As it turns out, we need not see what was in those missing two minutes of video from Romney Gone Wild: 47% Of His Clothes Off. Willy Mittens is now declaring the video “debunked and selectively edited” for some reason.
Romney campaign is now referring to the fundraiser video as “a debunked and selectively edited video.”
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 19, 2012
Yes! This is a great plan! There is no part of this that won’t work except all of it!
Apparently, this Politico post is the reason the video is debunked and selectively edited. You see, Mitt did not say that peace between Israel and Palestine was impossible (yes he did), but he couched it by saying we can make the Palestinians do things if we are just strong and then…yes. That’s about it.
We will assume that Romney’s inelegance was also debunked, and that he Fred Astaired his way through that shit like a champ. Let us salute him for boldly having both positions necessary to own his statements: that he said them and says them all the time and also didn’t say them at all because wow.
WHY IS MOTHER JONES SO FUCKING TERRIBLE JESUS.
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Missing two minutes > 48 minutes of arrogant shitbaggery, therefore Obama loses.
Okay, I get it now. Conservative math is hard.
All math is hard, conservative math just does not need to be fact based. Book learning is all bad too, except "Good Book" learning, which requires very little math. If you weren't in league with the devil, you would understand.
conservatard math is easy- just pick the answer that you want then fill in any numbers you want, even if they don't add up to the answer you picked. Now 2+2= on the other hand seems to really stump them…
Well there is the biblical value of π (3):
1 Kings 7:23
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
So there's that.
Close enough for religious work.
I think it more like that cartoon showing a scientific proof with the words "and then a miracle occurs" in the middle.
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/pages/gallery….
WHY ARE YOU STILL ON WONKETTE
DRIVE HOME SO WE CAN GO GET TAPAS
this has been your weekly Wonkette public husband shaming.
Wow, why you wanna batter his fragile male ego in public like that?!
Because I am HUNGRY goddamnit
Someone needs to make you a sammich!
His little avatar "motto" thingy made me LOL now that you have outed him.
Haha, I know, right? First time I saw that I said "Oh, that's DIRTY."
Oh crap, I'm going to see these every WEEK?
Depends on if I'm hungry and waiting for you to get home ;D
There are times when 2 minutes might matter a lot, like when you say "Psych" over and over. But here the math is apparently something like:
50 minutes of arrogant shitbaggery – 2 minutes of uber right wing/AIPAC douchery = Dems are satanic devils
That's not hard. It is fucking insane, especially when for their messaging it works like this
everything the president says – everything except one word or phrase they can turn into a cudgel = perfectly acceptable.
"selectively edited”
And in what unedited version would Mittens' comments have sounded better? Did they cut a "Not!" at the end of his remarks?
Assholes.
"Selectively edited" >" Elegantly stated"
Again this is Neocon marxism a al Barney Frank. Not Karl Marx but Chico Marx when he would say to Harpo " Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes???"
Seriously, Governor Romney, the chicken is elegantly requesting you stop fucking it now.
He's not fucking it, he's selectively editing its vagina
legitimate edits or the chicken can shut it down…
"I did not have sexual relations with that poultry…"
which came first?
"Candidate Throws Spaghetti At Wall, Crosses Fingers"
I bet they are hidden around the corner in the Rose Mary Woods.
It's been debunked because who are you going to believe, your lying ears or Willard Romney?
Oh, for fuck's sake.
"I never said 'dependent' to those fundraisers!"
*shakes finger in air*
[Youngz, sing it to this tune.]
♫ Those pundits on the air ♫
That grainy video there
That lays your conscience bare
It's Mitt's Gaffe!
And you got no defense for it
It shows the honest side of Mitt
What good would Limbaugh's spin on it do?
'Cause it's Mitt's Gaffe, YouTube'd Mitt's Gaffe
And although, I know, you're back-ped'ling too….
You cannot walk away from it
Noonington says you're in the shit
And Billy Kristol's piling on too.
This really wrecked your pitch
Ain't life a sumnabitch?
There's no more clueless git than you…
Robo Tard you…
Hey Mitt! Go outsource yourself!
Hey, very good, and good song choice, Frank Sinatra did it so well, thanks.
The flailing continues. Mittens still looks like an asshole. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
See, if we just make the Palestinians very afraid of our military, they will respect us and want peace.
