Romney's "Binders full of women" trending

[Coyotl]

Mouth, meet foot

========== http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/16/binders-full-of-women-trending/ ===========
Did Mitt Romney really request that as governor of Massachusetts, he be brought "whole binders full of women?"

It was his response to a question – on gender pay inequality - which turned heads and started fingers tapping on keyboards. Before the debate was over, there was a Twitter hashtag, a blog, a series of memes, and a Facebook page with over 100,000 fans. The phrase was the third-fastest rising search on Google during the debate.

....a paid post from President Barack Obama's official campaign account appeared atop searches for "binders full of women" on Twitter.

............ Romney said. And I – and I went to my staff, and I said, 'How come all the people for these jobs are – are all men?' They said, "Well, these are the people that have the qualifications.' " .......

[Coyotl]

1. bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com

http://bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com/



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Another:

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15. more images

[Blaukraut]

2. Been retweeting every tweet that contains the term. Hilarious! n/t

[Coyotl]

3. Go to this thread in GD

Last edited Wed Oct 17, 2012, 02:59 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021560775

[Coyotl]

4. Like this on FB = facebook.com/romneybindersfullofwomen

https://www.facebook.com/romneybindersfullofwomen

[gauguin57]

5. And the binder story is apparently, technically not even true (big surprise)!

Apparently, a women's group put together this "binder full of qualified women" and submitted it before they even knew Romney would be governor.
He didn't ask for a list of qualified women. Whatever, Willard!

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41055_Romneys_Binders_Full_of_Women_Yet_Another_Lie

[Coyotl]

6. Mouth meet foot while lying

That's rich

[Cha]

12. Will corporatmedia HOund mitt for his LYING?@!!!

Yeah right

Thank Goodness it's Trending! Thanks Coyotl

[VirginiaTarheel]

7. Hottest Halloween Costume this Year: Binders

Y•S•A•N•N•E ?@YsanneBueno

“@elisefoley: Oh god, I just realized that now people will dress as binders for Halloween.” #BindersFullOfWomen #Binders #Debate

[Coyotl]

8. "Hey, I know about that binder! And guess what -- Mitt Romney was lying about it."

http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/10/16/mind-the-binder.aspx

Mind The Binder
Published Oct 16 2012, 10:46 PM by David S. Bernstein

Hey, I know about that binder! And guess what -- Mitt Romney was lying about it.

From the rush transcript: ....

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I have written about this before, in various contexts; tonight I've checked with several people directly involved in the MassGAP effort who confirm that this history as I've just presented it is correct -- and that Romney's claim tonight, that he asked for such a study, is false.

I will write more about this later, but for tonight let me just make a few quick additional points. First of all, according to MassGAP and MWPC, Romney did appoint 14 women out of his first 33 senior-level appointments, which is a reasonably impressive 42 percent. However, as I have reported before, those were almost all to head departments and agencies that he didn't care about -- and in some cases, that he quite specifically wanted to not really do anything. None of the senior positions Romney cared about -- budget, business development, etc. -- went to women.

Secondly, a UMass-Boston study found that the percentage of senior-level appointed positions held by women actually declined throughout the Romney administration, ...........

[Coyotl]

9. Binders Full of Women Aren't Enough To Solve Pay Inequality

Binders Full of Women Aren't Enough To Solve Pay Inequality
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/10/17/binders_full_of_women_not_enough_to_solve_gender_wage_gap.html

After two debates with almost no mention of women—even the abortion question in the vice presidential debate framed the issue as one of men's personal beliefs instead of women's rights—we finally got a solid question about equal pay from an audience member in the town hall presidential debate.

QUESTION: In what new ways to you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?

Mitt Romney knows this is a weak spot for him. He took a beating on his campaign's unwillingness to offer support for equal pay legislation earlier this year, and his running mate, Paul Ryan, voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Act to secure a woman's right to sue after she's suffered pay discrimination. Even though Romney's been showing off his moderate shtick at the debates, he wasn't going to go far enough to say that equal pay is a right. Instead, he framed it as a matter of employer largess:
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[Coyotl]

10. Fact check: Romney’s record of hiring women

http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/10/16/fact-check-romney-record-hiring-women/r3gqpykaQudNNqigmLZfuJ/story.html

Fact check: Romney’s record of hiring women

........... Romney, however, did not have a history of appointing women to high-level positions in the private sector. Romney did not have any women partners as CEO of Bain Capital during the 1980s and 1990s.

The venture capital and private equity fields were male-dominated, to be sure, especially during Romney’s time. Women started to break into the upper echelons of the firm after it started a hedge fund, called Brookside in 1996.

