Mitt Romney misspoke tonight when referring to the shooting in Wisconsin that took place at a Sikh temple, mistakenly using an Arab honorific in reference to the religious group.
Instead of saying that the shooting occurred at a Sikh temple, Romney referred to it as a sheik temple. Sheik is a Muslim term for the leader of a village or tribe. Sikhs are not Muslims.
“We obviously have challenges around the country. I was in Chicago earlier today. We had a moment of silence in honor of the people who lost their lives at that sheik temple,” said Romney, speaking to a group of donors gathered at a fundraiser at a West Des Moines country club.
“I noted that it was a tragedy for many, many reasons. Among them are the fact that people, the sheik people are among the most peaceable and loving individuals you can imagine, as is their faith. And of course, the person who carried out this heinous act was a person motivated by racial hatred and religious intolerance. It’s really, really a tragedy,” he said.
Rick Gorka, a spokesman for Romney, later clarified that the candidate “misspoke” adding that it was the “end of the day.”
Yeah it was the end of the day, Mitt was tires, and besides why would he give a shit?
After all until these people die so that his fellow Mormons can baptize them into their faith, it's not like they are his equal anyhow.
By the way wasn't Rick Gorka the guy that told the press to "kiss my ass" at the Polish holy site? Why yes he was!
Hmm, it appears that demonstrating respect for anybody's religion other than their own is not a high priority with the Romney camp now is it?
By the way here was a tweet from Richard Dawkins after he heard about the gaffe:
"at that sheik temple"
ReplyDeleteAgain, this shows how far removed he is from mainstream everyday people.
Sounds like when Ann said "you people".
“at that sheik temple” is off-key just like last week’s “someone named Jared Diamond”. These are indicators that he doesn’t read, he just repeats what his handlers coach him to say. Buffoon!
DeleteI don't think the Sikhs refer to their meeting place as a 'temple'. I guess we can be thankful he didn't utter the even scarier 'mosque' word for his rabid followers.
DeleteHey G, the right wingers are in a conniption with RedState leading the pack. They are fuming about their candidate's spokesperson's fuck up today and they are in full revenge mode:
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, Saul's comment is now bound, inevitably, for the Kinsley Gaffe Hall Of Fame -- the "Kinsley Gaffe" being, let's recall, when "a politician tells the truth -- some obvious truth he [or she] isn't supposed to say." But I'm not sure people understand that this particular Kinsley Gaffe deserves an asterisk -- it's only a gaffe by dint of the fact that so much has changed between 2008 and 2012. And for that reason, I'm not sure people fully understand just how outrageous it would be for Saul to be subjected to "housebreaking" over this flap.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/andrea-saul-romney-health-care_n_1757550.html
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right
Priorities USA was damaging itself and Barack Obama over its mind numbingly insane ad painting Mitt Romney as a killer.
Then the Romney campaign decided to sabotage itself with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died.
Defending Romney and combatting the ad, Romney spokesman Andrea Saul . . . let’s go to the quotes
“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul, Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.”
Conservatives have put aside their distrust of Romney on this issue in the name of beating Barack Obama. They thought he and his campaign team had gotten the message and the hints. Consider the scab picked, the wound opened, and the distrust trickling out again.
About the only thing more stupid in terms of building bridges with the right would be to say something nice about fetal stem cell research.
Start your watches for that one!
Housebreaking Romney: The Importance of Being Vocal
Mitt Romney’s ardent supporters are fit to be tied today. Andrea Saul cited Romneycare approvingly, conservatives rightly piled on, and Romney supporters are defending the guy.
“You’re hurting him,” cried one.
“Thanks for making this the big story of the day, Jackass,” cried another.
Andrea Saul made this the big story of the day. She is hurting Romney. She is an official voice of the campaign. This was an unforced error of monumental idiocy and the blowback is deserved, appropriate, and — most importantly — absolutely necessary.
As Dan McLaughlin noted on twitter
What conservatives are doing re Andrea Saul’s comment is the same as how you housebreak your dog. Romney needs to know not to go there.
