Why has this huge gaffe not gotten more attention? Romney: corporations are people, my friend

[CurtEastPoint]

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[denem]

1. Umm. is this a joke?

Why nobody, not even Stephen Colbert, heard a word about it.

[tridim]

2. Because the "news" is owned by corporations.

[nenagh]

3. Years ago, I watched a documentary about Corporations.....

And it seems to me that there was a legal case in which corporations were determined to be, or perhaps could be classified as 'people'......which gave them certain rights.... and benefits....

But I am not a lawyer.... far from it....

I would be curious if anyone else saw the documentary... or has greater knowledge on the subject.

I know that to say corporations are people sounds ridiculous.....and I easily could be misremembering


I should say that I watched it in Canada, whether that makes a difference, I don't know.......

[K Gardner]

4. I've seen it multiple, multiple times.. at least on MSNBC. If Romney wins, it'll get traction.

[doc03]

5. I have heard it gazillions of times on MSNBC. He is technically

right, corporations are owned by the stockholders and stockholders are people. I am not saying a corporation should have the same rights as a person but people do own corporations. You tax a corporation the cost of the tax is passed on to the customers in higher prices.

[liberaltalkingpoints]

6. all of the above and

many doofus americans do not understand the controversy in his statement. More people need to wake up to the fact that corporations and groups do not deserve the rights granted by the constitution, only individual humans deserve these rights.