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20:11:37 02/09/12
Carnival Sensation November 2009
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4 Night Cruise out of Port Canaveral - pretty nice short cruise
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23:34:11 02/02/12
Shiny Toy Guns - "You Are The One": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Shiny Toy Guns - "You Are The One": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Shiny Toy Guns is an alternative/electronic band which formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Carah Faye Charnow (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass), Daniel Johansson (guitar, synth, bass) and Mikey Martin (drums). Read More... Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson grew up in Oklahoma and were involved in previous music projects together, including the soundtrack for the videogame Grand Theft Auto III in 2000 and Cloud2ground. After relocating to Los Angeles, California in 2004, the two recruited vocalist Carah Faye Charnow and drummer Mikey Martin. Their debut album, We Are Pilots was originally released in January 2005, though versions of the album featuring different cover art and tracklisting would be released later the following year. Three singles were issued: "Le Disko", "You Are The One" and "Rainy Monday". We Are Pilots received a Grammy Award nomination on 6 December 2007 in the category of Best Electronic/Dance Album, but lost to The Chemical Brothers. The band's second studio album, Season of Poison, was released on 4th November 2008, with Sisely Treasure as vocalist. They have released two singles from their second album: "Ghost Town" and "Ricochet!". In 2009, Shiny Toy Guns released "Major Tom", a Peter Schilling cover. In 2011, Carah Faye Charnow returned to Shiny Toy Guns. In addition, Charnow's husband, Daniel Johannson also joined the band on guitar, synth and bass. In March 2011, the band ... From: sxsw Views: 444 18 ratings Time: 04:17 More in Entertainment
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23:34:11 02/02/12
Shiny Toy Guns - "You Are The One": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Shiny Toy Guns - "You Are The One": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Shiny Toy Guns is an alternative/electronic band which formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The band consists of Carah Faye Charnow (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass), Daniel Johansson (guitar, synth, bass) and Mikey Martin (drums). Read More... Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson grew up in Oklahoma and were involved in previous music projects together, including the soundtrack for the videogame Grand Theft Auto III in 2000 and Cloud2ground. After relocating to Los Angeles, California in 2004, the two recruited vocalist Carah Faye Charnow and drummer Mikey Martin. Their debut album, We Are Pilots was originally released in January 2005, though versions of the album featuring different cover art and tracklisting would be released later the following year. Three singles were issued: "Le Disko", "You Are The One" and "Rainy Monday". We Are Pilots received a Grammy Award nomination on 6 December 2007 in the category of Best Electronic/Dance Album, but lost to The Chemical Brothers. The band's second studio album, Season of Poison, was released on 4th November 2008, with Sisely Treasure as vocalist. They have released two singles from their second album: "Ghost Town" and "Ricochet!". In 2009, Shiny Toy Guns released "Major Tom", a Peter Schilling cover. In 2011, Carah Faye Charnow returned to Shiny Toy Guns. In addition, Charnow's husband, Daniel Johannson also joined the band on guitar, synth and bass. In March 2011, the band ... From: sxsw Views: 399 17 ratings Time: 04:17 More in Entertainment
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18:42:34 01/31/12
Dominique Fricot
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Dominique Fricot played solo for the first time at the Streaming Cafe back in December 2011 (He first played back in November 2009 with a three piece called "The Painted Birds"). Bursting at the seams with charm and charisma, Dominique gave a high energy and captivating performance. In this podcast he plays the song "Burn And Start Over" and with the help of a mysterious bus rider in a cowboy hat, draws the correlation between music and cheese. …You learn something every day!
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07:00:00 01/27/12
Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - January 25, 2012
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The Market cheered the news that the Fed planned to keep interest rates low through late 2014 and that better-than-expected earnings and guidance was reported from the likes of Apple, IBM, and Microsoft. Investors injected $7.7 billion into equity funds (including ETFs), $6.2 billion into fixed income funds (the largest weekly inflows since November 2009), and $0.5 billion into tax-exempt bond funds for the week ended January 25, 2012. However, money market fund outflows of $19.2 billion overwhelmed the inflows of the other macro-groups, leaving investors net redeemers of fund assets to the tune of $4.8 billion. Equity ETFs accounted for $6.6 billion of the net new money for the week, while open-end equity funds (+$1.1 billion) experienced their third consecutive week of inflows, with the four-week moving average returning to the black (+$0.3 billion) for the first week since September 7, 2011--a signal that investor interest in equity funds is gaining momentum.