Precisely.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/08/08/housebreaking-romney-the-importance-of-being-vocal/
And the inmates at the peepond are flinging feces again.
DeleteCheck Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word for some lovely footage of Ann Coulter going ballistic over Andrea Saul.
DeleteOuch! Richard Dawkins hits 'em where it hurts. :)
ReplyDeleteRomney Ad Accusing Obama Of Failing Ohio Car Dealerships Shows Images From Oklahoma
ReplyDeleteBut just as the narrator says that at the 5-second mark, the ad shows a streetscape that appears to be in Oklahoma City, as noted by Sarah Burris, managing editor of the progressive blog FutureMajority.com. Google street view confirms that the scene is indeed outside the Advanced Academics building on E. Sheridan Avenue in Oklahoma City.
Burris told The Huffington Post via email that she and her friend, Dwight Clark, who she met in Oklahoma political circles, noticed the mistake while chatting the other day.
"It's amusing at the very least," Burris wrote on her Tumblr. "Looks like the stock footage of 'Ohio' just wasn’t good enough or someone maybe just miss clicked??? Ohio does come right before Oklahoma…. Oops."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/romney-ad-ohio-oklahoma_n_1756773.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
AND, that Mitty wears magic underwear on his head after dark.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was the end of the day, Tuesday. After he had Monday and the weekend off to relax. Do we really want a president who babbles like Sarah Palin at the end of one day of work after 3 days off?
ReplyDeleteMore critically, do you want that 7pm babbler answering "the call" that may come at 3am???
DeletePMom_GA
As POTUS, there IS no 'end of the day' - especially not around 5 pm...
DeleteWhat a complete an utter idiot. He can't think on his feet. Life to him is a balance sheet, controlled board meetings, lying and flunkies propping him up. Willard, you are not ready for Prime time.
ReplyDeleteYou just hit the nail on the head! This is a perfect description of Romney.
DeleteOT but important. Ms. Brinker, head of the Susan Komen Foundation is stepping down as well as other board members. Stance on Planned Parenthood hit them hard. What's-her-botoxed-face will still be involved (cashing checks) but the foundation has had to acknowledge that it made a big mistake.
ReplyDeleteHmmm., I may actually consider supporting them again.
Deletewow.
Deleteso where are they headed from here?
The Romney campaign has turned to a strategy of swamping the public with flat-out, blatant lies, one after another, again and again, endlessly and lavishly repeated. They do this because they are making a calculation that it will work! So what is going on? And can democracy survive this assault?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/what-is-the-calculation-b_b_1757788.html
It’s all Greek to Romney. Sikh, sheik. What’s the diff, right?
ReplyDeleteIn case you were wondering how the far right wing white supremacist might have confused Sikhs with Muslims, as apparently happens all too often in this country, Mitt Romney reminded us all yesterday when he used the Arab term “sheik temple” instead of the proper term “Sikh temple” when referencing the tragic Wisconsin shooting:
http://www.politicususa.com/epic-fail-romney-refers-sikhs-sheiks-day-racist-welfare-ad.html
Soon to follow - Cubans, Mexicans, Guatemalens or
DeleteNigerians, African Americans, cribbean Americans
They ll look alike to Mitt.
Not like say, being able to keep the British, the Germans, and the Austrians - you know, those Anglo-Saxon types who are just so easy to distinguish.
What a nimrod.
Our BRILLIANT President knocks it out of the park and skewers Robme:
ReplyDelete'Mr. Romney is running as the candidate of conservative values. There’s nothing conservative about a government that prevents a woman from making her own health care decisions. He says he’s the candidate of freedom. But freedom is the chance, the opportunity to determine for yourself the care that you need, when you need it. It’s the ability to change jobs or start your own business without fear of losing your health insurance.
We’re not going back to the days when it was acceptable to charge women more than men for health care. And we’re not going back to the days when women with preexisting conditions, like being a cancer survivor, were denied affordable care. We’re not going to kick more than a million young women off their parent’s plan. We are not going backwards, Denver. We’re moving forward. That’s why I’m running for President again.'
