It falls to Fox News to try and clean up the repeated messes made by the Mitt Romney campaign. The Daily Show had an excellent three-part series on the extreme effort required by them to mitigate the damage done by the recent release of the video. [Read more…]
I was curious about the fact that there seems to have been no subsequent news about the effort to blackmail Mitt Romney about his past tax returns. [Read more…]
With all the attention focused on Mitt Romney’s verbal stumbles on the campaign, less attention has been paid to his running mate Paul Ryan’s activities. He too has had his share of awkward incidents. But while Paul Krugman has rightly been excoriating Ryan’s budget, calling him ‘an unserious man’ and his budget a ‘con game’, other commentators have focused more on Ryan’s odd penchant for embellishing his physical prowess to unrealistic levels. [Read more…]
(This clip appeared on September 18, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
… and he is not pleased. (Jennifer Rubin is a nutter blogger for the Washington Post.) [Read more…]
The released secret recording of Mitt Romney’s remarks to a small group of wealthy supporters provides a revealing look at the mindset of such people. They really do think of themselves as a morally superior class and that those who are poor or struggling as worthless. Matt Taibbi argues that having such delusions is the only way that they can justify to themselves the current state of affairs in which they are engaged in “massive fraud and theft” to benefit themselves at the expense of the rest of us. [Read more…]
I don’t usually watch Saturday Night Live but it does seem to come into its own every four years in the two months prior to the election with its political clips (Tina Fey’s impressions of Sarah Palin will forever remain the gold standard) and parodies of campaign commercials. [Read more…]
I have written in the past about the odious piece of legislation known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would enable the administration to indefinitely detain without trial people whom the government on its own decides is providing “substantial support” to groups “engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners”. (See here, here, and here.) [Read more…]
Mitt Romney sure has a way with words.
Starting with his visit to the UK, which reportedly caused the British prime minister to state that “Mitt Romney had that unique distinction of uniting all of England against him”, and then Israel, and Poland, he has shown un uncanny ability to demonstrate that the more one gets to know him, the less one likes him. [Read more…]