Just to keep all you political junkies informed on what's happening in Tampa:
2012 Republican Convention Schedule!
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8:30 am – Opening Music: “Trample the Weak” by Ted Nugent, sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
9am – Tax planning seminar on how you too can pay less than 15% taxes on your millions/billions. Hosted by Bain Capital accountants.
9:30am – Discussion of Christian values and marital fidelity – Newt Gingrich presiding
10:30am – “Women’s Rights: What’s the Big Fuss Little Lady?” – dominated by Erik Cantor
11am -- “Why I’m Holier than Thou” -- ministered by Rick Santorum
11:30 – The Curse of Irrelevancy – sobbed by John Boehner
12pm – My Gun’s Bigger than Your’s –or “Is that a Politician in your Pocket or are you just Glad to See Me?” --telemarketed in by the NRA
Break for Lunch --- provided by Chic-Fil-A
12:30pm –“ How to Buy an Election: Making the Citizen’s United Decision Work for You!” – time paid for by Karl Rove and Antonin Scalia
1pm – “Keeping your Cadillacs Primed” followed by “Reaching out to the Proletariat with Dressage” – driven by Anne Romney
1:30pm – “Maintaining Conservative Values while Screwing the Elderly” – convened by Paul Ryan
2pm – “Exploit your Entire Family for Maximum Profits” or “Mama Grizzlies for Dummies” – hosted by Sarah Palin
2:30pm – Fair and Impartial News Reporting: Why it’s Over-rated and What you can do to Eradicate it – aired by Fox News
3pm – Bombastics 101 – orated by Chris Christie
3:30pm -- “A Muslim Ate my Love Child” – confessed by Michelle Bachmann
4pm -- “Why IQ is Over-Rated” --- drooled by Herman Caine
4:15 – Open forum on Gay Rights (note: Event cancelled due to lack of attendance)
4:30pm – –I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” or “The KKK for a New Generation” -- delivered by Gov. Rick Perry
5pm -- Overcoming Depression by Selling Your Soul – whined by John McCain
5:30 pm – What’s a Soul? -- questioned by Dick Cheney
6pm – “Understanding why Democrats exist in higher Numbers than Republicans…their women are all Sluts” – ranted by Rush Limbaugh
6:30pm – Acceptance Speech “with Special Thanks to the job creators at the top 1% …Never have so few given so little to so many so reluctantly” or “What Would Jesus Do?” – Mitt Romney (sung to the tune of America the Beautiful)
7:00 pm – DINNER (Please indicate your choice of caviar, lobster, prime rib, or swordfish served in troughs recycled from Super Pac money storage)
h/t Ohio Daily Blog
DISGUSTING UPDATE:
I read about this on the internet, but did not believe it and would not report on it until there was someone on record as an eyewitness to this.
David Shuster is tweeting that a woman was thrown out of the GOP Convention for tossing nuts at an African-American CNN camerawoman, saying, “this is how we feed animals.”
CNN posted a written statement saying, “CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.”
I'll probably get commenters to say this is "only one incident," and we shouldn't judge an entire group by it.
Except that's wrong.
Those dozens of racist emails passed around by officials of the GOP and other conservatives, who think no one will catch them, belies their protestations.
And we all know what the real message is behind the persistent Birthers.
The biggest Birther of all was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention.
2:30pm – Fair and Impartial News Reporting: Why it’s Over-rated and What you can do to Eradicate it – aired by Fox News
3pm – Bombastics 101 – orated by Chris Christie
3:30pm -- “A Muslim Ate my Love Child” – confessed by Michelle Bachmann
4pm -- “Why IQ is Over-Rated” --- drooled by Herman Caine
4:15 – Open forum on Gay Rights (note: Event cancelled due to lack of attendance)
4:30pm – –I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” or “The KKK for a New Generation” -- delivered by Gov. Rick Perry
5pm -- Overcoming Depression by Selling Your Soul – whined by John McCain
5:30 pm – What’s a Soul? -- questioned by Dick Cheney
6pm – “Understanding why Democrats exist in higher Numbers than Republicans…their women are all Sluts” – ranted by Rush Limbaugh
6:30pm – Acceptance Speech “with Special Thanks to the job creators at the top 1% …Never have so few given so little to so many so reluctantly” or “What Would Jesus Do?” – Mitt Romney (sung to the tune of America the Beautiful)
7:00 pm – DINNER (Please indicate your choice of caviar, lobster, prime rib, or swordfish served in troughs recycled from Super Pac money storage)
h/t Ohio Daily Blog
DISGUSTING UPDATE:
I read about this on the internet, but did not believe it and would not report on it until there was someone on record as an eyewitness to this.
