Day: January 9, 2012

Struggling to Understand How Rich Mitt Romney Is

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MittMoney
Romney and his fellow Bain Capitalists

It’s hard for most of us to imagine being worth a few million dollars. That’s serious greenbacks, putting us beyond worry and squarely in the land of comfort. But if we were Mitt Romney, who is worth a quarter-BILLION dollars, that would be chump change.

And while all the presidential candidates are in that comfortable, worry-free zone, Romney’s wealth, according to a fascinating piece of research in the Tampa Bay Times, blocks out the sun.

Romney refuses to say how much, if anything, he pays in income taxes

For every $100 personally owned by Romney, President Obama has $4.20, Newt Gingrich has $2.70 and Ron Paul has $2. And Rick Santorum, closely trailing a victorious Romney in last week’s Iowa caucus, has but a single buck.

But wait, there’s more.

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French & Saunders Read the English Translation of an Interview with Madonna in Hungarian

Jon Ponder

Off topic, but if you watched that sad excuse for a debate among the Republican presidential candidates on NBC yesterday, you probably need a good laugh to start the week.

Here are Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, the creative team behind “Absolutely Fabulous,” on their radio show, reading an English translation from the original Hungarian of an interview with Madonna about her movie, “Evita,” as it appeared in USA Today.

H/t: Andrew Sullivan

Tony Blankley, Right-Wing Propagandist, Dead at 62

Jon Ponder

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I have been tuning in to “Left, Right and Center,” the NPR political chat show produced here in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, to be precise), for so long that when I first became a regular listener the “right” was represented by Arianna Huffington, when she was a conservative — which was so long ago, as she has said, that it was back when Dennis Miller was funny.

On the show, the “left” was and is represented by Robert Scheer, formerly of the Los Angeles Times and now editor at Truthdig. The “center” was and is represented by the show’s host, Matt Miller.

After Huffington finally came to her senses and revised her ideology toward the center, she continued to participate in an essentially left-leaning but officially non-aligned position. She was replaced on the right by Tony Blankley.

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