Evergreen money tree presidential candidate Mitt Romney is only trying to double the size of his beachfront squatter’s den instead of quadrupling it as reported. Hm, let us get out our calculators here…divide by square root of total living space, minus number of cars parked in the garage, add 2012… oh whatever, net effect zero, Mitt Romney still appears as out-of-touch with the vast majority of hobo Americans as ever before. Even Mitt Romney knows this, who did not bother to go to the press with this clarification. Instead it comes from the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, whose big fact-correction scoop directly from the mouth of Mittens will surely lead Everyone to Think Harder about correctly reporting the details of King Romney’s enormous fortune from now on. When will the lamestream media learn?
The difference is some kind of technical argument over square-footage measurements of “non-living space” like a basement and a garage.
Here is Union Leader publisher Joe McQuaid with his big Tsk Tsk:
Still, I asked [Romney,] why give the media and political foes raw meat right now by filing for permits to tear down a La Jolla, Calif., beach house and quadruple its size? That was the wire story we had run the day before, and it was all over the Internet.
It’s not accurate, Romney said, simply. The application he made, two years ago, was to double the living space by turning one story into two. The “quadrupling’’ was a measurement of added nonliving space, including a basement and garage.
That sounds more reasonable, I said. Had he issued a statement to that effect?
He shrugged his shoulders with a “why bother?’’ look.
I think it’s worth the bother. Accuracy in media is more than the name of a group. It ought to be what we in the profession strive for, rather than to have the story fit a preconceived notion.
What have we learned from this important update? Mitt Romney does not count basements or garages as “living space.” Where does Mitt Romney think college graduates are living these days? [Union Leader]
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he's only doubling the size of his mansion? why, that's class warfare!
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the servants' quarters, we shall fight in the pools and tennis courts, we shall fight in the poolhouse; we shall never surrender,
We all have to tighten our belts in these difficult times.
but are they magic belts?
$300 alligator belts are pretty magical, to the rest of us.
certainly better than a rope or a trash bag threaded through belt loops, for sure.
Pointing out that he's doubling his mansion's size counts as class warfare! Shame on you for some reason!
Ha ha, "basement" on a beachfront lot. Nice try, Mittens, you fraudulent lying douche bag, but your servants' quarters still count as living space, even if conditions are subhuman. They ain't gonna be subterranean a 0' above sea level.
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not a lot of basements in San Diego generally. beaches and earthquakes make them a bad choice.
Exactly. The main reason you have basements in cold climates is that, since the footings have to go 4' below grade to get beneath the frost line, it just makes sense to go another 4' and build some usable space for, say, Waterloo IA's most famous resident to get the benefit of.
Gacy was a model railroader?
O Gauge or GTFO!
he was a hell of an actor.
Crazy-eyes is a serial killer/clown?
But since in San Diego, you only have to go about 2 inches or so to get below frost line, you will need some pretty miniature residents to take advantage of that space….
This is really obscure, but I hope he decides on Sandkings.
Z-scale!
Is there a frost line in San Diego? I thought that was the city where people walk around in full winter coats and whine about how cold it is whenever it gets below 70.
"They ain't gonna be subterranean a 0' above sea level."
Why should he care. All he needs to do after every high tide is hire some more Messicans. Problem solved!
And, of course, our pontificating Union-Leader twit just let that one go right by.
I knew these were tough times, but it never fully hit home until I saw this item.
Doubling, not quadrupling? That's very different. Nevermind.
Mittens is still four times the asshole.
My mom's basement isn't a living space? So I'm a homeless middle aged man?
Can you imagine living in your son's basement with all 17 of your wives?
Neither can Mitt Romney…..
Yeah, maybe not all basements can be considered living space, but there are plenty that have been fixed up so that people can and in fact do live in them.
Mine's a dank coal chamber.
I believe that if you have a finished basement, it can and must be counted as living space.
And if it's beachfront in San Diego, it must be counted as a fucking engineering miracle.
"It's not accurate, Romney said, simply."
Weak is the editor in this one. Or does Romney just speak all simple-like for the simpleton in us all?
"At least you get me, Mr Editor" simpered Mittens, coquettishly.
Accurate it is not, Yoda said, diminutively.
"I'm telling you it's just a new roof," he insisted, doggedly.
There are not enough antipsychotics in this world to bring these fuckers back to reality.
Quadrupling is just union porn.
Um, the original article said he was going to nearly quadruple the size of the house, which it sounds like really is the case, not that he was going to quadruple the size of the living space, and no "well I'm only doubling this part of the house, and the rest of the increase doesn't count because of some bullshit distinction" warrants an apology for that.
"i did not kill 200 people. i killed 100 people. stop rounding up. and i only ate some of them. but they were already dead so what's the big deal?"
"Mansions are people, my friend! Mansions need tax breaks! People, on the other hand, do not."
Unless, of course, they're rich people.
He will have plenty of time to concentrate on the bitter zoning board approval battle as soon the religious right sends him packing.
