The economy won't ever recover with President Barack Obama in office, Mitt Romney told a crowd this afternoon in rural Pungo.
"He doesn't have a plan," Romney said to cheers. "He doesn't have any ideas. We've got to make sure he doesn't have any more days in office after January."
He spoke to several hundred people who had gathered hours earlier in an aircraft hangar to hear the Republican presidential nominee.
Oh, he spoke to "several hundred people," well that's a nice size crowd. Don't you think? (Update: Okay WTF? What you see above is EXACTLY what was written at Pilot Online when I cut and pasted it for this post, however NOW the number of attendees has been changed to "more than 2,800." Look I don't want to throw around accusations, but something does not smell right here. See below for a screenshot of the original article.)
I'm sorry, HOW MANY people came to see the President today?
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| Photo courtesy of the Obama Diary. |
Hoping to blunt any momentum his rival has picked up in Florida since the GOP convention, Obama opened his bus trip in the Interstate 4 corridor, which cuts through the center of the the state from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic, with a rally for 11,000 in St. Petersburg, not far from Tampa. Obama’s 30-minute speech closely tracked his nomination acceptance speech Thursday in Charlotte.
Oh, 11,0000 huh? That's kind of a lot.
I mean that is if you consider the number of supporters an important factor in determining who gets elec...yeah Mitt Romney's fucked!
(H/T to Politicususa.)
Update: Here is the screenshot of the Pilot Online article when I originally linked to it.
Also worth noting is that the byline has been changed from Mike Hixenbaugh to Sarah Hutchins. Apparently SOMEBODY did not like the information contained in the original story.
So THIS is how it's going to play out this election cycle is it? Everybody needs to be aware that shit like this is happening.
Several hundred? Romeny's crowd looks like about 50 people. Bwahahaha!
ReplyDeleteI hope we give the republican's a shellacking this November. It would do my heart good!
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Did he have to issue them 'free stuff' too, like he did the college students? I think the only way Mitt will have any signs anywhere is if he plants them himself by the roadways. I'd have some sympathy, but as the GOP wants to F*** us all, especially we women, I'll just let him and Paulie boy pretend they have a chance to ruin this country come January. As I have been saying. 40 multimillionare donors is still only 40 votes. This could be a bigger landslide than last time...not one like Liar Sarah, but TWO!
ReplyDeleteNow lets be honest. We dont have to lie like palinbots do. Much as I hate to say it, the article you note states 2800 !
ReplyDeleteBy Sarah Hutchins
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 8, 2012
VIRGINIA BEACH
Just four weeks after he appeared in the heart of downtown Norfolk to announce his running mate, Mitt Romney returned to Hampton Roads on Saturday. This time, he made his pitch to be president in a surprisingly pastoral setting.
More than 2,800 people inched down a rural two-line stretch of Princess Anne Road to get to the Military Aviation Museum in Pungo. By mid-morning, several hours before the Republican nominee was scheduled to appear, vehicles were parked in two-deep rows in a large grassy field near the museum hangar.
This is NOT what it said when I linked to the article.
DeleteThe story has now been altered.
It's also quoted your way - even at c4p - and elsewhere. Do we have any rel crowd shots?
DeleteBy the way if you check my link to Politicususa you will see that they still have the original information that I posted.
DeleteNot all 2,800 were there for Romney. Most were there to visit the Museum on a typical late summer Saturday.
DeleteAnon 5:40 PM
DeletePres. Obama sold out 15,000 tickets. Romney had only a FEW HUNDRED show up.
I too saw the original article and laughed at the pitiful attendance at Romney's appearance. What I didn't see is the white-out and rewrite of the article. Thank you for that, Gryphen. It is very important to hold the medias's feet to the fire on reporting the facts, not spin. Just watched David Gregory lob softballs at the Romneys. No follow-up questions. All questions were approved and the answers rehearsed.
DeleteHere's the truth:
ReplyDeleteThe economy won't ever recover with Mitt Romney as President. Mitt Romney doesn't have a plan. Mitt Romney doesn't have any ideas. We've got to make sure he doesn't get elected in November.
Ditto!
DeletePretty soon Romney will have teabagger math where the media counts 5 for each person there.
ReplyDeleteMitt does seem to be in trouble. OT: Did anyone else see the interesting slate article comparing Paul Ryan to Sarah Palin? The emperor had no clothes in 2008.... and still has no clothes, policy-wise in 2012:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2012/09/08/flip_side_of_sarah_palin/
All he ever says is Obama doesn't have a plan what is romney's plan? Oh and where is his taxes?
