ABC: Seamus? That was nothing; the President ate dogs

[cali]

Fucking Jake Tapper. Fucking ABC. Never mind that the President was a small child at the time. And hey, it brings back up how foreign he is, and how there were all these yucky and evil Muslim influences in his life. And then ABC and that vile shitbird Tapper act shocked, shocked I tell you, that so many Americans think the President is Muslim.

Hey Tapper, why don't you throw yourself right on top of the bonfire of hate you're busy stoking?

Here's the story.

Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat

Much has been made about Mitt Romney, in 1983, putting his family dog Seamus in a kennel on top of his roof and driving from Boston to Canada, with said canine Seamus making his displeasure known in a rather scatological way.

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The Seamus story was discussed again Monday when Ann Romney told Diane Sawyer that “the dog loved” traveling that way. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.”

Certainly kinder than eating him.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-as-a-boy-ate-dog-meat/

[kentuck]

1. So much for Ted Nugent...

Now we can hear this story for the next few days.

[Vinca]

2. So Romney has been a world traveler. He's probably eaten dog, too. And horse meat.

[GoCubsGo]

13. He spent two years in France missioning for his church.

I understand that eating horse meat is not uncommon there, so there is a fairly good chance Romney has eaten it.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Oh goody. More false equivalencies.

An adult abusing a dog by making him ride on the roof of a car for 12 hours is the same as a six-year-old eating dog meat given to him by his parents. Who knew?

[FarPoint]

6. It was in the Obama book...

The eating of dog was taken WAY OUT OF CONTEXT.....this was a cultural experience as he also identified rattlesnake and grasshoppers meal samples.

Dog is sold in Asian Markets I understand; acceptable choice.... according to Anthony Bourdain anyways.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Yes, it's well-known that dog is a protein source in many Asian cultures.

Even most of the ignorant xenophobes, at whom this article was aimed, know that. Except that they don't let the facts get in the way of a good Obama hate-on, and that's what Tapper was aiming at here.

[Scuba]

17. I've eaten dog on a couple occasions...

... in Asia. "Dog on stick" was common fare in southeast Asia circa 1970.

[treestar]

22. Amen, talk about a logic fail!

Eating dog meat in a culture where it is eaten vs. putting a dog on a roof in THIS culture.

And that is crueler than eating dog meat.

[kentuck]

4. It's amazing how quick they are to carry the water of the GOP...

He probably ate a baby lamb and a cow also?

[GoCubsGo]

12. He ate Bambi's mother and Babe the Pig, too.

Tapper is a well-known GOP water carrier, so I am not surprised to see this bullshit.

[rfranklin]

5. I was forced to eat broccoli as a child. I had no choice until I left home...

Does that make me a bad person?

[pinboy3niner]

9. I think you're okay as long as you didn't eat...

...fried chicken coated with CORN FLAKES.

[newfie11]

7. Didn't Romney eat the bar-B-Qued dog his buddy cooked

Wasn't he involved with the rest in killing and cooking the dog in a drunken feast?

Maybe this need more traction to the general public!

[gratuitous]

19. I think that's a story about the malefic Fred Malek

Malek is a mean little piece of humanity, whose political career has lasted far longer than it should, doing dirty work and pulling off skullduggery for Republican presidents from Nixon to Bush the stupider.

[Capt. Obvious]

8. Hard hitting journalism

This is going to doom Obama just like that unearthed kindergarten essay doomed him in 2008

[Laurian]

10. I just sent an email to ABC News to complain about Jake Tapper. I get

so tired of listening to this bullshit. I'm sure my opinion of Jake Tapper is of no concern to ABC, but I have decided not to shrug off this crap any longer. The least I can do is share my disgust with the source of it.

[leftynyc]

14. The media wants a horse race

and will do anything they can to make that happen.

[pipoman]

15. Eating dogs in the US violates a social mores

just like eating pigs does in other cultures, and cattle in others. Dogs are raised as food production in some cultures. Some Asian cultures, even Mexico, Central and South America. Search "tacos de perro" in images..if you have a strong stomach.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Jake Tapper is almost personally responsible for making up nearly all the lies about Al Gore

He gave us Bush, to a large extent. He's obviously up to his old tricks here. He's a rich white dude, so he's going to tend toward GOP plutocrats (Bush, Romney) on principle.

[demgrrrll]

18. Yes remember how upset he was when he was left on the tarmac during

the Gore campaign? Things got even nastier after that incident.

[FSogol]

20. And the Secretive Romney Negative Campaign turns its gaze toward Obama

[MrScorpio]

21. I lived in Korea for 22 months, I probably ate it

And didn't know it at the time. Street vendors, I tell ya.

[Tsiyu]

23. Tapper is a bona fide lackey for the Right Wing

And really, trying to find the equivalence between a child eating what is set in front of him on the one hand and a grown man deciding to torment a living animal on the other hand really shows outright that the corporate media are desperate to find ANYTHING with which to smear Obama.

Tapper, you are such an immature, salivating, tail-wagging slave of the GOP. Is this your purpose in life, Dude?

How meaningful for you.....