I hope no one is seriously waiting for the WaPo to sandbag Barak Obama in a similar fashion with questions about Iraq, al-Qaeda, Iran, and Pakistan.

It will be a really, really long wait.

I've got some advise for you lady, get off your fat ass, quit sniveling and whining, make your skill base more valuable through retraining/education, and you'll be able to afford better. If you wait around bitching and complaining the bus to prosperity will pass you buy.

Oh wait, maybe you're waiting for the govt. handoutmobile.....sorry, I confused you with someone with self esteem and drive. Sorry for interupting your hash tossing complain-a-thon.

That is your definition of setting-up and baiting?

A little bit sensitive aren't you?

So many things occur to me while watching that clip.

I don't really care that the WaPo tried to set up Romney. I'm a conservative and I want my candidates to be challenged on the campaign trail. I don't want them coddled like liberals do, who demand their candidates are treated with kid gloves. That the dem candidates won't be sandbagged like that...who cares? That's not ever going to change so to moan about it just sounds like sour grapes.

What really irritates me, makes me loathe so many of my fellow citizens, is the crap attitude of that waitress. Boo-freakin-hoo, okay?

God created her a Waitress? No, He didn't. But somehow because that was the level to which she settled on the career ladder, her government needs to subsidize her economic situation. "What are you going to do for me? For ME?" I hate that attituded, God!

Her husband works two jobs? Good for him. She was 'disabled' for two years because of her back? Try taking off 50 lbs and see how that might improve things. Maybe her back condition led to her obesity, I don't know, but I don't see where in the Constitution it says the US Government needs to remedy her personal woes.

It's the "Pursuit of" not the "guarantee of" life and liberty, and a common defense.

You don't like your life? Then YOU make a change, don't wait for somebody else to set you up.

I hate the whining and excuses. Grrrrrrr!

Of all the things to go after Romney for, I can't believe they picked health care - it's so obviously right on the tip of his tongue all the time after talking about it so much. And boy did they make her look bad with her whining about fancy cars and such. You're right, she didn't follow anything he was saying.

That is your definition of setting-up and baiting?

A little bit sensitive aren't you?

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Yes, yes I am. I don't think it is the medias' job to try to make controversy where there is none. I don't think it is the Washington Post's job to play Jerry Springer.

I don't think we need the news dumbed down any more.

You're free to think otherwise.

This lady apparently has never heard of Kennedy's inaugural speech....

Diabetes in one of her kids? Wonder why.

Seriously, if you can't take care of yourself, how do you expect to take care of your children?

Then again, on a waitress' salary, what are you doing having 3 kids?

Hell, Alice only had the one (Tommy), and she had troubles making ends meet (not to mention the aggravation of dealing with Mel, all damn day long).

Doesn't TV teach us anything about personal responsibility?

Our guys do great even when ambushed. And the wussy weeny dems won't even go on Fox News. "Ooooooooh, mommy, mommy, they might ask a tough question"

Speaking of waitresses, too bad there wasn't a video cam going when Hillary stiffed that single mom waitress in NY awhile back. You know, right after one of her "I care about the little people" speeches.

Bwhaahahahahahahah.....you can't make this stuff up.

Paul, please explain to all of us how the WaPo set up Mitt.

Man that waitress was sexy. I'll give her a hundred bucks now that she can use for a couple co-pays if she'll co-accompany me to the back of my car (will have to be an SUV size or similar).

The Wash Post was heading for paper of record status while the NY Times was heading for the sewer.
Sometime around 2004 the Wash Post seemed to make a conscious decision to just be an arm of the Democratic party.
It's too bad, they could be a great paper but they're just too steeped in BDS.

You're free to think otherwise.

Barney think!? Surely you're kidding!

What an absurd post and what a bunch of jerk asshole comments!

A setup by the Post? What kind of retard takes a pre-campaign appearance question like this from the WaPo reporter, "What do you think...what would you say to Romney when he walks in?"

