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Melinda

(5,465 posts)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 01:39 PM Oct 2012

Forbes: Ryan's Despicable Soup Kitchen Antics Perfect Metaphor For GOP Ticket's Disrespect For Poor

Ric Ungar writes another spot on OpEd in Forbes:

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And while the photographs and news footage would tell the story of Congressman Ryan as a caring conservative just looking to extend a helping hand, with each click of the shutter and roll of the video camera, St. Vincent was being put deeper and deeper in jeopardy of losing critical funding that allows their doors to stay open.

As Mr. Antal noted, “I can’t afford to lose funding from these private individuals. If this was the Democrats, I’d have the same exact problem.”

Upon learning of the mistake the campaign had made, certainly Mr. Ryan’s spokespeople came forward to apologize and set the record straight, right? Certainly the Romney-Ryan campaign made the effort to issue a statement that would inform anyone who is a donor to the charity— or considering becoming one—that, while their intentions were noble (false photo ops aside), they had inadvertently caused a problem for the soup kitchen and that nobody should hold the charity responsible for playing politics as that was not what had occurred. Surely they would have done this in an effort to help St. Vincent out of a jam the campaign had created, yes?

Nope.

You see, the GOP ticket—led by a man who actually wrote a book called “No Apology”— doesn’t roll that way.


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Forbes: Ryan's Despicable Soup Kitchen Antics Perfect Metaphor For GOP Ticket's Disrespect For Poor (Original Post) Melinda Oct 2012 OP
K&R BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #1
Here's the video. Seedersandleechers Oct 2012 #2
That apron is really clean--as if he put it on only for the photo-op. HubertHeaver Oct 2012 #4
And he drags his children in as props BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #6
"Antics" is the perfect word - Ryan should have worn a clown costume with fright wig aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #3
+1 flamingdem Oct 2012 #5
I'll pitch in to buy new shovels for rMoney and rLyan - they need them. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #7
Is Steve Forbes no longer associated with Forbes magazine? I keep seeing rational opinion pieces Texas Lawyer Oct 2012 #8
AFAIK, he remains Editor-in-Chief Melinda Oct 2012 #9
its also a metaphor of how they disrespect the truth Fresh_Start Oct 2012 #10

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
3. "Antics" is the perfect word - Ryan should have worn a clown costume with fright wig
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 01:49 PM
Oct 2012

rubber nose, and big shoes. He belongs in the circus.


antics
n pl antics [ˈӕntiks]
odd or amusing behaviour The children laughed at the monkey's antics.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2010 K Dictionaries Ltd.

Texas Lawyer

(350 posts)
8. Is Steve Forbes no longer associated with Forbes magazine? I keep seeing rational opinion pieces
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 03:47 PM
Oct 2012

from Forbes magazine but I keep hearing right-wing crazy babel from Steve Forbes.

Isn't there a link between those two?

Melinda

(5,465 posts)
9. AFAIK, he remains Editor-in-Chief
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 05:06 PM
Oct 2012

It's topsy turvy world in Forbes! Ungar is a well known left blogger, so perhaps Forbes hopes to pick up paying readers from our end of the spectrum - dunno!!

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