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Fox's Rios: Obama Has "Disdain" For Stay-At-Home Moms Because His Father And His Mentor Were "Marxist[s]"

April 16, 2012 11:30 pm ET

From the April 16 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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Previously:

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    • Author by Bongo Fury (April 16, 2012 11:33 pm ET)
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      I doubt even Marx was a Marxist, let alone Obama's father.
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      • Author by Egbert Souse (April 17, 2012 8:06 am ET)
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        Marx's wife Jenny was a stay-at-home-mom. Conclusion: Obama is a stay-at-home-mommyist.
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        • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (April 17, 2012 10:46 am ET)
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          Marx wasn't a real Marxist, he also said One day Capitalism will eat itself from the inside out...that is evident
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    • Author by dogbreath (April 16, 2012 11:35 pm ET)
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      And my dad was a bald Republican so I have disdain for rabbits and flashlights.
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    • Author by handsomejack54 (April 16, 2012 11:46 pm ET)
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      *raises hand*
      uhh....what the H does being a marxist have to do with having disdain for stay-at-home moms?
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      • Author by dogbreath (April 16, 2012 11:48 pm ET)
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        They both start with the letter m and have a need to tell you what to do.
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      • Author by MiniTru (April 17, 2012 9:33 am ET)
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        uhh....what the H does being a marxist have to do with having disdain for stay-at-home moms?
        That sounds more like Groucho Marxism to me...
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      • Author by papa bear3 (April 17, 2012 9:59 am ET)
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        . . .because it has been long known that stay-at-home-moms have had held a disdain for Marxists, especially Chico
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    • Author by little poncho (April 16, 2012 11:50 pm ET)
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      kk-klannity, you are full of everything, from hard to mush!!!!!!!!!
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    • Author by Quicksilver M.S (April 17, 2012 12:13 am ET)
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      Fox's Rios:
      Obama Has "Distain" For Stay At Home Moms Because His Father And His Mentor Were .. " MARXist(s) ...
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    • Author by ThomasJH268 (April 17, 2012 12:25 am ET)
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      I lost count of how many times Kirsten Powers was talked over.

      And how many times was Sandy Rios talked over? A whopping ZERO
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (April 17, 2012 12:28 am ET)
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      makes no sense ! You on something ???
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    • Author by nixter (April 17, 2012 12:46 am ET)
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      They just love this 2 against 1 thing at fox dont they, how fairly unbalanced. plus their point is wrong, but 2 on 1, fox viewers will get one last bedpan cleaned for a good nights sleep thinking they were right all along. nighty night.
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      • Author by politeradical (April 17, 2012 9:53 am ET)
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        Hannity does this constantly. Let's shout down and dog pile the liberal.
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      • Author by Disputed Zone (April 17, 2012 10:21 am ET)
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        I didn't see it as 2 on 1, but as 3-0. Powers pushed the standard Republican talking point that the comment was a shot at stay at home mothers, Hannity imagined it was part of some grand strategy that we can only wish the Democrats were capable of, and Rios, as usual, was deep in the throws of ODS.
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    • Author by jeannius (April 17, 2012 12:51 am ET)
         
      I honestly don't think Rosen intended her comments to be what they have been made out to be. I think she basically meant to say that given Romney and his wife's economic status, that she could comfortably stay home as a mom without having to worry about making ends meet because her husband made enough money that it was a NON-ISSUE!...and in that respect, it may be hard for her to understand how the average poor to middle class mom, especially single moms (single for whatever reason...for ex. I am widowed)are struggling every day to balance work, family and still come out sane, as well as economically sound! I think she basically chose the wrong words....in that they could be easily twisted. I understood what she meant, perhaps because I am a single mom trying to make ends meet...trying to make a living, plus be there for my kids, plus keep my sanity and find time for my own life before I'm too old, broke or burnt out to care if I have one!
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    • Author by Johaely (April 17, 2012 2:47 am ET)
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      You stupid libs. Who cares if what she said makes absolutely no sense. Logic is for communists.
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    • Author by mescal (April 17, 2012 4:26 am ET)
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      Jenny Marx... Karl's beloved wife... was a stay-at-home mom.

      I mean WTF?

      Hannity simply has a narrow list of pejorative phrases (Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Muslim, Nazi, fascist, elitist, liberal, etc) that he randomly hurls at the President... much like a monkey flinging its own feces.
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    • Author by Postage Stamp No3 (April 17, 2012 4:56 am ET)
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      Fox's Rios: Obama Has "Distain" For Stay At Home Moms Because His Father And His Mentor Were "Marxist[s]"


      And some people say Obama himself is a Marxist/Fascist/Socialist/Communist/Nazi/Black Panther-supporting/Rap listening all-powerful dictator. Yet at the same time he's also an incompetent buffoon who can't do anything right.

