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Romney Favors Hubbard Novel
The New York Times ^
| April 30, 2007
| Jim Rutenberg
Posted on 05/04/2007 8:03:11 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
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Is this accurate? Regardless of his political credentials, I have to question his mental state.
To: Labyrinthos
He's trying to distance himself from the wackiness of Mormonism by trying to align himself with Scientology.
He should have went with Kabbalah.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:04:55 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Labyrinthos
Don’t equate the movie with the book. The movie sucked (should have been billed as a comedy/parody). The book is pretty good sci-fi.........
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:04:59 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Labyrinthos
I read “Battlefield Earth” in high school. I’d call it cheap juvenile trash, but that would offend cheap juvenile trash everywhere.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:05:25 AM PDT
by
henkster
(Al Gore is the second coming...of Trofim Lysenko)
To: Labyrinthos
The smell of fear is on our friends at the NYT.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:05:50 AM PDT
by
claudiustg
(I curse you, Rudy of the Giuliani!)
To: Labyrinthos
Advisor: No Mitt, we said you need to AVOID any more connections to wacky religions.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:06:45 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: Labyrinthos
Wrong answer.
Or maybe he’s trying to get Tom Cruise and John Travolta to bankroll his campaign?
To: Labyrinthos
I wish he’d said the “Honor Harrington” series... That would have locked my vote in right there!
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:07:15 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Rudy Guiliani: if his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
To: Red Badger
> The movie sucked ...
Wait for the Tom Cruise remake.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:07:37 AM PDT
by
Boundless
(If we're lucky, that's just a joke.)
To: Red Badger
The book is pretty good sci-fi......... The book had a novella's worth of story stretched by Hubbard into a very long novel. A master of the English language can say in two or three words what it takes an average writer ten to say. Hubbard took one hundred. I want back the part of my life I wasted to read it on a friend's recommendation.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:07:56 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: Labyrinthos
Before Hubbard created a Science Fiction religion he just wrote plain old science fiction. That’s all Battlefield Earth is.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:08:28 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Red Badger
Yes, the movie was pretty awful. But it was a good story that, unfortunately, was translated badly onto the silver screen.
I happen to like Whitaker and Travolta, so I kinda enjoyed watching. And I like Barry Pepper as well.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:08:42 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: Labyrinthos
Romney’s tone deaf when it comes to religion...
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:08:48 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."- Churchill)
To: KarlInOhio
I want back the part of my life I wasted to read it on a friend's recommendation. I said it was "pretty good" not great. The Dune series is great...............
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:10:07 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Labyrinthos
I am not an athiest, but I like Atlas Shrugged.
What does that make me?
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:10:21 AM PDT
by
Mr. Brightside
(Rudy Giuliani is just another "Empty Dress Republican")
To: Labyrinthos
I hate to admit it, but I enjoyed reading “Battlefield Earth” - you just have to look at as old-style sci-fi, which is to say nothing to do with science at all, hardly. Still kind of fun. I also enjoyed reading some of the “Mission Earth” dekology that a friend had purchased, when I was in University. Another friend of mine, unknown to me, also has “Battlefield Earth” listed as a favorite book on his “FaceBook” site.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:10:23 AM PDT
by
-YYZ-
To: Red Badger
The book is pretty good sci-fi......... Still in the bottom 90%
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:10:29 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(No.. I said he was a Korean student, not a Koran student)
To: Red Badger
The movie sucked (should have been billed as a comedy/parody). I've heard that, too. I think some Amazon reviews say that it's a great movie if you want to see an "unintentional comedy", or just laugh at the appalling badness of the thing.
To: greyfoxx39
Just for chuckles.
Was Romney saying this so he could attract the Scientology vote?
Will he next pander to the Jehovah’s Witnesses?
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:11:21 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.--William Goldman)
To: Labyrinthos
It's a sci-fi book. What's the big deal? Is this supposed to knock Mitt down a peg? Maybe you can argue that he has bad taste in books, but I'm not sure a relationship to scientology can be derived. And I don't see how any of this relates to his being a Mormon.
My favorite "Atlas Shrugged". Wasn't Ayn an atheist? I'm not.
Mitt's looking pretty good about now. And I'm a FredHead.
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