Newsmax secretly scrubs embarrassing article.
By on May 24th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Newsmax secretly scrubs embarrassing article.
Steve Benen at the The Carpetbagger Report catches the right-wing news outlet Newsmax editing out embarrassing references to Ann Romney as “an outdoors woman bred to be an equestrian” who has a “good carriage, rosy complexion, square jaw, and blond mane” — without informing its readers. The Newsmax reporter is the same person who recently raved about Mitt Romney’s “sensational good looks”: “Women – who will play a critical role in this coming election – have a word for him: hot.”
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Hot and awesomely undecided.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:51 pmWTF?
May 24th, 2007 at 5:53 pmHilarious! When you have no integrity, you have none to lose. Of course, pretty much everything Newsmax writes is embarrassing.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:54 pmNothing more than a hotflash, this too will pass.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:54 pmOnly stupid republican women with hope’s of being Romney’s next wife would vote for this rich eletist who has nothing good to offer our country….Blessings
May 24th, 2007 at 5:56 pmThat is too f*cking funny.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:58 pmwait… what?!
May 24th, 2007 at 6:01 pmLMAO
Well, Mitt IS better looking (in that mature way that Edwards can’t quite manage) than any Dem running so far.But I don’t like his flipping and flopping like a fish out of water. Fred Thompson is the candidate many Repubs are hoping will get in the race.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:06 pm#5 – Sharon – You were reminiscing about JFK, were you?? I liked him….even if he was handsome, rich and hid the fact he was a cad from all except the sycophant press corps….
May 24th, 2007 at 6:09 pmDoes this mean she does donkey shows in Tijuana?
May 24th, 2007 at 6:10 pmMitt is Bush 2000 redux. He still believes that drowning the government in a bathtub is a good idea, and he’s mastered selling tax cuts for the rich as “compassion.” He’s the most dangerous candidate in the race.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:11 pmMitt is Shit.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:18 pmOnly stupid republican women with hope’s of being Romney’s next wife would vote for this rich eletist who has nothing good to offer our country….Blessings
Comment by Sharon
Don’t you mean wife number 2 or 3 or whatever. As a Mormon he should have a few.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:20 pmFred Thompson is the candidate many Repubs are hoping will get in the race.
Comment by valiant venus
Leave it to you morons to be enthralled with another actor.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:23 pmWho in the world thinks Mitt Romney is hot? Seriously?
May 24th, 2007 at 6:23 pmMitt is Shit.
Comment by Tom3 — May 24, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
Erratum: Post #12) Should read: “Mitt is da Shit”
May 24th, 2007 at 6:24 pmI think Fred Thompson is too far to the right for my liking, so I might lean more towards supporting either Hillary or Romney for president. Fred should remain on Law & Order, but unfortunately he wont be.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:26 pm#15
May 24th, 2007 at 6:26 pmMaybe Monica Goodling?
Who in the world thinks Mitt Romney is hot? Seriously?
Comment by Deniz Yeter
If I was a gay man I might think he’s attractive.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:27 pmWell, Mitt IS better looking (in that mature way that Edwards can’t quite manage) than any Dem running so far. Comment by valiant venus — May 24, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
By *mature*, you mean he looks older, more worn out, and less threatening to someone like yourself that sees any man that “looks-good” as being *gay*? How does a *wo(man)* like yourself turn out to be so anti-male, anti-female, anti-gay, and so completely f*cked up with your pseudo-s*xual hangups anyway? Did both of your parents molest you, or are you mad because they wouldn’t?
But I don’t like his flipping and flopping like a fish out of water. Fred Thompson is the candidate many Repubs are hoping will get in the race. Comment by valiant venus — May 24, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
Yet, you *adore* Bush’s flipping and flopping – how *ironic*! As for your *fascination* with another wingnut lunatic *actor* that thinks torture is *OK* – figures. You didn’t learn anything from the f*ckups of Roynuld RayGun – eh, st*pid c*nt?
May 24th, 2007 at 6:29 pmMr. Incontinent sir?
May 24th, 2007 at 6:33 pmSpeaking of solid waste, I must inform you that the cleaners called, and they will be unable to remove the stain from your little encounter with an avian species this morning.
Sorry, sir.
On a happier note, your new flight suit with the XXL cod piece has arrived, shall I inflate it for you?
Sir.
Sir?
Why anyone would think Fred Thompson is a great candidate for the highest office in the land is a frickin’ mystery to me — except that Republicans are finally admitting that what they’re interested in is someone who looks like a President, rather than someone who can make a serious contribution.
However, why anyone thinks a President should look like a coonhound is a mystery as well. (I do not say basset hound, because I have a huge soft spot for bassets. Actually, I like coonhounds too, come to that.)
Maybe “many Repubs” are rooting for him because the available slate of candidates is so godawful that anyone else looks good.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:34 pmFred Thompson is the candidate many Repubs are hoping will get in the race.
Comment by valiant venus — May 24, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
Yeah, let’s vote for the t.v. guy.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:38 pmOn a happier note, your new flight suit with the XXL cod piece has arrived, shall I inflate it for you?
Sir.
Sir?
Comment by WH Chief of Staff — May 24, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
Sure, blow me.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:38 pmFred Thompson is the candidate many Repubs are hoping will get in the race.
Comment by valiant venus
Thompson has gravitas — and nothing else. Typical nutzoid, wingnut.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:41 pmThompson has gravitas — and nothing else. Typical nutzoid, wingnut.
Comment by Zooey
He has salted salmon? What?
