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#1 2009-10-16 8:00 pm
- MysticCow
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HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
Yes, apparently making fun of people's weight is all right if it keeps you in office.
Yes, Democrat Jon Corzine, facing the possibility of getting voted out has sunk to the lowest of lows by attacking his opponent's WEIGHT. Yes, NPR (read: not Republican journalism) reported on this scumbag who is resorting to hideous personal attacks.
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#2 2009-10-16 8:18 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
In an ad, Corzine attacks his Republican opponent: "Christie threw his weight around as U.S. attorney and got off easy. If you didn't pay your taxes, ignored ethics laws, would you get away with it?"
Not sure that qualifies as a hideous personal attack ...
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#3 2009-10-16 9:06 pm
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Well, if you can't beat 'em on the issues...
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#4 2009-10-16 9:08 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
New Jersey
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#5 2009-10-16 9:34 pm
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You lie!
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#6 2009-10-17 12:36 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
ShnickyShnack wrote:
In an ad, Corzine attacks his Republican opponent: "Christie threw his weight around as U.S. attorney and got off easy. If you didn't pay your taxes, ignored ethics laws, would you get away with it?"
Not sure that qualifies as a hideous personal attack ...
As always, someone didn't read the whole thing:
"To make fun of someone's physical shape, I don't think we've ever seen that in New Jersey," Zukin says. "And the Corzine ads are pretty brutal. I mean, they'll show this guy getting out of a car, you know, with his back end coming at you. And what the Corzine campaign is trying to argue is if he doesn't have enough self-discipline to govern his own weight, how can he possibly govern the state of New Jersey?"
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#7 2009-10-17 1:25 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
As a forum member who can see New Jersey from my kitchen windows, I somehow don't think this is a "macaca" moment in politics.
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#8 2009-10-17 2:24 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
MysticCow wrote:
ShnickyShnack wrote:
In an ad, Corzine attacks his Republican opponent: "Christie threw his weight around as U.S. attorney and got off easy. If you didn't pay your taxes, ignored ethics laws, would you get away with it?"
Not sure that qualifies as a hideous personal attack ...
As always, someone didn't read the whole thing:
"To make fun of someone's physical shape, I don't think we've ever seen that in New Jersey," Zukin says. "And the Corzine ads are pretty brutal. I mean, they'll show this guy getting out of a car, you know, with his back end coming at you. And what the Corzine campaign is trying to argue is if he doesn't have enough self-discipline to govern his own weight, how can he possibly govern the state of New Jersey?"
Did the Corzine campaign actually say that? Or is it just another in a long series of right-wing hissy fits?
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#9 2009-10-17 2:29 pm
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Hissy fit? You mean like how Rush Limbaugh didn't say some of the things he was accused of saying, and when called on it by a black man, he was called an Uncle Tom?
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#10 2009-10-17 2:31 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
I mean "A childish display of anger or frustration; an overly dramatic tantrum."
-- wiki
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#11 2009-10-17 2:37 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
This commercial played for two weeks in the Philly/South Jersey media market. The mocking of weight is definitely in the ad, but it's also a play on words about the issue that's stalled and/or tanked Christie's poll numbers so it's not like it's irrelevant. The other problem with Christie is from the beginning of his campaign he's attacked Corzine in the context of the current economic climate, while offering no real solutions himself.
But seriously, this isn't odd for a political campaign in the Philly/New Jersey/NYC contiguous metro areas. In fact, something similar happened here in Philadelphia in the past 15 years. I'm not sure that the Zukin quote that MysticCow is hanging his highmindedness on in this thread is all that reflective of local politics. And, of course, if it was so over the line and outrageous in that context you'd see it reflected in the most current polling, which of course it's not. All hat, no cattle I'm afraid Miss Cow.
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#12 2009-10-17 2:52 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
HEARTLESS
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#13 2009-10-17 4:04 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
resedit wrote:
Hissy fit? You mean like how Rush Limbaugh didn't say some of the things he was accused of saying, and when called on it by a black man, he was called an Uncle Tom?
I have a feeling I'm going to regret this, but links?
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#14 2009-10-17 6:21 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
ShnickyShnack wrote:
MysticCow wrote:
ShnickyShnack wrote:
Not sure that qualifies as a hideous personal attack ...As always, someone didn't read the whole thing:
"To make fun of someone's physical shape, I don't think we've ever seen that in New Jersey," Zukin says. "And the Corzine ads are pretty brutal. I mean, they'll show this guy getting out of a car, you know, with his back end coming at you. And what the Corzine campaign is trying to argue is if he doesn't have enough self-discipline to govern his own weight, how can he possibly govern the state of New Jersey?"Did the Corzine campaign actually say that? Or is it just another in a long series of right-wing hissy fits?
Corzine is taking the low road that's for sure.
Act of desperation if you ask me.
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#15 2009-10-17 7:29 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
Pariah wrote:
ShnickyShnack wrote:
MysticCow wrote:
As always, someone didn't read the whole thing:
"To make fun of someone's physical shape, I don't think we've ever seen that in New Jersey," Zukin says. "And the Corzine ads are pretty brutal. I mean, they'll show this guy getting out of a car, you know, with his back end coming at you. And what the Corzine campaign is trying to argue is if he doesn't have enough self-discipline to govern his own weight, how can he possibly govern the state of New Jersey?"Did the Corzine campaign actually say that? Or is it just another in a long series of right-wing hissy fits?
Corzine is taking the low road that's for sure.
Act of desperation if you ask me.
Regardless, it's hardly at the extreme end of American political rhetoric.
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#16 2009-10-17 7:39 pm
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#17 2009-10-17 7:48 pm
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NAZI!
Says the guy who himself likes to continually name call the tea partiers.
I would use a phrase that starts in a similar phrase to a certain african water mammal, but the name calling rule hear isn't fairly applied and I'm on the wrong end up the stick.
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#18 2009-10-17 7:56 pm
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... which naturally had nothing to do with my post
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#19 2009-10-17 8:51 pm
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bedstuy wrote:
... which naturally had nothing to do with my post
What did your post have anything to do with?
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#20 2009-10-17 9:33 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
African water mammal?
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#22 2009-10-17 10:16 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
resedit wrote:
bedstuy wrote:
... which naturally had nothing to do with my post
What did your post have anything to do with?
Following up on Shnicky's comment about "extreme end of American political rhetoric" and giving an example: NAZI!
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#23 2009-10-17 10:20 pm
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WE don't really need name calling in a thread about name calling.
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#24 2009-10-17 10:47 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
Farmerkev wrote:
WE don't really need name calling in a thread about name calling.
Where is there name calling?
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#25 2009-10-17 10:48 pm
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Re: HEARTLESS liberal attacks opponent's weight.
bedstuy wrote:
Farmerkev wrote:
WE don't really need name calling in a thread about name calling.
Where is there name calling?
I was wondering that too.
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