Nuts Thrown At African-American CNN Camerawoman ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’
CNN posted a written statement saying, “CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment.”
I'll probably get commenters to say this is "only one incident," and we shouldn't judge an entire group by it.
Except that's wrong.
Those dozens of racist emails passed around by officials of the GOP and other conservatives, who think no one will catch them, belies their protestations.
And we all know what the real message is behind the persistent Birthers.
The biggest Birther of all was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention.
18 comments:
Did she say that while she was driving both of her Cadillacs?
Well who wouldn't love an America where you, the ultra-wealthy, can get a $77,000 tax deduction for your dancing horsey!
10:30am – “Women’s Rights: What’s the Big Fuss Little Lady?” – dominated by Erik Cantor
Should be "legitimately dominated by Todd Akin". I know they're all trying to act like they don't know him, but he's very much there in spirit.
3:30pm -- “A Muslim Ate my Love Child”
Er, no, it was probably Christie that did that. They shouldn't have waited until three hours past lunch to put him on.
4:15 – Open forum on Gay Rights (note: Event cancelled due to lack of attendance)
Because Bryan Fischer made them all leave.
6pm – “Understanding why Democrats exist in higher Numbers than Republicans…their women are all Sluts” – ranted by Rush Limbaugh
.....who will spend most of his time bitching that they should have provided him with videos to illustrate his talk.
They should have made this the real convention. At least it wouldn't have been so boring. On Republican discussion sites I read, people are wondering if the audience was asleep during some of the speeches -- and they haven't even gotten to Pawlenty yet.
PE proving once again that the dEmocrat base is no better than the New Neo Facist rEpublican base.
Indeed, as the cliff looms large and ominous.
Ann Romney hit it out of the park. Even the left viewed her speech positively.
It is the agenda of a republican wet dream.
"PE proving once again that the dEmocrat base is no better than the New Neo Facist rEpublican base."
RN proving once again that he has nothing to contribute to a discussion except bitching, bitching, bitching, and sour grapes.
"Ann Romney hit it out of the park. Even the left viewed her speech positively."
Ann Romney is not running for president.
She's a nice lady who drives two Cadillacs and is accustomed to being treated like an aristocrat.
Infidel753,
Your corrections to the schedule are very perceptive and accurate.
Charles Pierce: "It was an entire evening based on a demonstrable lie, and it was topped off by a demonstrable liar named Chris Christie, who talked about how the president can't lead, and that nobody wants to tell the Americans the truth of the sacrifices we have to share, and talked about "politicians who pander" at a convention that is preparing to nominate Willard Romney, which was the final hilarious lie of the night, since Romney hasn't stopped pandering since he walked down the steps of the Massachusetts State House in 2006."
Republiscum speakers are told not to mention Bush, or Bain.
It's official, abortion is banned even in the case of rape and incest.
Gay marriage is banned. Partially thanks to supporters of Chickflick whose owners gave millions to Republiscum legislators who pushed the anti-gay agenda, but these supporters continue to claim they were not supporting an anti-gay agenda by supporting ChickFlick- they are either lying, or stupid.
Did you hear the one about a CNN black camerawoman who was called an animal while being pelted by peanuts? Show us your hate!
Then there was the skinhead delegates who brought Hitler posters and asked to leave. Don't show your hate on national TV, but we want your votes.
The lies about Obama being told at the podium are way over the top, but the head of Romney's campaign said, "We won't bother with fact checkers."
Of course the "Birther" issue gets a standing ovation every time it's mentioned.
I've never seen such hate coming from a national party's convention, or its leaders.
Boehner was booed when he pronounced by voice vote, that the platform was passed by acclimation, even though the voice vote seemed tied.
Orrin Hatch says he does not support a platform that includes a ban on gay marriage, but fully supports the ban on abortion even in the case of rape and incest.
