Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney admitted his comments captured on hidden camera at a fundraiser earlier this year were “not elegantly stated,” but did not back away from the broader point he was trying to make. In the video, which leaked Monday, he is seen telling donors that 47 percent of voters are “victims” reliant on handouts and will support President Obama regardless. Last night, Romney called his remarks “off the cuff” but wouldn’t disavow them.
Mitt Robney keeps pissin’ people off! One day after criticizing President Obama in the hours following the announcement of the deaths of four U.S. diplomats, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney softened his tone on Thursday, and focused on grieving. “I know that we’ve had heavy hearts across America today, and I want you to know things are going to get a lot better. But I also recognize that we’re in mourning. We’ve lost four of our diplomats across the world. We’re thinking about their families and those that they’ve left behind,” Romney said, at the beginning of a rally with roughly 2,700 supporters here in Northern Virginia. Then, as Romney continued to lament the loss of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, and the three others killed in Benghazi, a heckler distracted him. “What a tragedy, to lose such a wonderful, wonderful, uh,” Romney said, as the heckler began to yell, “Why are you politicizing Libya?” Romney continued, “wonderful people that have been so wonderful.” The crowd chanted the heckler down, and then Romney made a decision that if he held a moment of silence, it would be disrupted by the protester. “And so I would offer a moment of silence but one gentleman doesn’t want to be silent so we’re going to keep on going,” Romney said. Romney’s comments came one day after he leveled a blistering critique at the president just hours after Stevens’ death was announced. It was an apparent acknowledgment by Romney that he may have struck an off-note on Wednesday, when he talking briefly about mourning the Americans’ deaths but spent most of his time blasting Obama’s approach to foreign relations. The vid speaks for itself…that he could turn such a somber moment into an Obama bashing free-for-all just proves he’s got nothing to stand on! SMH Source Images via WENN/Youtube
Thanks to absolutist firebrands such as Rand and Ron Paul , laissez-faire economic sentiment has been gaining momentum in the GOP for some time. But with the nomination of deficit hawk wunderkind — and notable Ayn Rand devotee — Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate, movement libertarianism has officially been added to the Republican presidential platform. Regardless of whether Romney is elected and Ryan’s controversial budget proposals are made law, the rebranding has already created two decisive effects: first, it has excited the fiscal-conservative base enough to warrant representation at the penultimate level; and second, it has convinced swaths of more marginal voters, who vaguely recall skimming through Atlas Shrugged as undergrads, that they were ardent “objectivists” all along. In honor of the libertarian strain of Republicanism getting its RNC coronation this week, here are the top nine films that evoke a reverie for free markets and, in some cases, the dystopian nightmare that’s sure to follow if we ignore Rand’s literary prophecy. 1. Top Gun (1986): Many conservatives credit Ronald Reagan with bringing down the Berlin Wall and ending the Cold War. Cineastes know it was Maverick and Goose. The recently deceased Tony Scott’s pop art masterpiece did for capitalism what Eisenstein’s innovation of montage did for Bolshevism. (Just substitute the jittery stomping of horses with more photogenic F-16 fighter jets. Today’s audiences smirk at the towel-clad locker-room romping and blue-jeaned volleyball homoeroticism , but the convergence of “Danger Zone” aerial balletics and the mega-wattage of a then 23-year-old Tom Cruise is still enough to raise long-dormant goose-bumps for American exceptionalism.) 2. Casablanca (1942) : Humphrey Bogart’s Rick runs the best casino-bar in town, traffics in guns for African rebels, and appeases the Nazi occupation just to keep it all in the black. He is the archetype of the cutthroat entrepreneur: “I stick my neck out for nobody,” he unhesitatingly declares. Randians will rejoice as Rick wheels and deals in dubious moral territory with the stoic confidence of a man who believes doing what makes sense for Rick is the only true imperative. Just make sure to tune out before the last act when Bogey’s iconic hero contrives a plot for the good of humanity capped with the ultimate act of altruism: saying goodbye to Ingrid Bergman. 3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Yes, Christian Bale as Batman selflessly gives nearly everything to save his fellow Gothamites in the concluding chapter of Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus trilogy – including an attempt to develop a MacGuffin fusion technology. Free socialized energy for the whole world! Yet, the politics of Nolan’s franchise are more inscrutable than Bane’s face mask-muffled line readings. A short list of the thematic evocations, in no particular order, include: 9/11, the subprime crash, Occupy Wall Street, kangaroo-court tyranny, class warfare and vigilante justice. Alas, none of these threads cohere into a mission-statement that that transcends the film’s deafening soundtrack, or its grimly self-serious hero mythology. Because the leftist aspirations of Bruce Wayne are so dwarfed by the narrative’s hodge-podge of political themes, avowed libertarians should simply enjoy this film’s spectacular set-pieces while delighting in the bleak vision of a militarized proletariat revolution. Hint: it mostly involves sending the “productive class” on a short-walk over a thinly frozen East River.