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21:06:29 01/20/12
The Parlotones - "Should We Fight Back": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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The Parlotones - "Should We Fight Back": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
In the last 12 months The Parlotones have: - released the platinum selling "Stardust Galaxies" which won Best Rock Album at the 2010 SAMA's - released the platinum selling, live recording of their show at The Coco Cola Dome -- "Live Design" - performed at the Opening World Cup Concert to a billion viewers - completed a 70 city world tour and entered 3 Billboard charts in the USA - launched a Carbon Free Campaign Free Campaign, with The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC3), to reforest areas in South Africa with indigenous trees. ("Stars Fall Down" is the official soundtrack of the drive and the music video is the visual embodiment of the campaign). In their home country, South Africa, the band's profile is such that they were chosen to play the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, Africa Day and at Live Earth. Their innovative, big-production music videos have been nominated for MTV awards. In November 2009, fans packed the Dome in Johannesburg and helped the Parlotones make history (first time a South African band headlined this venue) - the CD/DVD "Live Design" documenting the event, bears testimony to this. Their success is not limited to their music alone -- the band have their own brands of wine 'Giant Mistake' and 'Push me the Floor' which has earned the band a no.1 spots in the Sunday Times wine list and distribution through major European retailers. (The third variant "We Call This Dancing" has just been released). Their music has also been made available in ... From: sxsw Views: 122 6 ratings Time: 03:18 More in Music
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21:06:29 01/20/12
The Parlotones - "Should We Fight Back": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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The Parlotones - "Should We Fight Back": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
In the last 12 months The Parlotones have: - released the platinum selling "Stardust Galaxies" which won Best Rock Album at the 2010 SAMA's - released the platinum selling, live recording of their show at The Coco Cola Dome -- "Live Design" - performed at the Opening World Cup Concert to a billion viewers - completed a 70 city world tour and entered 3 Billboard charts in the USA - launched a Carbon Free Campaign Free Campaign, with The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC3), to reforest areas in South Africa with indigenous trees. ("Stars Fall Down" is the official soundtrack of the drive and the music video is the visual embodiment of the campaign). In their home country, South Africa, the band's profile is such that they were chosen to play the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, Africa Day and at Live Earth. Their innovative, big-production music videos have been nominated for MTV awards. In November 2009, fans packed the Dome in Johannesburg and helped the Parlotones make history (first time a South African band headlined this venue) - the CD/DVD "Live Design" documenting the event, bears testimony to this. Their success is not limited to their music alone -- the band have their own brands of wine 'Giant Mistake' and 'Push me the Floor' which has earned the band a no.1 spots in the Sunday Times wine list and distribution through major European retailers. (The third variant "We Call This Dancing" has just been released). Their music has also been made available in ... From: sxsw Views: 122 6 ratings Time: 03:18 More in Music
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16:24:12 01/20/12
The Black And White Years - "Cold": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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The Black And White Years - "Cold": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
The band was discovered at SXSW in 2007 by Talking Head and Modern Lover, Jerry Harrison. Harrison offered to produce the band\'s debut LP at his studio in Sausalito, CA and it was released in 2008 on Brando/Rocket Science. The LP spawned the single "Power to Change\" and it received national attention via modern rock and college stations reaching #1 on Albany\'s WEQX and #5 on Austin\'s 101X with full time adds on CD101, Indie103 and Portland\'s KNRK. \"Power to Change\" was awarded Song of the Year at the 2009 Austin Chronicle Music Awards. The band received a total of five honors including Best New Band, Best Bassist, Best Producer (Jerry Harrison) and Best Rock Band. Since then, they have played festivals such as CMJ Music Festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin City Limits Music Festival, MIDEM and Wireless Festival in London. They self-released Patterns, the follow up to their Jerry Harrison produced debut, on November 16, 2010. In 2010 their song \"To Modern Science\" was used in Tap Tap Revenge 3 and a notable hoax featuring a fake commercial for the next generation of Apple\'s iPhone; the fake ad accumulated over a million views across the Internet. In 2011, the band embarked on their first national headlining tour that included stops at the inaugural Neon Desert Festival and Utopia Festival. The band began writing new material for their third LP in late 2011 and hope for it to be released in Summer 2012 From: sxsw Views: 95 6 ratings Time: 02:38 More in Music
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16:24:12 01/20/12
The Black And White Years - "Cold": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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The Black And White Years - "Cold": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