There is nowhere for Romney to go on this. If he tries appease the base, President Obama is going to keep hammering him. If he embraces Romneycare, conservatives are going to rebel and possibly stay home on Election Day. Either way, Mitt Romney loses.
If Romney stays in the middle and takes Romney/Obamacare off the table, he is going to be working against the strategy of many House Republican incumbents who have made repealing Obamacare a centerpiece of their campaigns. If Romney moves back to the right, he going to face endless 30 seconds using his own campaign spokesperson against him. It is a classic lose/lose.
Mitt Romney hasn’t even accepted his party’s nomination yet, but he is already wearing the look of a doomed candidate and if he can’t hold Republicans together all hell might break loose in Tampa.
http://www.politicususa.com/romney-freefall-double-dose-obamacareromneycare-doom.html
Tweet from @SamYoungman (Reuters field reporter assigned to R-money):
ReplyDeleteTwo days in a row, the letter s poses a problem for Romney. Last night, Sikh/Sheik. Tonight, the word sit. Yep, it's what you're thinking
Tweet URL: https://twitter.com/samyoungman/status/233306491971596288
video or audio tape - PLEAAAAAAAAASE.
DeleteGoogle had a hiccup, so I apologize if this is posted twice.
ReplyDeleteTweet from @SamYoungman, Reuters field reporter covering R-money:
Two days in a row, the letter s poses a problem for Romney. Last night, Sikh/Sheik. Tonight, the word sit. Yep, it's what you're thinking
Tweet URL: https://twitter.com/samyoungman/status/233306491971596288
Obama forgets Mitch M's name, a man he's been supposedly working with, and he's ignored/forgiven. Romney confuses two similar words and he's crucified.
ReplyDeleteYep, this is a liberal blog alright. Only people like you all would do the nasty thing Obama did and wrongly accuse Mitt of that woman's death.
Sad beings who dont like truth, you are.
Azzhat @ 5:15, care to support that with anything but the typing finger you previously had.....?
DeleteYes, but President Obama isn't trying to steal from the poor and middle class to give to the rich.
DeleteThat the TRUTH, and you don't like it because you want to be in the 1%.
If he was speaking about McConnells' death, it would be sad if Obama called him Mooch. But otherwise, bfd.
DeleteRomney on the other hand substituted one culture for another. Using the wrong word once might be confused, twice just means ignorant.
What nasty thing did Obama do that we liberals are doing? There's an easy way to alleviate your stress and frustration. Stop reading Gryphen's blog.
DeleteYour last sentence suggests you are from the planet Dagoba. I can't imagine any other reason for that ridiculous sentence structure.
Hey 5:15pm, anonymous coward, won't sign your name: Do you know WHY it's a big deal?
DeleteIt's not because he "misspoke". It's sure as hell not because he was "tired at the end of the day"
All politicians misspeak.
The BFD is because Romney is oblivious to, and doesn't care or understand that Sheik is a Muslim title, and Sikh is a significant religion of millions, primarily in India & Pakistan
Romney's ignorance and lack of comprehension about anything other than Joe Smith and his gold plates just confirms how provincial the man is. THAT is the reason it's appalling, and not because the man misspoke.
This is so bizarre, I'll only focus on your most glaring grammatical mistake: the term is "all right" (two words). "Already" is one word.
DeleteYour level of education is displayed for all to see when you misuse words. Sort of like Mitt-- only he insulted a religion of millions of people.
5:15 PM How's that 'STILLMAN' endorsement treatin' ya? You betcha. BWAHAHAHA, Lobster Clawed Skank and PIMP'S WIFE.
DeleteHe also did not bother to learn that it is pronounced "sick" and not "seek." Our local news people were corrected yesterday on the pronunciation by a Sikh and were honest enough to share it with their viewing audience.
DeleteSince Republicans are still going on and on about the time President Obama mispronounced the word "corpsman," I think we ought to keep reminding everyone that Willard Mitt called the Sikhs sheiks.
Reminds me of the "3 a.m." Phone call Ad then candidate Hillary Clinton ran during the last campaign.
