Romney 'Victims' Video Shot at 76ers Co-Owner Marc Leder's Home
Leder hosted $50,000-per-person fundraiser during which Romney called 47 percent of voters 'victims.'
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Gov. Mitt Romney said in a video recently released by magazine Mother Jones that 47 percent of American voters consider themselves "victims."
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," said Romney in the video. "All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are 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.”
These comments were made at the home of 76ers co-owner Marc Leder. Leder hosted a $50,000-per-person fundraiser at his Boca Raton, Fla., home on May 17, according to a report on Philly.com.
Leder, who became a co-owner on Oct. 17, 2011, owns the team with co-managing owner David Blitzer, CEO Adam Aron, Martin Geller, David Heller, Travis Hennings, James Lassiter, Jason Levien, Michael Rubin, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Leder owns a financial buyout firm called Sun Capital Partners, says an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian. He is a Wharton graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1983, according to the article.
President Barack Obama's campaign offices have called the video "shocking" in a statement released to the press. Romney's campaign has confirmed the video is genuine.
“It’s not elegantly stated, let me put it that way,” Romney said at an impromptu press conference late Monday night. The press conference can be seen on 6ABC.com. “Of course individuals are going to take responsibility for their life, and my campaign is about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again.”
Chatty
9:39 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Mitt Romney has it right!! Government spending is out of control and too many people are dependent on government entitlements that are paid for by tax payer dollars..... Yet these people who get the entitlements DO NOT even pay income taxes.... Seriously??!!!!
Not So Dumb
1:16 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Chatty, Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. Look at your paystub (if you have a job) there are payroll deductions for Social Security and for Medicare. So when I get my Social Security check or I use my Medicare to cover my health care, I actually paid for them every week when I was working and I still pay for them when I work now. If your gona make claims back them up with FACTS. BTW! Doesn't Paul Ryans 75yr. old mother in Florida collect Social Security and Medicare. I wonder if she pays taxes, do you know.
Opinionated
1:27 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
To Dumb, first: if you are collecting now, you did not fully pay for what you are getting. This makes it a partial entitlement (not important). However, your Medicare has been exchanged for Obamacare. This will further limit your choices for doctors and will lead to someone else to decide whether your care is cost effective or not. READ THE FINE PRINT. When the time comes to bring costs to line, it will be you who will lose. Just keep believing what AARP keeps telling you but don't forget to buy their supplemental insurance. Eventually that won't help you either.
cee
10:06 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Chatty, Sure.............Until you need these programs for yourself and your family. You have it all wrong, the ones who get the entitlement are the "Big Businesses" who don't pay taxes who claim they are doling so many jobs out. What a joke, they are in it for themselves and how much they can make for their own greed. Don't drink the Kool-Aide!!
Da Poppa
11:41 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@cee there are loop holes in the tax laws that need to be closed. That is exactly what Romney has been talking about. Did you know that? Obviously no, because the main stream media will not report it. People are out of work because there is no money in the economy to drive growth which increase job demand and salaries. Giving more money to the government who then decides who gets that money is not the way to grow an economy. If we had economic growth, job growth, and income growth, we would have fewer people looking to the government for assistance, much less than the 47% Romney correctly cites. That number is real and not in dispute.
jonnyyayas
1:04 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
$50,000-? Sounds like it must have been at Martell's. That would just about cover parking, cover charge, and 2 or 3 drinks!
Opinionated
9:06 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
I see the "Patch" is indulging in their "preferences". Dead diplomats, burned out embassies, and worldwide protests yet the "unbiased media", including the "Patch", are worried about a four month old story. It is coming out that the Libyans knew what was going to happen two weeks before and they told our govt. The embassy in Egypt was warned the day before and what do we see? Something we already know. People who don't pay taxes and are dependent on the govt. love Obama. No kidding. How many people do you think are on food stamps today learned to apply from an Obama infomercial? Call me stupid, but I have a BIG problem with our diplomats being murdered and on 9/11 yet! Do you realize that on 9/11 the NewYork Times had an article crticizing Bush for not preventing it? I also love how CNN suggested that we should censor films that are "offensive" to prevent what happened last week. Meanwhile, they and the rest of the media have censored 9/11 and the word "terrorism" when it applies to Islamists. I would not be surprised if this post is deleted but I hope you have the guts to let it stand. It would show you are better than most.
Da Poppa
11:29 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@Op - thank you for pointing this out, especially as it pertains to the Patch political coverage. Interesting that every single political advertisement on the Patch is for Obama/Biden ... Have you seen even 1 ad for Romney/Ryan? A question should be asked of the Patch "editorial" board and owners ... Who paid for those ads? My guess is no one. And if owners of the Patch are placing them "gratis" their bias needs to be exposed, and an investigation needs to be undertaken by the Federal Election Board.
Mike
10:32 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Please stick to local news. We alreadyhave enough yellow journalism with the MSM.
Opinionated
10:59 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Hey Mike, you know what amazes me? It is how the media thinks we are too stupid to realize that we would believe that a piece of film would trigger "protests" and not think that 9/11 would have nothing to do with it or that we would think it was OK for our govt. to ignore any previous warnings.
Chatty
8:17 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Bravo Opinionated!!!! Finally.....an American who has a brain and knows how to use it....too bad more than half of the country is clearly clueless. It is no secret Obama feels this country has too much power and wants to "Fundamentally Transform America"....and with the transformation it's not going to be "We the People for the People".....it's going to be "We the People for the Government"....wake up American People before it's too late!!!
Chatty
8:26 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Bravo Opinionated!!!! Finally....an American who gets it!!!!!
Opinionated
7:52 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Here's something to ponder. As we are finding out, the protests in Libya were a cover for a terrorist strike against our embassy. Now, we see the American press keeping this fact quiet because Obama and the govt. were warned and did NOTHING. In essence, they are covering up these facts in order to keep Obama in office. The question is: Are they any better than the terrorists who ran interference for those who killed our ambassador et al? Some use the term "freedom of the press" but it is very obvious now that it no longer exists in America. With the emphasis on this very old story that this article is about rather than concern for the safety of Americans working and travelling abroad, censorship is staring us right in the face. And if anyone thinks that the islamists hate us over a 15 minute piece of amateur film then they are clueless. How about trying things that are in today's culture such as: Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, and those "wonderful" reality shows like the garbage on the Discovery Channel, etc. The biggest "discovery" on that channel is that we are doomed as a society.
Da Poppa
11:22 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
The video has been debunked ... There was editing it Mother Jones has admitted than there are "one or two" minutes edited out.
That being said, Mitt was spot on ... This country is headed to a dangerous tipping point, where those dependent on the government for some aspect of their income out number those that do not. The 47% number Romney cities is not in dispute. What seems to be in dispute is the fact that he had the audacity to say it! What should be the focal point is who secretly and illegally taped that conversation. Where is the out cry from the left for an investigation?
Opinionated
1:29 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
You mean from Holder's Just Us Department? A.K.A. the other Selective Service Act.
Da Poppa
4:58 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
@Op - please, Holder and the Unjustice Dept are busy running guns to Mexico.