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Media Propaganda Of The Day: Romney vs. Obama Speaking Fees

The Fake News Media Jabbed Romney for 2012 Speaking Fees; Defends Obama’s in 2017

Media Propaganda Of The Day: Romney vs. Obama Speaking Fees

Slate took then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney to task in early 2012 over his claim that $360,000 in speaking fees in one year was “not very much.” Five-plus years later, the liberal website is now brushing off the one-time, $400,000 speaking fee former President Barack Obama is receiving from investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald.

Matt Yglesias (who is now at Vox) zeroed in on Romney’s hesitance to releases his tax returns in a short January 2012 item for Slate’s Moneybox blog, but soon underlined that the Republican candidate “lacks perspective on what constitutes ‘not very much’ income.”

 
 
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Star Placement on the US Flag If Puerto Rico Becomes The 51st State

In an effort to garnish more Democrat votes, three weeks ago, a Senate committee heard testimony on a bill that could bring Puerto Rico a step closer to becoming the 51st state. The Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2010, which passed the House in late April, would grant the territory’s residents a vote on the island’s political status, with options including statehood or independence.

If Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state federal law requires that a new star be added to the American flag. So where would it go? This widget, in which you can enter a number of states from one to a hundred stars, may give us the answer.

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