VIDEO: Romney Stands By Controversial Comments

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BREAKING: Romney Stands By Controversial Comments, Claims He Says The Same Thing In Public

By Judd Legum on Sep 17, 2012 at 10:12 pm

At a press conference tonight, Romney stood by controversial comments he made at a private fundraiser in May, saying that his remarks were “not elegantly stated” and spoken “off the cuff.” “This is something I talk about a good deal in rallies and speeches and so forth,” Romney claimed. The former Massachusetts governor took just three questions, walking away when asked if his claims that almost half of Americans see themselves as “victims” represent his “core convictions” and what he believes. From reporter Holly Bailey, who was on the scene:



<..> Romney added that the comments were indicative of his campaign’s effort to “focus on the people in the middle” and said, “I hope the person who has the video will put out the full material.” Mother Jones’ David Corn — who first reported on the video — has said that he will release more video from the May fundraiser on Tuesday.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/0...in-public/

David Corn you are great!! And I'm reading that Jimmy Carter's son is the one who took the video and leaked it to David.

edit:
Romney On Controversial Fundraiser Remarks

Published on Sep 17, 2012 by ThinkProgress TP

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Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election
By Josh Barro Sep 17, 2012 5:02 PM CT

You can mark my prediction now: A secret recording from a closed-door Mitt Romney fundraiser, released today by David Corn at Mother Jones, has killed Mitt Romney's campaign for president.

On the tape, Romney explains that his electoral strategy involves writing off nearly half the country as unmoveable Obama voters. As Romney explains, 47 percent of Americans "believe that they are victims." He laments: "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

So what's the upshot? "My job is not to worry about those people," he says. He also notes, describing President Obama's base, "These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax."

<..> But those are survivable. The really disastrous thing is the clip about "victims," and the combination of contempt and pity that Romney shows for anyone who isn't going to vote for him.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-17...ction.html

This is before Willard finished himself off with his presser.

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Mitt Romney, caught on video tape
Posted by Glenn Kessler at 10:09 PM ET, 09/17/2012

<..> As for the claim that Obama promised that unemployment would be below 8 percent, Romney has already earned Two Pinocchios for that.

The Pinocchio Test

Perhaps it is too much to expect a politician to be entirely accurate in a closed door speech, but one would think he would have even less need to stretch the truth if he thinks the cameras are not rolling. Unfortunately for Romney, at least one camera captured his misleading picture of the electorate.

Three Pinocchios


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact...ml?hpid=z2

Willard's lies are catching up with him and he is destroying himself. Sweeeet.

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(09-17-2012 08:41 PM)jaxx Wrote:  ... And I'm reading that Jimmy Carter's son is the one who took the video and leaked it to David.

STFU. Priceless.

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(09-17-2012 09:29 PM)Myra Wrote:  

(09-17-2012 08:41 PM)jaxx Wrote:  ... And I'm reading that Jimmy Carter's son is the one who took the video and leaked it to David.

STFU. Priceless.

My bad, it was Carter's grandson, not his son. And he didn't take the video but did leak it to Corn.


Today at 6:56 PM
How Jimmy Carter's Grandson Helped Leak the Secret Romney Fund-raiser Video
By Joe Coscarelli

The damning video of Mitt Romney telling a room of wealthy donors how he really feels about the free-loading 47 percent of Americans "who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it," among other candid things, has been floating around online in bits and pieces for three months, but didn't hit the big time until it was published by David Corn at Mother Jones today. Credited as a "research assistant" on the story is James Carter IV, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, who has been toiling online as an opposition researcher and is "currently looking for work," according to his Twitter bio. "I've been searching for clips on Republicans for a long time, almost every day," said Carter this evening. "I just do it for fun." But by connecting Corn with the mysterious uploader of the clip, Carter has uncovered his biggest story yet, one that could potentially affect the outcome of the election. (And get him a job.)

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/jam...video.html

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(09-17-2012 09:42 PM)jaxx Wrote:  

(09-17-2012 09:29 PM)Myra Wrote:   STFU. Priceless.

My bad, it was Carter's grandson, not his son. And he didn't take the video but did leak it to Corn.

James Carter IV ... "I've been trying to get paid for this but it hasn't worked out yet. This might help."

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The repubs are equating Willard's "gaffe" with Obama's "they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion". This is a good comeback to that nonsense.


Today at 10:26 PM
The Real Romney Captured On Tape Turns Out To Be A Sneering Plutocrat
By Jonathan Chait

<..> Some pundits have likened Romney’s comments to Barack Obama’s 2008 monologue, also secretly recorded at a fundraiser, about his difficulties with white working class voters in rural Pennsylvania. But the spirit of Obama’s remarks was precisely the opposite of Romney’s. While Obama couched his beliefs in condescending sociological analysis about how poor small town residents vote on the basis of guns and religion rather than economics, the thrust of Obama’s argument was that he believed his policies would help them, and to urge his supporters to make common cause with them:

Quote: But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

Obama was aspiring to become president of all of America, even that part most hostile to him, in the belief that what they shared mattered more than what divided them. Romney genuinely seems to conceive of the lowest-earning half of the population as implacably hostile parasites.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/rea...ocrat.html