Money Mitt isn’t backing down. He also isn’t shook up at all about the shady azz statements he made during a private fundraiser he held earlier this year. We showed you the vid of this dirty politico talking candidly about the “47%” and today, Robney had an opportunity to save face…but of course he effed that up too! According to The Huffington Post: In an interview with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto on Tuesday, Mitt Romney continued to stand by his statements in the secretly recorded donor video. “We were of course talking about a campaign and about how he’s going to get half the vote,” Romney said. “And frankly we have two very different views of America.” “Those that are dependent on government and those that think government’s job is to redistribute — I’m not going to get them,” he said later. While Romney allowed that some of the people who don’t pay income taxes may be his supporters — senior citizens or members of the military, for instance — he argued that his message about “the 47 percent” would resonate. “I do believe we should have enough jobs and enough take-home pay to allow people to pay taxes,” Romney said. “I think people would like to be paying taxes.” His camp countered today after the viedo hit the internet… “Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy. As the governor has made clear all year, he is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government, including the record number of people who are on food stamps, nearly one in six Americans in poverty, and the 23 million Americans who are struggling to find work,” Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a statement responding to the video’s release. “Mitt Romney’s plan creates 12 million new jobs in four years, grows the economy and moves Americans off of government dependency and into jobs.” Is it just us or does it seem like Robney doesn’t want to be the future POTUS??? Images via Facebook
Pay yo bills ! Via TMZ reports : George Clinton has allegedly been atomic dogging the U.S. government once again … so says Uncle Sam who just filed yet ANOTHER federal tax lien filed against the music legend. According to documents filed in Leon County, Florida … Clinton failed to pay $7,457.89 worth of taxes in 2009 and $13,301.57 for the year 2010. As TMZ first reported, Clinton already owes $115,552.27 to the IRS for the tax years 2007 and 2008. Grand total for ALL FOUR years … $136,281.73. Calls to Clinton’s camp have not been returned. George Clinton pay yo funky azz bills!!!
Paul Ryan thinks he’s so cool. If he’s trying to seem “in touch” with our generations and the millions of us that ain’t young Republicans, this was the wrong music choice to announce to us all because he just comes off lookin’ cray. Rage Against the Machine’s lead guitarist, Tom Morello, doesn’t appreciate the accolades either. He took to Rolling Stone to let us know how he felt about the right-winged poser and slams him for “liking” the very music that goes against everything Ryan and Money Mitt stand for. Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine. Ryan claims that he likes Rage’s sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don’t care for Paul Ryan’s sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage. I wonder what Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of “Fuck the Police”? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings! Don’t mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta “rage” in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he’s not raging against is the privileged elite he’s groveling in front of for campaign contributions. You see, the super rich must rationalize having more than they could ever spend while millions of children in the U.S. go to bed hungry every night. So, when they look themselves in the mirror, they convince themselves that “Those people are undeserving. They’re . . . lesser.” Some of these guys on the extreme right are more cynical than Paul Ryan, but he seems to really believe in this stuff. This unbridled rage against those who have the least is a cornerstone of the Romney-Ryan ticket. But Rage’s music affects people in different ways. Some tune out what the band stands for and concentrate on the moshing and throwing elbows in the pit. For others, Rage has changed their minds and their lives. Many activists around the world, including organizers of the global occupy movement, were radicalized by Rage Against the Machine and work tirelessly for a more humane and just planet. Perhaps Paul Ryan was moshing when he should have been listening. My hope is that maybe Paul Ryan is a mole. Maybe Rage did plant some sensible ideas in this extreme fringe right wing nut job. Maybe if elected, he’ll pardon Leonard Peltier. Maybe he’ll throw U.S. military support behind the Zapatistas. Maybe he’ll fill Guantanamo Bay with the corporate criminals that are funding his campaign – and then torture them with Rage music 24/7. That’s one possibility. But I’m not betting on it. This is the second time this week one of these dumb azz Republican candidates has referenced music while lookin’ like a contradictory wankster. Source Images via WENN/Twitter
No lie? Drake’s Entourage Refuses To Cooperate With Police Investigation Of Nightclub Brawl Would you ever have figured Drizzy’s peeps would be the type to not talk to onetime? Apparently that’s the case so far when it comes to the whole bottle hurling brawl at NYC nightclub W.i.P . According to TMZ reports : Members of Drake’s entourage are NOT talking to cops about the nightclub brawl with Chris Brown … because they do not want to become “snitches” — sources tell TMZ.. As one source put it, “We’re no running-to-the-police ass n**gas.” Chris Brown and his lawyers have been cooperating with police. As for Drake, law enforcement sources tell us the NYPD has spoken with his reps but they won’t be able to speak with the rapper until his lawyer comes to NYC. We have a feeling Wheelchair Jimmy and his thuggin’ entourage won’t be keeping their vow of silence much longer.
