Colbert SuperPAC: If Corporations are people, then Mitt Romney is a serial killer

[Dr. Love]

hahahahahahaha


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay0UAeUmrWQ

[Dr. Love]

The Super PAC's release is below:
Dear Super Pac Super People,

Hi again, it’s me, Jon. When I took over this Super PAC, I had no idea there’d be so much email-writing. Also, there are a lot of plants around Super PAC office with extremely specific watering schedules. Seriously, does a Northwood Spotted Fern really need to be watered "thrice fortnightly at dusk"?

Anyway, The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC made an ad, and I figured you’d want to know. I’ve attached the press release below, so hopefully your mouse’s scroll-wheel isn’t broken.

Sincerely,

Jon Stewart
President For Life For Now
The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC Releases First Ad, Begins To Regret Length Of Name

AMERICA – The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC released its first TV ad today, in advance of South Carolina's upcoming unnamed GOP Primary. The ad, which takes an objective look at Mitt Romney's private sector experience, is entitled "Attack In B Minor For Strings."

"Mitt Romney claims to be pro-corporations," said Jon Stewart, President of The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC. "But would you let him date your daughter's corporation? Americans have been clamoring for a comprehensive study of this crucial issue, so we splurged for the full sixty-second commercial. We think South Carolinians will agree – they deserve a leader who shares their state's values, and perhaps even their state's initials."

The new spot begins airing today in a major ad buy that will blanket South Carolina from Charleston all the way to North Charleston. Those of you with some free AOL hours left can view the ad here.
The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC, officially known as Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, is an independent, expenditure-only committee that's been proudly serving the community since late Thursday.

oh god it's so good

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I watch both shows every night, but I really don't agree with how this is playing out....

I think they should keep the satire separate from the primaries themselves....

Although when you think about it, Colbert's probably getting more press than Perry is....

[Dr. Love]

I think the point of it is to underscore how easy it is to jack with elections now and get away with it.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I was gonna make a Huntsman joke, but MSNBC is reporting now that he's getting ready to withdraw...

[FORD]

I watch both shows every night, but I really don't agree with how this is playing out....

I think they should keep the satire separate from the primaries themselves....

Although when you think about it, Colbert's probably getting more press than Perry is....

And he'll probably get more votes than Perry too. :biggrin:

[FORD]

I was gonna make a Huntsman joke, but MSNBC is reporting now that he's getting ready to withdraw...

No surprise there. He put all his hopes on New Hampshire, and it didn't work out. He's got no chance even getting third with the fundagelical Bob Jones wackjobs in South Carolina.

Pretty sad when sanity becomes a liability for a political candidate.

[fifth element]

Pretty sad when sanity becomes a liability for a political candidate.


well said

[Little Texan]

Huntsman is dropping out of the race, and they said on the news he is going to endorse Mitt Romney. I know...real shocker...a mormon endorsing a fellow mormon for the Repuke nomination.

[ELVIS]

Drugs are bad, m'kay...

[FORD]

Mormons don't even have the drug excuse. Maybe that's the problem?

Look at BecKKK..... he was slightly LESS insane ON drugs. :biggrin:

[Va Beach VH Fan]

They're really doing a great job....

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[Seshmeister]

I was gonna make a Huntsman joke, but MSNBC is reporting now that he's getting ready to withdraw...

He's converted to Catholicism? :)

[SunisinuS]

What shows our state of Democracy today: Congress and the suckpreme court spend all their time and energy creating a way to make it legal for Corporations to spend unlimited money in secret (not coordinating mind you), so they can control the government and it's discourse.

Then with the left hand sponsor SOPA so ordinary citizens cannot even talk freely amongst themselves, and of course back it up with Jail time if they do so.

What a time to be alive in the U.S.! Whoo Hoo!!!!!!!!

:heyfu:

[SunisinuS]

Romney Parks Millions in Cayman Islands

Couldn't American Bankers have had those Jobs Mr. Creator?


