Mitt Romney is a very busy man, you guys. He is busy now that he’s running for president, and he was busy back when he was a governor. So if your son dies and he gives you a call the day of his funeral, you should probably call him back RIGHT AWAY because he is very important! Very busy! Got that?
“I can’t believe you haven’t returned my call,” Romney said on one of the voice mail messages, according to [Gold Star Mother] Stephany Kern, speaking at her Westerly, Rhode Island home this past Saturday. “Here I am making a second call; I haven’t heard from you.”
Kern did not save the messages. This is the first time she has spoken publicly about them.
Kern’s son, Marine Lance Corporal Nickolas Schiavoni, was killed by an IED explosion in Iraq on November 15, 2005. [...] Mrs. Kern says that many officials, including Romney and Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, left messages for her the day after her son died. She felt unable to speak to anyone in those initial days. “I didn’t listen to any of the calls,” she says.
Only Romney, she says, complained in a second message that she had not called back.
Oh, and Romney called a third time, still bitching. Kern’s husband, who heard the messages, said the tone was “disrespectful” and “antagonistic” and “absolutely inappropriate.” When John Kerry and Ted Kennedy didn’t get return phone calls, they reached out to family members to find out whether and when Kern might want to hear from them. That is because they are losers. Only ROMNEY is really busy, which makes sense because he has so much more money than those other guys, which makes him more important, get it? Some people have all the nerve.
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News flash, he's a dick! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!!
And he want's to become a penis potato – a dick tater as it were.
So does this mean we can call his sons tater tots?
Ron White will be pissed.
tater twats.
The rightwing will defend this as Mitt's humane side
It's not like Mitt killed the kid.
"I just baptized your son."
–Mitt Romney
"YOU'RE WELCOME Kerns!!!!"
I can't believe these moochers aren't buying my bullshit.
I'm sure Willard dead-baptized the soldier despite the fact that the mother didn't show the proper respect that a vassal should show their lord and master.
Mormon forgiveness, and all that.
He's the CEO! How dare she not call him back?
"I called to offer you the required condolences. Why didn't you call back to offer the required gratitude?"
Does CEO stand for "Chief Excrement Orifice"?
What a contemptible human being.
I know, right? That Gold Star mother had some nerve not interrupting her mourning to help Mitt Romney's campaign for president. He had the decency to start campaigning in 2000, why didn't she have the decency to help him?
He just wanted to use her dead son as a campaign prop.
Retroactively, Mitt considered the deceased and himself best buddies.
They retroactively went bowling every Tuesday night.
Only when the live broadcast of Monday Night Football was unavailable.
Ornery rich bastards are lizardpeople too, my friend.
Someone is just asking to get haunted.
But on the other hand, he is very graciously elevating his foot for that servant in the photo. So he's not a complete asshole.
He had to give up the litle Black child that he usually uses for a footstool. He's running for President, for gosh sakes!
Mitt: "Look lady, I'm a busy muthafu&*er and I'm trying to run for Preznit for the 430th time, I need you to call me back so I can use you in a completely dickish and inappropriate way. Thanks."
He has Secret Service now, so I cannot punch him in the face. This pisses me off.
Not for long.
Mitt really seems to have a problem with normal people who don't treat him as if he's somehow superior to them.
When it's just so obvious….
$$$ = favored by God
It's the old Divine Right of Kings, only with "Kings" replaced by "The Ultra-Rich".
Yes. This.
Fox News is absolutely making the biggest deal out of this right now.
How's that?
By not mentioning it at all.
On Fox News, this PROVES that Mitt Romney is a genuinely nice person and not an asshole at all.
Pretty much shows he's about as great as G.W. Bush. So, America will elect him.
What did he actually call this lady up to mock her dead son?
Several of his friends are generals however.
General Tire and General Electric?
General Bullmoose?
Gordon Gecko?
General Payne N. Diaz?
General anesthesia
General Specific?
[no one is gonna get where that's from, I bet]
Probably not General Motors though.
WIN
General malaise with the common folk?
Of all the awful stories of Mittens's, this is one of the awfulest.
You People are such a pain in the ass sometimes.
Fuck all y'all! Heart, Miffed rMoney
And Mr. and Ms. Kern, we here are all so sorry. I'm sure every day for the rest of your lives will have a lot of pain. It is the saddest thing ever.
