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[teruterubozu]

Fox is admitting it's worse than Obama's "guns & religion" gaffe.

 

[Guevara]

mitt are you wearing pants

Looks like Will Ferrell playing Harry Caray

 

[ezrarh]

Elegant version:

Forsooth, good sirs! I say that full forty-seven percent of our countrymen are liars, beggars, and thieves. Victims they call themselves, and all the while shall they take our food, our homes, even the doctors and leeches they shall take from us, for they demand much and give little; yea, even unto relinquishing less tax monies into the treasury than I myself! And these are the men my opponent calls on as his allies. Verily, these men shall cast ballots for him and cast stones at me!

I tell you now, sirs, that such men as these shall never hear reason. It is not your duty, nor is it mine, to worry overmuch on such men. They shall reap what they have sown, and the world shall be better for it.

Very nice. I read that in Dan Carlin's voice.

 

[Raxus]

Look at Mitt's messy hair. No doubt he was livid behind scene and was yelling up a storm at his staff.

Why? It must ultimately be his responsibility to edit his own speeches.

 

[apana]

This will be too much to take, his campaign might be over.

 

[Kusagari]

You're seeing it. Look at the finalists for the nomination. It looked like a goddamn Rogue's Gallery of dumb fucks. They didn't give half a shit about this election. I'm convinced of that. Romney won by default.

He basically did. The fact that he struggled against Newt fucking Gingrich, Rick Santorum and HERMAN CAIN tells you all you need to know. Rick Perry would have beat him if he didn't make Sarah Palin look like Einstein in comparison.

All the actual smart Republicans like Jeb knew that 2016 was the real ticket.

 

[B-Dubs]

This will be too much to take, his campaign might be over.

Might be?

 

[NullPointer]

Its been whole minutes since he gave his presser - anybody have a link handy?

This will be too much to take, his campaign might be over.

By his own words no less.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

STOP SMIRKING

 

[Sickboy007]

You're seeing it. Look at the finalists for the nomination. It looked like a goddamn Rogue's Gallery of dumb fucks. They didn't give half a shit about this election. I'm convinced of that. Romney won by default.

Don't overestimate them, that's the party where Newt Gingrich is considered an intellectual heavyweight.

 

[grimshawish]

..What exactly was the point of the press conference again?

Personally am really excited at the idea of weekly late night press conferences with Romney.
Eventually he'll bring a chair as the campaign walks take his legs from him, then the cigarettes to deal with stress. Finally a drunken Romney every night will open up to the world from a comfy cigarette stained sofa.

 

[Angry Fork]

Really? Are you also convinced that 9/11 was committed by the Lizard People?

Politicians being bought and carrying out the demands of special interests isn't a conspiracy theory.

 

[speculawyer]

47% responds to Romney:

"We don't pay more than are legally due and frankly if we had paid more than are legally due we don't think we'd be qualified to be American citizens. You'd think people would want us to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires."

*ZING*

 

[CygnusXS]

STOP SMIRKING

"Boy, I sure fooled them. Hyuck!"

 

[_woLf]

Holy shit, this is possibly one of the biggest gaffes by a presidential candidate in a LONG time. Jesus.

He doesn't even try to show some class.

 

[2real4tv]

It's like he created his own Anti-Mitt Romney campaign commercial.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Don't overestimate them, that's the party where Newt Gingrich is considered an intellectual heavyweight.

 

[Raxus]

It's like he created his own Anti-Mitt Romney campaign commercial.

I'm Barack Obama and I can't make this shit up.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

STOP SMIRKING

Hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank and you can't get a tailor?

 

[Neuromancer]

STOP SMIRKING

He can't help it.

 

[K.Sabot]

STOP SMIRKING

His ankles are fucking skinny.

 

[teiresias]

Looks like Will Ferrell playing Harry Caray

Bhahaahahaaa, this comparison is so going on Facebook!

 

[speculawyer]

mitt are you wearing pants

Did his eyebrows recently go gray? They seem to be gone.

 

[Veitsev]

That response was really bad. I don't understand why this campaign would have him come out there if he was going to look flustered and unkempt like that. It wasn't just his appearance. He really sounded worried and lacking confidence. They didn't need to rush out a response. A response like that just makes things worse.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Guevara]

That response was really bad. I don't understand why this campaign would have him come out there if he was going to look flustered and unkempt like that. It wasn't just his appearance. He really sounded worried and lacking confidence. They didn't need to rush out a response. A response like that just makes things worse.

Mitt loves rushing out before he has anything to say

 

[Half and half]

Can't...pry...myself...away...from...the...net. Must....sleep.

/Refreshes page

....

/Refrshes page

 

[teh_pwn]

STOP SMIRKING

Someone shop Beavis on the left.

 

[apana]

He should just make a full apology and do it quickly.

 

[StopMakingSense]

STOP SMIRKING

The oversharpness plus the deep black background plus the weird angle, plus Romney looking like the G-Man make it look like gary's mod.

 

[Raxus]

Can't...pry...myself...away...from...the...net. Must....sleep.

/Refreshes page

....

