{"id":8226,"date":"2012-10-17T16:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2012-10-17T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:08:43","slug":"binders-full-of-women-humor-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/10\/17\/binders-full-of-women-humor-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Lady-Filled Binders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The oddest line of last night’s presidential debate has to be Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Romney used that phrase when responding to a question about gender inequality in the workplace: He claimed that he’d proactively solicited such binders in order to staff his cabinet with women. <\/p>\n

“…we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet.<\/p>\n

“I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even if Mitt’s claim were true, which apparently it isn’t<\/a>, this begs the question: Was Romney the Massachusetts Governor … or running an escort service? <\/p>\n

Limerick Ode To Lady-Filled Binders
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Romney goes through his life wearing blinders
\nAnd surrounded by yes-men and minders.
\nI suppose this explains
\nWhy Romney’s campaign’s
\nSo proud of his women-filled binders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The oddest line of last night’s presidential debate has to be Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women.” Romney used that phrase when responding to a question about gender inequality in the workplace: He claimed that he’d proactively solicited such binders in order to staff his cabinet with women. “…we took a concerted effort to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,124,21,121,153,20,126,6,7,3,9,88,17],"tags":[2128,2129,2786,2802,2764,557,1408,2130,857,1250,1862,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8241,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}