GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he would deport President Barack Obama’s uncle, who authorities say was arrested in August for DUI near Boston. Onyango “Omar” Obama is, allegedly, an illegal immigrant. In an interview with Boston radio host Howie Carr, Romney said “yes” when asked if “Uncle Omar” should be deported. Romney at first did not recognize the name, and was far from incendiary about it, saying simply that U.S. immigration laws should be enforced. Take a listen to the exchange: Mitt Romney on Obama’s Uncle Onyango Obama is the 67-year-old half-brother of the commander-in-chief’s late father, Barack Obama, Sr. His case is pending in Framingham, Mass., District Court. He was initially held without bail by immigration officials on allegations he violated an official order to return Kenya issued 20 years ago but has since been released.
GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul furrowed his eyebrows, growing agitated before taking off his mic and walking away from CNN interview about his old newsletters. As Paul has gained traction in recent polls, the media has turned up the heat, alleging that he made money and won fame with a sometimes racist series of publications. Paul claims he didn’t read most of the newsletters and their controversial content, written during the 1980s and 1990s, despite them being published under his name. He has taken responsibility for being a bad publisher, but disavowed the views, as he explained to CNN’s Gloria Borger, who grilled him on the topic yesterday … Ron Paul Walks Off CNN interview “Why don’t you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years. 22 years ago?” the 76-year-old Paul said at the outset. “I didn’t write them, I disavow them, that’s it.” Borger pressed on for a few seconds before urging Paul to react to what people are saying about the allegations. “These things are pretty incendiary,” Borger said . “Because of people like you,” Paul snapped back. Later, when talking with Borger about the interview incident on air, Situation Room host Wolf Blizter suggested that Paul “got tired of talking about” the allegations. He could have probably handled it a lot better, although he has answered the same questions the same way a ton of times now, including last week on Hannity . What do you think? Is Paul’s explanation satisfactory? Will the fiery newsletters from long ago continue to dog him, or will they become background noise?
Mitt Romney appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman last night and read a Top 10 list of things he’d like to say to America. Some of them were pretty funny. Making fun of his game-show-host good looks, his hair, his demeanor and his own name, the M-I-Double-Tizzle held his own, and got in a shot at rival Newt Gingrich. Watch the former Governor of Massachusetts and White House hopeful present the “Top 10 Things Mitt Romney Would Like to Say to the American People” below … Mitt Romney Top 10 List The presidential candidate also delivered the Top 10 List on the program
What happens when you put a nativity scene in the middle of an Occupy camp? This video happens. And it’s pretty ironically hilarious, to say the least. The reactions of the Occupy Wall Street protesters below speak for themselves. Seeing a guy state that “It’s offensive” while wearing a baseball hat that says “F–k the police” … so priceless. Watch the tables turn as Baby Jesus & Co. do the occupying: Occupy vs. Nativity Scene (feat. Baby Jesus)
Another dictator goes down. This time of natural causes, however. The video above puts some North Korean military propaganda to Jimmy “Bo” Horne’s old school funk beat, making it much more tolerable. From one of the YouTube comments: Kim Jong-Il was ill, and now he’s dead. The funk may be with him, but he had Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Jack and Jill Politics Discovery Date : 19/12/2011 06:28 Number of articles : 2
Did Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin get plastic surgery? Look at the photos below and decide for yourself, but rumors have been swirling about the supposed transformation of the 59-year-old’s face. He’s looking a lot, uh, less stressed these days, as these before and after pictures show … Notice on the right, his forehead is smoother, his cheeks glowing, the deep lines that once characterized his hardened (albeit still handsome) face all but forgotten. Britain’s Guardian newspaper speculates that Botox did the trick and also suggests that Vladimir Putin has also undergone some plastic surgery – small nip/tucks. Quoted by the Guardian , four plastic surgeons analyzed Putin’s new look and concluded he had the work done in advance of his upcoming election bid in March. To that end, CBS News reports on Friday that a brand new poll shows that he is slipping in his approval rating, to 51 percent, down from 61 percent last month. Desperate political times call for the occasional cosmetic procedure? Who’s to say.
Due to all the candidates bailing competing interests, professional blowhard Donald Trump will no longer moderate a GOP presidential debate in Iowa later this month. Trump explained he is pulling out of the event for two made-up reasons: He’s not convinced there’s a strong enough Republican challenger in the field. He wants the option to run himself (which he won’t, but often threatens to). In reality, several leading candidates had already made it clear they wouldn’t participate in a debate moderated by Trump. Ron Paul basically called it circus-like and beneath the presidency. Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann also declined to attend. Trump called them all cowards , saying it is “very important to me that the right candidate be chosen to defeat the destructive Obama Administration, but if that Republican, in my opinion, is not the right [one], I am not giving up my right to run as an Independent.” “Therefore, so that there is no conflict of interest within the Republican Party, I have decided not to be the moderator of the Newsmax debate.” Now that is 100 percent BS . Still, do you think he should run?
Obama told a Memphis news station that the reason Americans will support him is because – “We’ve been spending the last three years” cleaning up after Bush. FOX Nation reported: Real Clear Video Politics has the transcript: “The reason they … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 09/12/2011 16:39 Number of articles : 2
As if the Republican presidential race didn’t already feel like a a reality show, Donald Trump is pairing up with conservative magazine and website Newsmax to moderate a presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on December 27. “Our readers and the grassroots really love Trump,” said Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy. That they do, hilariously. From an entertainment standpoint, can you not? Greatest. Presidential. Debate. Ever . Trump’s role in the debate , which will be broadcast on the cable network Ion Television, marks another memorable moment in a primary season that has been an unpredictable, publicity-driven, circus-like spectacle for months now. The Donald toyed with running for president earlier this year and ran his mouth about Barack Obama’s birth certificate until he was blue in the face. He ultimately declined against getting into the race and has not endorsed a candidate. The debate, which will not be limited to a specific topic like national security or the economy, is set to happen just a week before the Iowa caucuses, and will be called the Newsmax Ion Television 2012 Presidential Debate. Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman have already declined invitations to participate, with the former bashing the event as beneath the office of the presidency. Herman Cain dropped out of the race yesterday, so he won’t be there either.
A few weeks after his first public statements since his arrest on sexual abuse charges – in which he admitted to showering with boys , but rejected any notion that he’s a pedophile – former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has spoken out again. With 40 charges already filed against him, and with a new accuser coming forth this week , Sandusky told The New York Times : “These allegations are false, I didn’t do those things. I’m not the monster everyone made me out to be. I didn’t engage in sexual acts.” Jerry Sandusky Interview The disgraced ex-coach will be in court on December 13 for a preliminary hearing, as he’s currently charged with molesting eight kids over a 15-year period. Sandusky told the newspaper that Joe Paterno – who was fired in the wake of this scandal – never said a word to him about the allegations. He also tried to clarify one of his responses in an interview with Bob Costas (above), as Sandusky initially stammered when asked whether or not he was “attracted to underage boys.” To The Times in this case, Sandusky said : “I enjoy spending time with young people. I enjoy spending time with people. I mean, my two favorite groups are the elderly and the young. The young because they don’t think about what they say and the old because they don’t care, you know?” Statements such as that don’t exactly help clear Sandusky’s name – seriously, the guy can’t just answer “no” when asked if he’s attracted to children – but he says this is all an instance of his actions being misunderstood and misinterpreted: “They’ve taken everything that I ever did for any young person and twisted it to say that my motives were sexual or whatever. I had kid after kid after kid who might say I was a father figure. And they just twisted that all.”
