Putting Big Bird in a binder on the car roof
Women and the Men Who Yell
By GAIL COLLINS, NYT
Maybe someday, the voters of 2012 will be telling their grandchildren where they were when Mitt Romney evoked Women in Binders.
By then, of course, they will have gotten a little fuzzy about the details. Maybe they’ll tell the kids that, in the end, the whole election came down to the time Mitt Romney put Big Bird in a binder on the car roof.
President Obama has had his ups and downs in this campaign, but Romney has a near-monopoly on interesting imagery. His most famous moment in Tuesday’s debate came when he recounted how, when he came into office as governor, he was upset that all the applicants for top jobs were men. “I went to a number of women’s groups ... and I brought us whole binders full of women,” he recounted proudly.
It was the anecdote that launched a thousand quips. Riffing on “Dirty Dancing,” tweeters announced: “Nobody puts Baby in a binder.”
Later, it turned out that the binders in question had actually been submitted to Romney by a Massachusetts group that had been formed to push for more women in important state government posts. Still, it was admirable that Romney followed through.
(More here.)
Maybe someday, the voters of 2012 will be telling their grandchildren where they were when Mitt Romney evoked Women in Binders.
By then, of course, they will have gotten a little fuzzy about the details. Maybe they’ll tell the kids that, in the end, the whole election came down to the time Mitt Romney put Big Bird in a binder on the car roof.
President Obama has had his ups and downs in this campaign, but Romney has a near-monopoly on interesting imagery. His most famous moment in Tuesday’s debate came when he recounted how, when he came into office as governor, he was upset that all the applicants for top jobs were men. “I went to a number of women’s groups ... and I brought us whole binders full of women,” he recounted proudly.
It was the anecdote that launched a thousand quips. Riffing on “Dirty Dancing,” tweeters announced: “Nobody puts Baby in a binder.”
Later, it turned out that the binders in question had actually been submitted to Romney by a Massachusetts group that had been formed to push for more women in important state government posts. Still, it was admirable that Romney followed through.
(More here.)
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Big Bird is solidly in the 1%. We need to raise his taxes.
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