Daily Archives: September 18, 2012

The 47%: A Powerful New Ad on a Viral Meme

Clever and devastating.

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The Papyrus of Jesus’s Wife

Big news. A fourth century Coptic papyrus fragment asserts Jesus was married. This is at the New York Times today: The finding is being made public in Rome on Tuesday at an international meeting of Coptic scholars by the [Harvard] … Continue reading

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Conservative David Frum on the 47% Video

For understanding how Mitt Romney could so grotesquely and flippantly defame 47% of the American population without a gasp from those gathered to listen to him, Frum offers white racism as a starting point: Start with this data point: When you … Continue reading

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Who Makes Up The 47%?

Juliet Lapidos points to a number of groups, among them are these two: More than one-fifth are elderly. As David Frum put it, they’re “people who pay no income taxes because their income takes the form of Social Security.” Most of … Continue reading

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The 47% Video and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

__________ I can’t help but think the 47% video will sink Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, and it recalls for me these lines from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Under the water it rumbled on, Still louder and more dread: … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney Doesn’t Worry about 47% of Americans

Amazing. 47% of Americans–the elderly, the retired, the unemployed, those in veteran’s hospitals, students, the mentally and physically disabled, and the working poor paying payroll taxes but making less than twenty thousand dollars a year–are those people. “My job is … Continue reading

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the 47% Video

At the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates homes in on Mitt Romney’s late night damage control presser following the release of the 47% video: I have never seen the candidate of a major party looking more shook than Romney does at this … Continue reading

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David Brooks on the 47% video: Romney has “divided the nation into two groups: the makers and the moochers.”

At the New York Times, conservative David Brooks is scathing in his reading of Mitt Romney’s 47% video: Romney, who criticizes President Obama for dividing the nation, divided the nation into two groups: the makers and the moochers. […] [I]t suggests … Continue reading

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The New York Times Games the 47% Video

This is at the New York Times tonight: [T]he video has raised the possibility that Mr. Romney’s campaign will be sidetracked, with attention focused again on his proposed tax cuts for the wealthy, the release of his personal tax returns … Continue reading

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