No 'fake' good deed goes unpunished - Paul Ryan's charity begins at photo ops
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I've been thinking about him off and on all week because he found himself reluctantly catapulted into the national spotlight last week by the uninvited visit of GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
Hijack, would have been a more accurate word. In the Romney/Ryan's campaign's desperation to lull the public into forgetting that they're two pomaded multimillionaire's out to gut the New Deal to pay for unnecessary tax cuts for the super rich, they decided to 'soften' Ryan's public persona with a bit of charitable malarkey, shot live on camera.
Ryan, as we know, invited himself to wash the already clean dishes of the St. Vincent De Paul Society's soup kitchen. That took some heart - or stones, as Bill Clinton likes to say. But Mahoning County is in Ohio and there is no stone that Ryan plans to leave unturned, or photo opportunity abandoned, regardless of the cost to others, in that state.
Ryan came into the soup kitchen without permission on Monday and 'did nothing,' Antal told the press. He was not at the soup kitchen when Ryan visited and would have turned him away had he known - the bylaws of the society expressly forbid political grandstanding of that nature.
But no fake 'good deed' goes unpunished though. The Society has been hemorrhaging donations since the story broke. The losses have been big. 'It appears to be a substantial amount,' Antal said. 'You can rest assured there has been a substantial backlash.'
Antal said that the campaign had 'ramrodded their way' inside for their charity on stilts performance.
But aren't mid-westerners famously repulsed by people who make a great show of their own charity? Isn't making a great show of your charity a contradiction in terms anyhow?
Antal want Ryan to go away and to take all the damage he has done with him. It's too late for that, but not too late for an apology that will doubtless never come. Ryan has made it clear he knows what's good for the nations poor and he certainly knows what's good for himself.
But this story deserves to be told over and over because it mirrors the main weakness of the Romney campaign itself: they make shameless gestures toward the middle class to lure them into voting for them.
But before you turn around you'll find that you're strapped for cash and they haven't left you with a forwarding address or an explanation.
54 comments
hollabackgurl | Oct 21, 2012, 03:22 PM EDT
There isn't anyone who doesn't think Pual Ryan used the St. Vincent De Paul Society to make him look like he cares about the plight of the poor. But we know the truth is he wants to gut every social protection they enjoy. Some Catholic.
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rsr | Oct 21, 2012, 03:02 PM EDT
Its amazing how unbiased the media is these days. Maybe if the reporter took his head out of his ass, he might witness some truth!
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GerryMaine | Oct 21, 2012, 02:46 PM EDT
Big Daddy: You can read about it yourself if you choose. Google: Ryan dirty dishes Antal. O'Doherty is stupid, lazy, a liar, or simply a Democrat shill.
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BigDaddy | Oct 21, 2012, 02:36 PM EDT
Gerry, using your own logic, how do you know that Ryan DID wash dirty dishes since you weren't there either?
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borefield | Oct 21, 2012, 02:10 PM EDT
Cahir, I thought you got fired! Aaw, I just woke up. It was a good dream gone bad. You write such tripe and lies.
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GerryMaine | Oct 21, 2012, 02:02 PM EDT
Frosty38: Do yourself a favor and google: ryan dirty dishes antal. This story is bogus. Maine is heavily Democratic now and will vote for Obama.
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Frosty38 | Oct 21, 2012, 01:30 PM EDT
because you are from Maine you show republican side I know I'm married to one from Maine and we go back and forth on the elections and if you read the piece he DID NOT do dirty dishes
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GerryMaine | Oct 21, 2012, 01:09 PM EDT
oh wait.. you've only told Antal's side. You freakin' liars! Antal wasn't there and Ryan DID wash dirty dishes. Antal is hardcore Democrat and did everything he could to diss Ryan. If donations are down, it's because Antal is liar.. just like you!
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Nicomax | Oct 21, 2012, 01:08 PM EDT
Rule #1-Never show up at a food pantry or kitchen dressed like you are auditioning for a role on 'Mad Men'. Our local food pantry accepts modest donations from the Dept. of Agricultural which mandates NO political advocacy. Politicians are allowed only if they meet the income qualification for a weekly distribution.
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Frosty38 | Oct 21, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT
That is soooooo true of his German side . He does not claim that side he wants to be IRISH
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TomDem55 | Oct 21, 2012, 12:08 PM EDT
Well spoken (er typed) BigDaddy, and to Liammurf, if by nothing you mean the St. Vincent DePaul Society food kitchen has now due to the acts of VP candidate Ryan suffered a massive drop off of donations?
Facts are HARD Things
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BigDaddy | Oct 21, 2012, 11:40 AM EDT
Does anyone remember John DiLulio? He was the head of Duhbya's Faith Based Initiative, a former professor from the University of Pennsylvania. When he outed the Bush team for what they were, he was forced to retract his claims that they were strictly politically motivated and unconcerned with policy. Or the bar manager in Texas who busted the Bush daughter for underage drinking? Her personal information was put on the Internet by "true believers" after she did her job under the law. The point being that, in America since the turn of the century, you do not speak the truth about the elite class without a lesson in B.F. Skinner. Speak the truth, expect to suffer. Or the whistle blowers that were punished under Bush for exposing the corruption associated with the Iraq invasion. Either people who support these criminals are too stupid to understand or they are being paid to ignore reality and act offended when someone points out that corporate America is unconcerned with the law. If they are the former, you can do nothing and if the latter is true, you can do nothing. But it should show any logical thinker that there is no "liberal media". If there were why would they ignore the illegalities engaged in by the RNC concerning voter registration? Who has seen extended coverage of the fraud committed by the GOP on TV? Wouldn't you expect this from a liberal media rather than a story about some dope sneaking into a soup kitchen to make his followers believe he isn't the guy he appears to be? Use you head people...those of you who can, I mean.
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liammurf | Oct 21, 2012, 11:40 AM EDT
If nothing else the Congressman brought attention to "your soup kitchen". Sorry that a Dem can not see the value it that. I'll be looking forward to seeing BHO stoping by. He is such a generous charity man. I think this is "bull S---" where is your charity?
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TomDem55 | Oct 21, 2012, 11:12 AM EDT
By welfare, of course you mean corporate welfare, surely you are against that......GE, Boeing,and a host of fortune 500 companies pay no Federal income tax, so if corporations are people, how do I get to be one of those people??? So you enjoy paying oil companies in tax subsidies?
Socialism, really we HAVE corporate socialism !!!
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