Cynthia Tucker: What Hilary Rosen Meant To Say

HOME POLITICS NATIONAL NEWS WORLD ECONOMY SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT Joe Conason Carl Hiaasen Connie Schultz E.J. Dionne Gene Lyons Jonathan Alter April 17, 2012 THE BIG STORY, BY CYNTHIA TUCKER What Hilary Rosen Meant To Say Romney's experience of motherhood is significantly different from that of moms around the country whose family incomes hover at the median of $50,000 a year. And even I understand that my status as a longtime salaried professional has enabled me to escape the harried life of moms who rouse their children early for the ride to the day care center; who can't attend PTA meetings unless they can pay for a baby sitter; who do all the cooking, housecleaning and shopping in addition to wiping dirty noses. READ MORE DON'T BE EVIL Why The FCC Fined Google Just 68 Seconds In Profits The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday it is slapping a fine on Google for deliberately impeding an investigation into the collection of sensitive wireless network data as part of the search giant's Street View mapping project. The amount of the fine: $25,000. That figure is, of course, barely a rounding error for the company. Google made $2.89 billion last quarter, or $25,000 in profits every 68 seconds. In fact, Google will have recouped the fine in less than the time it takes you to read this article. READ MORE VIDEO OF THE DAY Romney: All Moms Are Working Moms (Unless They're On Welfare) A recently unearthed video promises to erode Mitt Romney's moral high ground on the "working moms" controversy. While campaigning in New Hampshire last January, he said "even if you have a child two years of age, you have to go to work." That speech wasn't the only time Romney has slammed stay-at-home moms. In his autobiography, the former Massachusetts governor insists that children of "nonworking parents" will be conditioned to lead "an indolent and unproductive life." READ MORE FEATURED COLUMN: JONATHAN WEIL JPMorgan's 'London Whale' Could Use A New Nickname Late last week, a little-known trader at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, Bruno Iksil, awoke to find his life changed forever. In an instant, Iksil had become famous as the guy who infuriated some of his bank's counterparts so much that they complained he was skewing the credit-derivatives markets with his outsized bets, one of which they said may be as large as $100 billion. Worse yet, the world learned Iksil had earned two unforgettable nicknames: (1) The London Whale, and (2) Voldemort, after the Harry Potter villain. READ MORE FEATURED COLUMN: MARY SANCHEZ Is The Catholic Hierarchy Really Committed To Rooting Out Abusive Priests? The headline on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reads like good news: "Child Protection Audits Find Nearly All Dioceses Compliant." What they were complying with, as the accompanying press release explained, was a set of zero-tolerance policies the bishops conference put in place a decade ago. The view from Kansas City is far less consoling. In September, its local bishop will stand trial in criminal court for failing to report suspected child sexual abuse. READ MORE AROUND THE WORLD Norway Killer Admits Massacre, Claims Self-Defense With a defiant closed-fist salute, a far-right fanatic admitted Monday to a bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he acted in self-defense. READ MORE CARTOON OF THE DAY   (c) 2012 Eastern Harbor Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 28 West 27th Street, Suite 502 New York, NY 10001