Oh, sorry.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:46 pmThompson has gravitas — and nothing else. Typical nutzoid, wingnut. Comment by Zooey — May 24, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
All of the gravity, is just a result of him being a self indulgent fat pig, and the additional mass accumulated from his head, and his *ss both swelling to Limbaugh Size. If you watch, when he gets in a room with the other Presidential GOP Candidates, they can’t help but orbit his “gravitas$”….
May 24th, 2007 at 6:53 pmHe has salted salmon? What?
Oh, sorry.
Comment by gummitch
Like Stephen Colbert and Stone Philips — gravitas.
Funny guy. :P
May 24th, 2007 at 6:53 pm#27 — That, too. :-D
May 24th, 2007 at 6:56 pmRepublicans like sex too, they just deny it, and try to avoid it. Then it shows up in these weird ways. Ugh.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:03 pm“… bred to be an equestrian†who has a “good carriage, … square jaw, and blond maneâ€
whaaaa?? What are women going to say about Romney being married to a horse? man those republicans – a big fuss over gays, but nothing but praise for beastiality.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:57 pm.
“Republicans like sex too, they just deny it”
no they don’t. And they don’t because they SUCK at it.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:58 pm.
Republicans like sex too, they just deny it
no they don’t…and that’s because they SUCK at it!
May 24th, 2007 at 8:07 pm.
So what are the odds that the NewsMax reporter is hopelessly preoccupied, romantically unfulfilled and ambivalently bisexual?
May 24th, 2007 at 8:28 pm#22 – “Maybe “many Repubs†are rooting for him because the available slate of candidates is so godawful that anyone else looks good.”
Comment by gummitch
Once again, progressives DO NOT disappoint – Fred Thompson has solid conservative credentials dating back to his days on the Watergate investigation. He is pro-defense, pro-life and against tax abuse by the government. The fact you know so little does not speak well for you – but I am not surprised…..
Tooodles……….
May 24th, 2007 at 8:33 pmOnce again, progressives DO NOT disappoint – Fred Thompson has solid conservative credentials dating back to his days on the Watergate investigation. Comment by valiant venus — May 24, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
By solid conservative, you mean he hates minorities, the poor, women, gay people, and a livable society, while he believes that his sky god will come down the 8000 year old flat earth, and “rapture” him to the sky palace, while reducing his taxes and rewarding him for “torturing” others, all in the journey upward?
He is pro-defense, pro-life and against tax abuse by the government. The fact you know so little does not speak well for you – but I am not surprised….. Tooodles……….Comment by valiant venus — May 24, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
Pro-defense? As though people aren’t? St*pid c*nt!!!
You mean he’s *pro-empire*, *pro-aggression*, and *pro-israel-f*ck-everyone-else*.
As for the pro-life, that line is so b*llsh*t, since failing to get an abortion when it’s medically required is what kills *people*, not aborting a *fetus*. And you wingnuts are almost always *pro-empire*, meaning you could give a f*ck about the lives you take abroad, and then we have the death penalty, poisining of food and water to make a fast buck. You wingnuts are about as anti-life as you can get – *ssh*le!
As for the tax-abuse by the government, then he must be anti-republican, because you f*ckers abuse taxes more than anyone with your corruption and wars over corporate interests.
You’re a st*pid c*nt Valiant Ben Laden – stick to pretending to be a dead baby joke, fake lawyer. Your political *punditry* just makes you look like a lonely pathetic and whiny little girl with Anorexia – oh wait, that *is* who you are!
May 24th, 2007 at 10:05 pmre: “Mitt is hot” & Ann Romney… “an outdoors woman bred to be an equestrian†who has a “good carriage, rosy complexion, square jaw, and blond maneâ€
Sounds like someone is channeling Third Reich racial purity propaganda. Or is it that Newsmax just swings both ways?
May 24th, 2007 at 10:15 pmHehe, tranny thought Strom Thurmond was hot. Very…mature.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:49 pmMs. Romney has a VERY attractive fetlock.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:50 pmTranny, all liberals would have to do to sink Fred Thompson is to show clips of him ON TV showing liberal tendencies. Or even backing off of righty beliefs. Today, on a rerun he was shown as backing off the death penalty. That would bury him. Most Republicans can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:53 pmA Loud and Serious Warning about Mitt Romney.
Romney is gaining in the polls. Romney is pulling off cheerleading stunts exactly the way Bush did to get re-elected (”Double the size of Guantanamo! Yay!”). Romney is the one that is already using slick TV ads with meaningless catchphrases to appeal to the lowest common denominator. He is dangerous because his image-over-substance campaign is working. Think if Ricky Santorum was packaged up as a Presidential Product…..dangerous.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pmWhy don’t we try evaluating every candidate not by how they look but by their resume. Why would we elect anyone that has not either managed a business or a state or a very large city successfully. My point is without “the buck stops here” management experience or “Chief” on their resume you have no business running for President of United States. At this juncture Rudi and Mitt are the only front runners on either side that qualify. By the way, to not vote for Mitt because he is Mormon is absurd. What are people afraid of… that he will bring back polygamy? Come on he is not the leader of the Mormon Church. He does not make Church policy nor does he influence Church leaders. Mormons teach self-reliance, fiscal responsibility, working for a living, staying married, helping others, donating time and resources, getting educated and just being a good neighbor. Or are you afraid that he can’t be bought. You know maybe he is too good to be President. This country needs someone that will raise taxes after saying they won’t, increase the welfare programs to buy votes, and give away or “sell” government secrets in order to gain favor with world leaders and diminish our power in the world. Thats the kind of leader we need!
Think this time when you vote. Vote for the person that is best for the country not the best looking.
Mitt Romney is actually the kind of person we should have as President!
May 29th, 2007 at 11:25 am