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Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 12:25 PM UTC
Maddow: Is Romney a “Gilligan’s Island” character?
The MSNBC host compares the GOP candidate to another multimillionaire who struggled to connect with the normal man
Much has been made this summer of Mitt Romney’s bizarre rhetorical choices on the stump. First there was the comment about being “unemployed“; more recently, the declaration that “corporations are people, my friend.” And those were just a few of many, as Rachel Maddow pointed out on her program last night. After reviewing all of the campaign materials, the MSNBC host couldn’t help but draw a comparison between Romney and another affable, if disconnected, multimillionaire who was thrust into frequent conversation with the hoi polloi: “Gilligan’s Island’s” Thurston Howell III.
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