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Obama Alienates Millions with Incendiary Pro-Knowledge Remarks
May 16, 2016
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NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEYPresident Obama handed the Republican Party a gift for the general election by making a series of offensive pro-knowledge remarks at Rutgers University over the weekend, a leading Republican official said on Monday.
According to Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, the Presidents inflammatory comments, in which he offered full-throated praise for such controversial fields of knowledge as math and science, are sure to come back to haunt the Democrats in November.
If President Obama was trying to alienate millions of Americans in one speech, mission accomplished, Priebus told Fox News. When I watched him speak, I said to myself, Well, Christmas came early this year.
While many Republicans expected Obama to walk back his ill-advised praise of knowledge, facts, and evidence, the White House as of Monday morning had refused to do so.
The President seems to be doubling down on this, which is not surprising, Priebus said. This is a man who never met a fact he didnt like.
The R.N.C. chairman said that the Party was already creating negative ads that would make extensive use of the Presidents polarizing pro-knowledge rant.
This fall, we will ask the American people, Do you want four more years of knowledge, or do you want something else? Priebus said. Because the Republican Party has something else.
By Andy Borowitz,
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-alienates-millions-with-incendiary-pro-knowledge-remarks
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Damning! Lol. Thanks, Babylonsister.
Aviation Pro
(12,123 posts)....are almost Onion-like.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)And I must say, they really out-Onioned the Onion on that one...
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... my son and I watched it. I thought he was going to take that collar off and stomp on it but he just kept swinging it up over his shoulder every time the wind blew it down. I know his family will rerun that one at family reunions into the future.
I can't remember his exact words, but I have said the same thing in the last 5-10 years: There is NO virtue in ignorance!
tavernier
(12,368 posts)After seeing their nominee(s), it sounded perfectly logical to me!!