Last night, Jon Stewart covered the news about the secret Mitt Romney video at that fundraiser, and his hurried press conference to respond to it.



MITT ROMNEY (5/17/2012): There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, ... who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. C. MONTGOMERY BURNS: Release the hounds.

(wild audience cheering and applause)

Release the hounds, indeed.

Who are they? Who are these 47 percenters, the self-perceived victims who only want to suck from the teat of the bootstrap of the job creating... teat-having... boot-teat... just tell us who they are.



MITT ROMNEY (5/17/2012): These are people who pay no income tax. ... So my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Who are these 47 percenters? Well, let's examine it. It turns out of the 47% who pay no income taxes, nearly 2/3s of those do pay payroll taxes, meaning they workin', they just ain't workin' hard enough! You know, like a family of five making $50,000 dollars a year, aka, the amount of money it takes to see Mitt Romney shit on them in person. (audience cheering and applause)

And the other 40%, the true freeloaders... settle down. The other 40% of the 47%, the true freeloaders who pay no federal income tax or payroll tax are actually made up of those making less than $20,000 dollars a year, and many of the nation's elderly.

Mr. Romney knows them as personal responsibility shirking unconvincibles. You may know them as the greatest generation and/or Nana.

Of course, that says nothing about the real parasites, welfare queens. Public assistance is clearly a path to dependency, and I would like to see evidence otherwise.

Oh, you have some evidence, Mitt Romney's mom? Something about Mitt Romney's dad?



LENORE ROMNEY (1962): You know, we've only owned our home for the last four years. He was a refugee from Mexico. He was on relief — welfare relief — for the first years of his life, but this great country gave him opportunities.

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Let me give you a better example to illustrate the dichotomy between the message Mitt Romney is sending verbally, and the message he's sending visually. Ladies and gentlemen, I take you to a cruise ship somewhere in the North Atlantic.

"Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's me, your captain. I understand there's been some talk of ice on the starboard side of the ship that's attracted some attention."

"Anyway, I just want to take a moment to reassure everybody we have it under control. Obviously, we all look forward to reaching the other side of the ocean with everybody not in a watery grave."