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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your point? She was not mocking, "chiding" or commenting on Malia. She was raising a hypothetical for the purposes of discussion.

Again, what is your point. Are you trying to suggest that AT should be canned or forced to resign? What are you suggesting.[/quote]
What's my point?: Anyone who takes cheap shots at children who have done nothing to deserve it is being an asshole.

When Lauten did it, she was being an asshole.  Same with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.  Tantaros was doing the same thing with her crap about Bahamas vacations and the future decisions of a 14-year-old girl.  Those comments added nothing to her substantive commentary, and she was just using Malia Obama as a punching bag, so she was being an asshole too.  Certainly there people of other political stripes who similarly act like assholes.  Bill Maher is a perfect (Libertarian?) example.  And when he takes cheap shots at children, he too should be (and has been) dubbed an asshole.

Yes, it's a double standard that politicians of all stripes will point to their own children and their experience as parents to support their political positions.  That's a morally gray area, IMHO.  But no matter what you think about politicians using their [i]own[/i] children as props, it never justifies taking a cheap shot at someone else's child.

What I'm finding pretty frustrating and offensive here is that some people are trying to justify these cheap shots by Lauten, Beck, Limbaugh, and Tantaros.  Just acknowledge they each had an "asshole moment" for chrissakes, chalk it up to wine or hot temper or a bad joke, and then move forward.  You make it worse when you try to justify their despicable behavior.[/quote]

Do you find it frustrating that you don't even know the difference between "reporting" and political commentary? Because there really are vast differences.

You're the one beating the dead horse, we can move on whenever you'd like, but you want the President to soak up as many sympathy points as possible over one silly comment that cost a person her livelihood. Ok to move on yet?[/quote]

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