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Romney's Ridiculous Hyperbole

He predicts more change in the next 10 years than in the last 1,000. Not likely.

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Jan 2, 2008

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  • Posted By: Dare270 @ 01/10/2008 5:12:07 PM

    It's there job to write stuff like this they get paid for it, dumbass.

  • Posted By: JayZee @ 01/05/2008 8:38:26 PM

    I wish the Newsweek editors would at least try to "get a life". Do they really have nothing to do of any importance with their time than to try to make a Volcano our of a matchstick in their astute judgement
    that the next ten years are not going to be see greater progress than the last 1,000 years! If they weren't
    serious I would think it was funny. However, these people really believe that their sophmoric comments are going to impact public opinion other than those with an IQ equal to a rock.
    Too funny!!

  • Posted By: Vic Lundquist @ 01/05/2008 8:05:36 PM

    Dr. Doug: You asked for a photo of Gov. Romney with his hair askew. Please give me your phone number so I can call you to collect. Here are 4 photos:

    http://confessionsofapoliticaljunkie.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-often-do-candidates-do-stuff-like.html

  • Posted By: Vic Lundquist @ 01/05/2008 8:01:44 PM

    Dr. Doug, you offered $1,000 for photos of his hair askew. Please leave your phone number where I can call to collect. See 4 photos here:

    http://confessionsofapoliticaljunkie.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-often-do-candidates-do-stuff-like.html

  • Posted By: justinthame @ 01/03/2008 6:25:09 PM

    Ridiculous... Metaphors are so foreign to Newsweek staffers because the only literary device they are capable of employing is the lie.

  • Posted By: Willi1 @ 01/03/2008 6:16:07 PM

    technology, medicine, and everything else we have grown accustomed too is progressing at ever increasing rates. I don't doubt for a second that the next ten years will bring incredible changes to a whole host of things we have only dreamed of in that last many many centuries. I think that Mitt Romney's statement has more truth in it than maybe even he understands.

  • Posted By: yelnek @ 01/03/2008 4:36:49 PM

    Must be slow news day to make such a big deal out of a future political TV ad that alludes to a metaphor of someones personal opinion. Or you just don't like Romney and love spouting nefarious headlines?

  • Posted By: apetra @ 01/03/2008 1:55:02 PM

    More people around the world will arise out of poverty in the next 10 years than in the next 1000. Is that not enough for you?

  • Posted By: bgrdnr108 @ 01/03/2008 12:36:52 PM

    I somehow decided to come to this website, for no apperent reason. I stumbled across a couple of these political reports and just about gagged. Now I remember why I won't watch channels like foxnews and MSNBC. You don't report news, your very bad at it. You try to create news which is downright wrong. There is more opinion than fact. This article that I'm blogging about is one of a couple I've read today that does nothing to inform me about the world I live in or the politicians who are trying to run that world. I have learned alot about MSNBC--as well as foxnews, CNN etc.-- One word to describe you all " AGENDA". I am still undecided on who to vote for this primary season, an sites like yourself do more to hide the truth then enlighten us.

  • Posted By: MyViews1 @ 01/03/2008 11:35:41 AM

    You may want to consider the possibility that this man knows something you don't. In fact maybe a lot you don't. We are indeed poised on the brink of many revolutionary changes and its amazing how you folks in the media are just tredding water and wasting your opportunities to serve your profession and its supposed cause. Newsweek seems to be so caught up in its archaic forms of news and news manipulation that it is about to become irrelevant. You may have a point that some exageration was used to make a point, but the next ten years will show that Mitt was more prescient that you are willing to concede. Mitt is providing you and the American people a wake-up call. Don't blow it!

  • Posted By: Dcornman @ 01/02/2008 10:19:36 PM

    What if within the next ten years we as a nation could completely remove the need for imported energy?I believe that if our elected leaders would put their differences aside and work for the betterment of this nation instead of attaching each others motives on every issue that arises, this very thing would come to pass.
    David , Missouri. P.S. I Hate the stupid campaign bluster.

  • Posted By: kevinrex @ 01/02/2008 5:50:10 PM

    Dr Doug. I am assuming that your offer to pay $1,000.00 for a picture of Romney with "bed-head" is not hyperbole. Go to www.electromneyin2008.com to see that picture. Romney is cleaning a yard in a California neighborhood after it was damaged by the California fires. The press was not there. This is a private photo. Romney woke up, had breakfast and went to work ... without doing his hair first. You may make your $1000.00 donation payable to the Romney campaign.

  • Posted By: dr doug @ 01/02/2008 2:06:08 PM

    It doesn't matter. Romney lost my prospective votes weeks ago. He's smarmy, pandering, flip-flopping and besides that wears too much hair gel. I give $1,000 for a picture of him with bed-head.

    • Posted By: ajcurry @ 01/02/2008 5:39:05 PM

      Is that $1000 figurative or literally?