The band was discovered at SXSW in 2007 by Talking Head and Modern Lover, Jerry Harrison. Harrison offered to produce the band\'s debut LP at his studio in Sausalito, CA and it was released in 2008 on Brando/Rocket Science. The LP spawned the single "Power to Change\" and it received national attention via modern rock and college stations reaching #1 on Albany\'s WEQX and #5 on Austin\'s 101X with full time adds on CD101, Indie103 and Portland\'s KNRK. \"Power to Change\" was awarded Song of the Year at the 2009 Austin Chronicle Music Awards. The band received a total of five honors including Best New Band, Best Bassist, Best Producer (Jerry Harrison) and Best Rock Band. Since then, they have played festivals such as CMJ Music Festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin City Limits Music Festival, MIDEM and Wireless Festival in London. They self-released Patterns, the follow up to their Jerry Harrison produced debut, on November 16, 2010. In 2010 their song \"To Modern Science\" was used in Tap Tap Revenge 3 and a notable hoax featuring a fake commercial for the next generation of Apple\'s iPhone; the fake ad accumulated over a million views across the Internet. In 2011, the band embarked on their first national headlining tour that included stops at the inaugural Neon Desert Festival and Utopia Festival. The band began writing new material for their third LP in late 2011 and hope for it to be released in Summer 2012 From: sxsw Views: 95 6 ratings Time: 02:38 More in Music
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16:59:19 01/17/12
Tiago Iorc - "Story Of A Man": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Tiago Iorc - "Story Of A Man": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Tiago Iorc (pronounced / ee-ork / born November 28, 1985) is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter and recording artist. In 2007, his unpretentious debut acoustic single 'Nothing But a Song' reached a nation-wide audience as it was featured on a popular Brazilian soap opera. The attention toward his voice and music got him his first record deal with local record label SLAP and led to the release of his debut album Let Yourself In in 2008. In 2009, a special edition of his album was released in Japan by JVC Records and 'Nothing But a Song' peaked at number 11 on Billboard's Japan HOT 100 Chart. In 2010, his album was released both in the Philippines by Universal Records and in South Korea by Kang%Music where his song 'Fine' gained public attention after being featured on a popular South Korean drama series. This led up to a brief promotional Tour in Seoul where the public granted him a Best Foreign Artist Award for his performance at the 2010 Grand Mint Festival. Shortly after this, Tiago started writing songs for his second studio album entitled Umbilical %mdash scheduled for release late October 2011 %mdash which had New York-based Andy Chase as producer. Early life in the UK and US and first approach to music As a son of an agricultural researcher, Tiago got used to growing up in different places as his family traveled around due to his father's studies. When Tiago was just a few months old, his family moved to Cambridge, England, and Britain became his home for the first years ... From: sxsw Views: 64 6 ratings Time: 04:09 More in Music
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16:59:19 01/17/12
Tiago Iorc - "Story Of A Man": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Tiago Iorc - "Story Of A Man": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Tiago Iorc (pronounced / ee-ork / born November 28, 1985) is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter and recording artist. In 2007, his unpretentious debut acoustic single 'Nothing But a Song' reached a nation-wide audience as it was featured on a popular Brazilian soap opera. The attention toward his voice and music got him his first record deal with local record label SLAP and led to the release of his debut album Let Yourself In in 2008. In 2009, a special edition of his album was released in Japan by JVC Records and 'Nothing But a Song' peaked at number 11 on Billboard's Japan HOT 100 Chart. In 2010, his album was released both in the Philippines by Universal Records and in South Korea by Kang%Music where his song 'Fine' gained public attention after being featured on a popular South Korean drama series. This led up to a brief promotional Tour in Seoul where the public granted him a Best Foreign Artist Award for his performance at the 2010 Grand Mint Festival. Shortly after this, Tiago started writing songs for his second studio album entitled Umbilical %mdash scheduled for release late October 2011 %mdash which had New York-based Andy Chase as producer. Early life in the UK and US and first approach to music As a son of an agricultural researcher, Tiago got used to growing up in different places as his family traveled around due to his father's studies. When Tiago was just a few months old, his family moved to Cambridge, England, and Britain became his home for the first years ... From: sxsw Views: 64 6 ratings Time: 04:09 More in Music
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16:50:43 01/17/12
