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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 20 A long-running ethics investigation of Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, will be resolved on Friday at a public hearing without formal charges of wrongdoing, two parties with direct knowledge of...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 20 What do Theodore Roosevelt, Richard M...September 20 A sunny but policy-vague George Allen faced off with a wonkish Tim Kaine Thursday in a Virginia Senate debate that highlighted the perils of policy specifics when...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
Sep 20, 2012 David Corn of Mother Jones magazine talks about how he teamed up with James Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, to get the footage posted this week of Mitt Romney insulting half of the American public before a crowd of...
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HNN
| 8 months ago
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told House GOP lawmakers in a closed meeting Thursday that this election was just like the 1980 contest between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan . Ryan said Carter lead Reagan late in the race, and...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 8 months ago
Mother Jones, the left-leaning magazine that was founded above a McDonalds restaurant in San Francisco 36 years ago, found itself lavished this week with the kind of attention that is usually reserved for larger news outlets. And that is not a bad...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
The limping Mitt Romney campaign was yesterday on notice from some of its own that it had better pick itself up quickly after a string of flubs and stumbles if it wants to avoid losing a presidential contest that by all normal indicators such as the...
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Celebrity Gossip
| 8 months ago
GMT In the heat of campaign season, Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles were the gracious hosts for the President Barack Obama fundraiser on Tuesday night (September 19). The event was held at the lavish 40/40 club in New York City and the couple reportedly...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
On Wednesday's NBC Today , correspondent Michael Isikoff offered a congratulatory puff piece on the man who helped release a hidden camera video of Mitt Romney: "[It] became public as a result of some dogged sleuthing by a partisan political...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
After Mother Jones released a video of Mitt Romney , the Republican presidential candidate, at a fund-raiser in May calling 47 percent of the public dependent on government and feeling like victims entitled to help, millions of old and new readers...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Mickey Corsi holds a sign as he protests outside the hotel hosting a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Dallas. Photo: AP Mitt Romney is standing by the declaration he made at a fundraiser that his job was not to care...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Republicans and Democrats argued bitterly Tuesday over Mitt Romney's assertion that nearly half of all Americans will vote for President Barack Obama no matter what because of their reliance on government. Democrats gleefully pounced on the statement,...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
Following the release of a video from one of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's fundraisers, some commentators question his campaign strategy, while others defend him.
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The independent
| 8 months ago
The Mitt Romney campaign was suffering an acute bout of electoral vertigo yesterday after the leaking of a video showing the candidate disdaining almost half the country as lay-about loafers he cannot "worry about" and writing off the search for...
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Telegraph India
| 8 months ago
Leaked video on barbs at less fortunate represents Republican's darkest hour' K.P. Washington, Sept. 18: Barack Obama may have hit the jackpot in his re-election campaign with the release of a secretly taped video of his Republican rival Mitt Romney...
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Truthdig
| 8 months ago
A 49-minute unedited version of the secret videotaped footage of Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser in May has been released. Excerpts of the video, which feature Romney writing off nearly half of the electorate and also making denigrating remarks...
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Boston Globe
| 8 months ago
In a Fox News interview Tuesday, Mitt Romney stuck by his earlier position on his controversial remarks about 47 percent of the US population being dependent on government. He refused to back down amid criticism that he has disparaged nearly half of...
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Leader Post Online
| 8 months ago
Another day, another disaster for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign this time over an undercover video that shows him deriding Barack Obama voters as government freeloaders and lifelong victims. While the four-month-old remarks aren't likely to...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
The grandson of former president Jimmy Carter told NBC News Tuesday he played a role in leaking to Mother Jones magazine the controversial video of Mitt Romney speaking at a Boca Raton fundraiser. Crime Watch On Wednesday, the Miami-Dade Criminal...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
Wrapping up a report for Tuesday's NBC Today about the hidden camera video of Mitt Romney speaking at a fundraiser, national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff laughably proclaimed: "The source who made the secret video insisted to NBC News...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Eyder Peralta There is a partisan side to the video that is giving Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney headaches. The man who found the video online and then negotiated its full release was James Carter IV, President Jimmy Carter's grandson.
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Midway through a routine Internet search, James Carter IV stumbled upon a video that just didn't seem right. The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and a self-fashioned Democratic opposition researcher, the younger Carter had watched countless...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Welcome to modern politics, where anything you say can and will be posted to YouTube. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney learned that hard lesson firsthand on Monday when David Corn of Mother Jones magazine posted video footage of the Republican...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter says he persuaded the source who secretly taped Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a fundraiser to release the full video to the media. James Carter IV says he was intrigued after seeing what...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
September 18, 2012 September 18, 2012 The liberal magazine Mother Jones has released video clips of Mitt Romney making controversial remarks to a group of donors. The Romney campaign is scrambling to address the political fallout.
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Mitt Romney suggested 47% of Americans were government-dependent 'victims' who did not pay taxes. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign is in turmoil after he was secretly recorded suggesting that 47% of...
