Yes, and he tied a terrified dog to the hood and drove it cross country to illustrate his point about how corporations are so much better than government.
Since a few people have mentioned how Fox does this all the time can anyone provide some links to the offending pieces? I’m not arguing they don’t but I’d like to see more evidence than a link about Sean Hannity. Any of their hard news shows do something similar?
If he wanted a simple example of how the private sector breeds efficiency, he could have found a million better examples than ordering sandwiches via keypad. He is clearly comparing and contrasting the two examples.
This is a mixture of hard news and editorial pieces, but I think you’ll find there are more than enough to keep you busy even if you ignore the latter.
We usually have a rotating roster of volunteers to watch Hannity and report back, but recovery times have lengthened.
My own personal favorite Hannity was when some clown discovered a cache of ancient, rusty mustard gas shells in the Godforsaken Desert. Hannity crowed and gloated, demanding apologies from all the Democrats for denying the WMDs. Next day, of course, the Times reported out on the facts of the matter, and I thought well, I wonder what he’s gonna say about this tonight!
Nothing. Not one word. It never happened.
Yes, here’s a picture of it
Well, at least there’s no “truck nuts.”
Perfectly justified. Sean Hannity reporting something inaccurately is not a newsworthy event.
The Daily Show just had a clip of Fox misrepresenting a video clip of Obama in regards to his recent immigration executive order. They played a portion of video from last year making it appear that Obama was saying he couldn’t do what he ended up doing, and cut it off just before he explained exactly how he could do the thing he ended up doing.
But really, at this point I’m honestly surprised that someone wants to play they “prove Fox is a craven partisan bunch of lying shitstains” game. I thought that ship sailed long ago.
More than possible – virtually certain.
That was the Hannity bit yorick was referring to.
If this is actually the case then the MSNBC report was accurate and justified. If what you’re saying is true then Mitt Romney was making a speech about how competition reduces government inefficiency and then in the middle of this speech he made some comments about ordering sandwiches which had no connection with the subject that he was talking about. This sudden inability to focus on what he was talking about could indicate some serious mental impairment that we as voters need to know about.
So did Romney did make a direct comparison between filling out a change of address form and ordering a sandwich or not?
He gave an example of what happens everyday in the private sphere, and contrasted that with an example from the federal government. If you consider an analogy a direct comparison, then yes, he made a direct comparison. But what he did not do was say that changing one’s Medicare deliver information should be precisely as easy as ordering a sandwich. Nor did he say that it should be able to be dine via a keypad. If you think differently, please supply the portion of what he said that indicates you’re right and I’m wrong.
Yes. He is comparing and contrasting them. As I just wrote. Please refer to my response to Little Nemo. Comparing and contrasting does not equal saying that one will necessarily reach the same level of simplicity.
You know, last year I had to get a mortgage. You would not believe the amount of paperwork I had to fill out at the (private business) bank! They wanted an appraisal, other stuff, and had tons of forms. The forms had complex language in them, and I had to read, sign and initial a whole bunch of pages!
Contrast that to my experience changing my address with the (government run!) motor vehicle branch. There was a simple online form, and bingo, it was done!
Now why can’t private business run efficiently like the government?
NM. Didn’t realize what forum I was in. If anyone say that before I edited this post then I apologize to you and the forum at large.
Do you think, as a general proposition, that the government is more efficient than the private sector? If so, what leads you to that conclusion? And why do you think that is the case? What is it about government institutions that would make them more efficient?
All I did was to give an example of what happens everyday in the business sphere, and contrasted that with an example from the government.
I know that, but why? You simply made an observation of two different things. Romney did that to illustrate a point. What point were you trying to make? It would only make sense if you thought that the government is a superior model of efficient than the private sector. Is that your position. If not, what point were you trying to make? Or were you not trying to make any point at all, in which case sharing the observation that tables and giraffes both have four legs, but giraffes are taller would have been equally as apt.
How very odd. The guy, whether you like Obama or not, has accomplished quite a lot in his life, in both the public and private sector. Yet you feel he deserving of maximum scorn and ridicule. Tell me, what, specifically, has he done to be worthy of this sweeping condemnation from you?
His point seemed to be that the government was inefficient at helping a health service provider change their address, while private business was very efficient at helping someone order a sandwich.
My example is every bit as on-point as his (not much), and pretty much proves the same thing. (very little)