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53x12

Jul 27, 12 14:20

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Well if you don't know join Carney in the corner and put on the dunce cap.


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JSA

Jul 27, 12 14:26

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Re: What is the capital of Israel? [53x12] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
In all fairness, it is a bit of a trick question.

Jerusalem is the official capital of Israel, but, many nations around the world do not recognize it as such. So, the question was not to determine whether he knew the capital, but, to see whether the current Administration recognized Jerusalem.
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big kahuna

Jul 27, 12 14:29

Post #3 of 15 (997 views)
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JSA wrote:
In all fairness, it is a bit of a trick question.

Jerusalem is the official capital of Israel, but, many nations around the world do not recognize it as such. So, the question was not to determine whether he knew the capital, but, to see whether the current Administration recognized Jerusalem.

The CIA World Factbook, which is an official website of the U.S. government, lists Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Carney's tying himself in knots in desperately trying to avoid directly answering the question was classic Carney-as-spokesstooge comedy gold. He's definitely more entertaining than Bobby Gibbs was, that's for sure.


TashaSkippy

Jul 27, 12 14:57

Post #4 of 15 (969 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [53x12] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
Easy - Washington D.C.


Xatefrogg

Jul 27, 12 15:02

Post #5 of 15 (963 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [TashaSkippy] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
Wrong: That is the capital of North Carolina- Learn your geology moron.

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Cal Naughton, Jr.: Bingo.
Ricky Bobby: Nice.
Texas Ranger: She said "No, you're wrong." I said "You got a lumpy butt." She got mad at me and yelled at me and I pissed in my pants and I never did change my pee-pants all day. I'm still sittin' in my dirty pee-pants.
Cal Naughton, Jr.: I wet my bed until I was nineteen. There's no shame in that.


Hubblesmith

Jul 27, 12 16:43

Post #6 of 15 (919 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [TashaSkippy] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
TashaSkippy wrote:
Easy - Washington D.C.

I would have guessed New York.


big kahuna

Jul 27, 12 17:00

Post #7 of 15 (910 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [Hubblesmith] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
Hubblesmith wrote:
TashaSkippy wrote:
Easy - Washington D.C.


I would have guessed New York.

I was voting for the Miami/Fort Meyers corridor. ;-)


original PV

Jul 27, 12 20:13

Post #8 of 15 (879 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [big kahuna] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
big kahuna wrote:
Hubblesmith wrote:
TashaSkippy wrote:
Easy - Washington D.C.


I would have guessed New York.


I was voting for the Miami/Fort Meyers corridor. ;-)

Come on BK, you and I both know its not Miami... it's Boca. This proves my point. You know they HAVE to be from Boca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mYbLFD_BwE

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Hubblesmith

Jul 27, 12 21:02

Post #9 of 15 (862 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [big kahuna] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
big kahuna wrote:
Hubblesmith wrote:
TashaSkippy wrote:
Easy - Washington D.C.


I would have guessed New York.


I was voting for the Miami/Fort Meyers corridor. ;-)

Hollywood?


big kahuna

Jul 28, 12 0:42

Post #10 of 15 (837 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [original PV] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
original PV wrote:
big kahuna wrote:
Hubblesmith wrote:
TashaSkippy wrote:
Easy - Washington D.C.


I would have guessed New York.


I was voting for the Miami/Fort Meyers corridor. ;-)


Come on BK, you and I both know its not Miami... it's Boca. This proves my point. You know they HAVE to be from Boca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mYbLFD_BwE

I forgot about Boca. Boca by a country mile for sure. ;-)


slowguy

Jul 28, 12 1:01

Post #11 of 15 (834 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [big kahuna] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
All of these comments are extremely insensitive. You are all hereby pulled from the Olympics.

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big kahuna

Jul 28, 12 7:02

Post #12 of 15 (769 views)
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slowguy wrote:
All of these comments are extremely insensitive. You are all hereby pulled from the Olympics.

Damn. And I was hoping to medal in the bloviating events this time around.