Although it is not apparent on his financial disclosure form, Mitt Romney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven.
A spokesperson for the Romney campaign says Romney follows all tax laws and he would pay the same in taxes regardless of where the funds are based.
As the race for the Republican nomination heats up, Mitt Romney is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain a shroud of secrecy around the details about his vast personal wealth, including, as ABC News has discovered, his investment in funds located offshore and his ability to pay a lower tax rate.
"His personal finances are a poster child of what's wrong with the American tax system," said Jack Blum, a Washington lawyer who is an authority on tax enforcement and offshore banking.
On Tuesday, Romney disclosed that he has been paying a far lower percentage in taxes than most Americans, around 15 percent of his annual earnings. It has been Romney's Republican rivals who have driven the tax issue onto center stage. For weeks, Romney has cited a desire for privacy as his reason for not sharing his tax returns -- a gesture of transparency that is now expected from presidential contenders.
"I can tell you we follow the tax laws," he said recently while on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. "And if there's an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will follow that opportunity."
But tax experts tell ABC News there are other reasons Romney may not want the public viewing his returns. As one of the wealthiest candidates to run for president in recent times, Romney has used a variety of techniques to help minimize the taxes on his estimated $250 million fortune. In addition to paying the lower tax rate on his investment income, Romney has as much as $8 million invested in at least 12 funds listed on a Cayman Islands registry. Another investment, which Romney reports as being worth between $5 million and $25 million, shows up on securities records as having been domiciled in the Caymans.
Official documents reviewed by ABC News show that Bain Capital, the private equity partnership Romney once ran, has set up some 138 secretive offshore funds in the Caymans.
Romney campaign officials and those at Bain Capital tell ABC News that the purpose of setting up those accounts in the Cayman Islands is to help attract money from foreign investors, and that the accounts provide no tax advantage to American investors like Romney. Romney, the campaign said, has paid all U.S. taxes on income derived from those investments.
"The tax consequences to the Romneys are the very same whether the fund is domiciled here or another country," a campaign official said in response to questions. "Gov. and Mrs. Romney have money invested in funds that the trustee has determined to be attractive investment opportunities, and those funds are domiciled wherever the fund sponsors happen to organize the funds."
Bain officials called the decision to locate some funds offshore routine, and a benefit only to foreign investors who do not want to be subjected to U.S. taxes.
Tax experts agree that Romney remains subject to American taxes. But they say the offshore accounts have provided him -- and Bain -- with other potential financial benefits, such as higher management fees and greater foreign interest, all at the expense of the U.S. Treasury. Rebecca J. Wilkins, a tax policy expert with Citizens for Tax Justice, said the federal government loses an estimated $100 billion a year because of tax havens.
Blum, the D.C. tax lawyer, said working through an offshore investment vehicle allows the investor to "avoid a whole series of small traps in the tax code that ordinary people would face if they paid tax on an onshore basis."
Wilkins agreed, saying the "primary advantage to setting those funds up in an offshore jurisdiction like the Cayman Islands or Bermuda is it helps the investors avoid tax."
"It helps U.S. investors avoid U.S. tax," said Wilkins, "it helps foreign investors avoid taxes in their home country, so it's not illegal or improper to set those funds up in a foreign jurisdiction, but it makes it more attractive to investors because it helps them avoid paying taxes on that income."


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[fifth element]

"I'm not a crook...no, really I'm not...everything REALLY is legal and aboveboard....
NO, no,no, you can't LOOK....isn't my word enough for you????!!!!!!!"


yep...sounds about par for the course.

[fifth element]

They're really doing a great job....

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Love it!!!...those 2 are awesome.

[LoungeMachine]

I watch both shows every night, but I really don't agree with how this is playing out....

I think they should keep the satire separate from the primaries themselves....

Although when you think about it, Colbert's probably getting more press than Perry is....


I couldn't agree more....

Although I watch TDS religiously, I really can't stand Colbert anymore.

At first when he was lampooning O'Reilly it was funny, but it wore thin quickly.

But this whole SuperPac schtick is stupid, although it cracks me up he got Cain involved.

:gulp:

But it's jumped an early shark....