Now right after Rachel's show, Lawrence O'Donnell came on the air, and during HIS show Mitt Romney held a very uncomfortable press conference in which he tries to explain away the videos. That debacle starts around the 2:32 mark of this segment.
Okay now THAT is not going to help Mitt Romney one little bit. He was clearly upset, did not have a definitive response, and rushed off of the stage like his hair had just caught fire.
Folks I think we are seeing the most impressive flame out of a presidential candidate in American history.
Gee I wonder how the President feels about all of this?
Uh oh... This:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/jon-stewart-conservative-hypocrisy-middle-eastern-democracy-video_n_1892946.html
is priceless.
I especially love the side by side juxtaposition of $carah the mental patient with $carah the candidate. She has no aged well. (And yes, I like understatement.)
My dear spouse, who doesn't follow $carah's demise, actually stopped and rewound the $carah part.
DeleteHe said, "OMG! What is WRONG with her? Is she terminally ill?"
And, no, he wasn't joking. She looks like death warmed over compared to 2008.
Oh my... I mean, I knew she turned haggard (I follow IM all the time), but DAMN. Maybe she looked like shit then too but was helped along with HD makeup? Must help to have thousands of dollars spent on making you look presentable in front of the camera.
DeleteHer cheeks look awful. Its probably a combination of unnecessarily losing a bunch of weight-- when older women get down to pin-thin size they really don't look healthy, they need that bit of "fat" on their face to look healthy and even look younger-- and the ridiculous amount of fake-and-bake she puts on herself.
Sarah, between you and me, you were absolutely gorgeous in 2008. No one could believe it. And until you opened your mouth you looked so poised and professional. I don't know what you've done with yourself, but your current go-to meme of "they're just jealous" would have a little more backing if you actually looked nice. I mean, 2004 was NOT that long ago, and you look like you've aged twenty years. You've gone from Maybe She's In her Early Thirties to Oh My, She Really IS a Grandma Isn't She?
My gf who doesn't follow Palin made a similar comment: "she's not eating"
DeleteMeth or anorexia?
Both?
What is more important to me than the stupid things Mitt said in the videos, is how he responded to the "crisis". Just like his idiotic comments about recent violence in the mideast, this is a glimpse into what kind of leader he would be.
ReplyDeleteAnd just like McCain's reaction to the economic collapse in 2008, it is pure FAIL.
It's interesting how the worst thing that can happen to a Republican candidate is that they are presented with a chance to show what their leadership skills are like...
Actually, you've got it wrong about the President's reaction. I doubt that he minds anything funny in the situation at all. He probably feels saddened that a major political party could nominate someone as out of touch and unqualified to be President. What that says about our politics in this country is sad indeed. And it likely makes the President even more determined to win so that a man as empty and uncaring as Mitt Romney never sits in the Oval Office.
ReplyDeleteMe, on the other hand - I'm laughing my ass off.
perhaps a well-placed facepalm? A look of complete confusion?
DeleteIn all honesty, it wasn't so much WHAT Romney said (we all knew he looked down on poor people), it was how he said it: completely lacking the finesse and diplomacy one would expect from a President.
6:49 you are probably right.
DeleteI voted for Obama and will again, but to be totally honest, it's less to do with me thinking Obama is awesome as it is that there is no sane alternative being offered.
I'm generally pretty open-minded and could vote for anyone with good ideas, but this time I will be voting entirely democrat simply to spank the repubs for their infantile behavior, hoping they'll crumble and something reasonable will grow in it's place.
Frankly I'd feel better if these elections actually presented a difficult choice, rather than just being a rational guy versus a compulsively lying, disconnected from humanity idiot.
Poor Mittens. He thought he could buy himself a Presidency and reality has slapped him upside the head yet again. When will this idiot realize that he actually has to EARN the Presidency? And insulting half the people in the country has probably just cost him the White House.
ReplyDeleteHe absolutely thought he could buy his way into the White House. Plus, he and Marie ANNtoinette think it's pre-ordained that it's "Mitt's turn." I find that also very insulting.
DeleteIn 2004, a friend of mine who had joined the Seventh Day Advantists told me that the 'church' believed that George W. Bush was chosen by God to be president. I think Mormons believe this about Mitt Romney. Frightening. Truly frightening.