ReplyDeleteGryphen, this is definitely off topic, but I thought it'd amuse both you and the rest of the IMers.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever watch the Food Network cable channel? There's a program currently about 1/3 through its season called "The Great Food Truck Race" with chef Tyler Florence hosting.
The winning team's prize is the food truck they're using to compete.
One of the remaining teams is "Mama Grizzly's Grub" out of Wasilla, Alaska. Nice to know some folks in Wasilla can cook!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/mommas-grizzly-grub/index.html
What's really funny is that when you listen to them talk, they sound JUST like Bristol and Willow and their friends, like the two girls did in that awful reality show "Life's a Tripp".
I don't mean to give the Palin clan any ideas, but they COULD enter a Food Network competition -- like "Worst Cooks In America".
http://www.foodnetwork.com/worst-cooks-in-america/index.html
That idea sounds like something those morons would try. Moose! All we eat in Alaska cuz we are so wild and frontiery is moose! And whale blubber from whales that we harpooned ourselves and dragged back to the beach.
DeleteOf course then the real reality would set in. Palins? Cook? The show would be nothing but puzzled Palins milling around the "kitchen room" wondering what the appliances do and how to hook them up to the internet so the food be be delivered to them.
This is a repeat of 2008.
ReplyDeleteRomney is the same as McCain. Tanked when they stumped on their own. Drew more when they stumped with their stunned wingmen.
Remember -- the majority of stump stops for McCain was with Palin. The same is happening with Romney & Ryan. It's the only way to make it appear they're drawing people. Ann -- call it what it is -- a joke. The majority of time she too is with Romney, just like Cindy McCain as she rarely gave speeches.
Flotus, Potus & Joe can all stump on their own and draw thousands -- all by themselves.
Here's a great link showing Romney's fast decline in the polls, most instances he's on his own. I think it'll be even worse than 2008!
Deletehttp://www.nationalmemo.com/why-romneys-poll-numbers-are-falling-fast/
Here's some longer range shots, but still doesn't lk "packed" or like 2800. And it's lookin' awful pale in there, not to mention ooooooooollllllllllddddddd.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the link?
DeleteYeah. Check the PoliticusUSA article. Pat Robertson; way to reel in the young ones, Mitty.
DeleteLook, if Romney wants to have an intimate event for a few hundred people inside an airplane hanger, that's fine. President Obama has held small, focused events.
ReplyDeleteBut there is VIDEO of the event online at politicusa and it shows the hundreds of attendees. So to deliberately lie and scrub an article and inflate that to 2800? That's just low-rent. That's pathetic. That shows that the Romney campaign can't tell the truth about anything, no matter how insignificant.
Romney disgusts me. When i listen to him my skin crawls.. I think he's a psychopath.
I hope what he's hiding in his tax returns destroys him.
It's like Fox using pics from another event and representing that it was the Beck event. That didn't work for them either!!!
DeleteI don't know my Bible very well but I don't think that there is a 'Thou shall not lie' commandment is there?
DeleteOnly kidding. I think it's the bear false witness thing or something like that and Romney and Ryan are breakin' that one all over the place. Oh, but that's okay cuz they're Republicans and they're allowed. What a bunch of douches. Hope to hell the American likely voters are smart enough not to fall for those liars!
Isn't "2800" an odd number? If people had tickets and they counted ticket stubs, okay. But if you are estimating, why not say "almost 3000"?
DeleteDuring the primary season, photographers were not allowed to show the whole empty space where Mitt was talking. The last time they did that was in Detroit and it must have infuriated him. What they show is close up to the platform and the people in attendance bunched close in.
Beaglemom
Hehehe Teabagger math again.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is most republicans don't like Mitt and he lost the independent vote when he picked Lyin' Ryan.
He is going to lose for the same reason McCain lost,
he pandered to the base and took a bagger as VP.
As in the primary when Mittens held an event in a sports venue. The pictures released show people sitting in chairs on the floor of the venue and a drape behind the stage. Pictures taken from the back of the floor seats showed how few were there. Other pics surfaced showing all the seating in the stands totally empty.
DeleteThis is typical BS gaming by the Thugs
In polls, he is quite a bit ahead in the independent vote. It's a bit scary. Mitt is also farther ahead with whites and men.
DeleteTalking Points Memo has a good summary of the polls and also they have an app now.
I love Josh Marshall but am I the only one who thinks TPM is run by a bunch of Negative Nellies? EVERY story has a GOP-leaning line. Maybe this is reversed psychology but it's getting old. I've been turning to wwwfivethirtyeight.com if I want to see some well-researched polls.
