Mitt Romney accused of blatant tithing (PHOTO!)

Seriously ABC News?

How dare he??!??!?!!!?!?!??!?! SCANDAL!

By the way, also from ABC News–you get this gem:

On Tuesday, Romney disclosed that he has been paying a far lower percentage in taxes than most
Americans, around 15 percent of his annual earnings.

Ummmm …actually no. Most Americans do NOT pay a “far lower percentage” at all. As Noel Sheppard points out with fancy charts to back it up:

That means as a function of AGI – which is typically how folks look at taxes – if Romney pays 15 percent as he stated, he’s paying a higher rate than 97 percent of his fellow citizens.

This is a far cry from what media representatives have been saying since his admission.

Even measuring this by taxable income, Romney is still paying more than 87 percent of filers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JN5DCZL2WQ2HW2H4DU37A4EESQ hirondina m

    I completly uderstand and I agree………..remember though that most American cant do MATH
    let alone understand our tax system.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=541308654 Troy G Hernandez

    Does Romney even have a momentum?  If he only won NH, which is a blue state does it really
    matter anyway?  I think that there is still a good chance for Santorum. Who won Iowa and could go Republican in the general election. cfh  

  • http://twitter.com/kirkweisler Kirk Weisler

    At least Romney pays his taxes.  He didn’t take a salary as Gov.. donates far and away a much higher percentage of his income to charity than any other candidates.(that would be in addition to his 10% Malachi 3:5)    Santorum obtained his wealth through joining the very corrupt lobby system of DC… though he does it all in the name of the blue collar workers, so I guess that is OK.  And Newt…violates the ethics in DC??  What ethics?  How bad does it have to be to go below even their low standards.  

  • Trista Bytheway

    I don’t know where else to state this, but GLENN, YOU HAVEN’T FAILED.  WE HAVE FAILED!!  YOU CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO TO EDUCATE US.  NOW WE NEED TO EDUCATE OTHERS.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZJYHYDOIBDX2UUT2SMM7KE5L4M steele

    Romney and Glenn are “white and delightsome”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Irina-Krasnyuk/745534442 Irina Krasnyuk

    87th or 78th? Oh.. The same pillow measured in citizens

  • Anonymous

    I have to agree.  Mitt started out with about 25% in all the polls, and he’s not wavered much from that base no matter how up and down the rest of the people were.  He has a solid base, stuck at 25-27%.  It never gets better.  I have no vote for him, so that’s out.  He won’t NH because it’s Blue, I agree.  I like Santorum, personally, but I’m not sure he can last but good, if he does.  If not, we need Newt.  Cream rises to the top; always has, always will.  By the time it’s over, we will have our man, but for now, STOP THE STUPID INFIGHTING AND NAME CALLING AND GIVING THE DEM’S WHAT THEY NEED TO KEEP FOOLING THE INDEPENDENTS INTO THINKING OBAMA IS A SAFE BET TO GO AROUND ONCE MORE!!!! If Obama wins 4 more, we are TOAST!  GET IT?  I think you have a good attitutde and think things through; keep talking!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandy-Caruso/1587245855 Sandy Caruso

    Mitt didn’t take a salary as governor, as chairman of the 2002 Olympics. He pays tithes to his church as promised and he has been faithful to his wife.

    Newt has had MULTIPLE extra marital affairs, had to resign as Speaker of the House due to “ETHICS” violation and pay a $300,000 fine, he got paid $1.6 MILLION as a lobbyist..oh excuse me as a ‘historian’ (uh huh).

    Now WHO do we want as the leader of this country? It’s NOT Newt that’s for sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandy-Caruso/1587245855 Sandy Caruso

    The problem IF Newt wins the GOP and I doubt he will, Obama will have a heyday with his past problems of ETHICS violations, extra marital affairs and working for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae for BIG money.

    At least Obama has kept his marriage vows to his wife. If he hadn’t I think she would have squashed him like a bug!  Can you imagine Barry coming home and seeing Michelle Obama in the doorway MAD and UPSET after spending all night with someone else? Like I said he’d been squashed like a bug. The few stitches he had in his mouth from getting elbowed during a friendly basketball game would seem insignificant compared to the hurtin Michelle could put on him.  

  • http://thelongversion.com/ TheLongVersion

    When will ABC News report that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also pays tithing.  He too is Mormon.  Is that news?

  • Anonymous

    AS GOVERNER OF MASS. MITT WAS PRO-ABORTION, HE WAS ALSO IN CHARGE OF ALL STATE CONTRACTS AND WHO THEY WENT TOO!   i BET IF YOU START THERE, YOU`LL FIND A HANDFUL OF DUBIOUS RELATIONSHIPS!,  MASS. WAS 47TH IN THE COUNTRY FOR WORST JOB CREATION, YET HIS MONTRA IS ABOUT CREATING JOBS? IT WAS ROMNEY CARE THAT INSPIRED OBAMACARE! BOTH TURNNED OUT TOO BE ABJECT FAILURES!  USING OBAMA AND ROMNEY TO MAKE AN OBSERVATION,  NICE FAMILY PHOTOS DOES`NT  NESSESSARRILY PRODUCE A SUCSESSFULL PRESIDENT.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandy-Caruso/1587245855 Sandy Caruso

    Who said anything about family photos? If you DON’T want honesty and integrity and devotion and faithfulness then don’t vote for Romney.

