Posted on 07/02/2007 4:17:47 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
In a past life did you wear a turban and answer to "Mullah"?
Didn't Jimmy Swagert practice what he preached against?
Wierdos go on the offense to defend, in advance, against their own transgressions.
yitbos
Let’s see from 1993 to 1998 pay per view in-room sales constituted less than 1/2 of 1% of total revenues of operating franchises. It would be quite amazing at that point in time for item which represented an 1/2 percent of sales to be discussed by Honorary Members of the Board.
From 1999 to 2000 in-room sales increased to around 7% of revenues (in 2006 it is around 12%). At this point in time, I would expect the Members of the Board to take notice. However, as you may know, at this point in time Romney was thoroughly involved in the Olympics and it would be hard to imagine that he had any actual substantial dealings with the board during this timeframe.
If you think that is weird check this out every home in America that has Digital cable has this as part of their package on their home TV!
Some how that part always never seems to be clarify that in these article and only names in these attack is Marriott Hotels when also in the article say it is the Hotel Chains...Humm!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859880/posts?page=318#318
Don’t forget the:
...gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way... -Mitt Romney
While I can't speak for Mariott directly, I can say that many national hotel chains DO offer "real" hard core movies, on a pay per view basis. These aren't the "soft core" sort of movies you see on late night cable... But the real thing.
But again, they're on pay per view, and it's the sort of thing that parents can have disabled from their room. And if you're an adult who doesn't like porn, you don't have to watch it.
Mark
That is a total distortion and in your heart you know it but it sounds good when you hate someone.
Sorry I don’t live in your world of thinking its is very small to be vindictive!
The full quote is worse:
“There are other ways to raise kids that’s fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice.
- Mitt Romney -
CONCORD, N.H. --A New Hampshire woman, frustrated with Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's opposition to gay marriage, made a point Wednesday of telling him about her personal experience.
"I am a gay woman and I have children. Your comment that you just made, it sort of invalidates my family," said Cynthia Fish, a mother of a 6- and 8-year-old. "... I wish you could explain to me more, why if we are sending our troops over to fight for liberty and justice for all throughout this country, why not for me? Why not for my family?"
Romney paused, asked Fish about her children and then praised her.
"Wonderful," Romney said. "I'm delighted that you have a family and you're happy with your family. That's the American way. ... People can live their lives as they choose and children can be a great source of joy, as you know. And I welcome that."
But then Romney repeated his view of marriage.
"Marriage is an institution which is designed to bring a man and woman together to raise a child and that the ideal setting for society at large is where there is a male and a female are associated with the development and nurturing a child," Romney said.
The former Massachusetts governor acknowledged other scenarios that raise children.
"There are other ways to raise kids that's fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That's the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice," he said.
What Romney said was true it is the American Way is it not?
Romney already exlain his view on the subject but so many here ignore that part!
So Mitt’s in bed with the porno industry. It’s certainly no secret that Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt rely heavily on people like J. Willard Marriott Jr. to legitimize their industry. If ever there is a hero for the porn industry its Marriott. Maybe someday we’ll see colleges put up Marriott centers as places to hold assemblies and basketball games in order to pay homage to the $$(s) of the porn industry.
Nitti is so creative: “I believe this kind of thinking was tried out earlier in Afghanistan by the Taleban Morality Police.”
It’s the latest variation of the old rule in political discourse: the first person to call the other a “Nazi” is admitting that he’s lost the debate and must resort to demonization of the opponent.
If you’re gonna use it, Nitti, and I suspect you’ll be left with little choice in future contests of intellect, a small suggestion:
Learn how to spell “Taliban.”
Thanks for the spelling tip......the moralizing I’ll handle for myself
“Even if you don’t have a problem, I have serious doubts about a Pat Robertson-affiliated organization’s motivations.”
Gotta hand it to you, Smithee. You’ve near perfected the art form of saving face.
Just eviscerated and laid bare your feeble “religious bigotry” allegation, which you breezily acknowledge with a hurried concession, quickly followed by a seamless segue into then questioning Pat Robertson’s motivations. (Oh, that didn’t work, but not having learned my lesson, I’ll try it again.)