Waitress: "What are you gonna do for my family..." Call that a setip? Yep, the reporter fed her every line. You left out the part of the vid where the reporter slips her $100 to go get Romney w/ the questions he fed the waitress. What a delusional Ass!

Your hatred of the Post comes thru loud & clear if you think you could call that a setup. You are nuts. You embarrass yourself in front of anyone other than the puppies here that come running and wimpering to the ring of your bell. One thing for certain, given the inane comments above, you've proven why someone in China thought that they could use cardboard to stuff dumplings and that people wouldn't know the difference. You've used cardboard for dog food, rung the WaPo bell and all the Wizpuppies are wolfing down their imaginary feast.

No one watching that vid except a nutcase would see any of the bilge that you

FreedomFries,

Man your astuteness just makes me wonder why liberals cannot break the IQ above 80 mark when you are pulling them up with your obvious high triple digit IQ. Why can't all Marxists just march out the wonderful medical care that was existent under Stalin and Mao and prove once and for all WHAT TOTAL F*UPS you are?

The Wash Post is trying to compete with TNR for the second place (after the 1st place NYT) in the liberal hall of shame of corrupted journalism.

Barney, I know that you always do anything you can to be against whatever wizbang is up to (you're an against-bot, after all), but dude, Paul did explain exactly how the WaPo reporter told the waitress to tell Romney a specific thing about health care. That's called 'setting him up'. You're a partizan hack Barney. How do you live with yourself having sold out everything good about yourself in the name of partisanship? Maybe you are a robot...

Fries:

Peut etre c'est moi, but it stands to reason that, without the intervention of the WaPo in cajoling this woman to address Romney, she might not have done anything of the kind. "What are you going to ask Romney" seems a pretty direct inducement to me. In so doing, the reporter has "actualized" her their attention and encouragement, and she was fully vested in seeing their request through. People are eager to please those who have made them feel good.

Jo:

Speaking of waitresses, too bad there wasn't a video cam going when Hillary stiffed that single mom waitress in NY awhile back. You know, right after one of her "I care about the little people" speeches.

Tony, you are delusional. Did you even bother to watch the vid? The report came into the shop and conducted interviews prior to the campaign stop. The reported did not tell the waitress anything.

Tony writes "Paul did explain exactly how the WaPo reporter told the waitress to tell Romney a specific thing about health care. That's called 'setting him up'."

Yea, you moron, that's what Paul wrote and I guess that's all you need. That's why you are an idiot Republican.

If you had watched the vid you would see that Paul is a delusional fool who must have been hearing voices...in his head.

God...there are some real f**king dumbass people on this blogsite proving that most Republicans shopuld be required to have a lobotomy so that they can do no public harm.,

Langtry, well I might tend to agree with you except there IS a video out there (replayed on Hannity over and over awhile back) where a homeless man asks Hillary for some money and she/her assistant hand him a voter registration card.

All caught on tape. And hilarious.

"a smart woman politician won't be carrying around a purse, and will instead ask one of her people to make sure matters like that are attended to"

You mean like when she had Bill buy all the reporters campaigning with them ice cream a couple of weeks ago?

FF is back spewing his garbage from the liberal sewage again.

Tony,
Barney is a known spinner. Yup, I watched the video and the reporter simply asked "what are you going to ask Romey? etc...". Here is Barney 's standard: since there are enough evidence about the dishonesty of the liberal media, so it is expected that this is a definite setup. But Barney is right that this is small fish compared to the new low standard set by the NYT and TNR.

I don't know about most of you, but isn't it just great that almost no one that comments on Wizbang really bothers to read the actual posts anymore? Sort of like what happened with Yahoo comments and we all know how that turned out. I guess now we can all just look forward to trolls refreshing Wizbang all day long waiting for the next post so 8 or 10 of them can all breathlessly post "FIRST!" Ah, good times, good times.