Marit Larsen - "Coming Home": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Marit Larsen - "Coming Home": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Marit Larsen is about to release her third solo album, Spark. Here is the story of her continuing success in Norway and Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Larsen has released two previous solo albums, Under the Surface (2006) and The Chase (2008). In GSA she released an album combining the two, entitled If A Song Could Get Me You (2009), which is also the title of her biggest hit thus far. The first single off the new album, "Coming Home", was written by Marit Larsen and produced by K%aringre Vestrheim. The album, like her two precious ones, was recorded at Propeller Music Division in Oslo, Norway. "Our collaboration has been better than ever. K%aringre is incredibly good at challenging me." Larsen has written all the songs on the album herself, with "I Can't Love You Anymore" co-written with the artist Teitur and "Have You Ever" and "Don't Move" co-written with Peter Zizzo. Larsen explains that the album title, Spark, "refers to the tiny moments in our lives that change everything: the first spark of something new -- be it a new beginning or the beginning of an end." The album will be released in Norway on the 18th of November and in Germany on the 16th of December. Marit Larsen will tour Norway in January and February 2012 and in Germany, Switzerland and Austria later in 2012. From: sxsw Views: 85 3 ratings Time: 04:04 More in Music
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16:50:43 01/17/12
Marit Larsen - "Coming Home": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Marit Larsen - "Coming Home": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Marit Larsen is about to release her third solo album, Spark. Here is the story of her continuing success in Norway and Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Larsen has released two previous solo albums, Under the Surface (2006) and The Chase (2008). In GSA she released an album combining the two, entitled If A Song Could Get Me You (2009), which is also the title of her biggest hit thus far. The first single off the new album, "Coming Home", was written by Marit Larsen and produced by K%aringre Vestrheim. The album, like her two precious ones, was recorded at Propeller Music Division in Oslo, Norway. "Our collaboration has been better than ever. K%aringre is incredibly good at challenging me." Larsen has written all the songs on the album herself, with "I Can't Love You Anymore" co-written with the artist Teitur and "Have You Ever" and "Don't Move" co-written with Peter Zizzo. Larsen explains that the album title, Spark, "refers to the tiny moments in our lives that change everything: the first spark of something new -- be it a new beginning or the beginning of an end." The album will be released in Norway on the 18th of November and in Germany on the 16th of December. Marit Larsen will tour Norway in January and February 2012 and in Germany, Switzerland and Austria later in 2012. From: sxsw Views: 85 3 ratings Time: 04:04 More in Music
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17:31:08 01/13/12
Heather Locklear Hospitalized
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Heather Locklear Hospitalized
The Melrose Place star was rushed to the hospital after reportedly abusing a dangerous combination of drugs and alcohol. HEATHER LOCKLEAR GAVE US QUITE A SCARE! THE MELROSE PLACE STAR WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER 911 RECEIVED A CALL FROM HER SISTER THE BLONDE BEAUTY REPORTEDLY TOOK A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE LOS ROBLES HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER DECLINED TO DISCLOSE ANY MEDICAL INFO BUT DID SAY SHE ARRIVED AWAKE AND RESPONSIVE. ADDING, "The actress arrived at 2:30 pm and by 8 pm was sleeping." HEATHER'S PARENTS, BILL AND DIANE LOCKLEAR ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING, ""She is in no danger and she's going to be just fine". ON TUESDAY, WE CAUGHT THE ACTRESS LOOKING CASUAL AND RELAXED WHILE TAKING IN A LAKERS GAME COURTSIDE. NOW, THIS ISN'T HEATHER'S 1ST TIME DOWN THIS ROAD...IN 2009, SHE WAS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. IN NOVEMBER SHE MADE HEADLINES AGAIN WHEN SHE AND JACK WAGNER CALLED OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT. LET'S HOPE HEATHER GETS BACK TO HER HEALTHY, BEAUTIFUL SELF. From: CelebTV Views: 543 7 ratings Time: 00:56 More in Entertainment
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17:31:08 01/13/12
Heather Locklear Hospitalized
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Heather Locklear Hospitalized
The Melrose Place star was rushed to the hospital after reportedly abusing a dangerous combination of drugs and alcohol. HEATHER LOCKLEAR GAVE US QUITE A SCARE! THE MELROSE PLACE STAR WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER 911 RECEIVED A CALL FROM HER SISTER THE BLONDE BEAUTY REPORTEDLY TOOK A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE LOS ROBLES HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER DECLINED TO DISCLOSE ANY MEDICAL INFO BUT DID SAY SHE ARRIVED AWAKE AND RESPONSIVE. ADDING, "The actress arrived at 2:30 pm and by 8 pm was sleeping." HEATHER'S PARENTS, BILL AND DIANE LOCKLEAR ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING, ""She is in no danger and she's going to be just fine". ON TUESDAY, WE CAUGHT THE ACTRESS LOOKING CASUAL AND RELAXED WHILE TAKING IN A LAKERS GAME COURTSIDE. NOW, THIS ISN'T HEATHER'S 1ST TIME DOWN THIS ROAD...IN 2009, SHE WAS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. IN NOVEMBER SHE MADE HEADLINES AGAIN WHEN SHE AND JACK WAGNER CALLED OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT. LET'S HOPE HEATHER GETS BACK TO HER HEALTHY, BEAUTIFUL SELF. From: CelebTV Views: 543 7 ratings Time: 00:56 More in Entertainment
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16:00:56 12/29/11
Mitt Romney's Big Promises - and Bigger Lies
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In the election of 1928, the Republican Party of Herbert Hoover promised voters "a chicken in every pot and a car in every backyard." (We all know how that turned out.) Now, Mitt Romney is pledging that "If I'm President" every college graduate will be guaranteed a job, Iran will have no nuclear weapons and the United States will dominate the 21st century. And when Romney isn't making fantastic promises about what he'll do when he gets to the White House, he's slandering the current occupant , Barack Obama.