ReplyDeleteWhat would Mitt do?
You know, I'd give someone the benefit of the doubt, but this is a gaffe too far, and a slap in the face to the victims and their families.
That was my first thought, too.
DeleteTo hell with the 3 AM phone call -
as bad as Mitt is -
it better not be after 3 PM !
Perhaps Mitt has been "retired" too
long (and not using his brain all day.)
Mitt would immediately call his Broker and have him check out any 'investment opportunities' in munitions suppliers or lucrative resources to plunder in the attacker's nation. He would be so proud of himself for being in a position to take 'insider' trading to a whole new level.
DeleteAfter all, leading a Nation is only a temporary job my friend, offshore profiteering is forever!
According to my Lebanese friend, the correct pronunciation of "sheik" is "shake". Even a tired Romney should have been able to keep them straight.
ReplyDeleteThat is a fucking brilliant quote from a brilliant man!
ReplyDeleteThere is a rumor going around that John Huntsman is the person who told Harry Reid that Mitt didn't pay taxes for 10 years. Too funny, if true!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicalruminations.com/2012/08/theres-a-rumor-going-round.html
Well, he was over in politics as ReTHUG anyway - too much rationality, and civility - but what a flaming, flaming way to go out. Gooooooooo, Jon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteWow, really?
DeleteI'm sticking to the idea that it was McCain who told it to Harry Reid. I am still waiting to see McCain call Harry a liar. I would love to see Romney publicly ask McCain to call Harry a liar.
DeleteAwesome! I had no idea that the Huntsman family had ties with Bain. This is just fabulous!
DeleteMitt Baby, You want to be the leader of the free world, you definitely need to sharpen up your crayons. Ex Cat
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear him, I do feel badly for Mitt because he clearly is challenged with expressing feelings, especially about things that are foreign to him. Not a presidential quality for sure.
ReplyDeleteIf Sarah ever had to refer to Sikhs, she'd be doing her "Paul Revere" thing, talking about Aladdin shooting those guns on his horse warning the belly dancers, "The British are coming".
So, with that, neither of them are ready for foreign and multi-cultural diplomacy.
The shooting was very tragic, and one would think that either Mitt or his staff could be extremely careful about getting references and pronunciations right.
Sad.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I thought Gorka was taking a "break" from the campaign (due to his behavior towards the press in Europe), secondly, is this always Mitt's excuse: "it was the end of the day," "he was jet-lagged", etc. ? Our President seems to go pretty much non-stop: different states, different time zones and I don't see him having to apologize or justify his words by saying he is tired. Romney is just an idiot, and his staff is worse.
ReplyDeleteme being a hindu it is insulting!
ReplyDeleteAnyone can misspeak.
ReplyDeleteIt's the self-righteousness and arrogance and inability to ever apologize that sets Romney apart. That and the sheer magnitude of his carelessness, which demonstrates quite clearly that all he is ever thinking about is himself.
Romney’s Surrogate Disaster Continues as Gingrich Debunks Welfare Ad
ReplyDeleteIt just keeps getting worse for Mitt Romney. When pressed on CNN tonight, Newt Gingrich admitted that Romney has no proof that Obama will end welfare to work.
Here is the video from CNN:
...Cooper came back to the question and asked Gingrich if the ad was factually correct. Gingrich answered, “We have no proof today, but I would say to you under Obama’s ideology it is absolutely true that he would be comfortable sending a lot of people checks.”
It really can get worse, and for Mitt Romney when Newt Gingrich uttered the words we have no proof, it got a whole lot worse. The welfare to work ad was the big Romney attempt to change the course of the discussion of the campaign, and get people to stop talking about his tax returns. They alerted the media, sent out press releases, and even deployed Newt “the food stamp president” Gingrich to drive the point home.