      These Foxicans just crack me up.

      ;)
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      • Author by cahill_es4624 (April 17, 2012 7:43 am ET)
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        Don't forget fist bumping arugula eater to your list...
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      • Author by AllanIsKing (April 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET)
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        Obama's father divorced his mother when Barack was 3 years old.
        Obama's father then returned to Kenya.
        How would Barack learn Marxism from his father?
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        • Author by Postage Stamp No3 (April 18, 2012 10:07 pm ET)
             
          How would Barack learn Marxism from his father?


          I have no clue, Allan. Thats what makes the Fox people/GOP so laughable.

          They just throw insults at the President with no research to back it up whatsoever.
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    • Author by MickD (April 17, 2012 6:44 am ET)
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      Wow, I mean wow. And by doing this this beoych also insults Ann Dunham (the President's mother), who has more integrity in one cell than Rios could possibly have. So f**king stupid, and any brain that wastes their time on FoxNoose deserves the melting that inevitably follows.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (April 17, 2012 6:46 am ET)
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      Barack Obama never said a word about Ann Romney...
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (April 17, 2012 12:23 pm ET)
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        Funny how well that fact is ignored. He did say some complimentary things about moms in general in response to this phony issue, but you wouldn't know that from a visit to Planet Wingnut.

        Rosen, a CNN employee with no connection to the prez, is being called an "Obama surrogate' and an 'Obama scapegoat' at righty websites, and judging by the comments, the zombies have been pretty well convinced that the president made scathing remarks about 'traditional women'.

        They're drifting further from reality every day.
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        • Author by Deluded (April 18, 2012 8:22 pm ET)
             
          Yep, there was one article at Beritbrats that asserted that Obama's women's forum's speech in the whitehouse "laid the groundwork" for what Rosen said and quoted a line from the speech where he stated that his wife did not have the luxury to NOT work, then tried to tie that to Rosen's "Ann Romney has not worked a day in her life" line.

          The trouble was, they did not attempt to show the connection between the 2 lines much less their whopping headline assertion that Obama's speech was somehow setting the stage and direction for Rosen's remarks. It was simply that, an assertion "doesn't this sound like that"? "Doesn't "if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" sound like Al Sharpton? Nolte (the author of the article) makes no attempt to show how Obama was actually setting the stage for Rosen's remarks, yet simply asserts that he was, a ploy made all the more pathetic when you read that same speech of Obama's and you realize that he was talking about the importance of women in the economy as a whole and also gave a nod to women who stayed at home.

          I made a post pointing out the glaring absence of any such connection and the articles attempts to link Obama to Rosen by nothing more than assertion? What do I get as a reply? Someone who states that because 3 other posts of mine were "not in favour of Beritbart" that "I'm not calling youa troll, but you definately have an agenda (these are ACTUAL quotes from that posted). Yeah, posts that are not for Beritbart are what pass for troll posts over there, never mind if their contents are actually relevant (something NO ONE made ANY effort to address).

          Seriously the populace over there don't give a hoot about logic or analysis, they have an inherent hatred of Obama, and judging by how many supported that article in question, as long as it's something that paints Obama as bad, they are for it, to hell with facts and reasoning.
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    • Author by David2012 (April 17, 2012 7:29 am ET)
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      I don't think this jujitsu effort to make some near slip of the tongue comment by an obscure political operative into the equivalent of a vicious, continuing assault on women's reproductive health and rights, on their right to equal pay for equal work, on their very right to work in the government occupations in which they work in greater proportions than men do, is going to work.

      By the way, has anybody else noted the Romney clip in which he brags how he made Massachusetts mothers on welfare go to work even if their kids were only two years old because they needed the "dignity of work"?

      http://www.juancole.com/2012/04/romney-poor-women-with-2-year-olds-need-to-go-to-work-hayes.html

      Well, I guess it's okay as long as they get good nannies.
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      • Author by curiousindependent (April 17, 2012 9:54 am ET)
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        I don't think this jujitsu... is going to work.
        Oh, it'll work. But only with the idiots who are geared to hate the president anyway.
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    • Author by teh.stoopid.lib (April 17, 2012 8:01 am ET)
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      dis"t"ain?! REALLY??? Spell check on aisle 5!
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    • Author by phlcstgan (April 17, 2012 8:05 am ET)
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      Oh yeah? Well, Sandy Rios is a drug dealer because she's blonde!
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    • Author by sheebe (April 17, 2012 9:23 am ET)
         
      How typical of FOX News....They will use anything they can, to poke jabs at the president...Worse yet is they truly believe that Americans are not smart enough to figure out what they are doing...Under-minding their country's leader!
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    • Author by Maimonides 03 (April 17, 2012 9:26 am ET)
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      LMAO...I do find it funny that President Obama is always coupled with the term " Marxist". It is even funnier when the rightwing tries to imply that the Presicent has a Marxist agenda.

