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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJuan Williams stuns Fox News panel: Ann Romney just a ‘corporate wife’
Williams apparently wasnt impressed, saying that she looked to me like a corporate wife.The stories she told about struggles, its hard for me to believe, he explained. I mean, shes a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.
Wow, OK, panel host Brett Baier replied.
What does that mean, corporate wife? Megyn Kelly pressed.
It looks like a woman whose husband takes care of her and shes been very lucky and blessed in this life, Williams observed. Shes not speaking, I think, for the tremendous number of single women in this country or married women or separated she did not convince me that, You know what? I understand the struggles of American women in general.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/29/juan-williams-stuns-fox-news-panel-ann-romney-just-a-corporate-wife/
CountAllVotes
(20,849 posts)Blond hair, blue-eyed Barbie doll/Stepford wife au complete!
closeupready
(29,503 posts)(From a teleprompter, no doubt.)
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)needs another in-house Uncle Tom. Harold Ford is said to be available.
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)Apparently, there is a little bit of NPR left in Juan.
bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)rox63
(9,464 posts)Wow, someone on Faux actually telling the truth?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Though I did not hear her speech, how is a "political" wife any different from being a "corporate" wife, especially when that "whatever" wife has NO individual accomplishments outside of the home that was provided FOR her by her "corporate" husband?
Secondly, anne being "utterly admirable and utterly credible" does not argue against Williams' point; which was that her life is not relatable to the majority of American women.
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)American women don't own and keep a $77,000 dressage horse? Oh, the poor dears!
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)being a corporate exec's wife and being a mom of 6 kids are both full-time jobs, but having access to party planners and caterers and nannies and other staff members is not the experience of most women.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Race card.
I guess Juan has HBO too.
DallasNE
(7,390 posts)That is a rough translation of what Ann Romney said. But that doesn't put food on the table, pay the rent or take care of the sick kid. The Romney's are incapable of relating to ordinary Americans so they may as well stop trying.
beac
(9,992 posts)paid for by selling stocks, just like a regular ol' average American family.
Does ANYONE believe that woman EVER "struggled"?
valerief
(53,235 posts)shipping Rafalca from exotic port to exotic port for dressage competitions. Oh, the agony!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That's what we eat now except we eat sausage instead of tuna fish because the tuna fish has been polluted. (I know, sausage isn't good for you either, but that's reality.)
What are the Romneys eating these days? I mean when they are at home, not when they are campaigning.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)> What are the Romneys eating these days?
Poor people, braised in $100 bills.
progree
(10,864 posts)"They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. It was tiny. And I didnt have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.
We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. The stock came from Mitts father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitts birthday money year to yearit wasnt much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.
Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons.
beac
(9,992 posts)except the dividends from their stocks and the profits from the sale thereof, of course.
And, to her, that's a hard luck story of 'struggle." She is beyond out-of-touch.
avebury
(10,941 posts)wiggs
(7,766 posts)mlevans
(843 posts)And if she can't feel her own condition, how could she possibly feel anyone else's?
Better update your resume. Any chance you could replace Anderson Cooper?
librechik
(30,659 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)magnifisense
(285 posts)Notice I said putative.
progree
(10,864 posts)And an expensive one at that with the dancing horses and so on.
Ann Romney, working woman? by Katha Pollitt, The Nation 5/7/12:
Just ask Mitt Romney, [font color="brown"] "85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, Well thats heartless, and I said No, no, Im willing to spend more giving daycare to allow those parents to go back to work. Itll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work. [/font]
In 1994 he said, [font color = "brown"]"we will do everything in our power to make sure that people who are on welfare have an opportunity and an obligation to go to work, not after 2 years but from day one if we could".[/font]
We talk about employment or staying home as a matter of choice, which obscures what it takes to make that choice -- a mate with money.
Read more at: http://www.thenation.com/article/167456/ann-romney-working-woman
Initech
(99,881 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Maybe ole Juan has reached that point. The shame is just too great...
bongbong
(5,436 posts)> What does that mean, corporate wife? Megyn Kelly pressed.
Here's my question to Megyn: "What do you call a TV reporter who strips for a magazine?"
(she stripped in GQ magazine a while ago)