Instead of defining Obama as a welfare loving socialist, Gingrich blew the whole thing by admitting that the Romney ad is factually baseless. It was something to watch Anderson Cooper work Gingrich. Cooper finally got Gingrich to tell the truth by playing to his ego, and asking him how he would have worded the ad. Ol’ Newt got carried away and let the truth slip that Romney’s ad is a pile of baloney.
http://www.politicususa.com/romneys-surrogate-disaster-continues-as-gingrich-debunks-welfare-ad.html
‘Barbie Girl’ Parody From Progressive Group Mocks Mitt Romney For Tax Shelters
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/barbie-girl-parody-from-progressive-group-mocks-mitt-romney-for-tax-shelters/
God knows the man is a complete and utter idiot; but then of course so was the Insane Anglo Warlord himself, Ronald(6) Wilson(6) Reagan(6).
ReplyDeleteAnd I can just see Ron Paul queering the Independent vote as John Anderson did in 1980.
In the way of strangely ironic anagrams, I don't know which is greater: the Insane Anglo Warlord being himself Irish (and where did that nickname Dutch come from?), or George Herbert Walker Bush yielding the counter-intuitive Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog? (Yeah, Mister Sounds Like an Arab Problem to Us himself--see April Glaspie.)
DeleteTime for us to see what Willard Mitt Romney offers up, anagrammatically!
$arah Palin = Sharia Plan
Delete@TheNasty Liberal:
DeleteI actually tried anagramming his name last weekend, for fun. (We had alot of fun a few years ago with Palin on this). Anyway,I encountered an interesting phenomenon. Many of the anagram sites on the internet would NOT accept when I entered Mitt Romney or Williard Mitt Romney or President Mitt Romney. Search would come up "no anagrams found for ........". Also same when Palin was entered.
Finally after at least 40 minutes of effort, I found one site that worked. There were a few that were funny. If I have time I can post later this week.
Weird about the sites though. It can't possibly be because of all the fun we had on Palingates a few years ago anagramming Palin'Heaths. That is too conspiracy=ish
Families of Bain Capital's original investors had ties with El Salvador's infamous death squads
ReplyDeleteWhen Mitt Romney decided to take up the offer to launch Bain Capital in 1983, he initially found financing difficult to come by. And so, after some initial misgivings were conveniently overcome, he flew to Miami to meet with some Salvadorans. And he returned with pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up capital. Thus did the Bain buccaneer lay the foundation for his fortune.
The families of some of those investors had ties to the death squads that plagued El Salvador at that time. Ryan Grim and Cole Stangler at the Huffington Post are the latest reporters to take on the story of those investors, following on the heels of reporting by Joseph Tanfani, Melanie Mason and Matea Gold at the Los Angeles Times in mid-July, by Justin Elliott at Salon in January and by Mitchell Zuckoff and Ben Bradlee Jr. at the Boston Globe in August 1994.
When Romney first sought the presidency in 2007, he was back in Miami, and he took note of those early investors:
"I owe a great deal to Americans of Latin American descent. When I was starting my business, I came to Miami to find partners that would believe in me and that would finance my enterprise. My partners were Ricardo Poma, Miguel Dueñas, Pancho Soler, Frank Kardonski, and Diego Ribadeneira."
Romney didn't mention a few other founding Salvadoran investors, including members of the de Sola and Salaverria families. Some had had their plantations there confiscated by the government. All were in self-imposed exile in Miami.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/08/1117948/-Families-of-Bain-Capital-s-original-investors-had-ties-El-Salvador-s-infamous-death-squads
I keep wondering how ANYone is slow-witted enough to not see Romney for the big stupid goof that he is.
ReplyDeleteThen it hits me: not many really like Romney so much, as HATE their President--enough to suffer economically just so they can have a white guy in the White House.
They'll deny that til the cows come home...and yet cannot justify why they'd vote for Romney, for any other reason.
It CAN'T be for how he sticks to his beliefs on anything, now, can it?
I agree, they will vote for Mitt even if they know what a lying suck up he is.
DeleteI’m starting to notice that more of my diehard Republican and conservative friends are recognizing Romney as a first rate liar and are becoming quietly disgusted with it.
What I am hearing lately are comments about not being able to trust anything any candidate says and not believing anything from the mouth of a politician.
Before, it was constant whining about Obama’s lies, never giving examples, of course. Now I don’t hear Obama being singled out as “the liar”. Now it’s “They all lie”.