This is so wrong! President Barack Obama has taken plenty of abuse from his haters, but apparently some folks don’t think it’s enough. One of our loyal Bossip readers sent us this photo of this “Bop Obama” punching bad she found at the “As Seen On TV Store” at the Mall of Georgia. SMH! What do you think? More On Bossip! Eff A Traveler’s Digest: 10 Countries With Beautiful BLACK Women Action! Stars That Were Offered Large Sums Of Money To Make Adult Movies…Did They Take It?! TwitterFiles: Tisha Campbell Says People Need To Leave Her Husband Out Of Will And Jada’s “Divorce” Crazy In Love: Women That Went A Little Cuckoo For The Men They Loved
What is wrong with this picture? When are the wanksters at Vanity Fair going to learn ??? Yeah yeah, we noticed that “at least” you included some black folks this year, but we’re not stupid. That cover folds up, tucking our black beauties Paula Patton and Adepero Oduye (who won raves from critics for her role in the indie film “Pariah”) out of sight and out of mind. We still haven’t gotten over the sting of 2010, when blacks were shut out completely. The magazine was ripped apart when that happened, and last year they tried to rectify the situation by putting Anthony Mackie and Rashida Jones on the cover. But they two were tucked away, marginalized between the inside margins. You’d think they’d have learned by now BECAUSE they’ve been doing this for over 20 years — hiding the black folks on the far right panel. Don’t believe us? Continue for lots of evidence…
SMH, Newt ain’t shyte as a husband… which probably would make him an “ain’t shyte” President too. Newt Gingrich claims that it was his first wife, not Gingrich himself, who wanted their divorce in 1980, but court documents obtained by CNN appear to show otherwise. The Republican presidential candidate, now in his third marriage, has been peppered with attacks and questions about his divorce from Jackie Gingrich for the past three decades. Questions about his past — and what that past tells voters about his personal behavior — have re-emerged as he has returned to the political scene 13 years after he resigned as speaker of the House. A new defense that has arisen as Gingrich entered the presidential race this year is the insistence that she, not he, wanted the divorce. On the “Answering the attacks” page of his campaign website, Newt.org, which “(Sets) the Record Straight: Newt’s Positions on the Issues and His Record,” the campaign discusses Gingrich’s first divorce. “It was (Jackie Gingrich) that requested the divorce, not Newt,” the campaign website said, referring readers to an online column written by Gingrich’s youngest daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, last May. Cushman, 13 when her parents separated in 1980, was rebutting persistent rumors that her father served divorce papers on her mother the day after cancer surgery. In the column, Cushman writes that papers were never served in the hospital, and that her mother did not actually have cancer. Dang, he brought his daughter into this and turner her against her mother?? Jackie Gingrich, who has rarely spoken to the media about the divorce, declined CNN’s request for an interview. A friend said that Jackie Gingrich did not want to comment out of concern for her daughters and grandchildren. In a brief interview in 1985, she told the Washington Post: “He can say that we had been talking about it for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise.” Leonard H. “Kip” Carter, a former close Gingrich friend, backed the contention that it was Newt Gingrich who wanted the divorce. “He (Gingrich) said, ‘You know and I know that she’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a president,’ ” Carter, who now lives in South Carolina, told CNN recently, relating the conversation he had with Gingrich the day Gingrich revealed he was filing for divorce. Carter served as treasurer of Gingrich’s first congressional campaigns. Carter, who was a fellow history professor when Gingrich taught at West Georgia College in Carrollton, said he broke off his friendship with Newt Gingrich because of the congressman’s treatment of his wife during the divorce. Asked in an e-mail whether that conversation in 1980 occurred the way that Carter recounted, Gingrich spokesman Hammond did not respond. We wonder why… Source