Because the Israelis certainly haven't tried negotiating from a position of "strength and resolve," ever. Maybe a few MORE airstrikes on Gaza would help.
I could have sworn that knocking down Arafat's compound was going to solve all the problems in the world. Or bring around Armageddon. Which also would solve a lot of problems, I guess.
I imagine Muslim terrorists are preparing for their surrender in the unlikely event Mitt wins the election, such is the fear his stern finger and furrowed brow strikes in their hearts.
Because it takes 2 minutes while they wait to reboot him, duh…
…and years to soothe the terror of those who observed him crash.
his new campaign logo is the BSOD
I guess the aide that dropped the stack of punch cards is fired, right?
But in October they are releasing Mitt 8.0 which they promise reboots in 30 seconds.
So now Romney's saying he thinks 47% of Americans are shiftless, and 100% of Americans are morons.
We can shut the thread now.
All he needs to do is fool all of the people SOME of the time.
Tax returns also edited, debunked, whatever. Nothing to see here people, move along!
Oh, so for two minutes, when he didn't know that the camera he didn't know was there was turned off, he spoke his actual mind, instead of his pretend mind?
I dunno…I've heard the phrase "weapons grade stoopid" but I never truly understood it before.
Romney's HQ: "Tape is a bold truthtelling by Mitt contrasting his empowerment philosophy and the President's redistributivism"
[intern brings in polling dailies]
HQ: "Correction: It's all a big hatchet job of doctored quotes!"
That's the funniest bit of all this: why didn't he just say from day one, "No, my comments were different and we need to hear the unedited version," instead of, "Well, they could have been more elegantly stated."
I guess Mitt is calling Governor Romney a liar?
Not the first of many, many times.
That's like saying Ishtar was a box office smash. Just cause your mouth makes words doesn't make it any more true.
My cat had kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits.
Rmoney is a BIG fan of Proof though Repeated Assertion. He didn't inherit anything!
Dear Mr. Nixon,
I never thought this would happen to me…
[expletive deleted]
Time for Romney to put on his penny loafers and socks and walk the beaches of San Clemente.
Mitttens likes to play fast,and lose with the truth.Nice way to say he's a lying Mother Fucker.
Apparently they can see where the editor Scotch taped the pixels together.
Also, from the Politico link–about those edits:
Journalist David Corn, who obtained the complete film for Mother Jones, said that he cut the clip where he did because Romney had already made the latter remarks in public, because he needed to cut the tape somewhere, and because the additional remarks did not change the nature of what Romney was saying.
"I cut it there because it was a long excerpt, and because he started talking about not putting pressure on Israel, which I've heard him say publicly before. So there was no news there," Corn told POLITICO. "We plead guilty to putting up clips of what we thought was newsworthy. Newspapers do not put up full transcripts of speeches. They put up what is new or what is different. Then, within 24 hours, we put up the full video."
Obviously, a vast left-wing conspiracy.
I stand firmly behind what I did not say on that videotape. Send money plz thnx.
Does Romney have a smörgåsbord so he can pick and those which idea he wants to eat (and then shit out) for that particular day?
"Mitt who?"
-Mitt Romney.
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball; but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
So, what part of what he said did he not really say?
Just pretend it didn't happen, put fingers in ears and shout la-la-la-la.
I hope I get to hear the boom when Mitch McConnell's heart explodes on Sunday, January 20, 2013.
Okay, Wonkette. Looks like O'Keefe won this round.
Maybe we'll get 'em next time.
So in the course of 24 hours we went from "inelegantly stated" to out of context to "debunked and selectively edited"
Wow.
Tomorrow will bring the "that wasn't me" defense.
Yes the famous Video VS R.Kelly president
Do you mean shaggy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is
Swiftly followed by a "My shoe was untied" feint, then a "The sun was in my eyes" gambit…
It vasn't me, it vas somevone else, und anyvay, I vas chust followink orders!
YOU BEEN FACK-CHECKED LIBUNATICS
You'd think they would be tired from fucking that chicken all week.
Is Mittens saying that Mother is Jonesin' us? Gasp!
Willard what about Santa, I gotta know??? Easter Bunny is a reach, but Santa fer Christ's sake??!!?? None silver spoons, no silk stockings??
The worst thing so far is this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/did-romne…
Why is this getting so little play???