P.S. On a side note, I wasn't aware insensitive Tweets were enough to get one kicked off an Olympics team. But political correctness will have its say, I suppose, no matter how insensitive that say is.


temoniprince

Jul 29, 12 8:08

Post #13 of 15 (654 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [53x12] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
I can go on and on for this topic. People need to HTFU and deal with the problems. We all know its Jerusalem. The Palestinians know its J-town, That is the reason why its never mentioned in the Koran.
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dave_w

Jul 29, 12 8:29

Post #14 of 15 (644 views)
Re: What is the capital of Israel? [53x12] [In reply to] Quote | Reply
    Here's a fun (read worthless) back and forth between Jake Tapper and Carney, that says so little, yet so much about dealing with Carney, that Tapper made it a column. LOL

TAPPER: Jay, eight years ago, I think you were there, and I was in the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. And I heard a fairly obscure state senator stand up and give a speech in which he talked about how, right then, there were spinmeisters and negative ad peddlers preparing to divide the country.
Given that the vast, vast majority of the ads that are run these days — from both sides, both Governor Romney and President Obama — are negative — I think in one New York Times story it said all of the ones that ran in Richmond over a certain period were negative, not one positive ad; and then there was a study that showed in a two-week period, 89 percent of the president’s ads were negative; 94 percent of Mitt Romney’s ads were negative — what would that state senator think about the campaign being run right now by this president?
CARNEY: Well, I think that he thinks and we think that the issues that the president talks about all the time, as president and as a candidate, go right to the central concern that the American people have about economic growth and job creation, about ensuring that the middle class is given a shot to expand, that the squeeze that the middle class has been under now for a decade is relieved, and that there’s the right investments made in our economy, in education and infrastructure and innovation, that will allow it to grow and will allow it to create the kinds of jobs here in the United States that can create the foundation for a good middle-class life, that allows people –
TAPPER: And that’s why you’re running ads about Mitt Romney’s tax returns?
CARNEY: Well, that’s why we were running ads about — well, first of all, I’m not — you know, I don’t speak for the campaign.
That’s why the president believes that the issue of what do you believe when it comes to what our tax code should look like and whether we should reward companies that ship jobs overseas, or should we reward companies that insource jobs in the United States — that’s a policy difference that is extremely important. This president believes that as a matter of economic policy, it is an important point of discussion to note the difference between his position, which is that we ought to have a balanced approach where the wealthiest Americans, who have done extremely well, exceptionally well in the last decade, pay their fair share and that — and that the high-end Bush tax cuts that contributed mightily to the deficit that he inherited not be extended and that that money be used to help bring down the debt and to invest where we need investments, in education, innovation and infrastructure.
And that’s a fundamental difference not just with the Republican nominee or presumptive nominee, but with Republicans in Congress that this president has been dealing with in an attempt to move the economy forward legislatively.
So I mean, I think those are the — all those issues are fundamental to the debate we’re having right now. They’re fundamental to the stalemate we have in Washington that the president discusses. And that’s why I think he praises it the way he does, that the American people have the opportunity to break that stalemate, to decide which direction, which vision is the right one for the — for the American economy
So I think those are the — those issues are the subject of most of what the president talks about and what his campaign discusses. You know, I’d obviously refer you to the Romney campaign for their points of view on their advertising.
TAPPER: So you — so you reject the characterization that these ads are negative?
CARNEY: I — no, I’m — I mean, I think that when we — the president draws distinctions about his vision for the economy compared to the Republican vision, you know, it is a contrast, there is no question. But, you know, these are central –
TAPPER: So did we misunderstand –
CARNEY: There are — these are central to — I mean, this is the — this is the absolute core of the debate in our country, and it is — it is overwhelmingly the principal focus of the American people. So I think it’s very important to have the kinds of discussions that we’ve been having and that the president puts forward every time he goes out and speaks to the people.
-Jake Tapper


toreishi

Jul 29, 12 9:30

Post #15 of 15 (629 views)
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