Pure comedy… File this Bossip Exclusive under “Random Celebrity Encounters!” By now most of you may have seen the footage of Yeezy having some of his Tacoma “Watch The Throne” concertgoers booted out of the venue, but one of our Bossip supporters wrote in with an interesting firsthand account of his own. How many of you would be surprised to hear that this one includes more “evidence” that B aby Bump BeyBey may not be totin’ a lil Camel hump at all??? Check out the details below: It all started out fine around 7:20PM when my brother and I arrived in the VIP section. Of course, excited he and I were taking pictures of ourselves, stuntin’ and posting them on Facebook. We’re big Jay-Z and Kanye West fans. The show was slated to begin at 7:30. Hours had passed but there were no signs of Kanye or Jay-Z. Unfortunately, at this time it didn’t even appear the show was remotely sold out. We were worried it wouldn’t even happen, especially since Tacoma had already been a rescheduled city. Anyway… The crowds finally did come BUT there were 4 VIP sofa seats, reserved but not taken at the time of the show. At this time (around 9) a staff member of the Tacoma Dome entered the VIP section and assured everyone the show would be starting soon. At this point everyone is hawking the first row VIP seats since they were unclaimed. Being upstanding guy that I am, I thought,”Why try to sneak or creep into a VIP seat that isn’t yours when you can just ask?” I asked the staff member, “If those seats aren’t taken by the time the show begins, can my brother and I move up a VIP seat to be just a little closer to the stage.” She replied, “They are reserved; typically for entourage, but if they are unclaimed, you can. However, if they do come, please be compliant and return to your original seats.” The lights dim. The show begins. No one has checked for the seats. And most of VIP rushes to the seats. My seat happens to belong to a “Perez,Desiree.” “Sorry Desiree, you missed out,” I think to myself. Only to find out seconds later Desiree Perez is “Queen Bey” herself…I guess she really does want to be a Latina…*shrug* Of course Julius asks everyone to go back to their seats. And we do. As we all are walking back, Jay-Z runs to the stage and the camera phones are pulled out by everyone. (HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM) Because I already had committed the ultimate, sitting in “Queen Bey’s” throne. I was finger pointed out of the crowd by Julius. Not for taking pictures of Jay-Z, but according to Julius snapping photos of Beyonce after he had asked me to stop three times. I was falsely accused and wrongfully removed from not only the section but the building. I never snapped one photo. Being the real soldier that I am I told my brother to stay put, I didn’t do anything wrong and neither did he. Worried that he would be taunted by hecklers I knew I had to do something to get back in. I talked to security. There was nothing they could do to get me back in VIP. Unfortunately,”What they say goes there. It was ridiculous,” he said. Two of the staff supervisors attempted to tell Julius my minor brother was still there and he needed supervision. Julias’s response: “Not my problem…” The staff said there was little they could do as they winked at me. I was given section A8 pass (nose bleeds) and my VIP badge was taken away.I’m thinking WTF?! However, they walked me to the front row! This all sounds great right? Unfortunately not… I was back in, but I had no visual of my brother. And someone in the section threw a phone at Kanye West! I’m thinkin’, “Dang let me get out of here, before I really end up in some s h y t… The security let’s me near VIP. I’m by the sound and video cameras. And I can make signals with my brother. Great I win! Right?! Yes! but by how much… Three goon lookin’ Black dudes wearing all Black walk pass eying me up and down like I’m short. I’m thinkin’ that s h y t cray, do I know these dudes from somewhere? As I eye lock them, they continue to walk to the VIP section and get in the front row with Julius, Bey “and nem.” I’m surrounded by white staff members so of course they punk arses didn’t do anything… I rock out to Big Pimpin, Goldigger, All of the Lights and Paris beside and behind my brother for the rest of the show in the tech section. As the shows ends we leave to our car unscathed. But here’s the thing… 1.The short glimpse I got of “Queen Bey” I can tell you, she does not appear pregnant! I worked the midwifery hall at Valley Medical Center and I’ve seen plenty of pregnant women. The bumps are bigger no matter how petite the frame. 2.Julius and her may be sexing for him to get so riled up over someone who could give two s h y t s about Beyonce. Maybe I was lookin’ too fly tonight because she looked at me and she wasn’t throwing shade. 3.There may be something to the Illuminati rumors. Those dudes in all black and wantin’ to run up on someone who did nothing and wasn’t even in their section is real suspect. sorry for the long winded story, but it is what it is…. WOW!!! Rolling on the floor at the Desiree Perez business. SMH @ that Illuminati royal family. Here are some photos for those of you who need proof dude was indeed there:
