Romney Forgets Attack Ad That He Approved
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he doesn't coordinate with the super PACs that support him, but apparently he doesn't coordinate with himself either.
During the CNN-hosted debate in Florida on Thursday, the former Massachusetts governor couldn't remember an ad attacking Newt Gingrich, even though he approved it and his campaign paid for it.
"You've had an ad running that says Speaker Gingrich calls Spanish the language of the ghetto," CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer told Romney.
"I haven't seen the ad," Romney replied. "I'm sorry I don't get to see all the TV ads. I don't know. Did he say that?"
"No," Gingrich objected. "I said we want everybody to learn English; I didn't use the word Spanish. ... So I would say that as much as Gov. Romney doesn't particularly like my use of language, I found his deliberate distortion equally offensive."
"I doubt that's my ad," Romney insisted. "But we'll take a look and find out. There are a bunch of ads out there that are being organized by other people."
In fact, Blitzer did return to the subject after a few other questions.
"We just double-checked and it was one of your ads," Blitzer explained. "It's running here in Florida on the radio, and at the end you say, 'I'm Mitt Romney and I approved this ad.'"
While Romney had the support of the Republican audience for a large part of the night, that tidbit of information was met with groans and boos.
"Let me ask the Speaker a question," Romney spoke up, trying to salvage the moment. "Did you say what the ad says or not? I don't know."
"It's totally out of context," Gingrich said.
"Oh, OK, he said it," Romney interrupted. "Let's take a look at what he said."
In a 2007 speech, Gingrich did say that bilingual education should be replaced "with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," according to a fact check from The Washington Post.
Gingrich had not specifically used the word "Spanish," but it was widely perceived to be aimed at Spanish speakers. The Georgia Republican eventually apologized for creating "a bad feeling within the Latino community."
he still schooled newt for most of the night. This will pass.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
had a hilarious clip of Newt apologizing for his "language of the ghetto" comment in very bad Spanish.
I'll look for it.
Update: This is priceless. Not only is there video, Newt previously posted it himself on his You Tube channel and has now removed it.
With apologies for the source to which I link, here is the story in real time:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2...
And here is Newt making the offending comment in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rF694NzjPU
Best of all, here is a clip of Newt's Spanish apology with Cenyk doing background comments that makes the whole thing something akin to Mystery Science Theater 3000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og0HqSZVKqA
TFR
i did pretty well in my prosperity language courses and my ghetto language courses
but, i find that in conversations i tend to butcher my ghetto language skills, and i tend to fall back and speak prosp-hetto.
Turkebonics ghetto speak, myself.
TFR
These guys who are sooooooooooooooo big on personal responsibility, yet when put on the spot about something in their backgrounds or present life, they accept responsibility for nothing. Shameless. Guess the personal responsibility is only for the rest of us.
The good life is a day at the beach.
NAFTA Newt throws out ten lies a minute on his bomb throwing tirades, who gives a shit if some are thrown back.
Michael Haltman
The Political Commentator
http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com
It's Democratic Party not Democrat Party. Get it right.
There are years of evidence that the MSM is NOT liberal or a "cheering section" for the Democratic Party. That line of BS has been debunked for a long time now.Try using real facts instead of Fux "Facts." For evidence you can check out the Sabbath GasBag shows and see where every week the guest are dominated by Republicans. If what you said had even a gram of truth in it then the predominate guest list would include Democrats out numbering Republicans and that's not the case by a mile. Some weeks go by where not one Democrat is invited to any of the shows.
Give the truth a try. Your life will be better for it and you can avoid that nasty thing called hell after you die.
Your comment = EPIC FAIL.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
I am sure C&L appreciated you registering for the purpose of adding this comment and promoting your conservative blog. (It is common for people around here to know what others think so I might as well act like I do as well).
A couple of questions for you since I know you are still around and will be commenting regularly.
Does the RNC "know" the MSM is the cheering section of the Democrat Party, or are they just making that claim so they can have a whipping boy to feed the victim mentality which underlies much of the anger constantly animating the right?
If insantiy is going on a debate moderated by your enemy, what do you call going on a debate so unprepared you come off looking like a dork who doesn't know what is in your own ads? What do you call being so unprepared that you let the guy you attack in the ad off the hook when he lies in his response to the ad you cannot remember?
