Mitt Romney
Expert: Romney's Plan for Managed Bankruptcy Would Have Saved Industry
November 5th, 2012 5:24 PM
“Bin Laden is Dead and GM is Alive!” That slogan emanating from Vice President Biden, which has resonated in states, like Ohio, which could decide this upcoming election. But Gov. Romney’s call from late 2008 to send Detroit into managed bankruptcy would have saved the auto industry as well, according to expert Edward Niedermeyer.
Niedermeyer wrote today in The Wall Street Journal that:
Jay-Z Substitutes 'Mitt' for 'B-tch' While Rapping at Obama Rally
November 5th, 2012 4:59 PM
Rapper Jay-Z while performing at an Obama campaign rally in Ohio Monday substituted the name "Mitt" for the word "b-tch" in the lyrics to his song "99 Problems."
Before doing so, he told the crowd he didn't get it vetted by the campaign (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, file photo):
Lefty Insight from NYT Sunday Review: 'Someone Is Going to Win, Someon
November 5th, 2012 2:47 PM
This week's New York Times Sunday Review wasn't as loaded with bias as last week's edition, but did feature a political cri de couer by Times favorite Drew Westen, Emory University professor and left-winger, "America's Leftward Tilt?"
Westen really went out on a limb:
The presidential election is now a close contest, but barring an Electoral College tie, someone is going to win, someone is…
Toledo Blade Asks: 'Could Mr. Romney Take Our Coffee
November 5th, 2012 2:45 PM
In the quadrennially important swing state of Ohio, one of the Toledo Blade's featured front page stories on Sunday wondered if Mormonism would shape Romney's policy. Following an endorsement of Obama last week in which there was no mention of the president's beliefs, religion editor Timothy Knox Barger's penned a 2,500 word piece that resorted to scare tactics and conjecture.
Among them was…
NYTimes: Economic 'Recovery' Helping 'Energized, Fortified' Obama, As
November 5th, 2012 12:13 PM
The New York Times leaned "Forward!" for Barack Obama's reelection in its campaign coverage over the weekend. The front of the paper's Saturday Election 2012 section featured a large photo from an Obama rally of a volunteer handing out flags at a fairground rally in Hilliard, Ohio on Friday. The caption noted "A crowd of 2,800 showed up to see Mr. Obama."
Meanwhile, campaign reporter Ashley…
Chris Rock: 'Romney Is Blacker Than Obama
November 5th, 2012 10:31 AM
On Friday night, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel gave Chris Rock an opportunity to appeal to white voters to support the President's re-election.
During a pre-recorded video trying to prove how white the former junior senator from Illinois really is, Rock said, "Even Mitt Romney is blacker than Obama" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Homer Simpson Votes For Romney, Gets Outsourced To China
November 5th, 2012 9:05 AM
Fox proved once again that it has anything but a conservative bias.
As NewsBusters warned in September, the hit series The Simpsons on Sunday totally trashed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his supporters two days before Election Day (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Slate Writer: White Guys Voting for Romney 'In Defiance of Normal Amer
November 4th, 2012 3:23 PM
Remember when liberals scoffed at the fact that Romney could win more than 60% of the white vote? Not only has Romney successfully tackled that hurdle, and liberals are apparently mad about it. Tom Scocca of Slate Magazine wrote on November 2 about the “tribal appeal” that Mitt Romney has with whites and why “white people think” he’ll be a better president. I’ll give you a hint: It’s R _ C I S…
Savannah Guthrie: Hurricane Sandy Sent 'Seemingly From Above' to Help
November 4th, 2012 11:42 AM
Today Show host Savannah Guthrie made a statement about Hurricane Sandy on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that is sure to raise a lot of eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.
"Here was a moment handed to [Obama] seemingly from above where he could look like that strong, independent, steady in a storm, very appealing to the middle of the road voters, and I might add to unmarried women voters who…
Lame: 'Million Puppet March' Draws 'Hundreds
November 4th, 2012 10:57 AM
How lame was Washington's "Million Puppet March" yesterday? So lame that I couldn't even find a story about the event at the Associated Press's national web site.
Planning for the event began several weeks ago after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in the first presidential debate that despite his love for Sesame Street's Big Bird he would not advocate further public funding of the…
Freudian Slip: Candy Crowley Calls Him 'President Romney
November 4th, 2012 9:43 AM
CNN's Candy Crowley got a tremendous amount of criticism last month when she defended Barack Obama during the second presidential debate.
On Sunday's State of the Union, she appeared to compensate by saying "President Romney" in a question to Ohio's Rob Portman (video follows with transcript and commentary):
AP Claims That Obama 'Seems' to Be Leading in Key State Early Voting B
November 3rd, 2012 8:00 PM
I have remembered how to seem. ---King George III in "The Madness of King George."
This is a tale of two stories. The first story was an article your humble correspondent read in today's Miami Herald. The news couldn't be better for Mitt Romney because it reported that the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald poll of likely voters showed the former Massachusetts governor leading Barack Obama in…
Letterman: Half of Romney Supporters Just Want to See Chris Matthews C
November 3rd, 2012 6:04 PM
CBS Late Show host David Letterman took a humorous swipe at MSNBC's Chris Matthews Friday.
In a recurring segment riffing on Zogby polls, Letterman said that 51 percent of people supporting Mitt Romney are doing so because they "Want to see Chris Matthews cry like a baby" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Cher and Kathy Griffin: 'Don't Let Mitt Turn Back Time On Women
November 3rd, 2012 3:39 PM
Cher and Kathy Griffin on Friday released a campaign video accusing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of wanting to turn back time on women’s rights.
I guess these two brainiacs haven’t gotten the message that the White House’s phony Republican war on women has failed and failed badly (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):