The very fact that he would go to the trouble of leave a message for this riff raff should be humbling to us all. Mitt Romney is an exceptional human being.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
OT but speaking of Backbiting Fuck-Tussles; I'm eagerly awaiting Snowbilly's outrage at Man Coulter for calling the President a "retard". No. No, I'm not.
What an asshole. No, not your typical, run of the mill asshole. This kind of asshole that takes years to hone.
Dare I ask how, exactly, one hones an asshole?
I dunno but I would think if one was finely honed, it wouldn't produce poops with a nice taper to them.
Or would the taper be deadly sharp, maybe? Poop talk is really liberating compared to rehashing all the same crap about Mitt being an asshole and Barry being a disappointing yet necessary option.
I think you have to be from France:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGfRyM-mKb4
Here's the model they submitted with the patent application.
Centuries, even.
Good grief, I already knew the man was a dick, but seriously: what a dick!
Mitt probably wanted to share his own tale of wartime sacrifice, the time he went to France and, as a Mormon, was forbidden from sampling fine French wine and pussy.
Lots of guys went to Vietnam and never even wounded anyone; Mitt managed to kill an old lady in France.
Game, set, and MATCH!
Mitt, you're going to Mormon Hell.
Mormon Hell is bad, right?
They can't drink, smoke, or use caffine or drugs, and they wear magic undies.
I think this is Mormon Hell. Sarte, and all that stuff.
Well yeah, it's full of Mormons.
I think Mormon hell is the opposite of 40 virgins in a muslin heaven.
I've just not worked out what that means…. and i wrote it.
You don't get your own planet. Worse yet, all your wives are still alive, and you're still married to them.
There was an old issue of National Lampoon with "Denominational Hells": The Catholic Hell was for masturbating, the Episcopalian Hell condemned a snooty rich couple to dining in a greasy spoon with a rude waitstaff for the sin of eating oysters with the dinner fork, the Baptist Hell was for dressing immodestly, with a demon tormenting a couple with, "Neck! Neck! Or I'll make you PET!"… If there was a Mormon Hell, I don't remember what it consisted of.
Dang, I have the complete set on DVD-ROM right here. Unfortunately not searchable, but if you could remember the month and year I could go right to it…
December 1974, Issue #57, The Judeo-Christian Tradition
For Episcopalians, eating oysters with the dinner fork.
For Methodists, allowing the crabgrass to seed
For Catholics, masturbation
For Baptists, use of the flag as bunting.
I guess Mormon's were just too far off the radar back then.
Author, you ask? PJ O'Rourke.
There is no hell for Unitarians, other than listening to other people telling us we're going to hell for not believing in hell.
So this would be even more appropriate.
What did that lazy bitch have to do that she couldn't call back someone as important as Mitt? Bury a son, settle his affairs, grieve?
Grieving's overrated. I've done it and it's no fun.
Did this phone call take place on a Monday? 'Cos I fucking HATE Mondays. I weep and wail all day long, right up to late morning Tuesday. I don't answer the phone, emails or IMs. I'm unbearable. Come Wednesday, I'm the happiest person I know.
Mittens however, is a low-life cocksucker that should experience losing a loved one. See how many calls to his broker he takes then.
And still, Mitt did not learn that people have "feelings" and "emotions."
He missed that entire unit in Social Cues for Sociopaths class.
I read that as cunts, not cues.
You don't call, you don't write, how's a brother to get some????
What is Mitt, chopped liver?
"And here I was almost thinking about allowing you to touch the hem of my garment as I passed — but no, you're all 'I'm too grief-stricken about my dead son.' Look, lady, not having four more as I did is just poor planning on your part — if your husband had sold some of the stock he'd gotten from his dad, maybe you could've stayed home and raised them. But why am I bothering with this advice when you probably won't thank me for it anyway?"
"…besides, your son wouldn't be dead if he had skipped the service and just gone to France instead. What kind of parent are you, anyway?"
Fuck this guy. Fuck this guy with some long, pointy votes.
Votes. Votes with serrated teeth.
Rusty votes, also too.
Those votes with nails in the end are the worst.
I really like the votes that you could throw a body in, any body, take your pick and it effeciently coughs out the results into a hefty lawn and garden bag.
Long, pointy bayonet votes?
And lemon juice. Also, salty votes.
Makes me think of those miners that were forced to be campaign fodder for a photo-op. Miffs doesn't see people, he sees opportunity. He's a disgraceful fuck.
