The next in a long line of celebrities attacking Mitt Romney is celebrated former journalist, author, and The Wire creator David Simon.
The Baltimore native was apparently taken aback at a recent statement from the GOP presidential candidate.
On his blog, Simon commented on Romney’s recent admission that he paid at least “13 percent” in taxes over the past few years, facing previous accusations that he has avoided paying taxes on his various sources of income. Simon said, “Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit.”
The comments come after Los Angeles band Silversun Pickups asked the Romney campaign to stop using their song “Panic Switch.” Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello also wrote an op-ed in Rolling Stone against Romney’s Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Ryan had noted how much he likes Rage Against the Machine but Morello, an outspoken activist, noted that Ryan is “the embodiment the machine our music rages against.”
You can read Simon’s entire entry here.