Romney’s lies are provable, visible constantly to anyone who cares to check back on what he says. Only a brain dead imbecile would not be able to see that he lies when telling the truth would be easier.
The never say exactly what they believe Obama has been lying about but no matter, as long as they can keep the deluded idea in their heads about “Obama’s lies”, they only have to choose between the white guy and the not white guy.
The Chronicles of Mitt: Aug 8, 2012
ReplyDeleteHello, human diary. It is I again, Mitt, your better.
Our campaign suffered a major gaffe today. This is almost unthinkable, since both my campaign and myself have been known for our astonishingly gaffe-free behavior to date, but I suppose it was bound to happen.
Supporters of my opponent had released an ad in which one of the countless people my investment company fired (I have many anecdotes related to firing people, most of them humorous, but now is not the time) noted that he had lost his health insurance after being fired, and soon afterwards lost his wife to cancer. My press secretary, whom I have not yet fired, responded by noting that if that person and his wife had lived in Massachusetts, he would have still had health insurance because of the law I signed as governor intended to help families such as that.
This is quite a blow. Our base does not react well to suggestions that people with cancer ought to receive treatment regardless of their employment status, and the implication that that law I signed in Massachusetts may have actually helped someone in such a situation, even theoretically, could be a fatal error if not dealt with immediately. Our full staff has assembled in order to determine how best to recover.
While various suggestions have been made, such as coming out with a strong pro-cancer statement or vowing to use my own business connections and expertise to spread as much cancer as possible, the consensus is that I must at least condemn the notion that people with cancer should receive treatment if they do not live in Massachusetts, and that I need to make it clear that treating people who have cancer is a choice best left to the states, as not all states will wish to treat people who have cancer, and that if elected I will ensure that as few people with cancer as possible receive health care, regardless of locale or employment. I have directed the staff to craft language to that effect.
I am despondent, Mr. Diary. Things were going so well, and heaven knows I have tried at every juncture in my own business career to provide as little help to commoner units as possible—only now to be accused of providing substantive assistance to sick people. I believe my press secretary knows the severity of her error. My only hesitation as to firing her is the thought that she would probably get better health insurance working for another employer, and that seems too much reward to give someone who has botched things so badly.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/08/1118076/-The-Chronicles-of-Mitt-Aug-8-2012
Oh, no: just saw a posting on Facebook about the Sean Hannity Show, tonight. The theme was that it isn't the Republicans who are waging a war on women, but that Marxist black panther guy and his liberal goons.
ReplyDeleteThis tactic showed up in a recent article about propaganda...calling your enemy the worst thing that could be said about YOU.
So, we can look forward soon to having "Team Romney" claiming its OBAMA who refuses to release his tax returns, and who constantly flip flops on the issues--oh: and who is actually the one who is a MORMON, wearing Magic Underwear and believing he gets to go to another planet when he dies, enjoying sex with multiple wives!
Only true fools can possibly eat this crap up.
I have been waiting for that too, the claim that Obama is refusing to release his returns. They get traction with these blatant lies because there is a significant percentage of the population who will hear this once or twice and run with it. I see this constantly in a few small town papers I read. These papers are full of letters to the editors from feeble minded citizens spreading this dreck.
Deleteclarified that the candidate “misspoke” adding that it was the “end of the day.”
ReplyDeleteOhhhh THE poor baby is tired?
SOUNDS LIKE THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT FOR TIRED ROMNEY!
Everybody simmer down....preferable the Republicans find out he's unelectable after the convention.......
ReplyDeleteJust for your delight: I am currently in Switzerland, and the opinion at least in the media about RMoney is that he is a colorless, tasteless (as in flat, no live) someone, who seemingly will pick one of two (?) equally colorless, tasteless people as his VP.
ReplyDeleteThey do not seem to be giving him much credence, and still mock him and his team about all the gaffes he made while visiting Europe and Israel.
Re the tweet from Dawkins:
ReplyDelete"he also mistook 'prophet' for 'profit.' "