skippy the bush kangaroo: but he also thinks skippy's blog is an auction site for kangaroo skin sneakers

Saturday, July 28, 2007

but he also thinks skippy's blog is an auction site for kangaroo skin sneakers

now we know why mitt romney doesn't want to commit to a youtube repubbb debate: he apparently thinks it's myspace, and doesn't want child molesters to ask him questions. chitrib:

republican presidential contender mitt romney traveled along the interstate 35 corridor near the site of next month's straw poll thursday, promoting his call to try to keep pornography away from children.
"i want to enforce our obscenity laws," romney told about 70 people at a campaign-sponsored "ice-cream social" at a park clubhouse in story city, not far from ames, the home of the aug. 11 iowa gop straw poll…

but romney showed some unfamiliarity with the internet when he discussed the problem of sexual predators and children.

"youtube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other," romney explained. "youtube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. they had 29,000."

actually, youtube is the popular site that allows internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. the web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth google, also was a co-sponsor of the democratic presidential debate held on monday night.

the web site myspace is the one to which romney actually was referring. myspace, owned by rupert murdoch's news corp., said this week it had found 29,000 registered sex offenders who had submitted profiles to its site and removed them.

the scary thing isn't so much that mitt thinks youtube is myspace. the scary thing is that rupert murdoch owns the site which let sex offenders participate, and the gop doesn't say boo about that.

thanks and tip of the kangaroo tail to nicole belle at c&l for the link!

Labels: debates, gop, prez campaign, right hypocrisy, romney, technology