MSNBC's fluff piece on "Romney summer vacation at New Hampshire Estate" made ALL of my teeth ACHE

[Amerigo Vespucci]

That's how Thomas Roberts closed out his show, with a sugary fluff piece from a WaPo writer Phillip Rucker on Romney's annual "Summer Olympics" at his estate in New Hampshire.



If you want to read it, here you go: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-summer-vacation-full-of-competitive-sports-and-family-meetings/2012/06/30/gJQAsDFDEW_story.html

[coalition_unwilling]

1. Wonder if any dog or human torturing occurred there - n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Each family member straps a dog to a car roof and drives around the estate grounds

The first one to provoke diarrhea wins.

[HopeHoops]

2. How many of the females are his wives?

[geek_sabre]

18. I'll go out on a limb

and say one. The other women are his sons' wives.

[HopeHoops]

20. Do you think that matters to him? He raided everything else.

[jehop61]

3. How many

of all those people in the picture REALLY want to be there?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. What do the Romney Family Olympics competitive events consist of?

How many flips and flops they can do in the shortest amount of time? How many haircuts can they give or uniforms they can change into? How many tax deductions they can find for their upcoming tax returns?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. They said on MSNBC that...

...one "event" consisted of nailing the most nails into a board in a fixed period of time.

I kid you not.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. More proof this guy is a WEIRDO !!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. they all have that robotic look in their eyes.

[csziggy]

17. Or they all are out of the same small gene pool

From how similar every person in that picture looks.

[tinymontgomery]

6. How many of us

How many of us can go to our "Summer Estate in New Hampshire". I know, I should have gotten a job throwing people out of work if I wanted a summer estate.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Elitist!!

Damn socialistcommienazifacistfakecapitalist

[jenmito]

10. "Now With Alex" just did a segment on it, too. Jeez. n/t

[Suji to Seoul]

11. That's alot of pairs of magic underpants there!

Too bad all of the pairs of magic underpants are soiled and full of shit. Literally.

[targetpractice]

13. Airing of grievances, too?

Sounds a lot like Festivus at the Costanza house.

[KurtNYC]

14. Look how many blue collars are in that picture!

That's a very blue collar family.
.
.

[louis-t]

15. And then there's the 'smashing yer face in butter' event.

Kids l-o-v-e that!

[Ship of Fools]

16. I agree. An unfortunate choice in narratives, imo.

[rufus dog]

19. Babies and Dogs have a great ability to determine character

And look at the two babies in the top row.... get me out of here!

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Does anyone else think it's creepy when families dress alike for portraits?

It's always bugged me.

[rufus dog]

22. and dollars to donuts that Ann was pissed at the DIL directly behind her

The GALL, she didn't wear a solid white shirt and her son had a stripped blue shirt. Go check their luggage, guarantee you there were liquor bottles smuggled in.