When Mittens stated he had “misspoke”, he knew his comment was never taken out of context!!

Fareed is up to speed.

Of course it was taken out of context. Everyone with any sense knows it.
Fareed was one of the few to say it.

Any dirty tactic is not too dirty for the Dems.
Obama had the sealed divorce records of both his primary opponent and his Republican opponent unsealed to become a Senator. Damn their kids. Barry wanted to be a Senator.

Good on Zakaria. However, the context of Romney’s quote doesn’t really help him given that he previously denigrated the safety-net programs he said could now help the poor. And how exactly does he want to “fix it” – by endorsing Paul Ryan’s austerity plan, based on spending cuts where low-income workers foot 2/3 of the bill.

He did not misspoke, it was a Freudian slip.

Fareed is taking the comments out of context.  The context is clearly Mitt Romney, who is a wealthy man.  As such, he needs to be particularly aware of what he says and how it will be interpreted by those who are struggling financially.  If Mitt wants to be President, he cannot feed the idea that he is out of touch with most Americans.

Josh, great article. Be careful of writing things the lefty’s don’t want to hear, like the truth. 

This could put your job in danger here at leftyiate

Being defended by Fareed Zakaria is worth about as much as being endorsed by The Donald.

Precisely. Here is a scathing critique from a conservative.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/romney-context_620948.html 

what is fareed smoking…has hell frozen over ?? Why in the hell is he defending romney…he should be pulverizing romney with this line. This makes no sense what so ever. 

EXACTLY the same.

The only difference is that one is intellectually gifted and a thoughtful observer of international and domestic politics, while the other is a smarmy, self-promoting jerk who’s been through the bankruptcy courts repeatedly and would dip his own children in gold leaf if he thought it would impress someone.

There is no moral or legal obligation that anyone should care about anyone they don`t care to care about. Romney does not not care about the poor any more or less than any of the oh so holy and righteous democrats  don`t care about the rich.

Just like Romney said, he cares about ALL Americans. His detractors care for those whose votes they want to buy.

There are about 50 million Americans Romney does not care about. 

Also, one is a punk who got his job due to affirmative action, and even that, undeservedly, because his kind never suffered under American tyranny, while the other has a wildly successful TV show, is a billionaire, is erudite and could buy out the pathetic cable company that Fareed sucks his measly salary from, out of the chump change in his back pocket. 

I suppose one of those 50 million people is your employer.

Thanks for your ‘Republican’ concern. 

Trump wouldn’t even know what “erudite” means.

Dream on. You live in a total fantasy world.

“Of course it was taken out of context. Everyone with any sense knows it.”

Just as everyone with any sense knows that Mitt is deliberately taking Obama’s words out of context when he claims that the president has “apologized” for America.

One can only hope that Gavin isn’t being homeschooled by his “papa.”

If this was the only time he said this or something like it, then I might believe it was out of context.  He has said this repeatedly.  To think that very poor people are doing fine because they have a safety net (many do not thanks to him and others in his party) just shows how completely out of touch Mittens is.

Better be home schooled by Papa, who cares about the kid, than by some union hack teacher, who only cares about his/her unearned and undeserved pension.

Gavin’s papa doesn’t show any awareness of the world outside his right wing media bubble.

Get that kid to a real school before he starts parroting the same fact-free nonsense as his dad.

“His kind”? How lovely. You got a source for that affirmative action claim? Or do you just assume that every ethnic minority in a position of influence is a product of affirmative action?

“Better be home schooled by Papa, who cares about the kid, than by some union hack teacher, who only cares about his/her unearned and undeserved pension.”

What kind of person are you? It’s shocking.

He’s one of those pitchfork toting, torch carrying, “WE HATE OBAMA” banner raising moderate Republithug.LMAO!!

 Or that he said “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”, when it was actually him quoting McCain.

SLICK is so misunderstood… He’s one of those compassionate conservatives , you know, like the last compassionate conservative that the entire world is still revering. He was so misunderstood, also. You gotta hand it to CONS, they are HILARIOUS to observe.It’s like watching someone climb a sand dune, “ONE STEP FORWARD-SLIDE BACK THREE STEPS.There,there,now, they’re all just so misunderstood……..Precious.

    All told it was another good week for smooth “B”(Obama). Lets see:  Romney chugs along kinda
half halfheartedly while making major Gaffs and losing almost all momentum and bragging rights, Newt (the cheater) continues to dump on said Romney like the Pres. can only dream of, piling up demo sound bites like a man possessed, T-baggers stick their nose into women’s health and Komen only to get beat down like rabid dogs in the street and super charging the chicks for Nov.,                 Lastly, (what the heck) the economy is perking right along and starting to strip Mr. 1% of the bed rock argument of his rather bizarre and lopsided campaign’s only apparent issue.{told you not to bet against the people}. haha   So I’ll leave you with this from Town Hall.com……..
  “It’s revealing in USA how skin color brings the divide ………it’s still the same old rural wild west Pioneer narrowness …. you tried but praying the negro away but that did not work so let’s make him fail at any cost”.
   Some of my best material is inspired by broken hearted conservatives. Better luck next week, until then…..