      Reality is always the true test. Name a single policy or piece of legislation that the Obama Administration has introduced that is representative of Marixism. You can't name one. Economically he has been a Keynesian, his foreign policy has been a mix of positive coopertaion, with moments of decisive military action. President Obama is a good mix of ideas, without ideology. He is not cell locked in doctines, or eenslaved by dogma (RATM).

      This is what the rightwing fears...freedom.
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      • Author by magnolialover (April 17, 2012 9:34 am ET)
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        They can't name a piece of legislation, or policy, that Obama has pushed for that IS Marxist. Not even close really.

        The real test is when you ask republicans if Obama is a socialist/Marxist, they say YES.

        When you ask a REAL socialist/Marxist, they laugh at the question, because they know Obama isn't even close.

        Obama is barely left of President Bush for crying out loud, and actually, in some cases, he's to the right of what Mr. Bush did during his 2 terms in office.
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        • Author by cakesphere (April 17, 2012 9:52 am ET)
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          Seriously. One of these days I am going to print out copies of that political compass graphic that shows exactly where Bush/Obama/the republican candidates are on the spectrum and every time I hear someone call the president a communist or a socialist or a marxist I am going to just hand them the graphic, then walk away.
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        • Author by David2012 (April 17, 2012 10:01 am ET)
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          The only thing you ever hear about is the Affordable Healthcare Act putting us on the road to Soviet-style Communism or Maoist China.

          Well, if that makes Obama a Marxist, then so are Mitt Romney, the Heritage Foundation, and Newt Gingrich.

          There's something more elemental going on here, I think. The old America feels itself slipping away. It's not what Obama is, but what he symbolizes. Old orders don't just fade away.
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    • Author by NuBN247 (April 17, 2012 9:30 am ET)
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      Interesting how Hannity forces his viewpoint on Ms. Powers, but the recent leaks of Mitt Romney and his wife on the issue says that not only were they not offended, but that they used the moment for political gain, an early "birthday gift" as Ms. Romney said. I have two questions, (1) at what job did Ms. Romney work OUTSIDE of the home for which she received a paycheck that she used to clothe, feed and house her children; and (2) how many staff persons does Ms. Romney have working in her home(s). My mother worked a full-time govt job AND worked as a domestic for a woman like Ann Romney. It was my mother that did the washing, cleaning, and scrubbing the floors on her hands and knees so that her stay at home employer had time to devote to her children whom my mom also helped her raise. That is the "work" to which Ms. Rosen referred, a mother working a full time job and raising her children, and everyone knows in that regard it is accurate to say that Ann Romney has not "worked" a day in her life. That the FOX noise machine, and the Romneys, would deliberately and coldly feign outrage speaks loudly to the depths of their deceit and how out of touch they are with the "99%" as Hannity says.
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    • Author by magnolialover (April 17, 2012 9:32 am ET)
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      Wait. Marxists hate their mothers? Something tells me that they probably don't. Well, not at a higher rate than any other group something tells me.

      And Obama's father? He wasn't even in his son's life. Just barely. I think they visited once for about a week or so. He was an absent father, who had little to no affect upon his son's life.

      And the dead guy that they're smearing, he wasn't a Marxist either.
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      • Author by politeradical (April 17, 2012 9:57 am ET)
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        I was just thinking, mentor? Ooooh they must mean Alinsky *cue scary organ music*.

        Two problems: 1) Alinsky adhered to no ideology; 2) Obama was 10 when Alinsky died.

        Those pesky facts again.
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        • Author by bintx (April 17, 2012 10:06 am ET)
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          It was Frank Marshall Davis. He was a black political activist and writer who supported and embraced the theory of social justice. He was declared a communist during the McCarthy era. He moved to Hawaii and developed a friendship with Obama's grandfather after they found out that they were both from Kansas and grew up within about 50 miles of each other. Obama credited him as being a mentor in helping him deal with being a biracial child in a white environment. There are some conspiracy theories that claim that Obama is actually Davis's son! People will say ANYTHING to denigrate Obama and his family.
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          • Author by politeradical (April 17, 2012 11:11 am ET)
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            Ah okay. Didn't listen to the clip.