DeleteI'm with Anon 5:24. TPM has shown their bias way too many times, fivethirtyeight's people go out of their way to research, fact check,and compare apples to apples.
Delete"So THIS is how it's going to play out this election cycle is it?"
ReplyDeleteThis is EXACTLY how it's going to play out this election cycle. What else do they have?
Relive the glory of DNC!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/DemConvention2012/videos?sort=p&flow=grid&view=0
Gryphen, speaking of media hackery, you need to check out what Politico's been doing:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129264/-Politico-in-All-out-MELTDOWN-Over-DNC-Convention
I'm so glad others are bringing this out into the spotlight. When I clicked on Politico the day after Obama's speech, and saw that virtually EVERYTHING they had up was a negative Obama headline, I was stunned by how blantant they were being.
It's like they decided to say "to hell with even trying to pretend to be subtle, let's go all out with our agenda!"
I did not know that the guy who runs it worked as Reagan's Chief of Staff.
It explains a lot, and it really is perverted, because the mass media uses Politico as a source a lot, as if they are an unbiased news presenting source.
If you could do a post on this, and bring more attention to it, it would be great.
Bill Maher, just slapped Politico's editor, Jim VandeHei, down on Real Time last night. Jim started in with the false equivalency bs.
I always knew Jim was a hack, though. Joe Scarborough mentioned that he's always emailing & talking to him, so it's clear that they're likeminded. Jim almost always carries Republican water when he makes tv appearances.
Nothing the RNC does is stunning anymore. I mean Rob-me & Lyin' Ryan even came out with an ad saying "we don't need no fact checkers". We will lie to your face & tell you our plan AFTER you elect us. Who needs facts? Facts are for snobs! It seems their platform is based entirely on lies and their counting on their supporters to go along with it. No shame whatsoever.
DeleteI totally agree! I saw the VandeHei appearance on Maher and he was such a weasel. Dems learned lots in the '04 and '10 election and we're not going to take it anymore! I am so thankful that places like IM and DailyKos are around to get the message out early and often! Thanks Gryphen! PS I thought you had been "offed" by the Pallin Crime family when you went missing last week. Glad it was only a mother nature storm. :-)
DeleteKissimmee: Fired Up!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8msipnLQsNw&feature=
You’re Damn Right We’re Better off; hundreds (yes hundreds) of reasons listed
ReplyDeletehttp://freakoutnation.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-09-05T00:44:00-04:00&max-results=1&start=1&by-date=false
Partners in Extremism - DNC Destroys Romney Over "I Want Steve King as My Partner"
ReplyDeleteYesterday, while speaking at Northwestern College in Iowa, Mitt Romney pointed to Rep. Steve King and proclaimed, This man needs to be your Congressman again – and I want him as my partner in Washington, D.C.
It has taken little time for the DNC to pounce, and it's a doosey called "Partners in Extremism" that deserves to go viral, in my humble opinion.
Decide for yourself:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129463/-Partners-in-Extremism-DNC-Destroys-Romney-Over-I-Want-Steve-King-as-My-Partner-w-Brutal-Video
OUCH! That HAD to hurt! Pretty hard to "refudiate", they're actual clips of the scum spewing his bigoted teathug talking points.
DeleteYou know, any normal candidate, after comparing conventions, would fire their entire campaign staff and start over. Especially Mitt who's been on record , on all possible sides of every issue before he was against it.
While campaigning in Florida on Saturday, the president stopped in at Gator Dockside, a Florida sports bar that boasts 19 big-screen televisions and 15 chicken-wing sauces. After grabbing a beer, shaking hands, and leading a chorus in singing “Happy Birthday,” Obama met someone from his home state.
ReplyDelete"My young son," a woman said to the president, pointing across the table and conferring further with Obama.
"He's a Hawaiian!" Obama exclaimed, looking up to face Andre Wupperman, who now lives in Orlando and will turn 7 next week, according to pool reporters.
"Do you know how to do a shaka?" he asked, making the Hawaiian gesture with his thumb and pinky finger.
"You were born in Hawaii?" he asked the child next, then pointed at him. "Do you have a birth certificate?"
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/08/obama-to-young-hawaiian-you-have-a-birth-certificate/comment-page-1/#comment-4388723
I call bullshit! This area is literally my backyard and there was no traffic problems which would have happened if the numbers the pilot said was there. It is a very conservative area as it voted for McCain, but the pilot exaggerated.
ReplyDeleteStewart Rips Into Fox For Its Hypocritical Coverage Of RNC And DNC Conventions
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-rips-into-fox-news-for-its-hypocritical-coverage-of-rnc-and-dnc-conventions/
Romney Pulls a Palin at a NASCAR Race!