TFR
I guess I don't know what C&L is thinking. Maybe when people say "Obama thinks" or "Bush secretly wanted" or "The Shadow knows" they are sometimes full of it.
TFR
Back on topic please.
These are the typical type of elitist assholes we see everyday in our jobs and our communities. You know, the assholes that strut and puff and spew soundbites (typically shit they read in the WSJ) but have no understanding of history, world events, American History, World History, art, literature and rely on their subordinates to keep them out of trouble.
Calling Newt Gingrich an historian is like calling your appliance repairman a scientist.
Mitt grew up in the streets? Yeah, Wall Street.
Ron Paul? This year's Fred Thompson. A withered old moron lost in a haze of old fashioned, misguided values and a short attention span.
Santorum? Heh. Would you want a guy who by the admission of his own values only got laid 7 times in his life running the country?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Those that can, teach. Those that can't don't get tenure and run for Congress.
If Ron Paul is this year's Fred Thompson how come Tweety has yet to comment on his after shave manliness?
If Mitt didn't inherit his wealth from his Dad, what did he do to piss the rich old man off and be left in the streets?
I will not comment on Santorum. Your allegations about him can be simply be evaluated by doing a Google search.
TFR
"Those that can, teach."
Actually, the saying is, "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach."
It is in reference to those who just cant cut the bait in the real world. So we send them off to teach. In Business, you dont waste your experts on teaching, You have them doing!
Wow, That chages everything. Thanks.
Guess that Cannot Doer I has as a teacher taught it to me all wrong, which are why I learned it backwards.
TFR
Do you mean Chinese?
If the corporatists get their way, they will would prefer to rule over the United Ghetto of America, since they are turning our entire nation into one. Has anyone seen the 2 hour presentation about the status of the US infrastructure on the History Channel?
While greedy, corrupt politicians in both partys put their reelection ahead of the good of this nation and allow multinationals to export our economy to places like China, they are allowing our nation to die. Don't worry about the politicians though, they can afford to live elsewhere when America is no longer liveable.
If people like Newt and/or Romney get their way, since we know they would do exactly the same thing, English will become the dominate language of the largest ghetto in the world.
If legislation is for sale, it always goes to the highest bidder.
Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, et al would wonder about about what they speak being the language of the ghetto. me? i flunked out, hell i have enough trouble with english, adjectival phrases? gerunds? what is that? a drink for old people?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Yeah, having quick retorts would be a hell of a way to run a country. Just ask those of us who actually understood and have suffered the ramifications of having such a president.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
is that when paul spoke the truth (sort of) that the three stooges started to get real nervous and herky-jerky; they were giving him looks like "you poor child, you just don't understand how things work, in your febrile little mind" yeah right. i know how paul feels, i've been told that for 40 years, well, i know that the powers that be don't even have the goddamn common courtesy to use a little vaseline, how about that?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Back on topic please.
I do love the fact that having the candidate's image and voice in their ads makes them have to appear to approve all ads run by their campaign. I know from experience few actually see them, as Mitt revealed last night.
This cumbersome detail, of course will soon be done away with as all ads will be funded be SuperPacs after this election cycle, allowing candidates, like Presidents, to maintain "plausible deniability."
TFR
Note to Mitt... Have your people memo you when they put out new ads and maybe you should view them so you know what you are signing ("I am Mitt and I approve of this shit"). It would take five minutes of your time and you wont look like a dipshit at the debates.
i would think that he could take care of this while he is waiting for his magic undies to finish the dry cycle
Who will be the next Mrs Gingrich? will it be KellyAnne Conway, did she go on that greece cruise? are they already bumping uglies?
Romney - "I was for it before I was against it."
they should play the ads during the debate and have them respond to them. i would also like to see prior quotes put up on a screen like they do often on meet the press.
In a 2007 speech, Gingrich did say that bilingual education should be replaced "with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," according to a fact check from The Washington Post.
I remember watching talk shows in the 1950s and '60s. Whenever an actor or actress (e.g. Gina Lollabrigida) was on and the host mentioned he/she was fluent in 5 languages, the audience would ooh and aah. Now it seems Americans consider this a negative characteristic.
Only the stupid ones, of which their is no small supply.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
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