Today, 4 of out of 49 of the firm’s managing directors in the buyout area are women.

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11. GOP candidate fumbles when asked about fair hiring practices for women, and the internet seizes its

Mitt Romney's binders full of women just don't stack up
GOP candidate fumbles when asked about fair hiring practices for women, and the internet seizes its newest sensation
Emma G Keller guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 October 2012 23.54 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/17/romney-binders-full-of-women

women's issues finally came up. And Mitt Romney had an opportunity to show female voters he cared. But from his bullying of moderator Candy Crowley to his dismissive description of his hiring practices, he fumbled the chance. "Binders full of women," his badly chosen phrase became the meme of the night and will likely haunt him past Halloween. Here's a deconstruction of what he had to say about women.

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... I went to a number of women's groups and said: "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

ZING! There was the shot through his foot. "Binders full of women" became #bindersfullofwomen on Twitter, a Tumblr page and a Facebook page which within half an hour had over 20,000 likes. By the end of the debate that had risen to almost 70,000. Why did the phrase resonate? Because it was tone deaf, condescending and out of touch with the actual economic issues that women are so bothered about. The phrase objectified and dehumanized women. .............

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[FVZA_Colonel]

13. That sounds like something a serial killer would say.

[Coyotl]

14. DAILY BEAST: Mitt Romney’s ‘Binders Full of Women’ Comment Sets Internet Ablaze

Mitt Romney’s ‘Binders Full of Women’ Comment Sets Internet Ablaze
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/17/mitt-romney-s-binders-full-of-women-comment-sets-internet-ablaze.html

Mitt Romney claimed during the debate that he requested ‘binders full of women’ as governor of Massachusetts. The comment went viral. Marlow Stern says the remark is further evidence of how out-of-touch the GOP candidate is with women.

.... women’s issues, almost entirely absent from round one, finally came up. In the second question of the night, “undecided voter” Katherine Fenton asked Obama: “In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?”

............ Then came Romney’s turn. ... I went to a number of women's groups and said: ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.”

... the phrase also was the third-fastest rising search on Google during the televised debate. ...

[Coyotl]

16. My favorite so far

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19. This is rather good too

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17. HUFFINGTON POST: Mitt Romney 'Binders Full Of Women' Claim Misleads

Mitt Romney 'Binders Full Of Women' Claim Misleads
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/romney-binders-full-of-women_n_1972425.html

.......... In fact, Romney did not direct women's groups to bring him female candidates, Boston Phoenix reporter David Bernstein points out. A non-partisan collaboration of women’s groups called Massachusetts Government Appointments Project (MassGAP) was responsible for the effort in 2002, when the group's leaders realized that women held only 30 percent of the top appointed positions in the state.

Romney boasted that during his term as governor, Massachusetts had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America. "Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort," he said.

This statement, too, is misleading. While 42 percent of Romney’s appointments during his first two and a half years as governor were women, the number of women in high-level appointed positions actually declined to 27.6 percent during his full tenure as governor, according to a 2007 MassGAP study.

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[Coyotl]

18. Election MemeWatch: Romney's 'binders full of women' is the new Big Bird

Election MemeWatch: Romney's 'binders full of women' is the new Big Bird
by Hillary Busis - http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/10/17/romney-binders-full-of-women/


Gentlemen — and ladies — start your parody Twitter accounts! A consensus has been reached regarding the most viral moment of last night’s second presidential debate. ...

....Why did this phrase hit a nerve? Was it feminist backlash against the Republican party’s perceived bias against women? Was it Romney’s curious phrasing? Is there just something inherently funny about the word “binder”? Whatever the reason, #bindersfullofwomen has been trending on Twitter since last night and shows no signs of ebbing.

104,704 tweets per minute were sent when the candidates began discussing equal pay for women, according to Twitter’s official blog, though not all of them included talk of binders. (Barack Obama’s official account, however, did: “Mitt Romney still won’t say whether he’d stand up for equal pay, but he did tell us he has ‘binders full of women,’” ...

[Coyotl]

20. Ugh, Mittens

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21. The mind-bending binders out there just keep getting better and better

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22. Many In Romney's "Binder Full Of Women" Were Campaign Donors

Many In Romney's "Binder Full Of Women" Were Campaign Donors
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/many-in-romneys-binder-full-women-were-campaign

... a cross reference of Romney's very senior positions held by women, his senior staff and cabinet heads, show that 5 of 8 positions were filled by campaign donors, suggesting that Romney did indeed surround himself with female executives, but that the outside advice had a limited effect. ...