Posted on 10/29/2012 7:58:28 PM PDT by neverdem
The Navy needs more ships, Mitt Romney said in last Monday's debate. It has fewer now than in 1916.
President Barack Obama pounced. "Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed," he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them ... "
In the spin room, some journalists laughed and applauded. Liberals imagine themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to conservatives. They love to put them down.
But "sarcasm and condescension only work if the speaker's presumption of lofty superior knowledge is borne out by his command of actual facts," said Pastor Donald Sensing, a retired Army colonel.
Mr. Obama was wrong on both the thrust of his argument, and on the examples he used. Aircraft carriers need smaller ships to protect them, lest they be sunk. The military has many more bayonets now than in 1916. Marines think so highly of them they've designed a new one, modeled on the famous KA-BAR fighting knife. Special Forces soldiers on horseback were critical to ousting the Taliban.
The facts matter little to liberals. Their assumption of intellectual superiority isn't based on actual knowledge. Journalists declared the president the winner of the debate.
But facts and civility do matter to most Americans. A CBS panel of undecided voters in Ohio chose Mr. Romney, 6-2. A video of the dismay of CBS "This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell when this was reported is zipping across the Internet...
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.realclearpolitics.com ...
>> “Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets,...”
He came off as the arrogant, pompous ass we all know he is.
He sure did.
Pride goeth before the single term.
Obama’s condescending, sarcastic reply exposed him for exactly what he is..... A total a$$hole.
Send lawyers, guns, and popcorn, the s#!t is gonna hit the fan (in another 8 days)
LOL - that is an uproarious hoot all by itself! 8^)
OhhRahh!
I want one....where can that be obtained?
Proverbs 16:18
King James Version (KJV)
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a very liberal paper. For this article to appear there, is telling.
“Journalists declared the president the winner of the debate.”
I hereby declare Barrack Hussein Obama the President of the Journalists!
ROFLAMO
Yep - prez of the lamest of lame..
"The biggest losers could be "mainstream" journalists. Their blatant bias has dropped trust in the news media to an all-time low. It'll plunge further if more evidence of collusion with the administration emerges. Nobody trusts a liar. There will be bankruptcies."
speaking of lame... shb ROFLMAO lol
Many people will never trust them again, myself included. Even if they suddenly started doing their jobs tomorrow I won’t.
Too bad our fallen heroes in Libya did not have bayonettes to defend themselves or horses on which to try to escape. Zero can rot in Hell.
amen
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