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Cayman Islands Based Gawker Media Attacks Mitt Romney for Cayman Island Assets

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 23rd, 2012 at 05:51 PM  | 

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This is actually pretty hilarious.

Gawker, the site that has spent lots of time also ridiculing Sarah Palin and Trig Palin and pretty much writing every other offensive thing you can think of, is now attacking Mitt Romney for having assets based in the Cayman Islands.

The Romney camp is gleefully pointing out that Gawker, you may not know, is based in the Cayman Islands.

According to Chris Rovzar at New York Magazine, Gawker is owned by Gawker Media Group, Inc, a Cayman Islands Entity.

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  • evilbloggerlady

    If only Glenn Reynolds was doing one of his annual scuba diving trips this week to the Caymans!

  • jakee308

    my supplement today.

  • skip1982

    “Gawker isn’t running for President so it doesn’t matter. Rich people who want to be President shouldn’t do any legal things to avoid taxes, blah blah blah.”

  • annabella

    Tell me who does not take every step to keep their money out of the Federal Gov. hands? We do every year.

    We worked hard for our retirement, now we are no better off than “low income” families. I worked 2 jobs most of my life. I ran a business, “I built” and worked full time Marketing.
    Now, the way our Gov. has taxed us to death on everything from milk to property, we would be better off had we not worked 40 years to have a decent retirement. It all goes for the things that “low income” families get. They are allowed to keep what they get for other things, while the tax payers picks up the tab for their housing, day care, food, phones, insurance, utilities, transportation, medicine, schools, (private if their grades are low)

  • salemst

    Eriick, so Gawker, a Hungarian company, with US subsidiaries is located on the Cayman Islands avoiding US taxes reports on Mitt Romney’s Cayman Island investing avoiding taxes?

    Other financial publications–either Forbes or Fortune–said they had this information and didn’t published it cause, “there was nothing there.”

    Liberals have clamored Romney’s a hypocrite cause even in a blind trust he could specify areas he didn’t want invested in. Did it ever occur to them that investing, itself, is gambling so provided the investment is legal but the individual (Romney) isn’t engaging in it (gambling/smoking) the Mormon Church clearly can’t have a problem with someone investing, say, in Sheldon Adelson’s company?

    Likely not.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Tax evasion is illegal and immoral but tax avoidance is the patriotic duty of every American. His meaning being: you pay the government what you legally owe, one dime more harms the economy by removing that capital from the market.

    That the tax laws are written so that parking capital outside of the US is more advantageous than circulating it in the US economy is a fault of Barack Obama’s tax laws and not Mitt Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper.

  • fredmatic1

    Ignorance of finance and our constitution seem to be the life blood of the left. Seems they operate under the premise that the government OWN’s the money and that they, out of the goodness in their heart, let us use the money. The only thing you can say to this is that ignorance is bliss, which would also point to the fact that laziness must be bliss also, because the ignorant and the lazy seem to get supported by robbing from the producing people. Kinda like the parable of the ant and the grasshopper….. I can’t wait for winter………..

  • celador2

    John Kerry married a billionaire, Mrs Teresa Heinz, but there was little drum beat interest in her tax returns. But there was no interest in John Kerry’s tax returns either 2004.

    Afterall a Democrat super rich nominee is in touch and all that, say the media and watch dog groups.

  • MF

    Tax evasion is illegal and immoral but tax avoidance is the patriotic duty of every American.

    Wow! What a great quote! What school did you go to, to hear something like that? It must have been a private school, probably a Christian school, because you’ll never hear anything like that in our public schools. (BTW, I’m assuming a university, but leaving it open that it might have been high school econ, which would be even more impressive.)