"I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes"
Governor Romney's guarantees start with Iran and its nuclear program . In a November 10, 2011 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Romney pledged, " I won't let Iran get nukes ." Or as he put it 10 days earlier during a GOP national security debate : >
"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If you elect me as president, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."
As to how he'll ensure that outcome, Romney explained that "If you want peace, prepare for war." And despite occasionally acknowledging the complexity of a strike against Iran and even the questionable possibility of success, Romney told the Wall Street Journal this weekend how he would get it done: >
So what would he do about it? "I do not have a top secret security clearance at this stage to be able to define precisely what kinds of actions we could take." But he adds that "the range includes something of a blockade nature, to something of a surgical strike nature, to something of a decapitate the regime nature, to eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether."
No U.S. Decline in Romney's "American Century"
Romney's promise to "eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether" is just part of his larger assurance that the 21st century will be another " American Century ." Pretending that the rise of India, China and Brazil doesn't inevitably entail the relative loss of U.S. power and influence, Romney announced in his October address at The Citadel : >
"This century must be an American Century. In an American Century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. In an American Century, America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world...As President of the United States, I will devote myself to an American Century. And I will never, ever apologize for America."
Not content to rest there, Romney accused President Obama of "waving the white flag of surrender": >
"An eloquently justified surrender of world leadership is still surrender. >
I will not surrender America's role in the world. This is very simple: If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your President. >
You have that President today."
Two months later, Mitt Romney repackaged his promise and his slander at the December 15 Republican debate in Sioux City, Iowa: >
"Our president thinks America is in decline. It is if he's president. It's not if I'm president. This is going to be an American century."
As for Romney's charge that President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America," the Washington Post Fact Checker deemed it a Four-Pinocchio lie .
A Job for Every College Graduate
At an event in New Hampshire last week, Governor Romney's pandering went from the sublime to the ridiculous. There, Mitt pledged President Romney would deliver full-employment for all American college graduates: >
"What I can promise you is this -- when you get out of college, if I'm president you'll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job. That's the reason I will hopefully get young people who are in college is to say, You know what, I understand what it takes to get jobs in America."
As the record shows , not so much. After all, as the Los Angeles Times recently documented, Romney's "Bain Capital often maximized profits in part by firing workers." That's why FactCheck.org , the Washington Post Fact Checker and Fortune all refused to vouch for Romney's claim that "In those hundreds of businesses we invested in, tens of thousands of jobs net-net were created."
Obama "Has Not Created Any New Jobs"
If Mitt Romney can't prove his boasts about his own job creation record, neither can he justify his blatant lie about President Obama's : >
"25 million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I'll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs." >
"I'll compare that record with his record, where he has not created any new jobs."
Sadly for Mitt Romney, the Bush recession began in December 2007. As ThinkProgress rightly noted, "The private sector has added 2.3 million new jobs since March 2010, and it took the Obama economy one year to create more jobs than the economy under President Bush did in eight." As The Economist explained earlier, the recession was not at its deepest just as Barack Obama was entering office, but far worse than official statistics revealed at the time. Romney might also want to check with former McCain economic adviser Mark Zandi as well as the non-partisan CBO , who concluded that the Obama stimulus program "added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011."
Obama's Debt Exceeds All Previous Presidents Combined
Mitt Romney didn't just lie about Barack Obama's jobs record. At the Sioux City debate, he got President Obama's contribution to the federal debt all wrong as well: >
"We all understand that the spending crisis is extraordinary, with $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that's racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Of course, we don't all understand that, because it's not true . After Ronald Reagan tripled the gross national debt and George W. Bush doubled it again, Uncle Sam's red ink totaled almost $11 trillion when Barack Obama took the oath of office.
