{"id":5148,"date":"2011-08-12T00:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2011-08-12T00:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:24:24","slug":"mitt-romney-corporations-are-people-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney: Corporations Are People, My Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The front-runner for the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney, took a courageous stand today in support of the browbeaten, wealthy corporations of America:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wOIMXxytv2U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Corporations are people. They&#8217;re born, they live, they dream, they love. And that&#8217;s not all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8Sp-VFBbjpE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Soylent Green is people. Corporations are people. And don&#8217;t even get me started on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4\" target=\"_blank\">Depeche Mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time somebody stood up for the downtrodden multinationals. When will society treat them fairly and allow them to marry and to serve in the armed forces? While they can&#8217;t vote, at least they can manipulate elections with their riches because the Supreme Court has ruled that money is speech. And since corporations have more money than <em>&#8220;ordinary&#8221;<\/em> people, they get more speech.<\/p>\n<p>Aint Democracy grand? Way to go, Mitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front-runner for the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney, took a courageous stand today in support of the browbeaten, wealthy corporations of America: That&#8217;s right. Corporations are people. They&#8217;re born, they live, they dream, they love. And that&#8217;s not all&#8230; Soylent Green is people. Corporations are people. And don&#8217;t even get me started on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,15],"tags":[260,301],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-humor","tag-mitt-romney","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1l2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7330,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7330","url_meta":{"origin":5148,"position":0},"title":"John McCain Throws Mitt Romney Under The Corporate People&#8217;s Bus","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/16\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember when Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, NJ, disagreed with President Obama's attacks on Wall Street? 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