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Jun 18, 2012

A 33 Page Form To Change Your Address?

The idiotic campaign non-news of today is that Mitt Romney has never heard of WaWa stores. This apparently, makes him “out of touch.” No it doesn’t. Then he was struck by those amazing gizmos where you touch a few buttons on a screen and you get a Hoagie. That doesn’t make him out of touch either. Technology is a marvel. When my gym recently added fingerprint i.d. for everything from a massage, a sweatshirt or a smoothie, I was impressed too. I’m just not sure about that second hand story Romney told about it taking a businessman filling out a federal government form to change his address. He says he had to fill out 33 pages, then had to fill them out again. It wasn’t just a change of address form (that couldn’t be simpler); it had something to do with federal reimbursement for optometrists. Is it true? Could a reporter find the optometrist and check it out?

More to the point, it seems quite clear to me that MSNBC aired an edited version that removed Romney’s core point about public vs private service and competition. The full version is here. It’s a good point, if, as always with Romney, an eternal platitude rather than a concrete proposal or argument.

via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/a-33-page-form-to-change-your-address.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29

Jun 18, 2012

Seth Godin does very well indeed on Kickstarter

Marketing guru and fab writer Seth Godin recommends Kickstarter for the similarly situated, having just raised over $120K on it in less than a day.

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Jun 18, 2012

1950s locker room prank sparked 2012 shootingÂ

From the moment 73-year-old Carl Ericsson rang his old high school classmate’s doorbell in January, verified the man’s identity and then shot him dead, the question had been what prompted him to confront a man he hadn’t even spoken to in years.

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Jun 18, 2012

â€˜Lifeâ€™s a Trippâ€™: Bristol Palin, drawn like a moth to the fame

As you might assume, being Bristol Palin means a life of continued anguish and suffering. In her somnolent Lifetime reality show, â€œBristol Palin: Lifeâ€™s a Tripp,â€ which premieres Tuesday night, we keep hearing about the painful glare of media attention that snapped on nearly four years ago when her Âvalues-preaching mother, Sarah Palin, ran for vice president on the Republican ticket just at the time a teenage Bristol was pregnant with a son. That glare never ended, mostly because Bristol keeps reaching to turn the switch back on.

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Jun 18, 2012

MSNBC Misrepresents Romney Speech, Invents Wawa ‘Gaffe’

Today MSNBC aired footage of Mitt Romney marveling at the Wawa hoagie-ordering process during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, saying, “You press a little touchtone keypad â€” you touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier â€” thereâ€™s your sandwich. Itâ€™s amazing.” He’s so corny and out of touch! Except, the full three-minute clip shows that Romney was actually describing his Wawa outing as part of a metaphor about government bureaucracy. The guy may be rich, but he’s ordered a sandwich before.

The gaffe has been gaining traction today, with “Wawa” trending on Twitter and Matt Bevens, a surrogate press coordinator for the Obama campaign, remarking, “So out of touch he’s never used a gas station touchscreen.” Yet, in context, Romney was contrasting the simplicity of ordering a sandwich at Wawa with the difficulty a local optometrist had changing his address on government forms. He concluded, “People in the private sector have learned how to compete. It’s time to bring some competition to the federal government.”

On her show today Andrea Mitchell dubbed the incident Romney’s “super market scanner moment.” She’s more accurate than she realized. In 1992 George H.W. Bush was painted as out of touch after it was reported that he was “amazed” by the device at a National Grocers Association convention. He actually wasn’t looking at the standard scanner found in most grocery stores at the time, but new technology that could weigh food and read torn bar codes.

Wawa-gate is a textbook “Out-of-Context Gaffe,” plus, even without the edited footage there was enough material for a story on Romney’s awkward attempt to embrace Pennsylvania’s local cuisine. He repeatedly referred to the chain as “Wawa’s,” not “Wawa,” and used the (unimpressive) touchscreen to order a meatball hero with pickles and sweet peppers rather than a classic hoagie.

Rightbloggers: Obama’s Immigration Order is Tyranny, and the White House Heckler’s a Hero

Last week President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to pass the DREAM Act, sort of enacted DREAM Lite himself, temporarily allowing young illegal immigrants who’d come here as kids off the deport

via Runnin' Scared http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/rightbloggers_o_17.php

Jun 18, 2012

CondÃ© Nast declares war on Carine Roitfeldâ€™s new magazine

Itâ€™s war between CondÃ© Nast and former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. Sources say CondÃ©â€™s International chairman Jonathan Newhouse has been ordering photographers…

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Jun 18, 2012

‘The Killing’s’ Rosie Larsen Killer on Keeping TV’s Biggest Secret (Q&A)

After two seasons of questions, the AMC drama finally answered the biggest one of all Sunday night, and the actor whose character committed the crime opens up to THR after the big reveal.