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Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project for Mozilla. From 2008-2011 he taught in the journalism department at Columbia College Chicago where he focused on entrepreneurial journalism and the mobile web. He is the author of the popular @MayorEmanuel twitter account and is the creator of the election tracker the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard, the mobile storytelling project CellStories, and was the founding editor of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet until its closure in 2007. He is the editor of We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews and was a 2007-08 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

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The single worst, most mind-bendingly awful, moment in tonight’s VP debate goes to Paul Ryan:

Mitt Romney’s a car guy. They keep misquoting him, but let me tell you about the Mitt Romney I know. This is a guy who — I was talking to a family in Northborough, Massachusetts the other day, Cheryl and Mark Nixon. Their kids were hit in a car crash, four of them — two of them, Rob and Reid, were paralyzed. The Romneys didn’t know them. They went to the same church. They never met before.

Mitt asked if he could come over on Christmas. He brought his boys, his wife and gifts. Later on he said, I know you’re struggling, Mark. Don’t worry about their college; I’ll pay for it.

When Mark told me this story — because you know what, Mitt Romney doesn’t tell these stories.

The Nixons told this story. When he told me this story, he said it wasn’t the help — the cash help; it’s that he gave his time, and he has consistently. This is a man who gave 30 percent of his income to charity, more than the two of us combined. Mitt Romney’s a good man. He cares about a hundred percent of Americans in this country.

That’s right: “Mitt Romney’s a car guy, now I’m going to tell you a story about kids paralyzed in a car crash.”

Who the fuck thought that was a good segue to a tragic story. And more importantly, what sociopathic debate coach thought it was OK to tell an anecdote about a car crash to a man who lost his wife and daughter in one.

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    lack of sensitivity
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  17. cvxn said: He really gave a clinic on Tone-Deafness. Props to Joey B for stifling the guffaw none of us could at home.
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    This was a moment, were it not for trying to play debate bingo, I would’ve punched the monitor.
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    Seriously. I mean, for cryin’ in the beer! How does that even work? The deaths of his wife Neilia and his daughter are a...
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    The whole time he was telling this story I just couldn’t get over how inappropriate this whole story was. Like really?...
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    this just made me sad. I don’t care about politics or debates - this was foolish and tasteless.
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    FYI Joe Biden’s...a car accident 40 years ago.
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    The single worst, most mind-bendingly awful, moment in tonight’s VP debate goes to Paul Ryan: That’s right: “Mitt...
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    What’s amazing and insane about this is that it was obviously a planned and memorized set piece that they were eager to...
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