It's easy to see how the Republiscums screwed up America so bad, just listening to all their lies and hate.
If a viewer wanted to listen to the speakers at the convention I thought that PBS provided the best coverage between MSNBC and CNN. (I never tuned into Fox).
Maddow and Matthews were happy to talk over some key speakers; particularly the first half of the program. That was curious. As well, CNN spent much of the time on Isaac. PBS broke away for less commercials during speeches.
MSNBC's coverage was a bit like I would imagine Fox's coverage would be of the Dem Convention; a waste of time if you want to actually listen instead of being told what to think.
I don't think it's a Dem vs Repub thing as much as it is agenda driven. I have come to expect that from both MSNBC and Fox. Still, it's nice to be freed of the force feeding occasionally. It will be interesting to see how the three networks cover things.
Lastly, PBS doesn't have all the graphics that take up half the TV screen. Crap, those get old!
From PoliticusUsa:
"More significantly than the blatant racism shown by that attendee is the more subtle, institutionalized racism that is part of the Republican strategy. The Republicans in charge of voting may or may not have personal issues with African-Americans, but they stand to lose if Black people vote. Call it voter fraud prevention, call it voter ID drives, call it whatever you want, it’s all an effort to prevent African-American people from voting and the GOP admits it:
"This story should be getting more media play than it has. In a rare moment of candor, one in which he thought he was off the record, Ohio’s Doug Preisse, a GOP campaign chair and an advisor to Governor John Kashich, admitted to the Columbus Dispatch that they don’t want African-American people to vote.
“We shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.”
After what I assume was a pretty severe Republican tongue lashing, his party said that “Preisse thought his comments to the Dispatch were off the record.”
My, my skudrunner. Your invective and childish name-calling is particulary shrill today.
Worried about something?
Gallup Poll: Obama more likable than Romney
Beyond likability and changing issue positions, Americans are most likely to see Obama as being honest and trustworthy (60%) and being able to understand the problems Americans face in their daily lives (58%).
"The issue he has is managing a recession for four years and no improvement."
Absolute bosh!
You're beginning to sound like a stuck record.
RN: "Ann Romney hit it out of the park. Even the left viewed her speech positively."
Really now? Not from what I read - and here's my take:
This woman, who with her husband, was born with a silver spoon in her mouth has absolutely no clue what it's like to have to make sacrifices. She's never had to struggle a day in her pampered life. She's never had to make a choice between putting food on the table or buying medications or between doing laundry or buying gas. She's never had to wear the same outfit more than two or three times as opposed to five or more years, mending them so they last just a little longer. And I can guarantee that she's never had to hold her shoes together with masking tape or stood in line at a food bank. Pasta and tuna on an ironing board? Doubtful and how many struggling families would be thrilled to be able to eat tuna or pasta? Beneath that face smoothed over with injections is a cold hearted out of touch plutocrat.
Leslie,
The usual suspects here call Michelle Obama and "elitist."
She grew up in a home so small that she and her brother had to share a room, and a blanket was hung up as a partition to give them privacy.
Ann Romney?
Yeah. Right. Hit it out of the park.
She and her husband are the sort of people who think they've hit a triple when they were both born on third base.
Some wise person wrote about that, and it applies to both Romneys:
"If we liken the societal problem of personal income inequality to the game of baseball, with the idea of winning the game by getting on base and eventually reaching home plate, we might say that there are some economically favored people who were born on third base, but who think they got there by hitting a triple. That’s the way some anti-poverty workers explain the arrogance and thoughtlessness of some who’ve “had it made” since birth.
Continuing the analogy, we could say that there are others who never even get up to bat, meaning they never get a chance to score a run in the game of life. Contrast these unfortunate people with those who get in the game because they are born with every advantage, even though they don’t know it."
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama never "had it made" since they were born. Ann and Mitt Romney did.
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The Obamas are true self-made successes. No family money whatsoever got them where they are today.
The GOPers are blind to that. Totally.
They respect the fact that both of them--and Romney's running mate, Ryan, were born into wealth and privilege, and would like to take whatever safety net is there for the less fortunate and give it to their wealthy friends.
That's the redistribution of wealth they believe in.
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