To build on what you said a little bit:
DeleteEARN it by ACTUALLY BEING QUALIFIED AND THE CALIBER OF HUMAN BEING WHO CAN LEAD THE FREE WORLD, not simply because Daddy delivered you into a world where the worst "hardship" you ever had to face was living in an apartment while supporting your new wife on sales from your stock portfolio.
...Or because you were capable of raising more money in the primaries than the other useless human jokes that were vying for the slot.
Obviously Mittens learned ALMOST as much as $arah in 2008. Which is a scary thought.
DeleteAnonymous7:13 AM
Delete"In 2004, a friend of mine who had joined the Seventh Day Advantists told me that the 'church' believed that George W. Bush was chosen by God to be president."
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Would you mind asking your friend why GOD would have chosen such an incompetent person as George W. Bush for president of the United States?
I would really like to know what your friend's response is to that question.
Thank you.
Mittens has sold his flawed soul to the proverbial devil, one suspects, and got the fuzzy end of the lollipop anyway.
DeleteM from MD
Anonymous@7:13 - Check out the Mormon "White Horse" prophecy. Scary...
DeleteGryphen: "Folks I think we are seeing the most impressive flame out of a presidential candidate in American history." You got that right!
ReplyDeleteBut hey, I still love reliving that impressive flame out of a vice-presidential candidate in 2008! Ah the memories! The Couric interviews, the Gibson interviews...the wardrobe stealing, the word salad, hate-filled screeches...
Thank the flying spaghetti monster for YouTube!
They said there's more video to come... I'm looking forward to it, but also hope there are bigger bombshells. I want Obama to win by MORE than the landslide I predicted :D
DeleteOBAMA 2012!!!
(I actually just got my voter registration in the mail today and am SO stoked to vote in this state!)
I heard yesterday that the majority actually supporting Mittens are those above 60 years of age. Shocked me due to his wanting to get rid of Medicare and 'voucher' Social Security. It's also said that some voters don't have a clue where a particular candidate stands, but still vote. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI'm nearing 70 and four years retired, but worked my entire life and have never taken government income except for Social Security since the age of 65.
And, I do pay income taxes and always have! There is no friggin' way I'd vote for the likes of Romney and Ryan. Plus, they lie too much! And, I paid more income taxes that Romeny supposedly does - which is reported to be zero! He's a total asshole!
I had a retired man who lives in my village, who is low income,tell me yesterday that "Obama wanted to give free stuff away to everyone in the world". After I got done asking him if he thought the President ran the whole world?; I asked him if he had paid into SS and Medicare / Medicade through his working taxes all his life? He did. Then I asked him if he felt that was "free stuff"? I walked away shaking my head as he sputtered for an answer on how his stuff wasn't the same as other's stuff.
DeletePoor Mittens. He thought he could buy himself a Presidency and reality has slapped him upside the head yet again. When will this idiot realize that he actually has to EARN the Presidency? And insulting half the people in the country has probably just cost him the White House.
ReplyDeleteAfter Mother Jones' 'bomb drop' yesterday, they have the next instalment up on segments on Israel, Iran and the President's foreign policy.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I wish Mother Jones would wait a day or two to drop the next segments. Let each segment fester and play out. Drag it out and continue to take him off message -- to watch him continue to implode.
Great idea in that it can be dragged out to the debate in 2 weeks.
DeleteHow many Diebold machines are still out there?
ReplyDeleteBecause if Willard Rmoney still wins after *this*, you know there is voter fraud being committed and it's not by the "liberals", it will be by the Repub1%can'ts. (Just like 2000 and 2004.)
That's what keeps me up at night. They may still steal this election, folks.
DeleteM from MD
The reason Rmoney isn't walking any thing back (besides the fact that he really, really believes everything he said) is that he just doesn't understand why everyone doesn't believe exactly the way he does and vote for him. He just doesn't understand why everyone doesn't vote for him. He is totally clueless. (And callous and insensitive and just plain stupid.)
ReplyDeleteMaybe he just watches too much FOX news. that would explain a lot as to why he doesn't understand why people don't like his statements. Or the fact that while the poor dear struggled so hard in life (according to him-- I imagine it must be an awful hardship to have to go without a maid for a day while the old one is being replaced) he really has no fucking clue what it means to depend on tax returns so you don't go hungry.