Josh Marshall commented on this on the TPM editor's blog also. Too lazy to link, but yeah. It really puts that whole "NobUmmmer killed an American ambassador" gaffe in the proper context.
Holy flurking shnit. He should be crucified for that. With votes, of course.
It's beginning to happen. I'm looking forward to further self-inflicted damage in October.
For. Fuck's. Sake.
Sorry Bishop Romney, you can't debunk shitheadedness
Ya know, saying that the words on TAPE that came out of your MOUTH were "selectively edited" works a lot better when you didn't subsequently SAY, with own your same MOUTH that they were indeed YOUR WORDS, again, on tape, the very next day after said tape was released at a damage control press conference. Just sayin'.
So it was either inelegantly stated; out of context (Ann argued this point); his greater point (which wasn't spoken) was that we need to help everybody get more opportunity, including that 47% who pay no income tax and consider themselves victims and who want free food, housing and healthcare and who it's not his job to worry about; or else it's selectively edited. I think the only explanation he's missing is Newt's "anyone who quotes me is a damn liar" one. Oh, and the truth — he could try the truth, I guess.
And in a related story:
Obama Up 8 Points Nationally In Latest Pew Poll
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/2012-pol…
And yes, HuffyPo's trolls are losing their shit. Such a beautiful sight…
I just can't stand to go there anymore. The teatards are taking over.
From now until he loses, all I want to say about mittens -is Oppa Gangnam style!
annnddd i will have that in my head all night.
i hope you're finally happy.
Words, pfft! Everyone knows that there are two sides to every meaning of a word. Besides the campaign's comment was taken out of context.
It's like "bad" actually means "good" 'n' stuff. Here, "filthy, sniveling peasants who can't get out of bed unless Obama waves a wad of money at them" is slang for "people whom I care deeply about and wish agreeable employment upon and taxation commensurate with their incomes".
Strategery–it's difficult! Leave Mitt alone or he will have Ann come & condescend to 'you people'.
OK, So we will give Shitt the benefit of the doubt and not critize him for what nobody ever said he said during the missing minutes of tape. Fuk it if they aren't popping lethal doses of stoopid in Boston.
I know where you go everybody you know
I know everything that you do or say
So when you tell lies I'll always be in your way
I'm nobody's fool and I know all
'Cos I know what I know
You're in suspension
You're a liar
You're a liar
You're a liar
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
See, during those two minutes, he talked about puppies and kittens…and feeding their hearts to the Sith Lord Cheney.
So, was his press conference on Monday night also "selectively edited". The part where he stood by everything that he said on the tape seemed to be live. Is there nothing that these special effects wizards in the liberal media can't do?
Mr Romney, your silence only incriminates you further. No Mr Romney, don't take your anger out on me! Mr Romney! NOOOOOOOOOO*
*DRAMATISATION MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED
Sometimes when the Wonkette acts a little hinky, you gotta jiggle the handle a little bit.
Handle = F5?
Hey, bragger. I have to run out to the back forty to get my Wonkette. You with your fancy indoor Wonkette.
We even got one of them cootchy-washin' things.
I tried turning it off and turning it back on again, but that didn't work, so I complained to our editrix on Twitter instead. Close enough right?
What's funny is that it's Twitter-related — when the writers embed the tweets as above, there's a script in the follow button that refers to something not on the page, which causes it to hang. Putting a screenshot instead of a direct embed solves the problem.
I was just going to say that.
"Selectively edited? I do not think those words mean what you think they mean."
~ I. Montoya
Well, it has been debunked in that pretty much everything he said has been proven to be wrong.
Here's a hint Mittens, why don't you do that yourself?
Of course, here's another GOPer who screams "Personal Responsibility" to others yet doesn't do any when he is dealing with himself.
He is doing that to himself.
Look, young man, if you want to know Mitt's plan, you're just going to wait until after the inauguration. If, that is, you can get security clearance to Mitt's retirement party. Baring that, just hang out at the NYSE. He's bound to show up there.
May I suggest Mitt's campaign go back to disenfranchising minority voters? Because that seemed like it was working better than anything else they've been doing.
Simple remedy: repost the whole video, including the 2 minutes scene of the Billionaire host giving Romney a facial.
I was hoping for a brief interlude of interpretive dance…
i got yer 2 minutes right here!!! (grabs crotch)
"Debunked" — I don't think that means what they think it means.
