The Real News has the video Major Banks Help Clients Hide Trillions in Offshore Tax Havens.

According to these number a ¼ or more of the annual gross national product of the world is hidden away in tax havens.

I wonder how much of this money is invested in non-productive financial derivatives with a notional value that is 14 times the gross national product of the world.

First, I’ll give you the Obama campaign response from  the news story.

According to Faux Noise, Mr. Obama responded to the Romney campaign by saying “Mitt Romney and his campaign have completely fabricated a claim that the Obama campaign is trying to restrict military voting in Ohio. In fact, the opposite is true. The Obama campaign filed a lawsuit to make sure every Ohioan, including military members and their families, has early voting rights over the last weekend prior to the election.”
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“Along with the DNC and Ohio Democratic Party, this campaign filed a lawsuit to reinstate equal, early-voting rights for all Ohioans — rights the Republican-controlled legislature arbitrarily stripped away this past year,” said Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, in an email to supporters.

Then, I will give you the headline to the story, Mitt Romney slams Obama lawsuit targeting military voting law.

The Republicans have a knack for passing laws to screw one set of citizens and then blaming people who complain of being against the set of citizens who were not screwed.  Cute trick.  I wonder how many people are silly enough to buy this tactic.

I suppose the Democrats could have avoided being branded this way if they just let the Republicans get away with restricting early voting.

And I suppose the new media could have avoided playing into the Repubilcans’ hands by choosing the shorter headline that I used instead of the one they did use.