ReplyDeleteMittens spent the afternoon desperately trying to act like a guy you'd like to have a non-alcoholic beer, handing out FREE hot dogs at a NASCAR race in Richmond, Virginia.
If you remember. earlier this year, Romney really screwed up, insulting working class NASCAR fans by making fun of their poor rain jackets and saying he didn't follow NASCAR but had dear friends who owned NASCAR racing teams.
A competent campaign staff, knowing Mittens is genetically gaffe prone ("My dad was brainwashed in Viet Nam") and unable to interact with regular people would keep Romney away from the public, but these clowns (no offense to Bozos) never learn.
So today they trotted Mittens out to a NASCAR event for the sequel: Gaffe Theft Auto II.
He was asked who was his favorite NASCAR driver, and he replied, ..... wait for it.... "I've got a lot of drivers I like. Thanks."
You could here the echo of Palin saying, "all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years", when she as asked what newspapers do you read.
If you are going to show up to a baseball game or football game, you can expect someone to ask you, what is your favorite team, who is your favorite player. It's basic. And yet, they couldn't even prep Mittens for this.
And even if you don't know a single thing about NASCAR, you could have answered Danica Patrick. How could he not know about her!?!?!?!? She's ubiquitous with her Super Bowl ads and various interviews.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129490/-Romney-Pulls-a-Palin-at-a-NASCAR-Race
Did they have to give Romney red-neck coaching for this event?
DeleteIt was more than 11,000 who came to hear Pres. Obama. 15,000 tickets were sold and there were people who could not get in because tickets sold out.
ReplyDelete#DavidGregorysToughQuestions is trending on twitter for the Meet the Press interview. Take a look - it's pretty funny. We all know that DG won't ask those kind though.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/#!/search/%23DavidGregorysToughQuestions
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HA HA HA!
Delete"My tongue in your ear, it isn't distracting you, Governor?"
Too funny!!
Is it me, or does David Gregory look like an extra for a "Planet of the Apes" movie? I watched the "love fest" on the empty roof this morning, Dick Gregory fed him softball questions like feeding a toddler, all that was missing was a bib and spoon to scrape it up his chin and in his mouth.
Seriously, what happened to the mainstream news?
President Obama is my President; he is OUR President. I am so very proud to have him as my President.
ReplyDeleteI am so very proud to be a Democrat and so proud to support the reelection of President Barack Obama.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/07/1128821/-I-AM-SO-PROUD-TO-BE-A-DEMOCRAT
And we're not taking ANY guff this time from the teabagging GOP who believes corporations are people and are trying their best to cheat the system by disenfranchising voters for fake made up reasons. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Dems, Liberals and Progressives learned a hard lesson and guess what spineless GOP...WE HAVE A BACK BONE. All you have is lie after lie after lie!
DeleteApparently Sir MIttance the Awesome and Saintly will be appearing Tomorrow morning on Meet the Press with his loyal Squier David Gregory.
ReplyDeletePeople on Twitter think Gregory should ask him some very pointed questions.
#DavidGregorysToughQuestions Is Breaking Twitter.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129448/--DavidGregorysToughQuestions-Is-Breaking-Twitter
Apparently the interview includes Miss Ann & was pretaped - will be interesting to see how the questions go compared to the twitter collection.
DeleteSarah used her children to stop media questions - Mitt uses his wife. President Obama - answers the hard questions
Birthers, you’re not going to like this one.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama was schmoozing his way around the sports bar Gator’s Dockside, chatting up families and posing for photos as part of his campaign bus tour of Florida on Saturday night, when he stopped at a table of 10 people, including several children.
“He was born in Hawaii,” one woman said, pointing to a blond boy down the table.
The president lit up and flashed the Hawaiian shaka hand sign, which the boy — Andre Wupperman, who will be 7 next week — returned.
“You were born in Hawaii?” Mr. Obama asked, then broke out into a smile. “You have a birth certificate?”
The table burst into laughter.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/obama-makes-birth-certificate-joke/?smid=FB-nytimes&WT.mc_id=PO-E-FB-SM-PIX-OMB-090812-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
Check this out everyone:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129483/-Romney-Campaign-Admits-Down-in-Ohio-by-High-Single-Digits
Romney can NOT win if he loses Ohio. That's a lie. In order to win without OH, he needs to win, WI, VA, FL and NC -- and of those, he's probably only going to win NC (and even that might be in doubt). Then, I think, he'd need to win IA, NV, NH and CO and Obama has some pretty tidy leads in those states. Or, basically, he needs to sweep the remaining "swing states."
