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geefloyd46

(1,939 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 05:45 AM Sep 2012

How James Carter IV Helped Spread Romney Video -- Daily Intel

The damning video of Mitt Romney telling a room of wealthy donors how he really feels about the free-loading 47 percent of Americans"who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it," among other candid things, has been floating around online in bits and pieces for three months, but didn't hit the big time until it waspublished by David Corn at Mother Jonestoday. Credited as a "research assistant" on the story is James Carter IV, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, who has been toiling online as an opposition researcher and is "currently looking for work," according to his Twitter bio. "I've been searching for clips on Republicans for a long time, almost every day," said Carter this evening. "I just do it for fun." But by connecting Corn with the mysterious uploader of the clip, Carter has uncovered his biggest story yet, one that could potentially affect the outcome of the election. (And get him a job.)
Carter told Daily Intel that he first noticed a portion of the video in which Romney discusses using Chinese labor while working at Bain Capital. That clip, uploaded by a YouTube user named "RomneyExposed" in late May, and then again in late August by an account called "Rachel Maddow" that has since beendeleted, eventually made it to Buzzfeed and Daily Kos.*

Additional pieces of the tape were then added to a YouTube account called"Anne Onymous" starting three weeks ago. "There was a minor uproar about it on Twitter when I found [the first clip], so I kept doing research on it and that eventually led me to be able narrow down who it originated from," said Carter. Via Twitter, he contacted the person who claimed to have secretly taped and uploaded the video, and then sought to help publicize the remarks. "That seemed to be the purpose of [the filming] — to get it to a larger audience," Carter said.


Full Story here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-james-carter-iv-helped-spread.html


Original Story here: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/james-carter-iv-helped-spread-secret-romney-video.html

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How James Carter IV Helped Spread Romney Video -- Daily Intel (Original Post) geefloyd46 Sep 2012 OP
I find something poetic JustAnotherGen Sep 2012 #1
"Truth is the daughter of time." sarge43 Sep 2012 #2

JustAnotherGen

(31,810 posts)
1. I find something poetic
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:47 AM
Sep 2012

About President Carter's grandson being the person who found this. All of the disinformation from the Right the past week and using Carter and Iran as a comparison to what is happening today . . .

You know - Reagan had a hand in the hostages not being released? Look it up - it was by design. So the Right needs to enter their valley of comeuppance.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
2. "Truth is the daughter of time."
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 07:11 AM
Sep 2012

or as my dear mother once told me when I was ranting about some injustice, "Be patient, they put up their heads and you'll get your shot at the fuckers."

Thank Mr Carter, you bred true.

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