            "Coming up tonight on my Vetting of Obama segment, we expose the shocking truth that as a child, Obama knew grown ups."
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            • Author by phlcstgan (April 17, 2012 12:51 pm ET)
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              BLACK grown-ups! Who somehow, living in the America of the 1960s, drew the conclusion that they would prefer an alternate system of government!
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            • Author by bintx (April 17, 2012 1:00 pm ET)
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              This is an old talking point. Davis was in his late 60s by the time Obama met him and was almost 80 by the time Obama moved to the mainland to go to college. He was just a friend of his grandfather's who happened to be a black man that had been accused of being a communist during the McCarthy era.
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      • Author by bintx (April 17, 2012 9:59 am ET)
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        You're right. Obama didn't know his father at all and the dead guy that they're smearing was simply a black man with political ideas that they don't like. He wasn't a Marxist and by the time Obama knew him he was very elderly and was simply a friend of his grandfather's who happened to have the same color skin as Obama who counseled him on issues related to having that skin color.
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    • Author by MiniTru (April 17, 2012 9:37 am ET)
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      By the way, MMfA, the word is "Disdain," not "Distain".
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    • Author by OHBROTHER58 (April 17, 2012 9:40 am ET)
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      Fox's Rios: Obama Has "Distain" For Stay At Home Moms Because His Father And His Mentor Were "Marxist[s]"

      Overwhelming majority of Americans' reply: "Yawn".
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    • Author by pete x tp (April 17, 2012 9:46 am ET)
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      As much as I abhor thinking this way; I have reached the conclusion that the only remedy for FAUX"News" is napalm and lots of it.
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    • Author by curiousindependent (April 17, 2012 9:51 am ET)
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      I will ask again for someone to point out to me how a woman who was born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, married a man of the same persuasion, and has a team of people to do her housework and child-rearing duties can be considered a "stay at home mom".

      I will, again, fail to hold my breath waiting for a legitimate answer.
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      • Author by magnolialover (April 17, 2012 9:52 am ET)
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        Well, she stays at home. And she's a mom. Ergo, she's a stay at home Mom.
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      • Author by cakesphere (April 17, 2012 9:53 am ET)
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        The answer is clearly "because she's a republican and she said so".
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    • Author by politeradical (April 17, 2012 9:51 am ET)
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      That doesn't even make sense.

      Bad enough these idiots don't know what these words mean and regularly conflate inherently conflicting ideologies.

      Leave it to Hannity to take the dumbest, most ridiculous tack. So long as it's polarizing.

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    • Author by bintx (April 17, 2012 9:55 am ET)
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      Did she actually say "distain" or is this a flub by MMFA?

      As for the rest of it, BULL. Obama has never shown any disdain for stay at home mothers or any other mothers. Romney and his wife? Yep.

      His "Marxist" mentor was an 80 something black man who was a friend of his grandfather. He called him his "mentor" because he was a biracial child living in a white world. It had nothing to do with politics, for criminey sakes.
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      • Author by curiousindependent (April 17, 2012 11:57 am ET)
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        Did she actually say "distain" or is this a flub by MMFA?
        I don't know. I tried to listen to the clip to see, but I could not get past Hannity interrupting the first woman every time she tried to talk. That guy makes me want to just pound his face in.
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        • Author by cakesphere (April 17, 2012 1:07 pm ET)
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          I know how that is. I've had to swear off Hannity and Limbaugh for the most part, because a few minutes of listening to them is enough to send me into a hulk-like rage.
          At that point I have to break out several dozen emergency kittens for cuddles or I'll be completely fuming for the next several hours.

          The moral of the story is that we need to coordinate a kitten attack on Hannity.
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    • Author by shaggles (April 17, 2012 11:11 am ET)
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      Obama barely even knew his father. If he had contempt for anyone I expect it would be him. But where on earth do these clowns even get this crap. Obama called on Rosen to apologize (even though she didn't say or imply anything about stay-at-home moms) and stood up for stay-at-home moms and Mrs Romney.
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    • Author by mjh (April 18, 2012 1:02 am ET)
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      Fox's Rios: Obama Has "Disdain" For Stay-At-Home Moms Because His Father And His Mentor Were "Marxist[s]"



      She said -- even though his father wrote a scholarly paper in 1965 that was critical of Marxism . . .

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