DeleteThis is like in 2008, when the pundits kept talking about PA being a swing state -- when, in reality, Obama was ahead by ten points.
I don't mind the media pretending that Romney has a chance, though. This'll help get all our progressive friends out to vote.
Mitt, Ryan and the campaign LIE about anything - all the time.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this picture - supporters have "audience participation" made compulsory - does this mean they have to be willing to shake Mitt's hand & take his photo?
https://twitter.com/sheyenne9/status/244621591017836544/photo/1
Colbert covers the conventions...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/418917/september-07-2012/rnc-convention-vs--dnc-convention
I just can't wait for the debates. Sarah O'Palin eat your heart out!
ReplyDeleteThanks for tip, we need sound suppressors to drown out the stream of cesspool lies coming down the pike from the ad men. What a shitty way to make a living.
ReplyDeleteThree Days in September
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pai-GkND_PE&feature=
I live near where Mitt spoke yesterday...a TV station here was trying to give away FREE tickets to see him on Fri. night on the 11pm news, less than 18 hrs. before he was suppose to speak...just sayin'
ReplyDeleteI can't provide any evidence with what happened to my facebook account Friday, August 31, however I had received via news feed a Mitt Romney post. I do not allow anything to be posted unless it's family or really close friends. I reported it as spam.
ReplyDeleteHey Mitt!
ReplyDeleteYou know that bomber plane you are posing in front of, I wonder if President Obama's grandmother help build it when she worked on the bomber assembly line?
"Like"
Deleteo/t Fox news has an article up on Fact Checking Mr. Biden's DNC speech. the article really has to work to explain what our V.P. and President stated that was not EXACTLY the TRUTH. check it out.
ReplyDeleteObama/Biden 2012!
Why??
DeleteThe PoliticusUSA article has the video from VA Beach, and at the 30:00 mark, you can see how scarce the crowd is. In fact, what's even more interesting is that Mitt is walking the line, and the crowd is running out as fast as they were ushered in.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.livestream.com/pilotlive/video?clipId=pla_3b619761-e7ce-4057-a8bb-7b9bb4bf8436
Stalin and Khrushchev LOVED altering newspapers after unfavorable articles were published. I guess that Mitt does know a LITTLE something about Russia, after all.
ReplyDeleteWere those "several hundred" in the airplane hangar in VA at a "mandatory meeting", and if so did they at least get paid for it this time?
ReplyDeleteYour anti-Palin posts can usually draw 200+ comments but your political posts on Obama/Romney only draw less than 100. That gives the discomforting feeling that people really don't give a shit all that much.
ReplyDeleteUncle Gryphen's Obama/Romney posts are more for "listening" and following instructions. I read them all several times and then go do my research by either connecting to the link he provided or doing more research on my own. There's no need to comment most times. Besides, he knows we're here. Don'tcha Uncle Gryph?
DeleteI read Uncle G's posts about Obama/Romney all the time Sarah.
DeleteLife is not always about Sarah Palin, her dysfunctional children and her perverted pimp husband who refuses to address Shailey Tripp's allegations.
Get over it Sarah and move on!
I don't read Gryphen's blog for the number of comments, I read Gryphen's blog for the posts he does. The links and opinions IM'ers give just reinforce the facts Gryphen exposes.
DeleteI found "Waldo" right away in Romney's photo!
ReplyDeleteThis stuff reminds me of the doctored photos Fox used, where the leaves on the trees give away different seasons.
Did anyone catch Romney on "Meet the Press"? They couldn't find an audience, so they did it on a roof surrounded by red white and blue bunting and a huge Romney sign. Waldo didn't say much of substance except that he knows the economy because he lived in the economy. WTF???
Whenever I see crowds at a Romney event, they look bored, tired, drunk, or some combination of the three. Does he bus them in?
ReplyDeleteThe crowds at President Obama's events? Huge, enthused, and fired up!
The Crowds at the DNC were on the edge of their seats, listening to every word every single speaker spoke. They were fully engaged and cheering for their candidate
The RNC paled by comparison. They tolerated Romney and were mostly interested in dissing their President.
Their Twitter "audiences" also say a lot. Mitt has less than 1.1M Followers. Obama has more than 19.5M and is gaining at a rate much faster, increasing his lead.
ReplyDeleteThe two conventions also say a lot. See this UK Guardian piece: http://t.co/32DCKdWA "Two Conventions, Two Americas"...anger from the GOP and abiding hope from the Dems.
Finally, if Mitt can't run a competent campaign, or even an honest one, how can anyone think he'd be a good President?