. ECLIPSE
What an English barber does for a living
8. EYEDROPPER
A clumsy ophthalmologist
9. HEROES
What a guy in a boat does
10. LEFTBANK
What the robber did when his bag was full of money
11. MISTY
How golfers create divots
12. PARADOX
Two physicians!
13. PARASITES
What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower
14. PHARMACIST
A helper on the farm
15. POLARIZE
What penguins see with
16. PRIMATE
Removing your spouse from in front of the TV!
17. RELIEF
What trees do in the spring
18. RUBBERNECK
What you do to relax your wife
19. SELFISH
What the owner of a seafood store does
20. SUDAFED
Brought litigation against a government official!
HEH!
As it should be! Im laughing now !!
I wonder how much longer the media will have access to the tee times?
Somehow I ended up on a left wing mailing list of Move On. This is an email re how the left wing progressives feel about the debate:
Dear MoveOn member,
That was infuriating.
During last night’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney smirked his way through dozens of mischaracterizations, distortions, and outright lies. The moderator, Jim Lehrer, never cut him off. And now the mainstream media is saying that Mitt won the debate.
We can’t let Romney “win” the debate on a boatload of lies.
He lied about his tax plan, his deficit plan, and Medicare. He lied about what “Obamacare” would do. He lied, baldly and convincingly, about Obama’s entire presidency.1
We need to move quickly to set the record straight. Our online team worked overnight preparing a media blitz—including online ads targeted at swing-state voters—correcting the worst lies in an easy-to-share format.
Chip in $5 to get the truth out—countering Mitt’s lies.
If we don’t fight back now with the truth, some of those lies will stick, and Romney could pull ahead.
Already, Romney and his Super PAC friends have spent millions on blatantly false ads attacking President Obama for gutting work requirements for welfare and cutting $700 million from Medicare.
Last night was more of the same.
And research shows that when lies get repeated enough times people will believe them—no matter how outlandish they might seem. The only way to keep Romney honest is to make sure the facts get corrected on the spot.
We’re now in the moment when millions of undecided voters who don’t usually pay attention to politics start to focus.
This is it. This is what MoveOn’s massive online network is for. Let’s use it.
Please chip in $5.
Thanks for all you do.
–Angie, Mark, Lenore, Tate, and the rest of the team
1. “Presidential Debate Fact-Check and Updates,” The New York Times, October 3, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=281980&id=53824-21930683-_smjiTx&t=4
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Somehow I ended up on a left wing mailing list of Move On. This is an email re how the left wing progressives feel about the debate:
Dear MoveOn member,
That was infuriating.
During last night’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney smirked his way through dozens of mischaracterizations, distortions, and outright lies. The moderator, Jim Lehrer, never cut him off. And now the mainstream media is saying that Mitt won the debate.
We can’t let Romney “win” the debate on a boatload of lies.
He lied about his tax plan, his deficit plan, and Medicare. He lied about what “Obamacare” would do. He lied, baldly and convincingly, about Obama’s entire presidency.1
We need to move quickly to set the record straight. Our online team worked overnight preparing a media blitz—including online ads targeted at swing-state voters—correcting the worst lies in an easy-to-share format.
Chip in $5 to get the truth out—countering Mitt’s lies.
If we don’t fight back now with the truth, some of those lies will stick, and Romney could pull ahead.
Already, Romney and his Super PAC friends have spent millions on blatantly false ads attacking President Obama for gutting work requirements for welfare and cutting $700 million from Medicare.
Last night was more of the same.
And research shows that when lies get repeated enough times people will believe them—no matter how outlandish they might seem. The only way to keep Romney honest is to make sure the facts get corrected on the spot.
We’re now in the moment when millions of undecided voters who don’t usually pay attention to politics start to focus.
This is it. This is what MoveOn’s massive online network is for. Let’s use it.
Please chip in $5.
Thanks for all you do.
–Angie, Mark, Lenore, Tate, and the rest of the team
1. “Presidential Debate Fact-Check and Updates,” The New York Times, October 3, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=281980&id=53824-21930683-_smjiTx&t=4
Want to support our work? MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 7 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from
Playing by the handbook again, I see:
The rules
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
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Jefferson, Adams and others of the Founders believed that there was no substitute for an educated and moral citizenry. In the interest of education, here are a couple of examples of the kinds of things that should trigger a “fraud alert” in your brain.
The first is an appeal to the emotions. The left does this with ads such as a barely-disguised stand-in for Paul Ryan literally throwing granny in a wheelchair over a cliff. The surprise ending of the commercial and the violence of the act cause you to react emotionally. If you listen to the message without the images, or stop to consider the message for even a moment, it seems overblown, fantastic, and surreal. It is. Those peddling the message don’t want you to think, they want you to feel.
When you know the facts, you know that it is the current administration that has cut $700 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare, and that Ryan’s proposal changes nothing for people over 55. You might even know that the Ryan proposal hasn’t been adopted as a policy proposal by the Romney campaign or the Republican Party.
The second method is to accuse the opposition of exactly what you’re doing. This has two effects: The first is that the opposition may spend time defending a nonsensical charge and get thrown off message. The left knows if they can control the debate, they win. The second effect is that when the opposition accuses you (correctly) of the same thing, people are by now skeptical. You get a pass.
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