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Mitt Romney parody in song. Romney spoof video musical.
Lyrics:
I’m a Mormon whose ethic is work and no play
I’ve been running for the White House since Truman passed away
I’ll never see the world in shades of gray
I’m the whitest white man in the USAI’d amend the Constitution and end Roe v. Wade
I would make refuting Darwin a religious crusade
I’d wipe away Iran with a nuclear grenade
I’m the whitest white man in the USA
GROUP
Obama for sure is a commie MITT
Commie
GROUP
His blood isn’t blue
MITT ROMNEY
There’s a rumor he’s a Jew
He doesn’t look like me or you
Now listen to me
Our Secre’try of State is a lesbo
GROUP
Lesbo
The cabinet all reeks
The Country’s run by Bolsheviks
We’re going broke just like the Greeks
MITT ROMNEY
Why, because I say so! GROUP
He says so
MITT ROMNEY
I have homes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and LA
GROUP
And built a concrete fence to keep the Immigrants away
And then he rested it was on the seventh day
MITT ROMNEY
I’m the whitest white man in the USAI’m against same sex marriage ‘though Paul Ryan’s cute like me
There are times I have wished that I was born a she
ANN ROMNEY
So then he’d be able to hit off the ladies tee
He’s the whitest white man in the galaxy
MITT ROMNEY
Bain is the bane of my existence
Oh, sure, it made me rich
But defending it’s a bitch
It’s like praising Newt Gingrich
Who is a fruitcake
Team Romney is on the hunt for a running mate who won’t get laughed out of the race, or be ethically deficient, stir controversial pots, wink too often, be ignorant of major Supreme Court decisions, speak paint-splatterese, reveal their illiteracy, or upstage that captivating model of charisma, Etch a Sketch Willard.
In other words, anyone but her:
McCain, according to Romney advisers, blew it on all three scores. And of the three, the most conscious effort by Romney’s team to do things differently will be in the vice presidential selection process. One Republican official familiar with the campaign’s thinking said it will be designed to produce a pick who is safe and, by design, unexciting — a deliberate anti-Palin. The prized pick, said this official: an “incredibly boring white guy.”
Where to begin? They get a couple of points for going anti-Palin, but why would that mean a running mate would have to be male or white? Palin’s pretty darn white, so the opposite of that would be… what again?
And why male, necessarily? Any woman with ethics, brains, knowledge, experience, and common sense would be the polar opposite of Former Half Gov Derangetta McMoralDearth. Being penis challenged shouldn’t be a deal breaker.
Oh, and then there’s that minor, oft overlooked issue of being, you know, qualified. Then again, we’re talking about the Republican party here.
Oh, but I kid.
Oh em gee! Birth control is bad! Nobody should use it and women should pop out babies the way the GOP pops out new primary frontrunners! Preventing abortions by preventing unwanted births? Unheard of! Require employers to cover contraception in their health care plans? Treason!
So it goes without saying that, given the opportunity, Republican Congress members would grill, blast, and belittle HHS Secretary Sebelius if they ever got a chance, like, say, at a hearing… where they would be face to face with her… and have her undivided attention… and get quoted and replayed over and over 24/7 on cable news [sic]! Right?
Um…
Republicans have vowed to keep pressing their attack against the White House’s birth-control mandate, but you wouldn’t know it from the way they approached a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday.
It was the first time Sebelius has testified before Congress since announcing the contraception mandate. Yet despite a flood of statements and speeches denouncing the policy as an attack on religious freedom, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee barely mentioned it Wednesday. [...]
Hatch opened with questions about the revised contraception mandate and whether Sebelius had discussed it with either the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or more supportive groups, such as Planned Parenthood. She said she hadn’t. And that was about it.
“And that was about it.”
This is whatcha call a manufactured controversy. A wedge issue. A diversion. Shiny keys. It’s the one thing the GOP does well. I mean other than lie and smear.
Same findings from Media Matters a couple years ago. I’d advance this to include just plain guests on cable news.
It is a perennial complaint about American television news: that the guests on the Sunday morning public affairs programs are not representative of the country’s diversity.
A new study says the guest bookings do not represent the population of Congress, either.
“In 2009 the talk shows told us (by their selection of Congressional guests) that the people who matter are disproportionately white, male, senior and Republican — disproportionate not just when compared to the American population overall, but also when compared to the population of Congress itself,” concluded a study published this month in The Green Bag, a quarterly journal supported by the George Mason University School of Law.
The study, of the five network Sunday shows from February to December 2009, found that while 14.6 percent of members of Congress were minorities, just 2.5 percent of the Congressional TV guests were minorities; and that while 16.9 percent of members were female, 13.5 percent of the guests were female.
The study also singled out “the 49 white, male U.S. senators in office six-plus years” who represented 9.2 percent of the Congressional populace, but 61.4 percent of the TV guests.
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