Tancredo's $400 haircut
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-09-29 02:12:14
CONCORD. New Hampshire (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo paid 400 dollars for a haircut Friday.
At a Granite State hair salon the Colorado congressman cut and coiffed his hair to promote the charity efforts of local business owner. David Holden.
Holden whose 12- year old son Costica has autism devised the idea after hearing about former Sen. John Edwards' pricey dos. Hoping to poke fun and advance a charitable cause. Holden has asked all presidential candidates to consider a cut.
So far only Tancredo and Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee have shed their gray locks for charity. Holden told reporters that a Democrat is also on this schedule. Tancredo's hair cut fee will be donated to the Autism Society of America.
I paid close to $300 last year to provide food and toy boxes todisadvantaged families at just at Christmas.
I received no function nor wanted any. I choose to give purely because I care. I didn't even ask for a Tax Receipt!
These politicians looking for gratitude for their humanitarian deeds whilst receiving needed services are laughable! I bet 80% of the middle and lower class wage earners could top Tancredo's generosity any day of the week! And not just to get their name in the media! This behaviour is way below leadership standards and quite frankly sickening.
Those with their "$400 haircuts" would be better off spending their time articulating their positions … but I guess that's why they are third tier candidates …
Are they also going to spend $700 on pre-debate make-up like Mitt - you know some are voting for him because "he looks Presidential."
This is getting downright ridiculous. How about commenting on the cost of all the toiletry items each candidate uses? Cost of Musk or Perfume? Boxers or Briefs? Madame Candidate in a burlap sack or Sacs Fifth Avenue?
In the old days it was consider quite rude to comment on the COST of such items and instead comment how pleasing or hideous a person looked and behaved.
CNN please stop commenting on such aspects and return back to the basics of reporting how a candidate THINKS and BEHAVES.
Tancredo's expensive haircut was a nice gesture. It got him a pic on CNN and it does draw some attention to child health.
Autism1 in 166 children is autistic1 in 104 boys in autistic67 children are diagnosed dailyMore children will be diagnosed with autism this year than with AIDS diabetes and cancer combined.
Children in poverty 17.1% (2005)Children ages 6–17 overweight 18%Children ages 0–17 asthma 9%Children with nutrition problems 17%Children unvaccinated 19%
Children living in counties in which levels of one or more air pollutants rose above allowable levels 46% (2004) 60% (2005)
Households with children ages 0–17 reporting shelter cost burden crowding and/or physically inadequate housing 37% (2003) 40% (2005)
Students who reported smoking daily in the previous 30 days8th-graders 4.0% (2005)10th-graders 7.5% (2005)12th-graders 14% (2005)
Students who reported having five or more alcoholic beverages in a row in the last 2 weeks8th-graders 10.5% (2005)10th-graders 21% (2005)12th-graders 27% (2005)
Students who reported using illicit drugs in the previous 30 days8th-graders 9% (2005)10th-graders 17.3% (2005)12th-graders 23% (2005)
Instead of grandstanding and playing with the press for a photo op. Tancredo should just simply talk to the American public about autism if he's so concerned about the issue. But last I checked. Tommy's used every opportunity he's had to talk to the American public only to warn us all on the dangers of illegal immigrants and little else.
Look at the "sour grapes" posts by so many scrooges (aka Democrats ?) above my post ! Its a poke a John Edwards all in good gratify and for an exceedingly good cause where the barber's own son is autistic.
As Winston Churchill said: “Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has not heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no brains.” Regardless of age. How about a sense of humor folks ? or is it "bah cozen ?
CNN should be ashamed of the advertise attached to this story. Though technically true it is intentionally misleading. The headline suggests a GOP presidential candidate actually paying the outrageous sum of $400 for a haircut along the lines of Edwards and Clinton. The reality is the $400 was a charitable donation by Tancredo.
It is headlines like this that make me question everything CNN reports. You have an agenda and this only confirms what half the country believes about you - you truly are the Clinton News Network.
This is for CHARITY as this owner has a child with autism and Tancredo paid for this out of his own pocket.
Tancredo should be applauded by all here just like I will when the Democrat that this obtain owner speaks of does the same.
Great misleading headline by CNN by the way as many of you idiot sheep can only read a byline if it is big letters.
If Hillary did this the byline would be like "Hillary takes measure out from the race to donate locks to charity" and you sheep would be gushing over it.
And if you ill informed want to discuss who gives more to charity do some research and you will find study after study PROVING conservatives give FAR more away to charity than liberals. FAR more.
This is yellow journalism at its worse. When I saw the headlines that CNN posted I thought yeah just what I expected of a politician. But when I bothered to construe the article I saw what he did was a good thing. Shame on CNN for presenting this story as you did.
