A Story Untold

Matt Taibbi would be the most dangerous man in America if anybody paid real attention to what he reports.  Unfortunately, the stories reveal the fact that guys like Willard are doing these hugely horrible things in hugely public ways - they're pulling off their capers in broad daylight - and we want so desperately to believe they wouldn't be doing this right in front of us if it wasn't OK, that we just sit there and watch, not even wondering why the "cops" are sitting there watching with us.

And this is where we get to the hypocrisy at the heart of Mitt Romney. Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a "turnaround specialist," a shrewd financial operator who revived moribund companies as a high-priced consultant for a storied Wall Street private equity firm. But what most voters don't know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: by borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back. This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America's top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns: Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time. In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on planet Earth.