DeleteCan't wait to hear Sarah Palin's tweet or FB screed or other reaction: you know she won't be able to resist thrusting herself into the discussion.
ReplyDeleteThe real question is what side will she take? Because she hates Mitt and her granny panties are still in a wad over being ignored at the RNC; but at the same time, everything Mitt said was pretty much the entire platform for the (R) party, so it's not like she can condemn what he said.
DeleteOh my god.
Does this mean she'll have no choice but to shut her yap?
I'll bet she's sitting next to her phone waiting (again) for Romney's people to call, begging her to go out on the campaign trail with him to get the base to show more support. She thinks she's so good at that.
DeleteShe is waiting for the call to replace Mittens in the campaign for President. She already has her best bed jacket/shower curtain picked out.
DeleteUnfortunately, this most recent Romney debacle won't have much impact on the polls or the election. Most of his supporters, the "haves and the have mores," think and feel the same as Mitt does.
ReplyDeleteI was so insulted to be lumped in with 47% as defined by Mitt as government dependant moochers. I felt outraged on behalf of most people I know. According to Mitt Obama supporters are losers and moochers and we don't pay taxes!
ReplyDeleteExpecting social security benefits paid and for many a deceased spouse paid into us being an entitled moocher? Also defined as not being responsible for yourself? Does Mitt believe no one saves any money for retirement? Is he delusional that only the top 5% has a 401k or an IRA?
I know of staunch republicans who shift their money to adult children so they can take advantage to get stuff for "free". I also know people who are not motivated to bust ass going to school while working full time who get medical benefits for children from the government who are in low paying jobs. I find relatives, not the government enable them to not stand on their own feet. Half the country does not live deluded they are victims, shiftless and total losers.
I am outraged by Romney's black and white beliefs that devalue half and then throw democrats down there too.
Romney is a simpleton, inept, insulting, arrogant, degrading and demeaning.
This compounds upon his comment from much earlier this year when he was talking to Soledad O'Brien of CNN:
ReplyDelete“I’m not concerned about the very poor.” He continued to say, “We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it."
It should be no surprise that Mitt Romney and the rest of the insanely wealthy elites of the Republican Party have nothing but disdain for the vast majority - more like 85 or 90%, rather than 47% - of the American people.
ReplyDeleteThe agenda the Republican Party has pushed for the past (at least) 30 years has been one of a return to feudalism, of lords and serfs, of princes and paupers... of the very rich vs. the very poor.
The Ruling Class vs. those of us they allow to eat the crumbs that fall from their banquet tables.
My first reaction was that Romney is referring to the bottom 95% or those not in his circle.
DeleteMy deceased spouse achieved an income in the top 5%. Neither of us were born to wealth and due to an abandoning parent I was raised in poverty. We obtained educations and accomplished the American dream so to speak.
Are my brothers who used ROTC scholorships "victims" , "entitled" to free everything? Are they losers and non tax payers? No
Mitt shot down the belief that America is a land of opportunity. If your parents can't loan you money for college you are lazy, if you can't go buy up foreclosures and renovate them you are a loser parasite of the government. Collecting social security? Loser, victim lazy ....I despise this man now.
I can't wait to see SNL this weekend making chopped chicken liver. Hardship is his horse not getting a medal.
Two things that Willard said that are going to define the rest of his losing campaign.
ReplyDeleteThese statements are outrageous, and show him to be utterly without compassion and totally out of touch for those of us "middle class" who make less than $250,000 a year.
Quotes from Mitt the loser:
1)"Forty-seven percent of the country are people “who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims"
The level of contempt and disdain inherent in that statement is amazing. The really damning thing is when you listen to his tone of voice, it's not a hateful screech like $arah. He is just reciting these things like gospel, like reading a balance sheet, and it's just basic facts to Mitt.
Does Mitt realize that veterans, seniors, and working poor folks have just been SHIT ON by him and his 50,000 dollar a plate fundraiser?
2) "[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
This is the most insulting comment of all, saying that literally ONE HALF of Americans don't take any personal responsibility or care for our lives.
