Mother Jones Uses Video Scoop to Ask For Cash

This morning Mother Jones’s Washington Bureau Chief David Corn sent out a fundraising note to readers asking for donations in light of his big scoop. And why not gloat over such an exclusive? In short, don’t you want more exposé and undercover Mitt Romney videos? Don’t you want more “turbocharged investigative reporting?”

Dear So and So,

This week, Mother Jones broke one of the biggest stories of the presidential campaign: undercover video of Mitt Romney saying that 47 percent of Americans are freeloaders and that peace in the Middle East is not possible.