So having tried it again, let me eviscerate you again.
NEWSWEEK: “Romney’s edge — (Pat) Robertson has to have his own candidate, and there is no way it would be McCain. The good doctor seems to have taken a liking to Romney, whose father was a governor and who had the good sense to get graduate degrees from Harvard. Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network ran a glowing profile of Romney, a piece that studiously ignored some of the Mormon doctrinal teachings that would seem calculated to make even Robertson’s helmet of TV hair stand on end.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17150516/site/newsweek/page/2/
Two months ago, at Robertson’s invitation, Romney gave the commencement address at Regent University; in fact, that’s where Mitt said porn videos were partly responsible for the VA Tech shootings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html
Jay Sekulow, president of the American Center for Law & Justice, the Christian legal foundation founded by Robertson, is openly endorsing Romney and serving as a campaign advisor.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=174210
Plus Sekulow’s 20-something son Jordan is a paid Romney campaign staffer.
“Thus endeth the lesson.” (Sean Connery, The Untouchables)
That is, the latest in a series of lessons.
In both cases (your questioning first mine and then Pat’s motives), you’ve exposed yourself as not only clueless but as grasping at any straw by which to appear to maintain an argument.
After this series of embarrassments and exposures, please show some dignity and just throw in the towel.
Hey, you spelled “mullah” right.
N&L says “it would be quite amazing...for item which represented 1/2 percent of sales to be discussed by Honorary Members of the Board.”
Even assuming N&L’s figures are correct (he offers no citation or source), a few thoughts:
* Whatever the percent, it amounted to tens of millions of dollars worth per year by Marriott alone.
* If 1/2 percent of Marriott sales had come via prostitution services or cocaine sales billed through the front desk, might that have been a subject of board discussion?
* Former California Lt. Gov. John Harmer, a fellow Mormon appointed to office by then Gov. Reagan, now chairman of the Lighted Candle Society, a Salt Lake City-based anti-port group, estimates that the U.S. hotel industry sells half a billion a year in porn flicks. In the original CBN article posted, he doesn’t buy Mitt’s “I didn’t know Marriott sold porn” ruse.
http://www.cbn.com:80/CBNnews/188311.aspx
* Who said Mitt was an “honorary” member of the Marriott board? He was paid $100,000 a year — at least 1/2 percent from porn profits — and Marriott news release upon his departure called him “an active, hands-on Director.”
LOL, see even a broken clock gets somethings “right”
Thank you for your post about Pat Robertson and Jay Sekulow. Yahoo! I am so happy. I didn’t know about this. I love Jay Sekulow. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and really knows how to do battle.
Jay Sekulow is one of the heroes of the “religious right” and a hero on FreeRepublic. I have followed him since probably 1985 (?) when I used to watch TBN. He has fought the good fight on abortion, Christians rights, etc. I have given money to his organization ACLJ.
I am so happy that he is involved in Romney’s campaign. You made my day!
Seems to be a lot of spinning and deceiving coming from Mormon defenders of the Romney campaign. Doesn’t bode well for this latter day religion does it? But of course conservatives are being called to compromise during this political season. But compromise what is the question voters should ask themselves when contemplating candidates.
Glad to make your day, Saundra, especially on “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Day.
Sekulow signed on with Romney early, long before Mitt’s long record of promoting abortion on demand and endorsing “gays in the military” and just about every other plank in homosexual activists’ agenda was widely exposed, beginning in December 2006.
Guess it was easier for Jay to just batten down the hatches, hang on, and pretend he knows something the rest of us don’t, rather than admit after Mitt’s record was exposed that he (Jay) had exercised poor and premature judgment, misleading millions of social conservatives to believe they could trust a guy who thinks the Boy Scouts are wrong to prohibit homosexual Scoutmasters...who was endorsed twice by the homosexual Log Cabin Republicans and once by the pro-abort GOP Majority for Choice...
Etc., etc...
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