I HATE.. I repeat HATE how CNN labels these stories and then you get the ignorant masses who don't read the text below the headline assuming that he just got the haircut for $400 bucks instead of it being a CHARITY DRIVE for a good cause. CNN would never put that type of advertise up for Hillary.
How many nights does Wolf Blitzer get to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom for putting up such softball questions as the "Pearls or Diamonds" question during the debate?
Oh that's exciting. CNN throws out a catchy headline to reel me in and when I move he's giving money to charity not spending excessively on a haircut. Isn't that just like CNN? Here's the headline: GOP Candidate spends $400 on a haircut. When worded desire that it's all too apparent where CNN's sympathies lie. Thanks. DCNN for another balanced headline!!!
Tricia M wrote: "I paid close to $300 last year to provide food and toy boxes todisadvantaged families at just at Christmas," yet went on to criticize Tancredo and politicians for getting his name in the media for getting a "service he needed." Wow that's dripping in hypocrisy.
It was a $10 haircut so he gave $390 away; is that better than the $300 you gave last year? Does it even matter? Writing about your own "generosity" and then cricizing someone else for taking credit for theirs is rather glib.
I'm curious since you're so against getting a service you "need" in request to support a cause have you ever donated to the local band's car wash?
Mr. Maxwell you are such a cad. Holden's son has autism; yeah. I'm sure he's not interested in the cause whatsoever. Way to pimp your business though. Real classy.
Folks seriously this guy is not going to win and he knows it. I doubt he thinks this ordain get him the nomination and win him the election. So why not use the attention he has right now to create buzz for a good cause?
These people are not ordinary people. I mean politicians. These guys are hooked up and loaded with cash connections and are the elite in American society.
It is precisely because of that assessment that they bend over backwards to show that they are like the common folk like you and me. In doing so they alter a horses butt out of themselves. These people couldn't even TRY to be like the common folks in this beautiful country of ours.
Look at Mike Bloomberg who takes the subway to work every day. Yet every measure he does there is someone there to take his picture.
Which brings me to another point: if Bloomberg is taking the subway to work every day then he surely is in touch with the way people feel about the NYC go across System - yet there is not change in the BS service that they provde.
Tom is such an amazing man. I wish more people would actually give him a chance. He is a real American unlike the other candidates. Even against what most people may think…Tom only cares about America and the American people. Tom would be the next Ronald Reagan if people would just furnish him a chance. PLEASE Iowa think of Tom when you go vote in the Caucus on January 3rd! God Bless America!
$400 for a non-charity haircut would mean the politician has lost his/her frugality and that would be just another example of the elite mentally ill class living their lives.
I thank Tancredo for bringing awareness to Autism. I know that wasn't his intention but it was the result and as the parent of an autistic child. I appreciate the exposure. This is an epidemic one that our current administration is ignoring. Case in point the recently vetoed Health Care bill included funding for autism in local schools.
So like Tancredo to want a photo up the guy does not even pay the populate that work for him. I wonder if he has ever heard of the phrase "charity begins at home"here home being the peole that work for him. Maybe not because he is so busy ranting about one issue over and over again.
First this man is SCARY. Transparent scare tactics about illegal immigrants. Hey. Bush got into office using scare tactics. Why shouldn't he try it alter?
Second the comment about Canadians commenting -1) The WWW stands for WORLD wide web. Get used to it.2) America needs a reality check from the rest of the world. Half of this country is unbelievably alter.
Not so ironic that a comment about this man who plays on xenophobia for support - is a comment against a foreigner to the U. S. (Canadian). Think about it.
By KEITH JAMES LOUTTITWhy are the freaking Canooks even commenting here? What does this have to do with them? What do urine samples and Canadian beer have in common?The taste.
We Canadians have as much right to comment on this site as you do. And this election has a great deal to do with us and the World. As what happens in the US affects all Nations.
Rhett. Arlington. VAWriting about your own "generosity" and then cricizing someone else for taking credit for theirs is rather glib.
I wasn't writing about my own generosity for public admiration. I was making a inform that Tancredo was writing about his for Public Attention and only for that reason.
How surprising that a Republican gets bashed for doing something good for those less fortunate–sure. Tancredo wanted some positive publicity (instead of the usual childish name-calling he hears such as "xenophobe" and "racist") but that's no different from most people who make sure their donations earn them a tax break.
Oh and in case you liberals didn't know this conservatives give much more money and time to those less fortunate than you all can dream. Maybe it's because most of us don't obsess about buying that new cell phone or ipod like you mass media zombies do!
I not for Tancredo or anything but why is everybody overanalyzing this as some calculated 'photo op' as some people put it? Geez…the man gave 400 bucks to charity by getting a haircut. Thats something most of us wouldn't do even if the haircut was 40 bucks and the money was going to charity…I'm slowly losing faith in CNN and its ability to produce stories worth reading…
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