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Archae

(46,347 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 11:31 AM Nov 2012

I predict unemployment...

For at least a couple people on this list.

• Dick Morris: "Prediction: Romney 325, Obama 213"

• Glenn Beck: "321-217 victory for Romney in the electoral college."

• Rush Limbaugh: "Everything -- Except the Polls -- Points to a Romney Landslide"

• Michael Barone: "Romney Beats Obama, Handily"

• George Will: Romney 321, Obama 217

• Newsmax: "Expect a Mitt Romney Landslide"

• Larry Kudlow: "I am now predicting a 330 vote electoral landslide."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/07/the-romney-landslide-that-wasnt/191203

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I predict unemployment... (Original Post) Archae Nov 2012 OP
Has any pundit ever lost their job hughee99 Nov 2012 #1
I was listening to ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #3
Nope ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #2

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
1. Has any pundit ever lost their job
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 11:36 AM
Nov 2012

For making a completely wrong prediction before, or even for being wrong on a regular basis? I can't recall any.

The idiots only lose their jobs when they find younger, better looking or cheaper ones to replace them.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
3. I was listening to ...
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 11:43 AM
Nov 2012

some AM Hate talk show this morning and was thinking the same thing. The guy was going on a jag about how "people don't care because they don't want to work ... they'll just collect a government check. A hundred years ago, if you didn't work it was a bad thing for you; you didn't eat. I feel like an idiot ... I work hard ..."

I thought, "Really? You work hard? You sit in a booth spouting your opinion for 4 hours a day!"

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
2. Nope ...
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 11:37 AM
Nov 2012

At least 6 of these people will see an up-tick in their support by a increasingly vanishing, but no less vocal, audience. And their corporate backers will ride that audience horse til it completely falls dead. Dick Morris, no so much. And George Will? Maybe, he will be shuttled off to the irrelevancy pasture that he's been standing at the gate to for the past 4 years.

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