Next, lakeside in Salt Lake?
Also, it is not true that the bathrooms all have solid gold toilet seats. They are merely gold plated. These are hard times for everyone.
It's hard out there for the pimped.
If I quadrupled the size of my apartment it would still be smaller than Mitt's garage.
Good heavens people! You don't quadruple the size of your mansion during a depression caused by your own party.
You only double it.
Fiscal conservatism!!!!!
But in a concession to Cantor's call for dollar-for-dollar budget cuts to offset FEMA spending, Romney is planning to burn down some sharecropper's shacks to keep the total living space at its current level.
Congressreptile Joe Barton would like to apologize to Mitt for the suffering he has suffered.
I think Emily Grace the pooch would agree, there's no place like Basement. Or Garage. Especially when you've been hoisted through the air in 60 mph winds at the behest of some thin-witted owner-bot who's taken leave of whatever human decency Moroni endowed him with.
Being an animal lover, that is one of my hot buttons about him. If I agreed with every position, I wouldn't vote for him for that reason alone.
Hey, gotta have a big house, what with the two different bibles and all.
That means that if he had a 3000 sf house which is now 6000, he also has 6000 sf of garage, "basement" (sexytime room?), cabana, toolshed, boat storage, etc. Also, he's putting in 18 holes in his lawn, with litle flags in them. The number 18 has no signficance whatsoever … what would make you think otherwise?
Leave Mitt alone. He's unemployed.
Way to kill this story by splitting hairs!
So he's moving into a Double-Wide.
Oh, so he's not getting servants dressed like pantamimes, solid gold tiled entry way, and giant Reagan mural on his helicopter landing field.
He's one of us, just average joke..joe, I mean.
Romney added, "hey, two years ago who would have thought I would be in the running for the nom when the permits came in?"
You're not.
Sounds like he's not planning to move to the White House soon…
I'm still wondering why anyone should care about two times or four times the square footage on Mittens home. The guy is one of the legendary tenth of a percent highest wealth people, other than it looking like conspicuous consumption, who cares? Even considering that it isn't anywhere near as ludicrous as some of the shit others have done. Yes, Mittens is rich, but I don't give a shit if he lives in a full blown reproduction of the Taj, it's his political beliefs that suck douche, and that I have issue with.
Politics is as much about an image as it is your held set of beliefs. You want to pillory a government for the way it spends during a shaky recovery and try to connect with the "common man" and then you're going to use the year running to fucking quadruple the size of your home? Yeah, that's just sucky-ass optics. Period. His political beliefs suck (if he has any to begin with), and he sucks at the image game. Boo-'effin'-hoo for Willard.
The Union Leader has been a John Birch Society mouthpiece since the 1940s. The fact that they're softballing Romney signifies a considerable move to the Left for them.
True dat. Maybe Michele spooked them.
he just needs some extra fenced off beachfront space for when he buries Ted Danson up to his head in the sand.
However much I hate Mittens, I'd donate the tv set for that scene.
for when he buries Ted Danson up to his head in the sand.
I bet Mittens wished he had one of these too.
is this the infamous death panel i've heard about?
HAHAHAHA. WIN.
Can we get Obama to set one of those up in the White House, for the next time he has to "negotiate" with Boneheader, Can'tor, and rest of the tea party/GOP lackeys?
I can hold my breath a long, looooooonnggg time!
Surely you must be joking!
Mitt Romney does not count basements or garages as “living space.”
Makes sense. That's where the new wives will live, and, according to the magical underpants sect to which Mittens belongs, they don't count as full people.
And Ross Perot's crazy aunt. Gotta have a crazy Aunt in the basement. Everybody does.
I resemble that remark.
"I think it’s worth the bother. Accuracy in media is more than the name of a group. It ought to be what we in the profession strive for, rather than to have the story fit a preconceived notion."
Should let Faux in on this bit of insight…
The librul gotcha media is probably counting the stables for the junior wives as living space too.
Oh, of course — that 5,000 square feet that'll be used for the Nike factory, the food storage vault, the baptismal for the dead and the ancestry registry shouldn't count.
don't forget the launch pad for Mitt's rocket ship. you can have your own world when you die but God's not paying your fare.
Hey, at least he only has one house that he has no idea how big it is. McCain had seven, and he didn't know WHERE most of them were.
Romney sells two of his four mansions. More people will want to have a beer with him if he has only two mansions.
As Socrates said, a douchenozzle douchenozzling half as much is still too much douchenozzle.
I don't see what's wrong with the house that he came with when Mattel built him.
Isn't Caribou Barbie living in it now?
Too much pink.
"Divorced Barbie": she comes with half of Kens' stuff.
Headline of the day (Breitbart):
"Bachmann Memoir Coming in November"
I wonder what she will decide to call it…
"My Walk With Jesus… And A Gay Husband"
"Batshit Begins"
hehehe
We have a weiner!