Does Mitt know that more than 80 percent of Americans pay federal taxes?
46.4 percent don't pay federal income taxes, but 61 percent of those people do pay federal payroll taxes.
Those who don't pay payroll taxes are primarily elderly retirees, many of whom support Romney. Also in that group: the poor and disabled.
Does Mitt know that the states with the MOST people (VICTIMS in his words) are in the South, which comprises the states he has to win?
This video hopefully will kill his chances to win the election, and we should all start putting signs on our front lawns saying "I AM NOT A ROMNEY VICTIM!!"
It would be that 47% that would be 'envious' of or 'jealous' of his wealth.
DeleteI forget which wording he has used in the past but has never been that people 'like them' are happy he succeeded and strive to get there.
Remember the comment in Michelle Obama's convention speech:
Delete"Politics doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are"
I just heard that they're limiting MarieANNtoinette's public appearances so that people "don't grow tired of her." Guess the great unwashed masses have had enough of her imperial attitude. The hits just keep on coming, don't they? And here I thought the GOP had lost its mind picking Sarah Palin for VP.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Emmy Awards this Sunday. Let's all hope that "Game Change" wins some big awards. (I'm already anxiously awaiting the book about this election. Wonder who will play RMoney in the movie version.)
You know that there are international observers of elections in nations with questionable tactics?
ReplyDeletePresident Carter has served on some of those groups over the years. I seriously think that this nation should be having them, because if their voter suppression tactics are deemed illegal and unjustified, they probably have their back-up plans for vote tampering. How is chain-of-custody maintained? Are early voting letters kept from disappearing? How are computers manipulated? How do any of us know what can be done to alter the outcome? There are too many known examples already, and there will be more.
IT people to the rescue! Please, clue us in!
There seem to be no scruples in the GOP/TP and too many voters still do not realize that they are being played.
The U.N. Human Rights Council just released a statement regarding the activities in some U.S. states regarding voter suppression, disenfranchisement. This was brought to the United Nation's attention by the NAACP.
DeleteRomney has been running for POTUS for six years.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is the best he can do.
Imagine what he would do to our economy.
Romney's remarks that he was pitching to his donors, selling himself was about political dynamics.
ReplyDeleteHis sales pitch was that half the country are parasites. Palin has reinforced this meme we want "free stuff". It is beyond pathetic the mind set and pitch essentially scapegoating half the country as taking from others playing victim and doing nothing to help ourselves.
Romney reminds me of a privileged company executive I encountered who was a fucking idiot who on an all expense paid company trip loudly ridiculed strangers staying at non luxury accomodations. Meanwhile he got a free trip. He also insulted British royalty declaring the royal family needed new furniture at Balmoral castle!
I hope he loses by a landslide.
TPM has a good post up:
ReplyDeleteChart of the Day: These are the 47 percent
Included in the post was something that is being missed in all the discussions:
"In this regard, attacking the 47 percent for gaming the system is an implicit call for taxing Social Security income, taxing disability benefits, further taxing unemployment benefits, and so on."
In 2007, the number was 37%. Because of 2008, there has been an uptick of 10%.
".....should we argue that we should raise taxes on these people to keep it at 37 percent?”
"That’s what a lot of Republicans seem to want. But the result would be terrible for an already weak economy."
IMO this is what Ryan's budget is based on -- raise the taxes on the 'middle class', he just neglects to include but truthfully he avoids saying 'raise the taxes on the 47% -- that being those on social security, disability, unemployment etc. Does that include those in harms way, fighting for us now as they are not required to pay income tax while there and the families are in the US.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/chart-of-the-day-these-are-the-47-percent.php
This, along with his comment that 200-250k is middle class, show us the real Mitt. He doesn't give a damn about anyone except his ultra rich buddies. The demeaning tone he takes towards "those people" shows what an arrogant bastard that he is.
ReplyDeleteHe even managed to insult NASCAR fans of all people...He doesn't really follow NASCAR, but said he has friends who are team owners. OK, to be a team owner in NASCAR you have to have great big bucks...lots of bucks. He's clueless.
DeleteKeith Olbermann releases ‘special comment’ about leaked Romney video
ReplyDeleteKeith Olbermann released a “special comment” last night regarding the now-notorious “47 percent” video.