I love the little spat y'all got going on here, arguing about the legitimacy of what Paul wrote, critiquing his every word...and yet no one even bothers to point out that you're debating a straw man of made up speech, since what Paul actually wrote was: "A WaPo reporter (term used loosely) went into a diner before Mitt Romney arrived and baited a waitress there to challenge him on heath care." Yes..."baited"...not told, not fed words to..."baited". And the video clearly shows that, all the way down to their having their camera positioned to get a good shot of her when she (tries to) ask her question. Poor thing, looked like she wanted to cry she was so nervous.

FIRST! Go ahead and 'score' all the comments again, FF, including tweaking your own...here's a hint, no one's looking at those, it was an insteresting idea, but in the end 'signifying nothing'. I'd say Kevin can go ahead and yank the comment ratings, it probably just unnecessarily complicates the software.

Once again, Fries displays the tolerance for different points of view that is the hallmark of leftism.

Mr. Freedom Fries seems to be seething with rage at...anyone who doesn't think like he does.

FF I bet your BP is sky high most days. Tsk tsk

"But Barney is right that this is small fish compared to the new low standard set by the NYT and TNR."

Brave Sir Robin, the TNR? Are you referring to this:
http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=w070730&s=editorial080207

It turns out that all those actions did take place with the exception of one took placed in Kuwait and not Iraq. So, the right went from the Prvt was a fake, to the story was a fake to oops, we were wrong never mind.

You know what,

Those dudes in middle school who used to kick the ass of kids like FreedomFries -- remember that they seemed like worthless bullies?

The ones that actually did that to Freedom, and all those girls who said not on your life to him, I'm going to drink this Stella Artois for you all, and wish I could buy you all one if it were possible.

Sir genocide lover (ie Barney), TNR has been caught red-handed publishing fiction and Barney still thinks it is a vindication. Even when TNR admitted an "error" in a key story, Barney still thinks it is accurate. Quite a standard of facts. That 's why I said facts don't matter to Barney.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/08/018108.php
Norman Mailer wannabe Scott Thomas Beauchamp admits he erred (i.e. lied) about a key part of his New Republic report about Iraq. He says that the incident in which he and his buddy mocked a disfigured woman took place not in Iraq but in Kuwait, prior to his departure for Iraq. The New Republic "sincerely regret[s] this mistake."

Barney, you exaggerate the TNR's claim for verification. TNR's statement only refers to a portion of Beauchamp's work. Interestingly, the unit that Beauchamp is a member of says that his stories don't check out.

As far as the incident occuring in Kuwait, instead of Iraq, even though Beauchamp writes repeatedly about how it occurred in Iraq and the context of his abuse of a maimed woman in an operating base; changing the venue of an incident for dramatic effect has a definition. We call that "fiction" where I come from.

You now have a reputation of misrepresenting references.

RR,
Here is the liberal standard of truth. WE don't need our story 100% accurate. Even if we write a fiction (as facts) and we have some unverifiable "facts", we are still telling the truth.

[pulls tin-foil hat out of drawer]

You know, I think that Mitt actually hired the reporter to bait the waitress to ask about the topic that he (Romney) wanted to discuss.

[places TFH back in drawer]

Discuss.

Pathetic appempt to sandbag using a person that's supposed to be beyond reproach..
I used to wait tables but then I realized it sucked and I went back to school and got a job after I graduated.
The dems always manage to get some toothless loser with a chip on her shoulder pissed at the fact that someone else dares to have more than she does to pose some pointless qustion with no answer.
What will they do for me?.. puhleeze lady, the gummint won't be taking care of you and yours just like they won't take care of me and mine.

It's not Mitt's fault you are fat, dumb and waiting tables at a NH diner..

Mikey... since you are a graduate, maybe you should learn how to spell "attempt"...

Mikey.

You could tell Romney got a good smack-down in, when the lady went from her health-care concerns to her "have vs. have-not" argument near the end.

Romney scored some pretty large points here.

I don't know that I would agree that in this case the WaPo reporter actually primed the waitress to ask this question but the conduct is on the edge.

There is a history of reporters unethically priming shills in such events, the most infamous was when a soldier was encouraged to ask of then Defense Secretary Rumsfeld about a fraudulent question about a lack of armor kits for HMMVS.