Slander and libel! Mittens would never use people (alive or dead) simply as politically motivated photo-ops. Why, the very ide…
Some weeks later, Kern says, someone from Romney's office called her to say that Romney intended to visit Sciavoni's gravesite. Kern asked that he not do so if he intended to have his photograph taken there; she does not know whether Romney visited or not.
Oh.
Jesus. How..gross.
Lord, Mittens is detestable. Stephanie K…get into politics.
I wish she had had a call center in India to take his call.
I am often stunned by the lack of consideration shown by the little people to their betters. That the wealthy don't have you all shredded and stuffed into comfy, high-backed chairs is a testament to their boundless patience. Know your place, little people! Stop pretending you, y' know, matter an' stuff!
Shorter Mitt: "Good news! Your son is dead. That means you get a call from ME, Mitt Romney! Golly, you're a lucky gal."
I'm sure he just wanted to make sure her son wasn't registered to vote any more.
Romney assumes the family are losers! Who's crazy enough to let their kids join the military anyway!
No doubt the Freepers are saying that clearly she got her son killed to score political points for Obama's second-term elelction.
Mittens tried pulling that CEO attitude shit last night in the debate, so it is good to see he has remained consistent over the years, he has consistently been a huge asshole.
He's a grade-school bully, pure and simple, with a slight gloss of "adult" smeared over him.
My time is so valuable Mr President, enclosed you will find a bill for my debate services, including a manditory 20% gratuitie…
Soldiers are apparently not people, my friend.
What astounds me is that, despite having a team of highly paid handlers, Rmoney's obvious and innate contempt for the Average American continues to slither through.
He inherited it from Bob Dole.
Exactly. He's been running for office for years, you'd think he'd learn how to put on a civil face for the public.
That'll go over big at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Say goodnight, Scotty.
You don't call, you don't write….
Fuckin' peasants. You can't live with them, they leave a big mess when they die.
"They are my people! I am their sovereign! I LOVE Them. Pull!"
"…and you have to pretend that you give a fuck when one of their offspring gets offed."
In another two weeks no one will be returning Mitt’s calls.
Romney= Charm Black Hole
What are people talking about when they say Romney has a charm deficit?
If only Mr. Kern's had worked in outsourcing jerbs and pillaging employee retirement accounts like Sir Willard the Dancing Horse Owner, he might be able to tell the difference between “disrespectful” and “antagonistic” and "Presidential" and "classy".
Obscenely wealthy white men are people too, you lazy mother with a dead kid.
Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
But here’s my number
So call me Goddammit
Yeah, that's the ticket. At the very lowest point in one's life you want to take time to talk to some self-serving soulless dick of a politician on the fucking phone.
2005? They were still working the kinks out of MittBot's speed dial capability.
And when you're done with my shoes, Manuel, you can do the tires on the jet.
"Hello, this is Governor Romney, calling a third time to express my condolences. I know you're screening your calls, pick up, hello, are you going to let me talk to you or what?. . ."
Kinda like this
Mitt's a compulsive re-dialer?
Now's about the right time to pull out the overly attached girlfriend meme.
Hey, I'm your governor. I'm going to call you three times to make sure you remember that I am much more important than anything that might have happened in your paltry life.
"How can I be a compassionate conservative if the bitch won't pick up the fucking phone and let me compassionize at her?!?!?"
Clearly she did not have a strong man to allow her to blossom.
Is she a schoolteacher? Then she's merely heeding your assertion that only you get to ask the questions around here, isn't that right Mitt – ?
See there, I did it myself!
You know who else was too busy at the end of a desperate campaign to call a grieving mother?
That kid in The Giving Tree?
Hey, she was like a 'mother' to him!
I cannot tell you how much I despise that book and the concepts within. As disturbing as The Lord of the Flies. But it's a kids book!
I'm not crazy about "It's a Wonderful Life" for pretty much the same reasons.
Yeah, I had the opposite reaction upon reading it. Maybe I was sick of happy endings and found its ending refreshingly candid.
Or perhaps I appreicated a new way to define “success” vs. “weak” or, self-serving vs. vulnerable.
Because the ‘characterizations” were pared down to simple renderings I wasn’t troubled that the Tree’s definitive traits weren’t more nuanced beyond: the representation of Unconditional Love.
Everyone writes about /hears about the kind of approval, from God, that is ‘earned’ – but in today’s climate even ‘grace’ gets cast as “with conditions” of behavior and measuring our worth – which undermines the definition of grace, but.
