When Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP this week, he sought to convince them that, unlike President Obama, he feels their pain.
But you know how those people—the college kids, the baby sitters, the nail ladies ... everybody who's got the right to vote—are.
They just don't get it.
They don't understand how the system works; how someone can be the president, CEO, chairman and sole owner of a company, and get paid by said company, but have no involvement with or responsibility for that company.
I could tell you more, but then I'd have to use my Men In Black flashlight to erase your memory.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ); Roundtable: Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform), NAACP President Ben Jealous, GOP Strategist Mike Murphy, Democratic Strategist Hilary Rosen and Bob Woodward (Washington Post).
Face the Nation: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Obama Campaign Deputy Manager Stephanie Cutter; Romney Campaign Senior Adviser Kevin Madden; Economy Roundtable: Mark Zandi (Moody's Analytics), Rana Foroohar (TIME), John Fund (The American Spectator) and Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Politics Roundtable: Frank Rich (New York Magazine), Michael Gerson (Washington Post), Norah O'Donnell (CBS News) and John Dickerson (CBS News).
This Week: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D); Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH); Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Democratic Strategist James Carville, Republican Strategist Mary Matalin, Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile and Republican Strategist Matthew Dowd.
Fox News Sunday: Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R); Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R); Republican Strategist Karl Rove; Democratic Strategist Joe Trippi; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Jeff Zeleny (New York Times), Fred Barnes (Weekly Standard) and Juan Wiliams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Virginia Gov. Bob. McDonnell (R); Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D); Romney Campaign Senior Adviser Ed Gillespie; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack; Reliable Sources: Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune); Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post); Erin McPike (RealClearPolitics); Andrew Tyndall (Tyndal Report); Paul Friedman (Quinnipiac); Sarah Lacy (PandoDaily.com); Columbia University Professor Sree Sreenivasan.
The Chris Matthews Show: Michael Duffy (TIME); Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC); Howard Fineman (Huffington Post); Kasie Hunt (AP).
Up with Chris Hayes: Former Partner at Bain Capital Edward Conard; Occupy Wall Street Activist Alexis Goldstein; University of Missouri-Kansas City Professor William Black; Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (Latino Decisions); Dedrick Muhammad (NAACP); Russian News Host Alyona Minkovski; Yale University Professor Stephen Carter.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Steve Jobs' biographer, Walter Isaacson (preview); and, a report on special applications for tablet computers that help autistics communicate (preview).
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were off this week—as is usually the case when there's a big story—so there are no new videos to share.
Instead, here's Jon's appraisal of Mitt Romney's business experience.
The Daily Show
Monday: Comedian Louis C.K.
Tuesday: NFL Player Victor Cruz
Wednesday: Actress Sigourney Weaver
Thursday: TBA
And Stephen's killer attack ad that ran prior to the Florida GOP primary, which pales in comparison to the attack ad unveiled today by the Obama campaign.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Writer Anne-Marie Slaughter
Tuesday: Rapper Nas
Wednesday: Houston, TX Mayor Annise D. Parker (D)
Thursday: Author James Fallows
Elsewhere...
Cracked investigators caught Fox News' resident relationship expert plagiarizing her latest advice column from a children's article.
While I'm on the subject of Amber Milt's tragic shittiness, I Googled "poking a gummy worm into an apple." To me, the entire idea seemed to violate physics as we know them. I found this article: "7 Kid Pranks to Play on Random Victims." It has the exact same prank, and as you can imagine, the trick is to cut a hole in the apple first. That seems like a weird step to leave out from the woman who earlier gave us the tip on how it's easier to read objects when they exist in our field of vision.
Funny enough, the article that Amber also clearly Googled included other fun pranks like GLUING A COIN TO THE FLOOR, PUTTING TAPE OVER APPLIANCES TO RENDER THEM USELESS and DROPPING FOOD COLORING INTO DRINKS. So let me make this as clear as I can:
FoxNews.com's style and beauty editor Amber Milt found an article for children, stole it, and presented it to Fox News readers as erotic material.
Meanwhile...
Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera is claiming vindication regarding his boneheaded comments in the wake of Trayvon Martin's murder.
"I was right about the hoodie wasn't I? I hate to brag, but I got criticized by every pundit in America when I said Trayvon Martin would be alive today but for the fact that he was wearing thug wear – he was wearing the hoodie. Turns out now that we look at George Zimmerman's interviews with the police; he didn't profile Trayvon Martin because he was black, he profiled him because he was wearing a hoodie."
And, speaking of boneheaded comments...
Last week, Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) provoked outrage when he compared the IRS to the Nazi Gestapo. This week, in his second attempt to apologize, the governor ended up doubling down on the incendiary rhetoric.
HEINTZ: Do you have a sense of what the Gestapo actually did during World War II?
LEPAGE: Yeah. They killed a lot of people.
HEINTZ: So the IRS is headed in that direction? They’re headed in the direction of killing a lot of people?
LEPAGE: Yeah.
HEINTZ: Wait, are you serious?
Perhaps his third try at an apology will be the charm.
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- Trix