{"id":289,"date":"2012-03-24T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=289"},"modified":"2013-12-27T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:27:50","slug":"the-real-slim-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2012\/03\/24\/the-real-slim-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Slim Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (feat. Eminem)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxch-yi14BE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australian attorney and satirist <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hmatkin.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Hugh Atkin<\/span><\/a><\/span> put together this ingenious video of Romney clips set to Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;The Real Slim Shady.&#8221; \u00a0Atkins manages to achieve a clever and consistent rhyme scheme while, at the same time, mocking Mitt Romney&#8217;s own inconsistencies over the years. \u00a0He also captures some of Romney&#8217;s best campaign trail gaffes, made all the more humorous when set to this soundtrack. \u00a0Good stuff, and definitely a glimpse of the challenges Romney will face in the general election when he is forced to confront his, uh, evolving positions on a range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, why is it that I keep hearing more and more about the Australian hip hop scene? \u00a0Is it growing or just getting more attention here? \u00a0American rappers have been touring there for a very long time, but I am also hearing more on this side of the globe from Australian rappers like <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iggy_Azalea\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Iggy Azalea<\/span><\/a><\/span>, whose most recent album was produced by T.I. \u00a0And I recently learned that New Jersey rapper GDP, still more of a local phenom than a national figure, went to Australia to produce his latest album. \u00a0(Thanks to Mickey Hess for that tidbit.) \u00a0It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve heard of an American rapper traveling down under for production&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian attorney and satirist Hugh Atkin put together this ingenious video of Romney clips set to Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;The Real Slim Shady.&#8221; \u00a0Atkins manages to achieve a clever and consistent rhyme scheme while, at the same time, mocking Mitt Romney&#8217;s own inconsistencies over the years. \u00a0He also captures some of Romney&#8217;s best campaign trail gaffes, made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2012\/03\/24\/the-real-slim-romney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Real Slim Romney<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}