Exactly. That’s why I love Benton getting in there and calling it straight.
Seriously you know they’re trying hard when that actually serves as a question on national news.
How was RP supposed to know that she was there? She should have gotten a bullhorn like that one guy who kept making annoying remarks. Or… or… or… she could have gotten ahold of one of his staffers and told the staffer about her situation.
FYI the “guy with the bullhorn making annoying remarks” is actually Vermin Supreme. He’s basically been running more or less fake campaigns for public office for years now. My understanding is he’s an anarchist and does so to basically lampoon the electoral process and democracy in general. Typically he’s running on a platform that includes making brushing your teeth mandatory, and promising everyone a pony if elected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
I wouldn’t exactly call him a friend of the cause, but we do share some ends, ha. I have no idea if he’s aware of Paul’s positions or anarchist leanings or not. That probably wouldn’t make a difference. 
You mean THIS guy?
Oh, man, the tooth puns are insane.
…aaaand of course CNN cuts it off.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the “perfect face for radio” woman’s personal fears…
Ron Paul Looks Good. The image reminds me of Tom Cruise from Top Gun.
This is a pretty cool interactive map. Good place when you want the numbers…
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/Primary/
I’ve started seeing this in social media:
R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]UTION!
oh, and militarist Romney:
The Dana Bash thing is being misinterpreted. She may or may not “be worried” about Ron Paul, but when she said that, she meant she is talking to disgruntled Republicans like John King is.
Actually, it’s so painfully obvious that this is what she meant that I’m upset that RevolutionPAC is calling for her to get fired over this.
“I’m sure you’ve talked to Republicans who are worried as well, just like I am…”
This was on live TV, so it’s easy to misplace a clause in a running sentence. She went from past tense to present tense, hence the confusion. “Just like I am” = I’m talking to worried Republicans as I’m sure John King has previously.
Possibly. But at least with that second post you are now admitting what she said does mean she is giving a personal sentiment. I realize you’re alleging she made a mistake in her language didn’t mean it the way she said, but that is quite different than claiming other people are just interpreting what she said incorrectly. It’s not their fault she said something she didn’t mean, and they believed her.
Maybe to you. I didn’t hear it that way. Now that you mention it, I agree it’s possible she made a mistake and didn’t mean what she actually said, but it again, that was her mistake…not everyone elses. And it certainly wasn’t “painfully obvious”. I’m not a big fan of this “oh she couldn’t have possibly meant that…let me sit down and try to figure out what she really meant” bs. I tend to agree more with this.
Did you even follow the link? They’re asking her to be reassigned. That is hardly “fired”.
I’m with Eric on this… except that I don’t agree it’s painfully obvious… I didn’t get it until you explained it. But now that it’s explained to me, I see how she must have meant that because it’s inconceivable that a reporter in her position would do something so obviously stupid (and costly) as disclose her ideological horse in the race.
I understand why the Ron Paul campaign is a bit touchy about the media because they really are rolling out the dirty tricks. I saw the footage of that restaurant and it was absurd, you couldn’t even walk down the aisles between tables because people were packed in so tight. Someone in the media decided that they should “crash” the party with the express intent of getting RP to walk out and then asking him bullshit “follow-up” questions later on about why he didn’t shake one solitary voter’s hand.
Nevertheless, they also need to step up to the plate and realize that these kinds of dirty tricks are par for the course. There’s nothing civilized about politics and they better get ready for things to get a lot dirtier and a lot more low-down, particularly if RP starts to become the un-Romney.
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Did you even follow the link? They’re asking her to be reassigned. That is hardly “fired”.
Fair enough. The title is “Ron Paul Super PAC Calls for Removal of Dana Bash.” I skim-read it and missed the quote where they want her reassigned (this is only mentioned once in the post; I understood “removal” as “fired”). I wouldn’t blame anyone for backtracking when they hear this the first time, but upon analysis, I believe it was painfully obvious what she meant.
I think the MSM’s animosity against RP is actually helping him. While the MSM highlights Romney’s, Perry’s, and Gingrich’s childish flubs so as to make those candidates lovable, the younger “populace” hates the MSM and will side with the candidate that is calling the MSM’s bluffs and putting them in their place.
There is a bit of blowback going on (if you’ll pardon the pun). Usually when the forces that are seen as being corrupt (the corporate media, big business, rival politicians, hack pundits, etc.) all start to rail against one candidate, the educated out there begin to see that maybe there is something to this candidate. If Rush Limbaugh, CNN, The Young Turks (regardless of Cenk’s recent semi-defenses), Fox News, Newt Gingrich, and Rachel Maddow all start hating on you, something must be going right.
I’d be willing to bet money you found that RevPAC blog entry by clicking the annotation link in the video…the one that explicitly says (in English plainer than you allege Bash used) “Click here to contact CNN to request Dana Bash’s reassignment.”
I don’t know how you get much more clear than that. (Especially when it is “painfully obvious” to you that someone means something completely different than what they actually say. Or perhaps your ability to understand things to mean the opposite is working against you here?)
Important part in bold. You may overestimate the number of those people, as well as the time it takes for even the lower end among that upper echelon to get to that point.
FTFY
I tend to not glance at annotations, so I completely did not notice that until you mentioned it!