    Check out Newt’s record: http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm#adultery

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bryan-Biggs/1675453823 Bryan Biggs

    If Harry Reid is Mormon then “forget about it”

  • http://thelongversion.com/ TheLongVersion

    John Kerry and Newt are both Catholic.  How does that effect your opinion about Newt?  

    Silly and trivial.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Stu, are you a Mormon too?  Why not address the accusations of Romney’s progressive stand on HealthCare and Pro-Abortion? 

    BTW, size does not matter!  Are YOU seriously going to brag on HIS giving record?  You guys are so much like the Pharisee of the NT.  Beating your righteous chest and looking down on others, including someone who just beat Romney!   

    Seriously, give me a break!

  • Anonymous

    Mitt Romney has spent more than 20 years in private
    enterprise, making thousands of business decisions affecting hundreds
    of companies that led to more than 100,000 new jobs and billions of
    dollars for employees and investors. So you can see why the left
    despises him.
    Among Romney’s thousands of business decisions,
    the one I gather his opponents consider his absolute worst was the
    decision to close a paper plant in Marion, Ind. Which wasn’t his
    decision at all.It was labor trouble at the Marion plant of a
    Bain-acquired company, Ampad, that formed the basis of Teddy
    Kennedy’s desperate 11th-hour attack on Romney in their 1994 Senate
    competition. Plant worker Randy Johnson was featured in Kennedy
    campaign commercials against Romney and disgruntled workers were
    lavished with Dickensian lachrymosity in The Boston Globe.In
    the current presidential campaign, Democrats — and some Republicans
    – have returned to Ampad and the Marion plant as their case in chief
    against Romney.The “King of Bain” movie that a
    pro-Newt Gingrich super-pac just bought with money donated by a
    gambling magnate cites only one company closed by Bain when Romney
    was even there.Guess which one? That’s right: Ampad.The
    Democratic National Committee has retained Johnson to go on tour in
    order to more fulsomely describe the horrors perpetrated by Bain
    Capital on workers at that plant. As salt-of-the-earth Johnson
    explains, he lost his job at Ampad because Romney “didn’t care
    about the worker.”It is beyond journalistic malpractice
    for media outlets showcasing the bitter and lying Johnson to neglect
    to mention that he was the union president who led the strike that
    forced Ampad to close the plant.And yet The New York Times,
    MSNBC and others who have publicized Johnson’s sob story regularly
    refuse to convey that crucial fact. This would be as if a judge
    excluded the fact that the defense’s principal witness is the
    defendant’s mother.By 1994, the unionized Marion plant was
    becoming a losing operation to every company that owned it. It was a
    paper plant, and in the early 1990s, the paper business was beginning
    to go the way of the buggy whip, as the world became
    computerized.(Randy Johnson suffered? Paper magnate Peter
    Brandt nearly lost Stephanie Seymour over the collapse of the paper
    market.)Bain Capital specialized in rescuing troubled
    companies, so in 1992, it bought the faltering paper-based office
    products business, Ampad, from the Mead paper company. Far from
    shutting down Ampad, Bain started buying up more firms in the
    industry to add to Ampad’s portfolio, hoping to create efficiencies
    and synergies.In July 1994, Bain-controlled Ampad bought
    Smith-Corona’s struggling paper business — home to the famed Marion
    plant.(Despite shedding its paper business, Smith-Corona went
    bankrupt the next year. Nobody uses typewriters anymore. Ironically,
    a century earlier, people said Smith-Corona typewriters would never
    replace the pen. They probably railed against Smith-Corona as
    “vulture capitalists” destroying the pen
    industry.)Seeking to succeed where Smith-Corona had failed,
    Bain’s Ampad sought to renegotiate a suicide pact-union contract at
    the Marion plant. But instead of renegotiating, union president Randy
    Johnson thought it would be a great idea to immediately go on
    strike.As long as the nation is still in the fifth stage of
    grief over Steve Jobs’ death, with gushing tributes to his
    contributions to our wonderful new world of computerized books,
    letters, memos, newspapers, CDs and classified ads, ask yourselves:
    Would the mid-1990s have been a good time for workers in an industry
    made vulnerable by the new, paperless information age to stage a
    long, acrimonious strike?Union president Randy Johnson
    thought it was. The Democrats (and some Republicans) apparently do,
    too.Romney wasn’t even at Bain during Ampad’s acquisition of
    the Smith-Corona business, much less for the strike at the Marion
    plant. He was on a leave of absence from Bain to run against Sen. Ted
    Kennedy. Nonetheless, a dozen workers fired from Ampad’s Marion plant
    showed up in Massachusetts to bird-dog Romney in the final months of
    his campaign.It worked. Romney’s lead disappeared and, after
    celebrating with a few cocktails, Kennedy returned to the Senate to
    continue wrecking the country.About six months later, Ampad
    closed the Marion plant for good. As Ampad’s president, Charles
    Hanson, explained at the time, the company had “sustained severe
    economic damage as a result of our inability to manufacture products
    at our Marion plant.” Apparently, the only thing this ruthless
    capitalist lackey cared about was that the factory actually produce
    product!In any event, it’s highly unlikely that Bain would
    have anything to do with a day-to-day management decision to close a
    plant, anyway.Bain led Ampad to thrive over the next few
    years, buying up more companies in 1995, hiring more workers and
    making investors nearly $100 million. By 1996, Ampad was being
    described in Chief Executive magazine as “a stronger, profitable
    competitor in a consolidating — and reviving — domestic
    industry.”Alas, people kept using those damn computers
    and shopping for discount paper at Staples and similar stores, and in
    1999, Ampad had to file for bankruptcy protection.Contrary to
    every single news report on Bain’s involvement with Ampad, Bain did
    not drive the company to bankruptcy by looting it. To the contrary,
    Bain built up the company, added other companies to it, turned it
    into a “profitable competitor” that paid handsome dividends
    for a few years. (And by the way, the company would have gone
    bankrupt a lot sooner if it hadn’t closed down the non-producing
    Marion plant.)But in the end, that wasn’t enough.If
    years of furious acquisition, followed by bankruptcy nearly a decade
    later had been Bain’s secret plan all along, Bain would be the most
    ham-fisted looter in history.Politicians’ morbid fear of
    technological advances in the free market has real-world
    consequences. You will recall that the mainstream media-adored FBI
    agent Colleen Rowley’s main indictment of the bureau after 9/11 was
    that the FBI had really old computers, preventing it from
    anticipating the greatest terrorist attack in world history.In
    response to Rowley’s charges, for example, the Times’ Maureen Dowd
    denounced federal law enforcement agencies for being “antiquated,”
    “inept” and “bloated.” (She also said: “I
    want to see some agents lose their jobs.” Maureen Dowd:
    Inadvertent Romney Supporter.)Of course, if the Democrats,
    Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry were running things, the FBI would still
    be using paper and pens — maybe quill pens — all in order to save
    Randy Johnson’s union job! Instead of a Xerox machine, they’d have a
    monk in the back room creating copies of documents by hand so as not
    to be accused of “vulture capitalism” for eliminating the
    monk’s job.I don’t know how Mitt Romney is supposed to
    explain free market capitalism to career politicians, much less
    describe the intricacies of a thousand business decisions in two
    minutes during a debate.But we know that Bain’s acquisition
    of Ampad is the left’s best shot against Romney’s business career. We
    may presume they don’t have anything better, or we’d be hearing about
    it.The anti-Romney hysterics don’t get to come back later
    with another company allegedly looted by Bain that I’ll have to spend
    another week researching. Henceforth, I shall refer you back to the
    Ampad example — their smoking gun — which, as we have seen, is not
    even a water pistol.