The corporate culture vultures are at it again… Urban Outfitters is in trouble with the Navajo Nation for using their name in vain to peddle nasty panties and flasks for their lil lushie customers. Native American-inspired prints have shown up on runways for years, and it’s common for designers to borrow from other cultures. But the Navajo government’s issue with Urban Outfitters is the clothing chain’s use of the name “Navajo” on its products and in marketing. The tribe holds at least 10 trademarks on the name that cover clothing, footwear, online retail sales, household products and textiles. The tribe’s Department of Justice sent Urban Outfitters CEO Glen Senk a cease-and-desist letter in June, demanding that the company pull the Navajo name from its products. The tribe has received no response but says it remains “cautiously optimistic” it can persuade Urban Outfitters to adopt another name and trademark. “When products that have absolutely no connection to the Navajo Nation, its entities, its people, and their products are marketed and retailed under the guise that they are Navajo in origin, the Navajo Nation does not regard this as benign or trivial,” said Brian Lewis, an attorney for the tribe. “It takes appropriate action to maintain distinctiveness and clarity of valid name association in the market and society.” Urban Outfitters, which has stores across the country and overseas, said it has not heard from the NavajoNation and has no plans to alter its products. “Like many other fashion brands, we interpret trends and will continue to do so for years to come,” company spokesman Ed Looram said. “The Native American-inspired trend and specifically the term ‘Navajo’ have been cycling through fashion, fine art and design for the last few years.” While the Navajo Nation has not threatened legal action, law professor Bill Hennessey thinks it has a strong case. He said the tribe could argue the products cause confusion among customers about who manufactured them. Hennessey points specifically to a trademark governing textiles that was registered to a Navajo Nation enterprise in 2008. “If you’re going to maintain control over your mark, the more quickly you bring an action against the infringer, the more likely the federal court is going to grant an injunction order prohibiting Urban Outfitters from continuing to use the word ‘Navajo,’” said Hennessey, who teaches at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property. Urban Outfitters labels more than 20 products on its website with the word “Navajo,” including jackets, earrings, scarves and sneakers. But the two items that have sparked possibly the most controversy online are the “Navajo Hipster Panty,” and the “Navajo Print Fabric Wrapped Flask.” Both have geometric designs common in Navajo arts and crafts. Dwayne Clauschee, a designer from the Navajo town of Chinle in Arizona, said Urban Outfitters and other clothing companies are trying to cash in on a trend he believes has been done more respectfully and tastefully in higher-end fashion. A “Navajo” flask is “extremely insensitive” considering the long history of alcohol abuse among Native tribes, many of which ban the sale and consumption of alcohol on their reservations, he said. The Navajo Nation is among them. And branding underwear as “Navajo” goes against the tribe’s spiritual beliefs of modesty and avoidance of indecency, Clauschee said. Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa from North Dakota who writes a Native American fashion blog, tells Urban Outfitters to knock it off. “Don’t claim Navajo, unless it’s Navajo, and you ain’t Navajo.” Sasha Houston Brown of the Santee Sioux Nation posted a letter online to the company saying it “has taken Indigenous life ways and artistic expressions and trivialized and sexualized them for the sake of corporate profit.” Well said… What do you think? Shouldn’t those Urban Outfitters wanksters be more apologetic???
What the fizzuck?! Someone better keep an eye on Whoopi Goldberg. During an appearance on “The View” Monday, Lady Gaga revealed that she once tried to pilfer a photo of Goldberg, one of the show’s hosts, during a stay at a New York City hotel. “I’m a huge, huge, huge Whoopi fan and there’s this one hotel that I stay at where there’s photos of you everywhere throughout the lobby,” explained Gaga, who came on the show as a guest host and to perform her new single, “You and I” “I went out with my friends one night, and we’d had a little bit to drink, and we … saw this photo of you and I said, ‘Oh, I love her so much, I just want to take her up to my room.” So she did, though she didn’t get to hold on to the Goldberg keepsake for long before hotel security showed up at her door and asked for it back. It’s not the first time that Gaga has found herself in a spot of trouble involving sticky fingers and a legendary performer. Source