My reaction to the story, which ought to be *GAH* what a heel I feel like if I ever did that to someone who once loved & nurtured me – - is that Selfishness manifests itself in many similar ways.
I may not have dumped my Granny IRL but have learned to self-recognize the equivalent.
ALSO being on the receiving end of abandonment – what kicked me in the heart most of the story’s whole message, was the abandonment –
So it resonated for me as what I would most dread for my fate; and, in “do-likewise [or not]-unto-others” fashion, what I would most find condemnable in my personal growth, should I wise up to my actions/ motives as “using” others for self gain.
If I’m gonna err to the side of more “abused” than “a user”, i.e. if I appear like the Tree I am just getting myself run over – I’ll reassure you I use the two polar coordinates by which to steer; I’d rather err to the unconditional love, for it’s most lacking in the world. But if I sense that message gets undermined as circumstances challenge me to say, Stand up to a bully! (witness D.Trump the other day, suggesting to Falwell U. students turning the other cheek might be ready to update with some situational ethics), then adjust accordingly on the sliding scale of self-ful <<>> selfless.
Sent from my anthropomorphizing, emote-projecting, erstwhile God-comprehension-reaching phone
General George Marshall as depicted in Saving Private Ryan?
John Edwards?
Mittens really can't help it–he still thinks like a CEO whose every whim is law to everyone around him. The idea that someone might have something to do other than call him back ASAP doesn't register.
What else could be expected from someone whose laugh sounds like something that could come out of a coin operated mechanized box, containing a creepy magician. On a deserted carnival midway. At one minute past midnight.
They say they did not save the messages…but does that mean that they are unrecoverable? We aren't talking about messages left on some bit of magnetic tape. If it's possible that these can be recovered…wouldn't that be the Cocktober surprise that finally screws Mitt to the wall. Man, I hope Obama's got people at the NSA working on this.
Sometimes one needs an emotion chip to throw off the hounds…
What ever happened to a note of condolance? Surely Mitt has someone who will lick his stamps.
Christ, what an asshole.
"Mitt Romney is a very busy man, you guys. He is busy now that he’s running for president, and he was busy back when he was a governor. So if your son dies and he gives you a call the day of his funeral, you should probably call him back RIGHT AWAY because he is very important! Very busy! Got that?
“I can’t believe you haven’t returned my call,” Romney said on one of the voice mail messages, according to [Gold Star Mother] Stephany Kern,
Only Romney, she says, complained in a second message that she had not called back.
Oh, and Romney called a third time, still bitching."
Sorry if I'm being very stupid here, but what exactly was Mrs. Kern supposed to call back *for*? To say, "I got your call"? Is that necessary? Does Mitt also expect a thank-you note for a sympathy card?
Insufferable, entitled, asshole douche acted like insufferable, entitled, asshole douche.
I'm detecting a pattern here.
Film at 11.
Mitt just wanted to say that the guy's death wasn't optimal.
If Mitt does become our next Prez *shudder* — do you think he will meet the caskets of the fallen or send Tagg to do it?
This story saddens me. The Kerns didn't deserve that. Imagine being hectored by a douchenozzle when you've just lost a son.
Yeah, the way he treats people is pretty bad, but hey, it's not like he's an abuser of defenseless animals or something like that.
Wait, what?
Why is it that I can't read this without thinking of Foghorn Leghorn?
SON I SAY SON…
"Here I am" is my "favorite" part. WTF
How DARE Mrs. Kerns not call Romney back during his moment of grief? He's hurting lady, he's in pain. Why won't anyone think of Mitt Romney for a moment? Oh, sure, your son was tragically killed serving overseas, but what about Mitt? What about Mitt? He had to take 2 minutes out of his day to call you, 2 minutes where he could have been yelling at the servants, or fluffing Rafalca or riding Egg, and you couldn't even call him back?
I completely understand why the Kerns didn't keep the voicemail message from Romney, but I sort of wish they had the recording and it was being played on all the networks-except Fox, there they'd have to explain to their viewers why "Barack Obama" sounds so much like Mitt Romney
Mitt is six charms short of a bracelet.
I'd say he was a bracelet short of any charm…
Mitt seems to have a real problem navigating the issues of deceased servicemen and security folks, huh?
So, Mitt's turned into a Jewish grandmother?
yeah, how dare you, rhode island lady. what, are you too busy with, like, grieving, or something, that you cannot call back a political opportunist? sheesh, where are your priorities?
I love the Wonkette research team!
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