/Refrshes page

You'll have to. The Daily Show starts in 15 minutes and if they got this comment before the taping OH BOY.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Looks like Will Ferrell playing Harry Caray

 

[NullPointer]

He should just make a full apology and do it quickly.

*tears*

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Politicians being bought and carrying out the demands of special interests isn't a conspiracy theory.

Nobody likes to hear it.

Well, now that I'm done being hoodwinked by the Internets (so sad), I have to wonder why folks follow this stuff as closely as they do when it's evident they're rooting for Brand X over Brand Y.

Is it the schadenfreude potential? I love laughing at the misfortune of others as much as the next guy, but not with it comes to serious things like running our country.

When our two party system boils down to this, with one candidate being a complete cock and deep sixing his own campaign; isn't it time we start letting other candidates get some of that precious air time so voters can see the other options available?

 

[vas_a_morir]

You'll have to. The Daily Show starts in 15 minutes and if they got this comment before the taping OH BOY.

Best guess is tomorrow, though.

 

[Raxus]

Best guess is tomorrow, though.

Either way he just provided them weeks worth of material.

 

[Tamanon]

I think it broke too late for today's Daily Show, but they've got a couple weeks of catching up to do anyways.

 

[lastplayed]

omg

 

[fallagin]

STOP SMIRKING

"Well I had a good run."

 

[Tesseract]

good lord, i'm dying.

 

[ezrarh]

Nobody likes to hear it.

Well, now that I'm done being hoodwinked by the Internets (so sad), I have to wonder why folks follow this stuff as closely as they do when it's evident they're rooting for Brand X over Brand Y.

Is it the schadenfreude potential? I love laughing at the misfortune of others as much as the next guy, but not with it comes to serious things like running our country.

When our two party system boils down to this, with one candidate being a complete cock and deep sixing his own campaign; isn't it time we start letting other candidates get some of that precious air time so voters can see the other options available?

Sorry, the media is only good for mindless entertainment now. You want them to talk real issues? Please. At least we're getting this Romney debacle.

 

[teiresias]

 

[grimshawish]

That response was really bad. I don't understand why this campaign would have him come out there if he was going to look flustered and unkempt like that. It wasn't just his appearance. He really sounded worried and lacking confidence. They didn't need to rush out a response. A response like that just makes things worse.

From the sounds of things theres been a lot of fighting about whose to blame for recent problems. Likely in 'more' fighting someone said a statement had to be made, Romney agreed and whilst a bunch of other people argues/moaned - they were already strolling in to make a statement.

Basically this is an episode of The Thick of It.

I do like my idea of Romney making statements a week a night for fun, if he wins the election I'd just love him rushing out to make statements. One week he forgets to wipe the tooth paste from his mouth; another he forgets to change out of his wives dress; then he forgets to take off his sunglasses, making for a bizzare declaration of war; the time he hilariously turned to walk away from the podium - revealing that he forgot to put any trousers on.

If anything he should have his own sitcom.


[Seriously though - it shows some serious internal problems, a campaign and a man with zero control over the situation and generally a pretty scatter shot outlook]

 

[commedieu]

hahah glad I wasn't the only one thinking this. My god he looks frazzled.

 

[vas_a_morir]

I'm seeing "I am the 47%" on twitter.

Look, I get what you are saying... but it's not something to be particularly proud of. lol

 

[Duffyside]

Obama's "you didn't build that" speech was about a twenty times more offensive to me than this, give or take. And that was done in the open.

You're fine, Mittens. Get ready for the debate.

 

[NullPointer]

Full video of the Romney conference. A bad response, badly delivered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-pXXMgrK00U

What a flustered blowhard. Imagine this man as president. He's nervous, angry and disheveled.

Obama's "you didn't build that" speech was about a twenty times more offensive to me than this, give or take. And that was done in the open.

You gotta be kidding me.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Doesn't anyone have any links to livstreams of what's happening now? I just caught up on all this, any video recordings of the response? (Really wanna see Fox News' reaction!! The next Colbert/Jon Stewart will be amazing too..)

edit: just saw the quoted link. any livestream commentary would be great though.

 

[TheHeretic]

Sorry, the media is only good for mindless entertainment now. You want them to talk real issues? Please. At least we're getting this Romney debacle.

The media has been pretty aggressive when it comes to outright fabrications, certainly more so than I can remember in modern politics. Bush in 2004 was running on an alternate universe and he slid through the election pretty easily.

 

[teruterubozu]

Nobody likes to hear it.

Well, now that I'm done being hoodwinked by the Internets (so sad), I have to wonder why folks follow this stuff as closely as they do when it's evident they're rooting for Brand X over Brand Y.

Is it the schadenfreude potential? I love laughing at the misfortune of others as much as the next guy, but not with it comes to serious things like running our country.

When our two party system boils down to this, with one candidate being a complete cock and deep sixing his own campaign; isn't it time we start letting other candidates get some of that precious air time so voters can see the other options available?

Well yes, if we are to put a gestalt analysis on the entire thing. I mean fuck, why do I go to work? I should just live in the woods.