[sickoflibs]

MSNBC Lawrence O`Donnell dedicating an entire segment to praise Newt last night:
“Last night on our election coverage, I said the trick question for Republicans like Mitt Romney is what legal thing would you not do to make money? I`m sure that question, as I put it, created no discomfort among Republicans, provoked no introspection.
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But Newt Gingrich is now saying the same thing to a much larger audience. His comments are being carried on every news network. And Newt Gingrich is the second most influential conservative Republican of his generation. The most influential, of course, being George W. Bush, who was able to work his will on a Republican-controlled Congress only because Newt Gingrich seized Republican control of that Congress, from the Democrats, before George W. Bush was even close to running for president.
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A Democrat, or a liberal like me, decrying the excesses of Romney- style greed changes no minds. It gets appreciative nods from people who think already the same thing. But a conservative Republican, the first Republican speaker of the House of Representatives in 40 years, the sharp- tongued attacker of liberalism, when he says things like this, people will listen to it, people who will never listen to a Democrat. ”

MSNBC The Last Word for January 11, 2012 Lawrence O`Donnell(Transcript)

[Colofornian]

MSNBC Lawrence O`Donnell dedicating an entire segment to praise Newt last night: “Last night on our election coverage, I said the trick question for Republicans like Mitt Romney is what legal thing would you not do to make money? I`m sure that question, as I put it, created no discomfort among Republicans, provoked no introspection.

Are you saying, SoL, that just because a liberal asked a good question here that it should automatically be ruled out of consideration?

Are you aware that the MSM is filled to the brim with liberals and that every now & then they actually ask a good Q?

Is this NOT a good Q to ask Mitt: "Mitt, what legal thing would you not do to make money?"

"Mitt, what about your repeated reinstatements as a board member for the Marriott Hotel chain? Have you not rec'd $25,000 per year plus stock for that role? You do realize, Mitt, that your income there was tainted since the Marriott is just another distributor as part & parcel of the porn industry, don't you?"

ALL: Imagine you're a "devout Mormon." You've been offered cozy occasional directorship position for a local theater for $25,000 per year.

You find out that the theater shows family-rated fair. But there's a "back entrance" for their XXX showings. You also find out they give $ to Planned Parenthood. (Marriott's been on the Life Decisions Intl list for boycotting because of its donations to Planned Parenthood)

Would you, as an alleged "devout Mormon," continue to take the position knowing that a portion of your salary comes from their porn industry intake? What would you feel knowing that this theater's $ goes to the largest child-killing organization in the world (Planned Parenthood)?

Well, that's Mitt Romney for you. He's done the exact equivalent of the above!!! (Apparently anything -- anything legal -- for $)

Even the Mormon church-owned Deseret News wrote an editorial on July 10, 2007, saying this about Mitt:

Pornography taints everything it touches. Mitt Romney should have understood that. So should the Marriott Corp. and other hotel owners who offer hard-core movies in hotel rooms. Romney caught a bit of flack last week because he spent nearly 10 years on the Marriott board and yet never tried to reverse the company’s policy of providing pornography on demand, something J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr., defended in a 2000 letter as being economically important. ...For a presidential candidate who has railed against pornography, this is not entirely insignificant. Even if the subject never came up at a board meeting, one can argue that at least part of the $25,000 plus stock he was paid annually for his board membership came from the money some hotel guests paid for access to the films. Source: The nasty taint of porn

So, that was as of '07 that he had taken $25,000 annually, plus stock from Marriott for being part of their board. He temporarily resigned from the board in '07; but then returned. And now he's repeating his '07 pattern.

What's funny to see such "knee jerk" overreactions from FREEPERS on certain Qs merely because of the source.

They should try reading the Bible -- especially the Old Testament -- to see how God even used those people who hated Him to carry out His purposes at various times.