Mother Jones released a video of a Romney campaign fundraiser Monday evening in which Republican Presidential nominee former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) was caught on tape disparaging the nearly half of the country as “victims” who are “dependent on government” at a fundraiser for wealthy donors. Late Monday evening, Romney hastily arranged a press conference attempting to walk back his remarks.
His statements, Romney said, were “off the cuff” and “not elegantly stated.”
Keith Olbermann, former host of “Countdown with Keith Olberman” on MSNBC and Current TV, released a self-produced “Special Comment” last night addressing this new crisis for the Romney campaign.
“Good evening,” begins Olbermann, “Now, as promised, tonight’s special comment on Gov. Romney’s ’47 percent’ tape and the news that this fundraiser was staged by a man who conducts sex parties on Long Island…”
Watch the rest of the statement, embedded below via Moby Picture:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/18/keith-olbermann-releases-special-comment-about-leaked-romney-video/
I miss Olbermann.
DeleteM from MD
Man, that press conference really showed the shuffling sweating bumbling defensive Mitt who knew he got caught with his pants down.
ReplyDeleteI notice he has two distinct personalities when he speaks. He is confident and tough when he talks to his wealthy donors and buddies, but puts on this 'other' personality when he talks to 'you people'. This personality is the bumbling joking, nervous-laugh/uncomfortable/stuttering deer in the headlights Mitt, which is the fake Mitt.
If Mitt could, he would sing, "God Bless Half of America".
ReplyDeletegood one..........that should say if he COULD sing....haven't you heard him.
Deletehmmm... you mean something like this:
DeleteGod bless half of America,
The rich ones that donate
They'll stand beside me
Even tho they don't like me
So they can vote out the one that they hate..
Let me work on this!
Blue Girl Liz
Great job Blue Girl Liz! I can just see the 'Billionaires for Wealthcare' group singing this. Are they still around?
DeleteGod bless half America,
DeleteLand that I like.
Cause I invested all my money
Overseas to avoid a tax hike.
From my mansions, to the Caymens
To the Rethugs frothing with foam
God bless half America
From my tax hayyyy-ven
God bless half America
From my homes sweet homes
Awesome, liz!
Delete“Sarah Palin would be a great foreign policy adviser. To her, all policy is foreign.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephen-colbert-takes-on-mitt-romneys-libya-comments-premature-inauguration/
OK folks...again I apologize to Jimmy Buffet, whom I would leave my husband for...but sing along
ReplyDeletewith me to the tune of "Margaritaville"
A one, and a two...
Nibblin' on foie gras
Sipping on an O'Douls
This latest debacle is chaffin' my ass..
Hiding in my car garage
From all the press barrage
I trusted my campaign to some fools
Wastin' away again in the lastest polls
Searching for those fundraiser moles
Some people claim that there are taxes to blame
But I know it's all you poor people's fault
I don't know the reason
I should be winning this season
Nothin' to show but sinking in the polls
And it's a real mystery
why I believed Mormon history
How it got here I haven't a clue
I constantly flip-flop
Never know when to stop
Cut my losses and head on back home
And there's no booze in the blender
And America thinks I should send her
All my back taxes that I'd rather hide
Wastin' away again in the lastest polls
Searching for my lost mojo again
Some people claim my stupidity's to blame
And all my gaffes will help Obama win
Yes and some people claim all I want is the fame
Hell I know, it's all you poor people's fault
Blue girl Liz...living in a red state :(
In unison, all of the South Park kids shouted, "Hurray for Liz and drinking Margaritas!
DeleteSome people claim that Mitt Romney's to blame.
Always is, And I know
It's his own damn fault.
Naah, we're nicer than that.
DeleteWe'll just ask Sununu to explain to Sarah, in person, why she was excluded from the RNC after all of her tireless, thankless work that she's done for FREE while making some very large donations to various GOP candidates.
Without some Kevlar protection in the throat area, I'm not sure Mr Sununu can survive that punch to the neck.
I'm getting a little misty-eyed here thinking about how happy Sarah would make me if she teed off on Sununu and Milt and cleaned both of their damn clocks.
I bet it might help Sarah to feel a little better to get some 4 years of pent-up hate and anger out of her system. She is not healthy.