GO NEWT GO!!!

He has a doctorate from Yale, I doubt anyone ever felt forced to hire him.

Thanks,Fareed for your truths…so little of it in todays media…

But, can you say that first sentence 10 times really fast?

 Romney does not not care about the poor any more or less than any of the
oh so holy and righteous democrats  don`t care about the rich.

PERFECT

Ladies and gentlmen.
The new GOP.

Romney said wwhat he meant. He PERCEIVES that the safety net is adequate, which is ludicrous.

“IF it has holes, I’ll repair it”?  That’s absurd. Romney mistakenly believes, as do all the members of his party, who portray those dependent on transfer payments as loving the experience, that being on welfare is a wonderful thing that poor people actulally aspire to. There’s no mistake here.

The poor are slipping into a kind of poverty that is Dickensian. They can’t even afford enough chicken wings to feast on. This is not 1960. Romney needs to be concerned about the “very poor”. So does Obama.

Left outside the mainstream, dependent on payments that are inadequate to buy food AND shelter; facing near starvation at the end of every month; unable to find MEANINGFUL work, what are they to do? Keep laughing about the Occupy movement. What next? What do starving, homeless people without hope or expectaions, living in a country STILL enamored of conspicuous consumption, do?

Fareed Zakaria, How about you take the next magic carpet back to India.

mitt is incapable of comassion for the poor. he has never experienced poverty or sickness or disease without health care. he cannot comprehend that part of lifep–that why he claims there is nothing wrong with america…
the conservative movement by definition cannot be christian–it cannot be compassionate to anyone but their own selfish motivations….
to be consertative is to not understand what it is like to be alone and scared and without anyone…
i have seen these people..
elderly people in filthy small apartments all alone-children left alone–people with no fook in their home..
i have seen this –i know this..
i have seen people dying and nobody to help them …
all of these situations were not hopeless–but for these people without good lobbist…it was hopeless and in some cases a death sentence..
you cannot claim life is prescious and when give the chance–do not cherish it and do whatever it takes to preserve it..
to want millions of unwanted children to be born deny those alreay here basic foundations..
the conservative agenda is more children–more prisions–more weapons..
tell me–where does jesus fit in?

It is increasingly clear that all of these, so called, pundits are too enamored of men with power and men who aspire to it. There is no context in which Romney’s comment is valid or anything but nonsense. Paul is an overt white supremacist, who is the hero of white supremacist in this country, and no one will say so. Gingrich sees Obama as an inferior because of his skin color, and no one will say so. Santorum is just plain hateful, and no one will say so. 

They all (Chris Matthews chief among them, but Zakaria, Crowley, you name ’em) identify with these people to the point where they lack objectivity and can’t be trusted to “vet” candidates or their arguments, which is the job or was, of a free press.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/opinion/blow-romney-the-rich-and-the-rest.html?src=rechp

I find Zakaria an insufferable bore but your comments about him are staggeringly ignorant. Really? Affirmative Action? Just pathetic

Actually it makes perfect sense. This is how to tell the good guys from the bad guys: the good guys care about goodness and truth more than they care about winning at all costs. That’s why the GOP is so successful at getting their way, because they are willing to get together as a group and do bad things in order to serve their agenda, spend money like drunk lottery winners while claiming to be fiscally responsible, etc. The mainstream media goes along with this and reports “both sides” as if one of them wasn’t lying through their teeth. Journalism? Nah! Advertising dollars! There’s a reason that being a Democrat is far and away the most popular choice of college graduates. The more you know…

So says the non-raciest who can’t post anything without mentioning race or how a non-white could possible earn his job. I’m not a big fan of FZ but there are plenty of white guys on air who couldn’t clean his jock intellectually.  How did all those dumb white guys get the work?

Bingo on point two.

