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Posted on 09/26/2012 4:37:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
The media are digging deep to rain on Mitt Romney's Ohio campaign. On Wednesday, CNN's Brooke Baldwin stupidly wondered how golfer and Ohio-native Jack Nicklaus' endorsement of the candidate would help him with Ohio middle class voters.
"But here you have – you have Romney needing middle class votes in Ohio. How is he helped by a man who has been the face of professional golf, doesn't even live in Ohio anymore?" Baldwin said in her pathetic attempt to play devil's advocate. [Video below the break. Audio here.]
By her standards, she could have asked the same question when President Obama attended a fund raiser hosted by Jay-Z and Beyonce at Jay-Z's 40/40 club that featured a champagne tower, where seats went for $40,000.
Reporter Peter Hamby even mentioned the fund raiser in front of Baldwin on September 18 during CNN Newsroom, but she said nothing on the optics of it for middle class voters. Both Beyonce and Jay-Z have a net worth in the hundreds of millions.
And Hamby shot down Baldwin's question on Wednesday. "Look, he [Nicklaus] said in the speech, this election isn't about wealthy people, it's about the middle class. And you want surrogates like this in Ohio. Jack Nicklaus is an Ohio legend. He's from the Columbus area, that's where they were campaigning together. That's a bellwether part of the state."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on September 26 on CNN Newsroom at 3:16 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
BROOKE BALDWIN: And we'll also talk about Romney and Ohio, because that's precisely where he is today, to gain some traction. And he was joined this morning by a guy I know many of us would recognize. A really world-class, world famous athlete, Ohio native, who got up there and talked about winning, talked about success. Here is Jack Nicklaus.(Video Clip)
JACK NICKLAUS: When I was competing, I didn't lean on someone else in tough times. I knew what I had to do on the golf course to succeed. And when I won, I certainly didn't apologize for my success.
(Applause)
(End Video Clip)
BALDWIN: So Peter Hamby, I'm just going to play devil's advocate. And look, I love golf, working on my swing, who doesn't love Jack Nicklaus. But here you have – you have Romney needing middle class votes in Ohio. How is he helped by a man who has been the face of professional golf, doesn't even live in Ohio anymore?
PETER HAMBY: Well it's hard to hate on Jack. The guy has 18 Masters. Look, he said in the speech, this election isn't about wealthy people, it's about the middle class. And you want surrogates like this in Ohio. Jack Nicklaus is an Ohio legend. He's from the Columbus area, that's where they were campaigning together. That's a bellwether part of the state. He went to Ohio State. I mean, in my personal preference, I want to see where Bubba Watson and the Golf Boys are going in this election.
“They hate anyone who doesn’t like their Umbama.”
They hate white men in particular (unless they are paid Dem whores), and are very upfront about it. I can watch the most tragic news story, and feel an intense relief when the subject of the story isn’t someone “like me”. Not joy or pleasure, just absolute indifference/detachment.
That is the end result of their race-baiting and gender war, and it is national.
Matthews says some dopey things but tying golf to Tiger Woods was uttered by that socialist genius, Lawrence O’Donnell.
Oops! But I knew it was one of those wing nuts!
Ha, ha!
When I was a teenager I was at an ACME ZIP game (an annual early season night game between the University of Akron and some college they believed they had a chance to beat sponsored by the local ACME grocery market chain) and was walking through the crowd headed to buy a coke when headed directly toward me was Jack Nicklaus (in town for a tournament at Firestone CC). Even at that age, with no knowledge of or interest in golf, it was like running into God. You are right. She knows nothing about Ohio or how Jack is viewed in his home State. Arnold Palmer has a similar status in neighbouring PA.
You can't say "boy" because that makes you either a racist or a pedophile.
That picture never gets old!
And when you show clips of Obummer on the golf course, be sure to show numerous examples of his pussified swing!
Like your idea.
I’ve been sending one to the GOP (so far unsuccessfully) featuring my SIL:
“Hi I’m Justin, a PGA professional golfer. Did you know that in 2011 Baraq Obama played more rounds of golf than I did?
Is there any question why the country is in such bad shape?”
His swing REALLY is bad, isn’t it? My six year old grandson has a better swing than Obama has.
Oh my word. These people are making my hair hurt.
I just don’t believe them anymore. I always say I’ve been wise to the media leftists since I was 10 years old in 1968 and that is true.
But this campaign, they’ve lost the last iota of credibility I could ever give to them.
They just blatantly lie, and they blatantly accept the lies told by this administration, and they lie (often by ommission) on behalf of the administration.
Susan Rice on the Sunday shows, bare faced lying.
18000 attendees at the arena that holds 5000 another lie.
Refusing to report the truth on fast & furious and scores of other stories, lies by ommission.
The polls? Give me a break, Obama might pull this out in a squeaker, but he’s not going to get more dems to the polls than he did in 2008.
I just can’t believe what they say.
They’ve basically killed themselves, for freaking Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.
Hardly; for...
...a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Then they have a REAL dilemma in the voting booth!
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This is an out-of-touch media person using stereotypes from the early 1950’s when a large percentage of olf courses were private country clubs and the average joe hung out at the bowling alley. Now most courses are public, and I regularly tee it up with average-Joe sixpack who account for most of the rounds played these days.
Obama’s party at Jazydouchebag’s bar had nearly a quarter of million dollars of champagne alone. The pravda media kissed his butt all the same.
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