Blue Liz, I didn't see your impressive musical contribution before posting my own less impressive comment down below. If you can help me with my elusive rhyme, there's a pretty good chance we can save the otherwise doomed - and supremely mockable - Mittens campaign.
DeleteRemember what Michelle Obama said in her Convention speech:
ReplyDelete"Politics doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are"
Bill O'Reilly. Jon Stewart. 2 podiums. 1 Air-Conditioned Auditorium. "O'Reilly v Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium" will be streamed live
ReplyDeletehttp://www.therumble2012.com/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/jon-stewart-bill-oreilly-debate_n_1893457.html
John Sununu is on Andrea Mitchell's show and is digging Romney deeper with the bullshit Rethug talking points of 'you didn't build this' and Obama is responsible for the class warfare, among a laundry list of outright bullshit spew.
ReplyDeleteHe is a fucking obese buffoon. He deserves what should come too him as he frothing at the mouth -- A heart attack and death!!! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!!! heee, heee, heee
Here's a list of "Entitlements" that ALL Americans get through state and Federal governments.
ReplyDeleteEven Mittens and Ann Romney get these benefits every day:
Public Roads, Air Traffic Control, NOAA Weather, Railroad land grant subsidies, Corps of Engineers navigation projects, universal telephone service, universal postal coverage and countless other things that subsidize commerce come via Government.
Agribusiness gets price supports & often subsidized water. Mining & energy extraction get subsidized access to resources on public lands. Timber & paper products business get subsidies every time they cut a tree on public land as the fees they pay are far below the costs.
Wages earned today by many were possible by an education funded by Federal Grants, Loans or VA benefits. Even tuition paid at state schools is subsidized and all Land Grant schools are the recipients of a massive federal grant.
Children watching Sesame Street benefitted from CPB funds. Food & medicine you consumed today has been tested under USDA & FDA programs designed to keep you from being made sick by them. And don't forget the cleaner water & air we have because of the Clean Air Act & Clean Water Acts.
Many medicines saving lives this day were developed by tax funded research that was given to big Pharma. Sometimes the very Doctor treating you is put there due to a program to extend care to the under served.
He spoke more fluidly than at any stump speech. His stump speeches are his lists of talking points which he's been repeating for months, yet still stumbles over them, yet shouldn't. He should be able to recite the stump speeches in his sleep at this point of time.
ReplyDeleteHe was totally comfortable in his skin speaking what he did at that fundraiser exposing 'his true self'
Once again, Romney's camp is dragging deadwood Bay 'Witch' Buchanan out and in an earlier comment I posted, they dragged out John Sununu on Andrea Mitchell. As Soledad said in the end "“I appreciate your spin on it,” O’Brien concluded. “But I think ‘inarticulately stated’ is the least of the problems.” Ain't that the truth!!!!
ReplyDeleteRomney adviser Bay Buchanan on Tuesday declared that the release of leaked campaign videos showing the Republican presidential nominee writing off 47 percent of the country as “dependant” and “entitled” was just a “bump in the road.”
“So essentially, didn’t Mitt Romney in these leaked tapes bash his own voters?” O’Brien wondered. “Those are the people who are voting for Mitt Romney.”
“Honey,” Buchanan replied, “He recognized that more and more people are becoming dependant on government.”
The ugly bitch called Soledad 'Honey'. Ooooh I wish Soledad had nailed her on that.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/18/soledad-obrien-grills-romney-aide-your-campaign-is-just-a-hot-mess/
RUMNEY MUST RESIGN - TODAY !!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo -- We need him to drag himself across the finish line as they will plug in Ryan - Rubio or something like that
DeleteDump Mitt & Draft Sarah.
DeleteKeep Ryan. No wait, Lyin'Ryan and Willard Mitt the shitt--- fuck both of them.
Palin/West 2012
Why wait until 2016 to lose?
Trump filmed unaired ‘you’re fired’ video with Obama impersonator for RNC
ReplyDeleteAppearing on NBC’s “Today” on Tuesday, the reality show host and scorned potential Romney running mate confirmed that the Republican Party filmed a 4-minute video of him insulting a man impersonating President Barack Obama. At the end, Trump even deployed his famous catchphrase: “You’re fired.”
