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George Clooney to Steve Wynn: Leave Barack Alone, [edited]
Breitbart News ^ | April 23, 2014 | John Nolte

Posted on 04/24/2014 10:52:52 AM PDT by This Just In

Things got ugly a couple of weeks ago among the bubbled one-percent when fading movie star George Clooney and casino billionaire Steve Wynn engaged in a war of words over President Barack Obama.

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To: Servant of the Cross

Just because I needed a laugh..

LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

Can anyone do a voice over “LEAVE CLOONEY ALONE!”??


21 posted on 04/24/2014 11:11:23 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: This Just In

Ahhh, George Clooney, the modern era’s Rock Hudson-————except that Rock had some class.


22 posted on 04/24/2014 11:11:39 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: MissTed

Well, it speaks volumes. :^)


23 posted on 04/24/2014 11:12:06 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: faithhopecharity

The Adolescent President

The rhetorical excesses of Barack Obama.

By George Will

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE

APRIL 23, 2014

Recently, Barack Obama — a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance, a Pericles sent to ameliorate our rhetorical impoverishment — spoke at the University of Michigan. He came to that very friendly venue — in 2012, he received 67 percent of the vote in Ann Arbor’s county — after visiting a local sandwich shop, where a muse must have whispered in the presidential ear. Representative Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a “meanwich” and a “stinkburger.”

Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grown-ups would resort to japes that fourth-graders would not consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.

Anyone who has tried to engage a member of that age cohort in an argument probably recognizes the four basic teenage tropes, which also are the only arrows in Obama’s overrated rhetorical quiver. They were all employed by him last week when he went to the White House briefing room to exclaim, as he is wont to do, about the excellence of the Affordable Care Act.

First came the invocation of a straw man. Celebrating the ACA’s enrollment numbers, Obama, referring to Republicans, charged: “They said nobody would sign up.” Of course, no one said this. Obama often is what political philosopher Kenneth Minogue said of an adversary – “a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.”

Adolescents also try to truncate arguments by saying that nothing remains of any arguments against their arguments.

Regarding the ACA, Obama said the debate is “settled” and “over.” Progressives also say the debate about catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change is “over,” so everyone should pipe down. And they say the debates about the efficacy of universal preschool, and the cost-benefit balance of a minimum-wage increase, are over. Declaring an argument over is so much more restful than engaging with evidence.

A third rhetorical move by argumentative adolescents is to declare that there is nothing to argue about because everything is going along swimmingly. Seven times Obama asserted that the ACA is “working.” That is, however, uninformative because it is ambiguous...

THE REST OF THE ARTICLE

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/376446/print


24 posted on 04/24/2014 11:13:32 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: forgotten man
“Clooney was in Vegas promoting a tequila brand he’s involved with.”

What brand. Need to know which to avoid.

25 posted on 04/24/2014 11:16:08 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
What brand. Need to know which to avoid.

Found it - Casamigos. Good to know. Now I can avoid it.

26 posted on 04/24/2014 11:18:13 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: This Just In

Best Clooney movie was The American.
He didn’t talk much and people shot at him.


27 posted on 04/24/2014 11:26:45 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Clooney sounds like a real A-hole when he’s drunk.”

He also sounds like an A-hole when he’s sober.


28 posted on 04/24/2014 11:26:54 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I don't want to feel "safe." I want to feel FREE!)
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To: IYAS9YAS

John Wayne drank Conmemorotivo Tequila. Stay away from that Casamigos swill.


29 posted on 04/24/2014 11:27:00 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Zathras

I believe you meant to say,

“Best Worst Clooney movie....”


30 posted on 04/24/2014 11:27:49 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: Dqban22

yes, also his “giving the finger” to all sorts of people he doesn’t agree with

and his refusal to deal with world (or economic) realities, preferring instead to attack straw targets or behave out of purely ideological agendas without respect for the consequences of his actions

childish


31 posted on 04/24/2014 11:30:54 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: This Just In

I enjoyed Wynn’s comments about Clooney. Apparently when Clooney gets drunk, he considers himself a close personal friend of Barack.


32 posted on 04/24/2014 11:36:25 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: This Just In

Poooor widdle Obamy and Cloony,

Maybe they can help each other put on their big girl panties.


33 posted on 04/24/2014 11:51:28 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Zathras

“Best Clooney movie was The American.
He didn’t talk much and people shot at him.”

LOL! I heard “Monuments Men” sucked. It’s really too bad. The book is very good. Leave it to cLooney to #### it up. I did like “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” but he didn’t direct that (thank God)


34 posted on 04/24/2014 11:58:37 AM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

clooney doesn’t have to be drunk to be a big a-hole.


35 posted on 04/24/2014 12:05:52 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: forgotten man
Cloony’s brand of Tequila must be named Holes Hey Queer-Ho.
36 posted on 04/24/2014 1:15:26 PM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: This Just In
Clue for Clueless Clooney:
When Obama stops lying and destroying the traditional institutions that made this the greatest nation in history we might consider leaving him alone.
Until then the lying commie moron makes himself a target of the wrath of patriotic Americans, as do you, you no-talent ignoramus Obama-apologist.
37 posted on 04/24/2014 1:18:41 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: This Just In

It will get really ugly if Clooney’s uber smugness collides with Obama’s and the thousands of Prious drivers’ smugness.


38 posted on 04/24/2014 1:20:28 PM PDT by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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To: MissTed

Now Wynn is a big Reid ally is he not?


39 posted on 04/24/2014 2:51:58 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: This Just In

...or else.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102183306
DoJ investigates Wynn.


40 posted on 11/20/2014 12:01:10 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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