off or anything before, they have always just blanked us and pretended we did not exist. but today we got somewhere. okay. here s what it s about. back in early april, you may remember the mitt romney campaign trying to turn around its weakness with women voters by playing, i m rubber, you re glue, trying to make it seem like the obama administration had problems with women voters and that mitt romney did not. the romney campaign convened a conference call with reporters to push that message, and on that conference call this happened. the next question will come from tom stein with huffington post. please go ahead. does governor romney support the lilly ledbetter act? we ll get back to you on that. and that was not a trick question being asked by sam stein, that was a question about the first piece of legislation that president obama signed into law, a law that gives women access to the courts to sue if they re paid less than men for doing the same work. on the call convened by
whoo! they have never before even tried to say, what? or tell us no comment or buzz off or anything before, they have always just blanked us and pretended we did not exist. but today we got somewhere. okay. here s what it s about. back in early april, you may remember the mitt romney campaign trying to turn around its weakness with women voters by playing, i m rubber, you re glue, trying to make it seem like the obama administration had problems with women voters and that mitt romney did not. the romney campaign convened a conference call with reporters to push that message, and on that komconference call this happened. the next question will come from tom stein with huffington post. please go ahead. does governor romney support the lilly ledbetter act? we ll get back to you on that. and that was not a trick question being asked by sam stein, that was a question about the first piece of legislation that president obama signed into law, a law that gives women
but today we got somewhere. okay. here s what it s about. back in early april, you may remember the mitt romney campaign trying to turn around its weakness with women voters by playing, i m rubber, you re glue, trying to make it seem like the obama administration had problems with women voters and that mitt romney did not. the romney campaign convened a conference call with reporters to push that message, and on that conference call this happened. the next question will come from tom stein with huffington post. please go ahead. does governor romney support the lilly ledbetter act? we ll get back to you on that. and that was not a trick question being asked by sam stein, that was a question about the first piece of legislation that president obama signed into law, a law that gives women access to the courts to sue if they re paid less than men for doing the same work. on the call convened by the romney campaign to talk about president obama s record on
doesn t necessarily prove anything anymore. consider, for instance, the real romney. that s another twitter account that s live right now. even though it has mitt romney s picture on it and mitt romney s name and it says the real romney, the real romney is not real. the presumed republican nominee is not, for example, tweeting about who let the dogs out. this is satire. the joke depends on you being smart enough to catch on, and it s funnier because it says, i m real, i m real, when it s plainly not real. when people say they are the authentic something online now, when people call themselves real online now, are we at a point where that can still be an authentic assertion, or is it always a joke now? it s important in practical terms sometimes. for example, to cover a recent political story, some researchers on this show took the good part of a day once trying to figure out how real this youtube account was. rebecca for real, it s called. it says real in that it s rebecca fo
consider, for instance, the real romney. that s another twitter account that s live right now. even though it has mitt romney s picture on it and mitt romney s name and it says the real romney, the real romney is not real. the presumed republican nominee is not, for example, tweeting about who let the dogs out. this is satire. the joke depends on you being smart enough to catch on, and it s funnier because it says, i m real, i m real, when it s plainly not real. when people say they are the authentic something online now, when people call themselves real online now, are we at a point where that can still be an authentic assertion, or is it always a joke now? it s important in practical terms sometimes. for example, to cover a recent political story, some researchers on this show took the good part of a day once trying to figure out how real this youtube account was. rebecca for real, it s called. it says real in that it s rebecca for real, but it s also kind of unbelievable.