There is only a short snippet of the video within the interview with Matt Lauer and Birther Trump who continued the BS 'apology' meme etc. It was also asked of Trump that there was no mention of the name Romney in the video. (That would play into the whole RNC when you think of Christie, etc. when they were there to 're-etch-a-sketch' their candidate but so many spoke of themselves!!!)
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/18/trump-filmed-unaired-youre-fired-video-with-obama-impersonator-for-rnc/
Gryphen
ReplyDeleteIn your next post you could link 10 videos and you still wouldn't capture it all!!
Of course the videos are responses to Monday's 'bomb drop' and Mother Jones has the new one on Israel, Iran & Obama's foreign policy.
Busy times!!!! It's almost info overload which is why IMO Mother Jones should release segments every 2 to 3 days so people can catch up, discuss and best of all -- stretch it out to the dabate in 2 weeks!!
My vicious streak is showing!!
There is so much info on sites, and videos, that I haven't had time to go to CurrentTV yet to see what Jennifer Granholm has said.
ReplyDeleteI'm extremely interested after her speech at the DNC!!!
This is the "real" Robme....you can't help but notice how relaxed and calm he is talking to these donors, he doesn't need any notes because this is how he really sees this country. He wants to run this country like Bain which translates into money for his buddies...the rest of us are doomed. He has to be the absolute most despicable human being in America let along trying to be president. Lord Robme and Lady Ann need to join Lyin Ryan in a long life out of government just enjoying their wealth in private.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I was laughing at Olbermann's 'Special Comment'.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/18/keith-olbermann-releases-special-comment-about-leaked-romney-video/
Needed that!!
Senor Juan Percente is muy loco.
ReplyDeleteColbert Takes On Mitt Romney and Slams Palin:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephen-colbert-takes-on-mitt-romneys-libya-comments-premature-inauguration/
“Oh come on,” said Colbert. “Sarah Palin would be a great foreign policy adviser. To her, all policy is foreign.”
Before the segment of Romney talking about China and the tour of the factory & it's conditions drops -- Jennifer Granholm on CurrentTV did a segment listing about 4 companies that Romney while at Bain outsourced to China. The video starts off in regard to Romney going after Obama for 'not doing enough'
ReplyDeletehttp://current.com/shows/the-war-room/videos/mitt-romneys-china-syndrome
I used to joke that Romney's campaign was being run by David Axelrod to benefit the Democrats, but now I think Romney's campaign is being run by Sarah Palin to get revenge on the Republicans.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, I know I promised to get you a final MP3 copy of my Rmoney campaign anthem entitled "Thank The Lord, He Gave Us Mittens". With all the relentless stumbling, bumbling and fumbling of the once semi-mighty Mitten election machine, I seriously believe only a great campaign song can restore any hopes of a Mittens victory.
ReplyDeleteAs to why it's taking longer than I expected to put this together, I guess the late Marvin Hamlisch and the early Gene Simmons made songwriting look a lot easier than it really is. I mean, I have the tune down pretty solid - think along the lines of "Frere Jacques" in G minor - and the arrangement is basically piano, drums, bass guitar, oboe, glockenspiel, hammer dulcimer, Bolivian sheep tail rattle and a really tight nine piece R&B horn section out of Kansas City called The Tower of Flour. The backing tracks are essentially done.
I am, unfortunately, having a little trouble with the lyrics, especially the chorus. Maybe you or one of your little librul bolshevik blog buddies can help me out. I've got two of the three rhyming couplets nailed. Rhyming 'loser' and 'poser' was easy but "fuckwad" was a real challenge (I had to settle for 'muckwad. Kinda weak, I know... ). Now I can't seem to find a rhyme for 'douchenozzle'.
There's an old saying in politics: "If you have a lousy candidate you better have a great song". Well, this GOP campaign effort is floundering without a great campaign song and Wednesday, November 7 - Republican Voting Day - is less than 6 weeks away, so please respond ASAP!
I would love to see Zamfir, who like Sarah Palin, plays the skin flute, oops, I mean, the pan flute. That's what Zamfir plays. Forget about what Sara plays. She wasn't any good in 1984, anyway.
DeleteZamfir fronting for the Tower of Flour! And Mitt sings a little ditty!
