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Romney Favors Hubbard Novel
The New York Times ^ | April 30, 2007 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 05/04/2007 8:03:11 AM PDT by Labyrinthos

When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.

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Is this accurate? Regardless of his political credentials, I have to question his mental state.
1 posted on 05/04/2007 8:03:12 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
He's trying to distance himself from the wackiness of Mormonism by trying to align himself with Scientology.

He should have went with Kabbalah.

2 posted on 05/04/2007 8:04:55 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Don’t equate the movie with the book. The movie sucked (should have been billed as a comedy/parody). The book is pretty good sci-fi.........


3 posted on 05/04/2007 8:04:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: Labyrinthos

I read “Battlefield Earth” in high school. I’d call it cheap juvenile trash, but that would offend cheap juvenile trash everywhere.


4 posted on 05/04/2007 8:05:25 AM PDT by henkster (Al Gore is the second coming...of Trofim Lysenko)
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To: Labyrinthos

The smell of fear is on our friends at the NYT.


5 posted on 05/04/2007 8:05:50 AM PDT by claudiustg (I curse you, Rudy of the Giuliani!)
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To: Labyrinthos

Advisor: No Mitt, we said you need to AVOID any more connections to wacky religions.


6 posted on 05/04/2007 8:06:45 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Wrong answer.

Or maybe he’s trying to get Tom Cruise and John Travolta to bankroll his campaign?


7 posted on 05/04/2007 8:07:00 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Labyrinthos

I wish he’d said the “Honor Harrington” series... That would have locked my vote in right there!


8 posted on 05/04/2007 8:07:15 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: if his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: Red Badger

> The movie sucked ...

Wait for the Tom Cruise remake.


9 posted on 05/04/2007 8:07:37 AM PDT by Boundless (If we're lucky, that's just a joke.)
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To: Red Badger
The book is pretty good sci-fi.........

The book had a novella's worth of story stretched by Hubbard into a very long novel. A master of the English language can say in two or three words what it takes an average writer ten to say. Hubbard took one hundred. I want back the part of my life I wasted to read it on a friend's recommendation.

10 posted on 05/04/2007 8:07:56 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Before Hubbard created a Science Fiction religion he just wrote plain old science fiction. That’s all Battlefield Earth is.


11 posted on 05/04/2007 8:08:28 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Red Badger
Yes, the movie was pretty awful. But it was a good story that, unfortunately, was translated badly onto the silver screen.

I happen to like Whitaker and Travolta, so I kinda enjoyed watching. And I like Barry Pepper as well.
12 posted on 05/04/2007 8:08:42 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: Labyrinthos

Romney’s tone deaf when it comes to religion...


13 posted on 05/04/2007 8:08:48 AM PDT by GOPJ ( When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."- Churchill)
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To: KarlInOhio
I want back the part of my life I wasted to read it on a friend's recommendation.

I said it was "pretty good" not great. The Dune series is great...............

14 posted on 05/04/2007 8:10:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: Labyrinthos

I am not an athiest, but I like Atlas Shrugged.

What does that make me?


15 posted on 05/04/2007 8:10:21 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside (Rudy Giuliani is just another "Empty Dress Republican")
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To: Labyrinthos

I hate to admit it, but I enjoyed reading “Battlefield Earth” - you just have to look at as old-style sci-fi, which is to say nothing to do with science at all, hardly. Still kind of fun. I also enjoyed reading some of the “Mission Earth” dekology that a friend had purchased, when I was in University. Another friend of mine, unknown to me, also has “Battlefield Earth” listed as a favorite book on his “FaceBook” site.


16 posted on 05/04/2007 8:10:23 AM PDT by -YYZ-
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To: Red Badger
The book is pretty good sci-fi.........

Still in the bottom 90%

17 posted on 05/04/2007 8:10:29 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (No.. I said he was a Korean student, not a Koran student)
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To: Red Badger
The movie sucked (should have been billed as a comedy/parody).

I've heard that, too. I think some Amazon reviews say that it's a great movie if you want to see an "unintentional comedy", or just laugh at the appalling badness of the thing.

18 posted on 05/04/2007 8:10:43 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: greyfoxx39

Just for chuckles.

Was Romney saying this so he could attract the Scientology vote?

Will he next pander to the Jehovah’s Witnesses?


19 posted on 05/04/2007 8:11:21 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.--William Goldman)
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To: Labyrinthos
It's a sci-fi book. What's the big deal? Is this supposed to knock Mitt down a peg? Maybe you can argue that he has bad taste in books, but I'm not sure a relationship to scientology can be derived. And I don't see how any of this relates to his being a Mormon.

My favorite "Atlas Shrugged". Wasn't Ayn an atheist? I'm not.

Mitt's looking pretty good about now. And I'm a FredHead.
20 posted on 05/04/2007 8:12:10 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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