  • http://twitter.com/whiteknight111 Blake H.

    Jay. I know you don’t listen to the show from what you’ve said here because the middle of last month Glenn and Stu were getting attacked by callers for things they were saying about Romney. Glenn, Stu and Pat have all been in dismay that these are the choices being thrown at us, including Romney. If you were a student and historian of Glenn’s program, you would know this.

    Please research before commenting on the content on this website. 
    Yours truly,
    Someone that actually listens to this show and reads these stories.

  • http://twitter.com/whiteknight111 Blake H.

    The hell does that mean?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carol-Morgan/100000253121773 Carol Morgan

       i think that the urgency glenn feels is that IF newt wins the nomination, that is when obama’s cronies are going to attack newts charactor flaws (newt really is dirty!) to the point that obama will look good in comparson and we will all forget how really and truly dangerrous obama is for america. he just doesn’t want this to happen and it seems  like nobody gets it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thaddeus-Moore/100001549726322 Thaddeus Moore

    i.m not so concerned about Romneys tax stuff but i,m sure he will defend the health care and dept of education 

  • Anonymous

    shortcuttt: Your wrong with what your saying, the Health care in Mass. isn’t anything like Obama care, it is only those who want too falsly slam Romney that say they are close to being the same. The medical program in Mass. is functioning just fine , everyone has their own insurance and only 8% of the people had to obtain insurance. Everyone was able to keep their insurance and the Mass. goverment isn’t providing any insurance. Romney had to deal with a state congress that was 85% democrate and he was still able to acomplish a ton of good. He took a state that was 3 bill. in debt and balanced the budget every year and ended up with a large rainy day fund in just 4 yrs. Romney has created thousand of jobs and knows what it takes for private companies to be able to grow , expand and create jobs. If people would check out Romneys personal life they would see that he is by far the most conservative man running for President. Romney didn’t always try to force his personal beliefs and values on everyone else but his personal values and position on conservative  things is as conservative as you will find.