Discussion: Harkin 'Regrets' Comparing Joni Ernst To Taylor Swift

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Yes, please, Harkin…Swift is a lot smarter, more centered, and actually has a modicum of talent…Ernst is a dingbat from Iowa.

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Wa-huh?!?!

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That’s a horrible apology to Taylor Swift.

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Tom Harkin has nothing to apologize for.

I could say about New Hampshire, “Even if Scott Brown is as handsome as Tom Cruise, stop him from joining Ted Cruz.”

Neither remark is sexist.

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And he does exactly what the Liberal media expects of him. And what I knew he would do.

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backing down to faux outrage from the right wing is a democratic party staple.

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I assume he apologized to Taylor Swift?

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Arrgh. STOP APOLOGIZING. Or if you do, say something like, “I’m sorry I said she was attractive, clearly she’s not.”

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Victoria Jackson would’ve been a better comparison.

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Amazing. All he said was:

“In this Senate race, I’ve been watching some of these ads. And there’s sort of this sense that. Well, I hear so much about Joni Ernst. She is really attractive, and she sounds nice. Well, I got to thinking about that. I don’t care if she’s as good looking as Taylor Swift or as nice as Mr. Rogers, but if she votes like Michele Bachmann, she’s wrong for the state of Iowa.”

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Why is the TPM Headline parroting the idea that he compared her to Taylor Swift? He did not. They are claiming he did. TPM should know the difference and give context. That’s kind of the point of TPM’s existence.

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He cited three well known figures, Swift, Bachmann and the character of Mr. Rodgers but the pig castrator herself focused on Swift and turned it into today’s tittering talking point. Why wasn’t she offended at being compared to the dumbest woman in the House? Or to the departed host of a children’s program? Ernst knows how to suck the oxygen out of the room it seems and if the campaign were longer she’d use Harkin’s apology against him. But such is TPM’s reporting. We don’t call it TPMZ for nothing.

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Fer Chrissakes, STOP APOLOGIZING to Republicans.

For ANYTHING.

Metaphorically speaking, hurt them and make them cry, then do it again.

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Once upon a time it was important to TPM. The key word there is was.

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Could we just stop Democrats from apologizing? Here’s a better answer" “Sorry Joni that you got your panties in a twist. If you get elected and you think it will get any better, you’re living in a dream world.” I am so tired of trying to make these people like Joni feel better about themselves…Get over yourself…

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Don’t ask me how I know but somehow, somewhere…people are saying far worse things about Joni than this and I’m guessing deservedly so…

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Harkin ‘Regrets’ Comparing Joni Ernst To Taylor Swift

As does Taylor Swift I’m sure.

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The prime example of the Dem problem. Let the media take “part” of the quote and help "frame’ it for the repubs.
When will Dems get the cojones and the smarts to rise up and call their bluff. It’s gone on long enough. Instead they fail to ever ask what they mean when they “throw S---- against the wall”
. Repubs have ruled the news cycle soo long that it has poisoned the
Country. Media is the biggest problem besides the “money problem”.

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Where have seen this script before.  Democrats says something a republican doesn’t
like, republicans manufacture outrage and the democrat apologizes like a weakling

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