President Barack Obama called out Fox News' Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry Thursday as a "spokesperson for Mitt Romney."
During a joint news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the president allowed Henry to asked the first question.
"President Obama, I wanted to get your first reaction to the Iranian terror plot," Henry said. "Your secretary of state called it a dangerous escalation. What specific steps will you take to hold Iran accountable? Especially when Mitt Romney charged last week — quote — 'If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today.'"
"Well, I didn’t know that you were the spokesperson for Mitt Romney," the president replied with a quick smile.
“I think everyone can see that he decided not to engage with Mitt Romney and decided to kind of come after me a little bit."
A spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose girlfriend is a member of Brookfield's board of directors, had confirmed Thursday that Brookfield had requested the city's assistance in maintaining the park.
"We will continue to defend and guarantee their free speech rights, but those rights do not include the ability to infringe on the rights of others," Bloomberg spokesman Marc La Vorgna said, "which is why the rules governing the park will be enforced."
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Nobody ever cleaned up after the Tea Party, did they?
From what I understand, Occupy Boston is going out of their way to pick up after themselves and keep things in order...I'd imagine other cities are doing the same.
Curious about the private park....would they be relying on taxpayer security (NYPD) to patrol their park, or did they hire private security to "clean" the place? Because they could evict everyone without any first ammendment repercussions....but using public resources to do so would be wrong, don't you think?
The company's rules, which haven't been enforced, have been this all along: No tarps, no sleeping bags, no storing personal property on the ground. The park is privately owned but is required to be open to the public 24 hours per day.
The New York Police Department had said it would make arrests if Brookfield requested it and laws were broken. But the deputy mayor's statement indicated that "for the time being" Brookfield was withdrawing its request for police assistance in cleaning the park.
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Boston's folks are on the Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square; a public park.
(Google 700 Atlantic Avenue and zoom in one click to see it.)
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Police took everything. Destroyed camp, including legal areas / sidewalk. Many arrests. park closed. #OccupyDenver
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Shifting gears...just heard on TRMS that there are only 20 days left in the current session of Congress. I don't expect any motion on anything relevant in that time.
Can't the President do anything? Bush set the precedent; can't Obama start issuing executive orders or something to start moving things along?
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Oh yeah.. there's a poll up on CNN's US edition home page. Hit it.
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More about the delay:A spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose girlfriend is a member of Brookfield's board of directors, had confirmed Thursday that Brookfield had requested the city's assistance in maintaining the park.
"We will continue to defend and guarantee their free speech rights, but those rights do not include the ability to infringe on the rights of others," Bloomberg spokesman Marc La Vorgna said, "which is why the rules governing the park will be enforced."
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Just because someone posted it... and it made me laugh...
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Surprise, surprise
Part of the reason Friendly's is going into bankruptcy is to get out from under 6000 pensions.
Maybe if they weren't known for glacially slow service and total apathy towards the customer, they might not be in the trouble they're in now.
I'm sure Mittens thinks this is great.
Now there's going to be an empty eyesore right in the center of the very ritzy Town of Medfield. Wonder what the town fathers think of that?
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Morning, comrades!
I will continue to dismiss Mitt until after the NH primary.
Massachusetts politicians always win the New Hampshire primary; it's a given.
Folks as obscure as Paul Tsongas and Henry Cabot Lodge have won, as well as eventual nominees Mike Dukakis and John Kerry.
It's what happens afterward; are they really national candidates, or is it just a local bounce...only time will tell.
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Good day everyone. Crashed out this morning. Guess the dreary, rainy weather made me sleepy. Now, we just got to hope that the Democrats can maintain control of the Senate and take back the House. I just worry that in the lower races that the Koch Brothers money will have more influence on the races than even low GOP and Tea Party numbers. I do hope that the efforts to nullify Uncle Thomas vote in Citizens United come to something since he definitely violated conflict of interest rules in that case.
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Have fun paying for all those extra dental bills, tea party idiots.
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Have fun paying for all those extra dental bills, tea party idiots.
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For the record, there are only 2 truly private parks in NYC. One is Gramercy Park.
Zaccotti is owned privately but is public space.
I am trying to find the second one. It's not just private, but seems secret as well.
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Have fun paying for all those extra dental bills, tea party idiots.
They've seen Dr. Strangelove way too many times, I swear..
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For the record, there are only 2 truly private parks in NYC. One is Gramercy Park.
Zaccotti is owned privately but is public space.
I am trying to find the second one. It's not just private, but seems secret as well.
I knew about Gramercy Park. The other one is so secret it is unknown?
JPMorgan gave a massive gift of $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation in the form of money, patrol car laptops, “security monitoring software,†and other tech resources. But the donation was given starting late last year and was completed by spring 2011, so it was obviously not made in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. At the time, Commissioner Ray Kelly sent JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon a note expressing his “profound gratitude†for the donation, and a company-written news item about the gift described it as “unprecedented†in size.
The police foundation is the private fundraising arm of the NYPD. It allows donors to make tax-exempt gifts to the department and in turn the foundation funds a wide-range of specialized NYPD units, international counterterrorism work, and high-tech gadgetry.
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This is really disturbing:JPMorgan gave a massive gift of $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation in the form of money, patrol car laptops, “security monitoring software,†and other tech resources. But the donation was given starting late last year and was completed by spring 2011, so it was obviously not made in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. At the time, Commissioner Ray Kelly sent JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon a note expressing his “profound gratitude†for the donation, and a company-written news item about the gift described it as “unprecedented†in size.
The police foundation is the private fundraising arm of the NYPD. It allows donors to make tax-exempt gifts to the department and in turn the foundation funds a wide-range of specialized NYPD units, international counterterrorism work, and high-tech gadgetry.
IS the NYPD bought and sold?
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Didn't I post that Salon article about donations to the NYPD a week or so back?
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I love that Randi is playing the clip of Herman Cain saying (and I quote)
I don't have the facts to back this up