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Home Front: Politix
ObamaCare Opponents 'Probably Can't Spell Communism and Socialism' Says CNN's Roland Martin
2010-03-23
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck - but just be prepared to have your spelling skills challenged when you reach that conclusion.

And so goes CNN's Roland Martin. On the network's March 21 special coverage of the House of Representatives passage of health care legislation, host Wolf Blitzer asked Martin, a CNN political analyst, about his views of those who call these so-called reform measures Soviet-style communism or socialism.

"That's just stuck on stupid," Martin said. "I mean to sit there on the House floor and all of a sudden you're talking about, oh, this is communism and you're sitting here and reaching - that's just dumb, OK? You know what? If Republicans truly cared about health care, why in the world didn't they do anything for eight years? So don't stand here now when the Democrats have been pushing the issue and now say, oh, no, 'Republicans - we really care about health care,' when you had the opportunity to make changes to our system."

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/03/22/obamacare-opponents-probably-cant-spell-communism-and-socialism-says-cnns#ixzz0ivE8c8K2
Posted by:Fred

#13  Roland's still trying to keep his job with a DNC spot or O-ambassadorship
Posted by: Frank G   2010-03-23 19:35  

#12  No, I think PMSNBC (with its 12 viewers) came in dead last. CNN was next-to-dead-last LOL.
Posted by: Gomez Threter7450   2010-03-23 19:22  

#11  "Didn't the Cartoon Network beat CNN in the ratings last week?"

Didn't everyone beat CNN in the ratings last week, Gomez?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-03-23 19:05  

#10  Didn't the Cartoon Network beat CNN in the ratings last week?
Posted by: Gomez Threter7450   2010-03-23 17:36  

#9  Who's Roland Martin?

Anderson Cooper's fluffer.

(probably NSFW if you don't know the meaning of the word...)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2010-03-23 16:35  

#8  Who's Roland Martin?
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-03-23 15:57  

#7  I care about education. That's why I've worked my butt off all my life so I could have a good job with education benefits, GI Bill, etc. And in times when I ran out of GI-Bill, I paid for my own tuition and the tuition my children to attend good private schools. But now we have these C - O - M - M - U - N - I - S - T - S in Congress telling me I have to be responsible for all the fat, stupid, lazy, drug addicted, worthless bums in this country who refuse to be responsible for anything. That's not care, that's robbery. Communism = robbery. So by definition that's what these people are
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-03-23 14:14  

#6  If Republicans truly cared about health care, why in the world didn't they do anything for eight years?

I care about health care. That's why I've worked my butt off all my life so I could have a good job with benefits and health insurance. And in times when I didn't have a good job I paid for my own health insurance out of my own pocket because I believe in being responsible for myself. But now we have these C - O - M - M - U - N - I - S - T - S in Congress telling me I have to be responsible for all the fat, stupid, lazy, drug addicted, worthless bums in this country who refuse to be responsible for anything. That's not care, that's robbery. Communism = robbery. So by definition that's what these people are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2010-03-23 13:44  

#5  We can spell poltroon, however.

How's that whole "CNN dead last in viewers" thing going, by the by?
Posted by: mojo   2010-03-23 13:17  

#4  If they can't, its likely they went to public school.

Pretty sure I've read some parts of some olde books where the literacy rate was likely not what it is today, yet everyone still knew what a tax collecter was.

Roland Martin's laugh-in, I'm not sure what the word for thief is in Italian, German, or Russian...does that make me some sort of clunk as well? There are some towns around theez parts where English is a second language - perhaps, said people may be able to spell those two words and many more in their native language leading them to make the big move out thisaway..what are you saying about them?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2010-03-23 10:54  

#3  The Pelosi gang think their sh*t don't stink, but it does!
Posted by: whatadeal   2010-03-23 08:57  

#2  Its spelled CNN isn't it. Communist News Network?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2010-03-23 01:08  

#1  "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." * Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964) - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart.

The broad scope of the American people know socialism and communism [aka collectivism] when they see it. This redistribution of income and government grasp of power are just that.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-03-23 01:00  

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