YARRR, Me Hearties! Today Be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! I'd best be seein' some Piraty-Snark from all o' you Bilge Rats today!
AYE? AYE!
Avast! What be the one letter abbreviation of the Party that's shitting the bed?
Might it be Pronounced "ARRRRRRRR"?
Shiver me timbers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_F0DIJyHRs
Captain Kidd would like a word with ye, ye bilge rat!
Blast these young thunder bonnets and their Spanishy guitars!
How do you debunk video, exactly? This is not wrestling or Copperfield. If you say "I fucked Ray Charles in his eye socket" and it ends up on tape, how can we assess anything else other than a cause for Ray's blindness?
So which is it, righttards – Mitt's 47% comments were right and he should double down on them, OR they were misrepresented? You can't have it both ways. You can't be like those neo-Nazis who say that the holocaust never happened AND the Jews deserved it.
It continues to get even better: "Romney Campaign Releases, Then Removes Video Titled 'Mitt Doesn't Disdain The Poor'" starring St. Ann of Romney herself!
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/romne…
Biff: What is it Steve? They need me back on the bullshit floor.
Steve: Cognitive Dissonance machine, Biff.
Biff: (sigh) Again? C'mon we did this last week.
Steve: I'm tellin ya it can't handle anything besides a twofer. It's got "stand by the statement", "inelegant", and "debunked as edited" and it's jamming!
Biff: Horsecrap. When I was here we were running 8 threads all through South Carolina.
Steve: Well I'm tellin ya! I'm putting them in and it's not working!
Biff: Alright, bring up the panel.
Steve:….There! "Selectively edited and unfair" loop error along with the … "Obama said redistribution in a speech years ago" thread! What's that about?
Biff: (heavier sigh) … that's the fuckin' Project Hail Mary up on the Seventh floor. Get Boston on the horn. Talk to them.
Steve: I'm sorry Biff, it's not me!
Biff: I know, man. I know.
He said, "Haha, it was all a joke, I love the poorz, Shalom, Oh Israel, good times good times."
EXONERATED!
Mitt, it's time to take the other position on whether you should be President.
You should not be President.
"I'm not a son-of-a-bitch. I'm nothing you've heard."
"I'm you. Uh ,,, you ARE Union Carbide, right?"
PROBLEM SOLVED.
I love that their strategy is now to find the approach that reeks the least of desperation. btw – FAIL.
Jesus H. Christ on a bike. How is this supposed to work after Mittens has tacitly admitted the accuracy of the whole thing by his attempted defense? C'mon guys, the steps are (1) deny it, say it's faked, etc; (2) give up and admit it. In that order.
Ladies and gentlemen, I repeat once again: this was the best candidate the Republicans could find.
These people are sooooo fucking screwed, and I'm lovin' every moment of it…
How right ye are, me bucko. This crew can't tell their mizzens from there Mormons.
Yar, matey. I've been getting m'self a good bit o' schadenfreude these past few weeks…
Sadly, somewhere close to 45 percent of the people who allegedly care enough about all this democracy nonsense will go to the polls in another month and vote for this turd.
This Politico Ploy might work except for the fact that Mittens has not backed away from any part of the video and has, in fact, doubled down on the whole shit-eroo. Might ought to check with the Campaign Staff before structuring their defense, dipshits.
Words…how do they work?
Selectively edited. Like Ryan's budget, which some troublemaker "edited" all the numbers out of.
It's either the ylang-ylang or the patchouli, I'm not sure which.
OK so the timeline is: a portion of the video is released; Money Boo Boo holds a presser and says "yeah I said it, SO WHAT"; the full video is released; suddenly the video is "debunked". YOUR GUY JUST SAID HE STOOD BY WHAT HE SAID. How is that debunking it? Did Rmoney forget to wear a pimp hat?
Just hit F2 on the reboot sequence and you can boot off of any connected media.
Hey! They moved the input jack to the bottom!
Mitt's 2012 update complete…
"But I always keep open: the idea of pushing on the Israelis to give something up to get the Palestinians to act is the worst idea in the world. We have done that time and time and time again. It does not work."
Ummm … pushing the Israelis to give up something is a bad idea, and won't work? Really, Mittens? I think Mitt's only peace plan involves the Palestinians packing up and leaving.
That horse won't dance.
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