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By Request: Some thoughts on the “47 million Americans” public display of private buffoonery…

*By Request: Some thoughts on the “47 million Americans” public display of private buffoonery…* Published on AngryBlackBitch<http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/2012/09/by-request-some-thoughts-on-47-million.html>| shared via feedly mobile <http://www.feedly.com> I had the pleasure of witnessing the latest Mitt Romney verbal malfunction unfold with a certain C-Money. We were hanging out in our couch-based lair, checking Twitter and dropping snark for hours. Good times! <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MXvx44kOnkA/UFiUnGFpyUI/AAAAAAAADOo/TYhv_P2ig1g/s1600/romney.jpeg> For those who missed it, Mother Jones broke a story<http://www.motherjones.com/>complete with secret video (oooh, damn near Nixonian!) of how Mitt Romney talks about the masses when he thinks he’s among like-minded uber rich folk. By “masses”, I mean the 47 million Americans he was caught on tape saying he could give a flying fuck about. Mitt thinks we’re lazy and dependent on government. Oh, and he also thinks we don’t pay taxes. Pause…frown…continue. Yeah, that bit about the taxes made my Afro hurt too, until I realized that discussing regular people paying taxes with Mitt Romney would be like chatting about how expensive groceries are with [insert any Romney here]. Odds are Mitt Romney hasn’t bothered to learn how payroll taxes work because he never had any intention of keep workers on the payroll long enough to be taxed. Anyhoo, at some point I mentioned how Lee Atwater would have handled Romney’s late night press conference…and that’s when C-Money demanded a post on this shit. So, here are my thoughts. <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e5ll7knyt4w/UFiUuqmSSWI/AAAAAAAADOw/IVjAT6sDCfU/s1600/atwater.jpg> Current conservative politics makes me kind of miss Lee Atwater<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater> . Watch it….watch it, damn it…catch that knee before you hurt somebody! I’m serious. Lee Atwater was a dirty motherfucker…so dirty he was a master at modern political dirt distribution…but at least he was good at that shit. When Atwaterrace-baited your ass, his hook had some serious unambiguous rancid ass bait on it. Lee put together campaigns that hit their mark with painful accuracy…causing outrage on the side he could give a shit about and inspiring cheers from the group he wanted to hear cheering. Atwaterwas up in the head of the voters he needed to get the job done…the job being to get [insert conservative nightmare here] elected. Now, we’ve got Mitt Romney fumbling through fundraising talks trying to be all delicate about saying that if he were Latino he’d have an easy time winning the presidency…after trying to arouse his bored as shit audience with watered down digs at 47 percent of the nation! Mitt has insulted half the nation and managed to do so with such lame assedness that his base couldn’t be bothered to shrug. This is just…disturbing. Okay, okay…so I don’t actually want to see the second coming of Lee Atwater. One life-cycle of Lee was more than enough, thank you. *wince* But if someone is going to pander to the baser needs of his base…and if doing so requires race-baiting elite ass dismissive comments about voters…hell, if a candidate is going to take his campaign from zero to absolute FUBAR in record breaking time the least he can do is make that shit interesting. Hell, even the man’s scandals are like over baked flounder. Gawd, what I wouldn't do for a Demon Sheep <http://youtu.be/KRY7wBuCcBY> or two... Blink. feedly. feed your mind. http://www.feedly.com

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So, about Romney’s Latino “joke”…

*So, about Romney’s Latino “joke”…* Published on AngryBlackBitch<http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com/2012/09/so-about-romneys-latino-joke.html>| shared via feedly mobile <http://www.feedly.com> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-038GZAzgrLg/UFnB2D-KpVI/AAAAAAAADPE/ThbUGG8m1OY/s1600/romney+laughing.jpeg> I’ve noticed that the press has dodged addressing some of the other shit Mitt Romney was caught saying to donors, like his attempted joke that he’d have a better shot at winning the presidency as a Latino. *"My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico ... and had he been born of Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino."* Oh, some major news outlets have covered it. *Ruben Navarrette Jr. has this post up on CNN.com,<http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/opinion/navarrette-romney-latino/index.html> * so odds are the producers over there have scratched that off of their to-do list. But most anchors and reporters have opted to clumsily fumble through explanations of who pays income taxes and blah, blah, blah instead of tackling the other gaffe Mitt made that evening in the Hamptons. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0q6VhdVO8AQ/UFnB9fiBZqI/AAAAAAAADPM/F59GnWD8lKM/s1600/romney-laughing+2.jpeg> See, the same thing that would have made Mitt’s joke score some laughs (if he hadn’t fucked up the punch line) is the exact same thing that makes anchors and reporters uncertain whether his Latino comments will result in any real political damage. The thing? There is a widely held belief that being a minority has guaranteed advantages for those seeking any sort of advancement. I’ve personally encountered that shit. I’ll never forget having an academically challenged friend respond to news that my sister was accepted at Harvard with a “joke” that he should paint his face black and apply too. Everybody at the table laughed…except me. More than one friendship ended that day. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WNLNTkCvUSQ/UFnCEY4F9CI/AAAAAAAADPU/2WCpEJ1PAH0/s1600/romney+laughing+3.jpeg> I was disappointed, but not surprised. Just as I’m disappointed but not at all surprised that so many anchors and reporters have avoided discussing Romney’s Latino “joke”. If Romney’s callous disregard for the struggles working people face and his boorishly stated belief that 47 percent of us see ourselves as victims are seen as troublesome, then Romney’s crass "joke" about the political benefits to be had simply from being born Latino sure as shit is too. ****cue crickets**** Blink. feedly. feed your mind. http://www.feedly.com Regards, Barry Wynn

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Remember when we first heard the term "high-tech lynching"?  It was during the Clarence Thomas confirmation.  The concept was just as ridiculous then as it is now. In a scathing post, ABB explains why this terminology is so incorrect...and the potential dangers its use poses.

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This post, well done once again, points out the ignorance of the recent "pledge" signed by Bachmann and Santorum, which suggested that African American children fared better in slavery that in the current free society.  The statement struck such a nerve that the writers of the pledge quickly took out the line after it went public. But not before the internet community had chewed it up and spit it out.