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On the flipside, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post supported Romney today with the headline The Truth Hurts.

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Buzzfeed notes that the Romney campaign has yanked the interview from their official YouTube channel.

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“Mitt Romney’s attack on the moral character of disabled veterans, elderly and disabled Social Security recipients, and hard-working Americans in low-wage jobs because they do not pay income taxes is especially galling given the great energy he has put into evading income taxes on his very high income. Many of those whom Mr. Romney impugns pay a significant portion of …

“The people who receive the disproportionate share of government spending are not big-government lovers. They are Republicans. They are senior citizens. They are white men with high school degrees. As Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution has noted, the people who have benefited from the entitlements explosion are middle-class workers, more so than the dependent poor. Romney’s comments also reveal …

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Romney says what he said “wasn’t elegantly stated” but he stands by his remarks that 47% of Americans are moochers who expect free food and housing. Cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC are saying this latest debacle might be “the pivotal moment” that loses the election. At this writing Fox News has not mentioned the story.

Stupid Democrats believe they have a right to food and a place to live. Let them starve and live on the streets!

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment …

The United Nations has called for a special tax on the world’s billionaires, saying that such a fund could provide as much as $400B a year for impoverished countries. An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions proposed in a UN …

New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board will vote today on how much to allow rents to increase for the city’s one million rent-stabilized apartments. Advocates for the poor are calling for a rent freeze. The city’s escalating rents are eating away at as much as one-half of low-income New Yorkers’ paychecks, a new study has found. Low-income tenants now fork …

The Vatican hates them leftist nuns!

“Wouldn’t it be interesting to do a study between those that are on welfare and see how much and how often they read the Bible. You know, if Booker T. Washington is right that Christianity and reading the Bible increases your desires and therefore your ability for hard work; if we take that as an axiom, does that mean that …

“At the end of the day, we don’t think gay Americans should have to rely on a benevolent corporation or government to provide a plan that meets their needs. We want a system where individuals and couples can make their own health-care decisions. Health-care needs are too important to be left to the discriminatory whims of a third party. When …