Romney has fallen for a fake statistic (“boob bait for bubbas”) created by the Wall Street Journal.

[pampango]

The most fascinating thing about Romney is that he has fallen for a fake statistic created by the Wall Street Journal editorial page as what they call "boob bait for the bubbas"--something that they hope low-information voters will hear, get outraged about, and vote Republican. As Ezra Klein writes: "Among the Americans who paid no federal income taxes… 61 percent paid payroll taxes… 15.3 percent of their income.… Another 22 percent were elderly. So 83 percent… are either working… or they’re elderly…"

But Romney was not supposed to fall for this fake statistic, and make policy based on it--he was supposed to have economic advisors who would brief him, and rapidly deprogram him of fake right-wing talking points that lodged in his brain as things that really were true.

I wonder why they did not do so…

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/09/the-wall-street-journal-editorial-page-has-shot-itself-in-the-head-department.html

Obviously, the WSJ intended the stat to be used solely to enrage low-information voters (“boob bait for the bubbas”) and get them to vote republican. It was not meant to convince or confuse romney himself. Pretty humorous.

[lindysalsagal]

1. They get what they deserve.

I think rMoney isn't the only one believing his own hype. I think most of them do.

Anyone hear that expression before? "Boob bait for the bubbas'?