"From Beard to Weird to Feared: The Audacity of a Dope"
If I Said It
"One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest"
"The Voices Told Me to Do It: The Michele Bachmann Story"
"My Big, Fat, Gay Wedding"
"Today, I Saw a Lesbian…"
Everybody Loves White People.
Did I read that right? He's putting a basement in a beachfront house in CA? What could possibly go wrong what with the weather, ocean, tsunamis and earthquakes?
That's why those people OWN insurance companies.
It's a Euro-style mansion: the "first floor" is one flight up. And the new ballroom, gym, and 4-car garage don't count as "living space".
MITTENS MANSION LIBEL!
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"Why bother?" Romney said, adding, "Everyone already knows I'm an obscenely wealthy corporate raider with zero understanding of what humans are like, so I don't see what needs to be clarified here, really."
He WOULD say that if he didn't have a silver spoon in his mouth.
Mitt has a simple rule. If his primary wife doesn't live there, it is not living space.
Does he get to use a different babe for the New Hampshire primary wife and the South Carolina primary wife? (I won't even ax about the Iowa caucus wife.)
Are the extra wives in Mexico? I think that's a Mormon tradition.
Well it's a Romney family tradition; that's why his father was born in Mexico, yet strangely no one questioned his qualifications to run for President back in 1968.
That's like the time in high school my friend thought he could get out of trouble by telling his mom he only had two beers instead of three.
So he's not adding a room for each position he takes, and retakes, daily on "the issues"?
He'd have to buy the whole neighborhood — and turn it into a Calcutta slum.
I think it would be better if the hapless Mormon doubled his brain capacity instead. After all, he'll be the next preznit. I predict he'll be a heavy drinker shortly after taking office. Then there may be hope for him.
The real disconnect is in describing garages and basements as "non-living" spaces. Where has Mittens been the past 3 years? And couldn't he just fix up one of those abandoned buildings he's always posing in front of and stick his ginormous brood in there?
Rick Perry also calls bullshit on that Mainstream Media arithmetics, and says when you double one and then add two more ones, you get 1,111 square feets, which don't include the stable and the pigpen.
Evangenitals finally started believing in basic math? Only 3,000 or so more years of "catch up" to go.
Watch out, Rick…Santorum, but it'll rub off on Perry, too.
A man of his ambition needs a presidential masterbatorium.
Since people are rich because they're better than us, does this mean Mitt is only half as good as we originally thought?
That sounds more reasonable, I said. Had he issued a statement to that effect?
He shrugged his shoulders with a “why bother?’’ look.
The "Union Leader" tries desperately to make Romney not look like an ass, fails miserably. Though in fairness, I would say "why bother" as well if I knew the media outlet was going to say it for me.
"Why bother" indeed … Mitt knows the GOP's owners have already chosen him. All he needs is an acceptably teabaggish Xtard running mate from Texas.
Would it be un-Simi Valley to go dyslexic with King Romney’s enormous fortune and go with Romney King's egregious fortune and tase the shit out of Mittens? Perhaps shocking, but not un-Seemly, Valley?
That house seems to have suspiciously few windows for something facing out onto the beach. In fact, it looks vaguely reminiscent of someplace or other I remember seeing in the news a while back ….
Shorter Mittens: I am blessed with much mansion by an angel named after pasta so fuck all y'all.
The Angel Ragu? The Ange Prego? Bertolli?
Accuracy in media is more than the name of a group. It ought to be what we in the profession strive for, rather than to have the story fit a preconceived notion.
Cue howling fits of laughter at FOX News in 3…2…1…
Packing the fudge, apparently, more than pays the bills.
haha, shameless cocksucker has been busted, again
Does living in San Diego mean he can hire illegal alien servants extra cheap?
Sí, señor.
Garages don't count? CARS ARE PEOPLE, TOO!
"We did what we could… To keep this house from expanding".
Fun fact: back in Nixon's time, the Manchester Union-Leader published a front-page 'editorial' with the title "Kissinger the Kike". To paraphrase Barbara Mandrell, they were rancid when rancid wasn't cool.
Soooo, the space WILL be double, but only half of it is living space, the rest will be for the Scrooge McDuck style vault where the little Romney's can swan dive into cash? Well, I'm relieved.
A smaller-than-reported addition to his home means that the number of workers to build this addition will be cut. Why does Mitt Romeny hate American jobs (performed by migrant laborer's, most likely)? Why does Mitt Romney hate America? Job-Killing Willard.
Really, fuck off you fucking shill. Honestly, even Romney realizes how ridiculous it would sound to go back and say "well, we're only really doubling the size of the living space." Accuracy, my ass. Get off of Romney's dick, already, New Hampshire.
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"Accuracy in media is more than the name of a group, it the name of group that could be paying me; that's why I'm blatantly plugging them in my editorial."
Mitt who?
George R. R. Martin reference for the win!
Happy Birthday!
They also whine about it being too hot if it goes above 74.
pea coats, often times.
Let's be honest, they just fucking whine in general.
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