Today on the Dish, in the wake of Mother Jones’ video bombshell, Andrew reflected on Romney’s views on 47% of the voters and wondered whether he just lost the election. Blogger reax here, tweet reax here, and reader thoughts here. Romney’s desperate TV response here.
Andrew also marveled at the GOP’s tax-cut non-logic, questioned Romney’s staff-blaming, called out Netanyahu’s election-meddling, remarked upon Europe’s views on Romney, noted that the Catholic heirarchy is now indistinguishable from the GOP, and hoped for sanity on marijuana decriminalization. Meanwhile, John Heilemann reported on Romney’s “very bad place” and Alex Altman rounded up the reboot stories. And as Derek Thompson graphed Romney’s middle class, Galupo wished Romney’s tax proposals were less detailed. Ezra Klein analyzed sequestration, Sasha Issenberg proposed ideas on turnout-boosting and Nate Cohn anticipated a momentous week ahead. In ad war news, the avalanche snowballed and Obama may have gotten an ad bump.
As Goldberg and others anti-Semite-slimed MoDo, David Gregory slipped up on Netanyahu and Eric Lewis asked why Israel should get a pass. Ayaan Hirsi Ali discussed democracy’s long game in the Middle East. Judith Matloff considered the language journalists use when writing about military violence and David Carr thumped Michael Lewis for granting quote approval.
In assorted commentary, Emil Johnson plotted the hobbit longevity spike, Andrew Tuck checked in on efforts to curb sprawl density and Tom Stafford warned about eBay psychology. Girls threw like girls, John Hodgman advised those with scanty upper-lip hair and black holes resembled dams. A Fox News prankster thought he was funny, Frank Portnoy advocated mandatory lunch, Ian Ayres encouraged prudent road-crossing and readers pushed back on the hookup culture debate. FOTD here, MHB here and VFYW here.
– G.G.
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