Oh, it's so great to be a Republican!
Looks like Blue Girl Liz is your man, as it were.
DeleteHave you considered Garage Band?
It looks like Blue Girl Liz is your man, as it were.
DeleteHave you considered using Garage Band?
This is the end of rMoney's campaign. Can't walk that one back. He didn't even TRY at the presser last night! So, like, 47% of Americans do not take responsibility or care for their own lives?? Pretty damning little insight into how fucked up his perspective is.
ReplyDeleteI believe we're also seeing the end of the gop as we know it. It's a shame, the gop of old actually got some great stuff done. But, as their numbers dwindled and they had to court the "moral majority" fundie xtians and the tea party (one in the same, IMO) they've been pulled so far into the extreme fringe right that they cannot function. Can't lead from a place of fear, xenophobia and greed. Those are regressive traits.
Mother Jones Posts Full Video Of Romney Fundraiser
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Funny comment about Romney's bumbling at HuffPo:
ReplyDeleteA commenter said he was just waiting for the headline, "Romney visits MIT lab; accidentally opens portal to Hell."
Ha! Genius.
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I felt ill after reading Tim Dickinson's article in RS which shows who the ultimate free loader really is and how expensive RMOney's smirking and shirking his financial obligations are costing others.
ReplyDelete"In March 1992, according to the FDIC documents, Romney approached the banks and played the bonus card. Allow Bain to pay off its debt at a deep discount, he demanded – just 35 cents on the dollar. Otherwise, the "majority" of the firm's "excess cash" would "be available for the bonus pool to its officers at a vice president level and above."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney-20120829#ixzz26rjnWFkX
I was just remembering back to the beginning of the GOTP primary season (feels like it was 20 years ago) and how I thought Romney stood out as the only adult in that room. A despicable adult (after his smarmy "corporations are people, my friend")but, nevertheless an adult. I couldn't figure out how those other clowns were getting any votes Romney just seemed "intelligent" compared to 999Cain,Pope Santorum, the newly minted "moral" Newt, We-can't-believe-she's-not-certifiable Bachman, and Perry "OOPS."
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference a few months make. He fits right in in that clown car. Except in the personal hygiene department, I think he out-Palin's Palin and I never thought I would see another idiot like her being nominated in my lifetime.
If the President isn't re-elected, it will be due to vote tampering. And I believe we will have to have mass riots in the streets. They're going to have to bring the National Guard back from overseas. The Civil Rights riots and Viet Nam War protests will seem like nothing. 47% of us have been totally disrespected by this buffoon and his corporate masters. We have to fight back. (And I'm essentially a pacifist; I've never even pushed someone to get through a crowd; I rarely even raise my voice; but I'll be out there at the Liberty Bell screaming my head off on November 7 if they steal this election).
The full video is online at youtube. Just go there and search for the motherjonesvideo channel.
ReplyDeleteSomeone noted earlier how fluently Romney spoke in the video - I noticed that as well. I guess it's because he was among "his people"
ReplyDeleteSomehow I didn't think I could get more offended by this race and yet Romney managed to do it. After all the attacks on women, voting rights, etc he still managed it. I don't think I am technically part of the 47% he was speaking of - I am employed and pay taxes - but that doesn't matter. I am offended personally and offended on behalf of those 47% (which I was for three months of this year when I was unemployed).
I wonder would he have thought my mother was a part of the "moocher" class when she was unemployed and not paying taxes as she was dying of cancer? Jesus Christ what is wrong with this man? Some people are working 2 or 3 jobs and still fall into this bracket. Are they moochers too?
What an arrogant, entitled spineless excuse for a human being. And his wife "Queen Ann"! She's about as genuine as my plastic coaster. Perfect example of a plastic Stepford wife. Every time she opens her mouth I think we all get a little stupider.
I can't wait for this election to be over I cannot stand these people. We all have to vote and help others - these people can't be trusted with the country!
I think that Romney was merely trying to articulate the fact that tax cut policies do not resonate with voters who pay no taxes to begin with. I feel, though, that some of these voters would do well to think long and hard about tax issues because some of them probably work for companies/bosses who do pay taxes. If taxes go up, for instance, their jobs might be in jeopardy. Just sayin'.
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