      • Posted By: kevinrex @ 01/02/2008 5:49:03 PM

        Dr Doug. I am assuming that your offer to pay $1,000.00 for a picture of Romney with "bed-head" is not hyperbole. Go to www.electromneyin2008.com to see that picture. Romney is cleaning a yard in a California neighborhood after it was damaged by the California fires. The press was not there. This is a private photo. Romney woke up, had breakfast and went to work ... without doing his hair first. You may make your $1000.00 donation payable to the Romney campaign.

  • Posted By: ajcurry @ 01/02/2008 5:32:42 PM

    Well while his comment was a little over the top. No more than this article. Since when did Europe become the U.S. Johann Gutenberg? not american. Crusades? When did George Bush commit to that? Nicolaus Copernicus was U.S. citizen? I don't recall. I believe he said America would see more change not the world. While his comments were exaggerated. So are yours You must be a democrat.

  • Posted By: hoopes_az @ 01/02/2008 2:09:46 PM

    I'm not sure which is more ridiculous, Romney's statement, or FactChecks assumption that he was speaking literally and not figuratively.

    Upon arriving home late from work the other day I commented to my wife, "sorry it took so long for me to get home, but traffic was horrible. There was a million accidents on the freeway today"

    Another "absurd overstatement", but not NEARLY as absurd as if my wife would have been if she had taken my "million accident" story literally. Surely there is a story about Romney that is worth fact checking. This certainly doesn't seem to be one of them, though.

  • Posted By: strong6 @ 01/02/2008 2:46:29 PM

    I guess I'm trying to see if you could show your bent against this man any more than you already are. Seriously, to get hooked up on this and to actually take the time to debate it? Almost comical. However, since it's out there and you asked for comments, I don't think he's nearly as crazy as you think he is. Think about it this way ... at the turn of the 19th century to the 20th century, world knowledge was doubling at a rate of approximately every 100 years. Around 1960, that rate had increased to about every 20-25 years. By 1990, it was doubling every 3-4 years. Today, it's every 1-2 years. I didn't see that in your article. Maybe I skimmed too much. Maybe you ignored that information.

    When you consider all that has changed, exponentially, in the past 10 years ... I can only imagine the next 10. No, Mit isn't that far off and I hope he doesn't take the time to clarify. He's probably right ... we can only imagine what will happen in the near future. Thanks.

    • Posted By: BillMah @ 01/02/2008 4:22:22 PM

      Excellent. This guys bias is huge. I'm not a Romney supporter .... but I have even less respect for biased reporting.

  • Posted By: ClubbieTim @ 01/02/2008 2:56:46 PM

    The idea that knowledge doubles every X months factored by the number of people in the world could create an argument that the world of today, plus 10 years is actually smarter than the world of the dark ages. Therefore, we have the potential to create more in 10 years than the world in the dark ages. To some degree this is gross hyperbole, but if Newsweek wasn't trying to dissuade voters from Romney (they fear him more the Huck because they???re liberal, quasi-intellects) they would further the dialog by talking about the worlds cumulative intelligence. That would be much more interesting than bagging on Romney for the 10th time this month. I???m glad I???ve canceled my subscription and got one with the Economist.

  • Posted By: BillMah @ 01/02/2008 4:11:51 PM

    Romney was most likely referring to the RATE of change becoming exponential: it took over 30 days for the Mayflower to arrive in America from England. It now takes just hours to travel that same distance. It takes much less time when traveled by electronic means. There is little doubt that the RATE of change is quicker now that at any time in the past because of our technology.

    So, for you to take the time to write an article telling all of us when the Magna Carta was signed or when Columbus sailed is ridiculous. I think your hyperbole is worse than his.

    Get a life.

  • Posted By: BillMah @ 01/02/2008 4:11:30 PM

    Romney was most likely referring to the RATE of change becoming exponential: it took over 30 days for the Mayflower to arrive in America from England. It now takes just hours to travel that same distance. It takes much less time when traveled by electronic means. There is little doubt that the RATE of change is quicker now that at any time in the past because of our technology.

    So, for you to take the time to write an article telling all of us when the Magna Carta was signed or when Columbus sailed is ridiculous. I think your hyperbole is worse than his.

    Get a life.

  • Posted By: ClubbieTim @ 01/02/2008 2:56:20 PM

    The idea that knowledge doubles every X months factored by the number of people in the world could create an argument that the world of today, plus 10 years is actually smarter than the world of the dark ages. Therefore, we have the potential to create more in 10 years than the world in the dark ages. To some degree this is gross hyperbole, but if Newsweek wasn't trying to dissuade voters from Romney (they fear him more the Huck because they???re liberal, quasi-intellects) they would further the dialog by talking about the worlds cumulative intelligence. That would be much more interesting than bagging on Romney for the 10th time this month. I???m glad I???ve canceled my subscription and got one with the Economist.

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