Obama is "Taking over 100 Percent" of Health Care
In his desperate quest to win over conservative Republican primary voters, Mitt Romney has turned his back on his signature achievement which he once boasted was a health care model for the nation. And to do it, Romney has been lying for months by telling voters "Obamacare is about taking over 100 percent of the people's insurance in this country."
In a September 15, 2011 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer , Romney made the same charge: >
"The Massachusetts plan was crafted for Massachusetts, for the needs of 8 percent of our population that didn't have insurance, not for the 92 percent that did. Obamacare is a plan that takes over 100 percent of the people in the country and their health care, and that's one of the reasons why people don't want it."
Sadly for Mitt Romney, repetition of a lie doesn't make it any more true.
The Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in the spring of 2010 targets the 17 percent of people (over 50 million people) who are uninsured . As Politifact explained in deeming Romney's fraud another "Pants on Fire" lie: >
According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans without health insurance nationally was slightly under 17 percent in 2009, the year Obama began pushing for the bill. According to a Congressional Budget Office estimate, the number was about the same in 2010, when the measure was signed into law. Other estimates have pegged the national number at about 15 percent.
As Henry Aaron, a senior fellow with the centrist-to-liberal Brookings Institution right noted, comparing 8 percent to 17 percent "would have been apples to apples" when it comes to the impact of the individual mandate at the center of both the Massachusetts and national plans. Sadly, Politifact concluded, Romney was guilty of "a felony case of comparing apples and oranges."
Romney "Will Reverse President Obama's Massive Defense Cuts"
During that same "American Century" speech in October, Governor Romney pledged: >
"I will reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts. Time and again, we have seen that attempts to balance the budget by weakening our military only lead to a far higher price, not only in treasure, but in blood."
Sadly for Romney, as Steve Benen pointed out, defense spending has not only gone up every year of the Obama presidency . It is higher than it ever was when George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office.
Of course, Romney's confusion over matters of war and peace are hardly new. In an April op-ed for the Manchester Union Leader, Mitt forgot about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as he denounced President Obama for "one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history."
Obama's "Equal Outcomes" and "Entitlement Society"
Last week, the Romney campaign rolled out what may well become the meta-theme and meta-lie for the 2012 general election race.
After President Obama declared in his Osawatomie, Kansas address that Republican trickle down economics "never worked," Romney struck back. Just not with the truth: >
"Just a couple of weeks ago in Kansas, President Obama lectured us about Teddy Roosevelt's philosophy of government. But he failed to mention the important difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama. Roosevelt believed that government should level the playing field to create equal opportunities. President Obama believes that government should create equal outcomes. >
"In an entitlement society, everyone receives the same or similar rewards, regardless of education, effort, and willingness to take risk. That which is earned by some is redistributed to the others. And the only people who truly enjoy any real rewards are those who do the redistributing -- the government. >
"The truth is that everyone may get the same rewards, but virtually everyone will be worse off."
By raising the mythical red menace of communism and falsely attributing it to Barack Obama, Romney in the words of Paul Krugman had introduced " The Big Lie " into his " Post-Truth Campaign ." While Andrew Sullivan announced "Mitt Romney is a big, fat liar," Steve Benen lamented that "Romney, allegedly the responsible one in the Republican field, has been reduced to lying uncontrollably." And while Greg Sargent in the past had expressed amazement at "Mitt Romney's casual, effortless falsehoods," New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait explained that Romney's red scare rose to a whole new level of duplicity: >
"This isn't just a casual line. In eight sentences, Romney asserts over and over again that Obama wants to create "equal outcomes" and give everybody the "same rewards." This is nuts, Glenn Beck-level insane. Restoring Clinton-era taxes is not a plan to equalize outcomes, or even close. It's not even a plan to stop rising inequality. Obama's America will continue to be the most unequal society in the advanced world -- only slightly less so. The alternative proposals accelerate inequality even further."
Of course, as the proliferating profiles from the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times , the Washington Post and others show, Mitt Romney is no stranger to inequality. Legendarily cheap and analytical , as a Harvard Business School student Romney gave a presentation to his classmates that "proved the value of family time based not on emotion but on yield." Two Romney quotes - " I love business " and " I love data " - seem to sum up the man.
As for loving the truth, that for Mitt Romney is apparently another matter altogether.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