Yahoo News’ Washington bureau chief David Chalian has been fired after a shocking remark he made about Mitt Romney and his wife Ann was caught on camera. Chalian was overheard saying that the Romneys were “not concerned at all” about Hurricane Issac and are “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” Chalian seemed to be referring to the Republican National Convention taking place in Tampa just as the Category 1 storm barreled across the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday, Yahoo announced it was firing Chalian, “effective immediately.”
Forget Game of Thrones for a minute. And soak in the Game of Bones! In the hilarious video below, a dog gives us his impression of this HBO epic’s beloved theme song. There may not be a map of Westeros to guide us around as the notes play, but we repeat: there’s a dog barking out the music! Watch and enjoy now:
Ann Romney, the wife of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, addressed the party’s convention last night to discuss life, challenges, and her husband. “Tonight, I want to talk to you about love,” the warm and engaging Mrs. Romney said, regaling the crowd with stories of the couple’s courtship and marriage. The goal of her speech: Help people understand the personal side of her husband, a successful and decent man but one who struggles to connect with voters. Think she succeeded? Take a look below …
Mitt Romney Says He’s ‘Villified’ By Obama Campaign Presidential campaign season is nearing the end and in case you hadn’t noticed, Money Mitt and his GOP goons are going harder in the paint than ever before . Despite badly trailing President Obama in terms of which candidate voters find more likable, Mitt Romney says he’s not going to try to win over people through personality. “I know there are some people who do a very good job acting and pretend they’re something they’re not,” Romney told Politico in an article published Monday. “You get what you see. I am who I am.” At the same time, Romney went back to his college days to show that people do like him. ““I was voted the president of my fraternity,” he said. “They don’t call them fraternities at Brigham Young University. They’re called Service Clubs. It was the Cougar Club. But you don’t get voted to be head of your group if you don’t get along with people, if you don’t connect with people.” In speaking with Politico and USA Today on the eve of the convention, Romney continued to suggest the president has unfairly attacked him personally. “I do think that the president’s campaign of personal vilification and demonization probably draws some people away from me,” Romney told USA Today. When the paper pressed Romney on why he noted in a speech in Michigan last week that “no one has ever asked to see my birth certificate,” in what sounded like a nod to the false claims by some conservatives that the president was not born in the United States, Romney said he was simply being “human” and “spontaneous.” Earlier on in this same speech, Mitt also made a reference to BET head honcho Debra Lee as a an example of success…….although he “couldn’t remember her name.” SMH. Source
‘We are going to get in the studio and … see where the creative process takes us,’ Drew Lachey tells MTV News. By Christina Garibaldi 98 Degrees Photo: Cory Midgarden/ MTV News
Singer Dee Snider asks Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential candidate to stop using ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ on campaign trail. By Gil Kaufman Paul Ryan Photo: Getty Images
Woman Spitting on Romney Supporter at Wisconsin Rally! Big Fight On Friday, a protester disrupted a meeting between Republican Wisconsin state Sen. Alberta Darling and her constituency. After interrupting the meeting, the protester was shouted down and resorted to spitting on the Darling supporters who argued with her. As she was ushered out of the event, Darling’s supporters began spontaneously chanting Mitt Romney’s name. In a video published by the The Appleton Post-Crescent and republished in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Darling’s campaign appearance is disrupted by a protester who has been identified as Mary Hoglund. Hoglund interrupts Darling’s speech to ask her why she supports taking funds away from Planned Parenthood. When Hoglund is asked to wait by a frustrated Darling supporter, she spits in her face. A quick brawl ensued in which Hoglund claims that she was scratched. The Journal-Sentinel reports that the event was organized by Romney’s campaign. The incident occurred at an event called “Wisconsin Women for Mitt.” Darling said it was unfortunate that the meeting was disrupted but said people were “energized and enthusiastic” about the Romney-Paul Ryan ticket. The Journal-Sentinel notes that the event was also attended by Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. youtube
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