ALL Americans = White Americans in Papas world.

so spot on…republicans ARE EVIL

With this statement, this CFR presstitute confirms that Romney has bowed to their will at the expense of Americans. Now selected, Romney may be elected. But the sheep only have themselves to blame

So Fareed Zakaria says the words were taken out of
context. This means we’re not ALLOWED to examine a sentence out of context? So,
let’s see, if I say: “I have nothing against Indian-Americans like Fareed
Zakaria but I just wouldn’t allow one of them into my house” we just focus
on the part where I say I have nothing against Indian Americans and we don’t
ask me what I mean by the second part?

and this media critique website helped spread the false use of this quote in a gleeful false way.

the media is doing to mitt exactly what it did to gore in 2000 – which is lying about what he says.

and if you care about the truth in our public discource this should anger you very much.

but the msnbc crowd just loves it.  so childish.

and remember that chris matthews who led the media attacks on gore and lied over and over about his statements id doing the same to mitt.

he should be jailed.

sad.  and this clown has doubled down on the bs by putting this false quote as his motto.  sad.

apples and orangatans fanbonboy.

Obama had the sealed divorce records of both his primary opponent and his Republican opponent unsealed to become a Senator.

Sure, of course he did. Because Obama totally had the power to do that.

same media who lied and misled about gore is doing the same against mitt.

heres my handy guide,whoever chris matthews is for – im against.

hes the only repub in my memory whose said he wants the minimum wage raised.

personally im tired of the hand outs myself.

he went to wharton – where did you matriculate?

oboth obamas got into both college and law school only because of affirmative action.

thats a fact.

wow. simply wow.

sad.

Yes, indeed he said so recently and he said so while running for governor in 2002 – however once elected he vetoed an increase of the minimum wage …

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/208103-romney-reiterates-support-for-increasing-minimum-wage-with-inflation 

 Fareed is Looking so Gorgeous and Minds Blowing.
http://alicejrlq.metroblog.com/weight_loss_diet_plan_for_achieving_commendable_physique

Now wait a second, gloves, the conservatives have been complaining about Mitt’s statement. Are they part of the great liberal conspiracy too? And in any event, how is complaining about what Romney said a dirty trick?

Going to Wharton doesn’t make you erudite any more than using the word “matriculate” means you have sense.

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You are correct.  His statement was taken out of context.  But that’s politics.  Doesn’t make it right – but it seems to be the way it has always been.

Don’t worry though – Romney will win the nomination.  And there is no way you can take that out of context.

What’s happening at Mediaite?  Are they beginning to see that just beating the Democratic talking points is a losing proposition for a website?  Have they analyzed Politico’s downward spiral into the liberal abyss? 

I have been surprised to find a few articles this past week that actually present something other than a negative view of Republicans.  And then Tommy will submit an entry causing the scales to tip liberal.

I like Zakaria, but does anyone REALLY deserve credit for pointing out the obvious.  
Much of the mass media is operating ‘in the red’, and as any business person knows, that is simply unsustainable.  Mass layoffs are coming/happening to the mass media, and people like Zakaria will be around after the M&A dust clears. 

No reasonable statement by Romney will ever escape the nanny torture of the press.  They know it was reasonable, they know how he meant it, they know he would patch things if there is a hole in the net.  He certainly has those bonafides with his efforts in health care, but torture they will and congrat’s to Obama for retaining the press’ loyalty in all this thuggery.

I was disgusted that so many did not even bother to include his phrase that described what he actually was saying.  However, it was clear that the poor were nothing for him to to worry about or take action on.  So he was going to concentrate on improving things for the middle class.  I am certain Romney’s inability to identify with the poor’ people’s worry about where is the next meal coming from, do I have enough gas to take my kid to the doctor, and do I have to cut the thermostat to just above freezing so I will have enough fuel oil to make it till I get so more money. There is a Biblical requirement that we take care of the poor and there are no qualifiers on that command.  So you think he could not be concerned with hungry poor who got food stamps and thus concentrate on the middle class.  I worry about 5 or 6 things all the time.  Health of my family, budget problems, state of the wars, how far off my party has gone off the rails, etc, etc, etc!  I guess that is too much to expect from a would-be President.  So reading the whole comment, context and all, he was still sounding uncaring,  It may be a bad rap for the facts, but it did sound horribly insensitive about those in very tragic circumstances.

Zakaria is a foreign usurper and should be booted out of this country, preferably in a body bag.
For him to be allowed to incite his screeds against America by covering up the lies of our government should wake-up patriots who have had enough of this foreign puppet who promotes Zionist fascism.

Wrong! If one listens to Mr. Zakaria’s full segment, he supplied data that actually demonstrates how Mitt Romney’s comments were way out of touch with reality. The United States has the 31st highest overall poverty rate, 17.3%, in the World out of the top thirty-five industrialized nations. Only Mexico, Israel and Chile have higher overall rates of poverty out of these thirty-five most industrialized nations. Mitt stated that only”…5% of the country…” is wealthy and poor combined, so nice try Josh, but your vapid-minded and false assertions wil not work on those of us with an education and an ability to understand statistical data and rhetoric.

Why do right wingers scream affirmative action at people like this? Was Don Lemon a result of AA?