What assists parody...

[shipperx]

What assists parody?

Being an asshat.

The non-amusing takedown of the real video (as opposed to the above parody) From The Washington Post.

An excerpt:

Now, at least, there can be no doubt about who is waging class warfare in this presidential campaign. Mitt Romney would pit the winners against the “victims,” the smug-and-rich against the down-on-their-luck, the wealthy tax avoiders against those too poor to owe income tax. {...} When Romney disclosed those views at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., this year, he and his audience had no idea they were being surreptitiously recorded. Romney obviously believed he was among friends who shared his worldview, which I would translate as: “We must stop coddling the servants.”

Thanks to whoever leaked the recording, we know what Romney really thinks about the nation he seeks to lead:

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right? There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that — that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they’re entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. . . . These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.”

{...} The truth is that Romney is mixing apples, oranges and bananas. The three groups he mentions — those who support the president, those who receive payments from entitlement programs, and those who are not required to pay federal income tax — are not the same people. Quite a few senior citizens who receive Social Security and Medicare are Republicans. Quite a few working-class voters are not members of Team Obama. [ME: Also include: active-duty military and/or those receiving military bereavement benefits. Those 'dead beats' only pay for the privilege of being American with their lives. How irresponsible is that? [/snark]]

But Romney’s ignorance is not as shocking as his callousness. Here’s what he says next about the 47 percent: “And 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.”

To all the single parents holding down two minimum-wage jobs to make ends meet, all the seniors who saw their savings dwindle and had to go back to work part time, all the breadwinners who lost their jobs when private-equity firms swooped down to slash and burn — to all struggling Americans, it must come as a surprise to learn how irresponsible they’ve been. And it must be devastating to learn that, try as he might, Mitt Romney will never be able to show these unfortunates the error of their ways. {...} In an elegant dining room where the self-satisfaction was thick enough to cut with a knife, Romney made clear that he sees this election as “us” vs. “them” — wealthy vs. the unwashed hordes, makers vs. takers. Romney believes half of America is lazy, dependent and, frankly, not too bright.

Full article here

Stewart unearthed what makes a nice video footnote:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2012/moment-of-zen---mitt-romney-s-boyhood-dreams


ETA: Hee! Someone went to the trouble of slowing down and reading the 'fact-check corrections' that SNL sped across the screen:

* The Bible was not a movie first.

* Stalactites is not a childhood disease

* Iowa City never elected Mayor McCheese

* Allegra is not a religion.

* Jeremy Lin was traded, not deported.

* The sun and the moon do not high-five as they pass each other.

* Vaginas don't look like that.

* A dead person's skull does not contain their memories.

* Ron Paul is one person.

* Not all cats are gay.

* The Atlanta Hawks are a team, not an infestation.

* Ellen DeGeneres never married a car.

* Benedict Arnold was not a character on Diff'rent Strokes.

* A wind turbine has never cut off the head of a pretty girl in a convertible.

* The Tasmanian Devil is not the president of Tasmania.

* Star Wars is essentially a work of fiction.

* Al Gore never claimed to invent Nintendo.

* Hawaii does not rotate every six months.

* Neil Armstrong was not the first person to moon someone.

* The Keystone Pipeline is not filled with Keystone Light.

* Swiss banks are not "full of holes."

* Camp David does not have a sister camp called Camp Denise.

* They did not name Mars after the Mars Rover.

* Monica Lewinsky was never in an internment camp.

* Six comes after five.

* Kim Jong-Un is not the CEO of Yahoo.

* Left-handed people cannot read your thoughts.

* Lobsters are not "ocean spiders."

* Cat Fancy is a magazine, not a man/cat dating website.

* The U.S. Postal Service never released a Kesha stamp.

* "F" is not a blood type.

* Parsley is not one of the Spice Girls.

* Usain Bolt is not a new action movie starring John C. Reilly.

* LIBOR is not a giant praying mantis.

* Old Navy is not one of the armed forces.

* The letters in "Massachusetts" cannot be rearranged to spell "same sex marriage."

* Crabs don't breastfeed.

* Animal Planet is not an acceptable nickname for Telemundo.

* Marco Rubio does not play for the Timberwolves.

* Al Jazeera is not the host of Tool Time.

* Babies never "skip ahead" to being 10.

* Angela Merkel is not a palindrome.

* You can't outrun polio.

* The Negro League is not "back and better than ever."

* Latin Inches is not the Mexican metric system.

* The Russian national anthem is not the U.S. national anthem played backwards.

* Rocky never fought Lassie.