Nuance is something collectivists rarely appreciate Twin - a conservative is a conservative because the word conservative is used. The nuances are lost as the word reverberates around the echo chamber they inhabit.
I guess this is what happens when you send Romney to a place where "the trees AREN'T the right height"...
Oh, but it gets better... Here is a little excerpt from Romney's book:
"No Apology: Believe in America" -- Mitt Romney "Romney book: Britain is a tiny island that makes stuff nobody wants."
That's the headline in Foreign Policy, which is getting attention (according to Memeorandum), especially after Romney supposedly said something that upset the Brits today. (Surveying the London Olympics, Romney saw "a few things that were disconcerting." The Brits are keen to mock, and the mockery is magnified here in the U.S., because American media is inclined to boost Obama whenever the opportunity arises.)
Let's look at the paragraph Foreign Policy highlighted:
England [sic/[FP's sic]] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions. Yet only two lifetimes ago, Britain ruled the largest and wealthiest empire in the history of humankind. Britain controlled a quarter of the earth's land and a quarter of the earth's population.
PrintSmith wrote: Nuance is something collectivists rarely appreciate Twin - a conservative is a conservative because the word conservative is used. The nuances are lost as the word reverberates around the echo chamber they inhabit.
Or perhaps she called them British conservatives because that's what they call themselves as members of the Conservative Party.
Where they are in relation to the more extreme right in the United States has nothing to do with it. Now, if she had referred to them as the British Tea Party, then you'd have a point.
Oh, there's where they cut it off? Well, obviously he was in the middle of making a point. But you know the rule in journalism: Taking things out of context is okay when you do it to hurt conservatives.
Missed something from your own link again SFB - maybe you should read a little more closely and with a little more attention to detail.
@RamblinRomney Of course I said Britain is a tiny island that makes stuff nobody wants. Who wants a car with steering on the wrong side? #romneyshambles
@dvnix: "I don't always travel to England, but when I do, I remember to insult the populace. Stay Republican, my friend." #RomneyShambles
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PrintSmith wrote: Nuance is something collectivists rarely appreciate Twin - a conservative is a conservative because the word conservative is used. The nuances are lost as the word reverberates around the echo chamber they inhabit.
Or perhaps she called them British conservatives because that's what they call themselves as members of the Conservative Party.
Where they are in relation to the more extreme right in the United States has nothing to do with it. Now, if she had referred to them as the British Tea Party, then you'd have a point.
I don't think they could go as far as the extreme right in the U.S. unless they put on white-sheets, and started screaming about being infiltrated by Muslims...
Hey SFB - you missed this from your earlier link as well:
Now Foreign Policy — a respected journal? — ends its out of context squib with snark: "Its roads and houses are small? The trees probably aren't the right height either." I'm giving you the whole context that Foreign Policy didn't want to deal with. It's about the British decline into socialism. What do you say we take that seriously?
Socialism/capitalism — that's how campaign 2012 has been framed. Let's stare that issue in the face. Sorry if the Brits' feelings are hurt, but this is about us.
There's a lot in between these two snippets as well that you overlooked. Maybe you'd like to go back and read the entire article you linked to and see if you want to find a different link to the out of context portion of the book you wish to misrepresent? The one you chose makes it apparent that your guano filled cranium only has room for headlines these days.
