LOL it's actually very entertaining to watch the Right Wing twist itself into knots trying to keep the sinking Romney campaign from disappearing completely beneath the waves.
So if Romney's remarks, which were quoted verbatim, were "taken out of context" (a Right Wing specialty), why didn't Romney claim he was misquoted, or claim that he was taken out of context, or claim that he said "[whatever]" and that makes the rest of the quote different? If anything about this story is in any way inaccurate, why is Romney bending over backwards to try to defend his remarks?
You can't escape reality forever, Conservatives.
Here we go yet again ~~~ SELECTIVE EDIT? MOTHER JONES ADMITS ROMNEY TAPE MISSING 'ONE TO TWO MINUTES'
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Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine that released a controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks to a fundraiser in May, now admits that it has no full tape of what Romney said, and that its video is missing "one to two minutes" at the most important moment.
The Legal Insurrection blog's William Jacobson and The Blaze both raised questions on Tuesday about whether Mother Jones had, as promised, revealed the full video, given an apparent jump cut in the critical section of Romney's remarks.
"Something is missing. Romney’s 47% answer was cut off before completed, and is not picked up on the Part 2 audio video," Jacobson noted.
Late Tuesday evening, Jacobson obtained the following comment from David Corn of Mother Jones:
According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one [sic]. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.
Corn was forced to update his original post, which promised the "full" video, to reflect the fact that a key portion of the video is, in fact, missing.
There is no way to know, without the missing footage, exactly what Romney said. On Monday evening, Romney called for a complete video of his remarks to be released.
That now turns out to be impossible, either because Romney's remarks were never recorded in full (as Mother Jones now claims), or because some of his remarks--perhaps mitigating some of the controversial effect of his statements--were selectively edited out of the tape by Mother Jones or its chain of sources (including former President Jimmy Carter's grandson).
Earlier on Tuesday, new media pioneer James O'Keefe pointed out the hypocrisy of the mainstream media in accepting, without question, a snippet of a video recording that aimed to portray a Republican in a bad light, while conservatives are still doubted even after providing full video or audio, as O'Keefe did with his famous ACORN tapes.
Whether Romney is right or wrong about the "47 percent" of Americans he says have become dependent on government--he stood by his May remarks on Monday evening--he may have been taken out of context.
Mother Jones has failed a basic test and broken its promise to its readers and the public. There is now reason to doubt that it provided Romney's full remarks--not just the context, but the remarks themselves. And there is new reason to suspect manipulation.
Corn promised the complete version of Romney's remarks. Instead, he provided a version that is missing a large portion of video at the critical moment.
Mother Jones's entire story now deserves to be treated with suspicion, if not contempt.
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ProudProgressive 2012/09/19 11:41:00
Smell ya, later!
Obama 2012,
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What do you think was in that missing two minutes?
Do you think Romney said he was only joking?
* 49% of all Americans pay no federal income tax.
* 47% receive a check from the government of which more than half are means tested welfare checks (Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, etc.).
* 36% of all Americans of working age are either not working or looking for work.
We must remember, however, that a great many of those who receive checks from the government have earned them. Some by their taxes over the years to Social Security and Medicare and others by paying a deeper price by service to their country.
The benefits Romney was talking about are means tested benefits, distributed based on income. All together 100 million Americans receive such benefits (out of a total population of 308 million), these benefits include welfare, food stamps, Section 8 housing, Medicaid and other such programs.
Generalities are always unjust. And painting with broad strokes will do many individuals an injustice. But the fact remains that our electorate is basically bifurcated into those who pay taxes and those who receive benefits.
The danger comes not with the benefit but with the sense of entitlement. Why do so many peo...
* 49% of all Americans pay no federal income tax.
* 47% receive a check from the government of which more than half are means tested welfare checks (Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, etc.).
* 36% of all Americans of working age are either not working or looking for work.
We must remember, however, that a great many of those who receive checks from the government have earned them. Some by their taxes over the years to Social Security and Medicare and others by paying a deeper price by service to their country.
The benefits Romney was talking about are means tested benefits, distributed based on income. All together 100 million Americans receive such benefits (out of a total population of 308 million), these benefits include welfare, food stamps, Section 8 housing, Medicaid and other such programs.
Generalities are always unjust. And painting with broad strokes will do many individuals an injustice. But the fact remains that our electorate is basically bifurcated into those who pay taxes and those who receive benefits.
The danger comes not with the benefit but with the sense of entitlement. Why do so many people feel Romney will be better at improving the economy and yet still plan to vote for Obama? The answer is that they care more about preserving their entitlements than about improving the economy. They have come to rely on political action more than economic growth as the key to their solvency.
Did Romney err in telling it like it is? It would have been better if he had made a forthright, factual statement on the issue. It looks bad for these unpleasant facts to come out in a "gotcha" moment at a videotaped private event. But the fact remains that an Obama reelection would turn the tide psychologically in America from the land of upward mobility through hard work and initiative and toward a country akin to Greece: dependent on government aid in the form of a subsidy and government handouts.
By stating this fundamental truth, albeit off the record, Romney has done a service for which he should be praised not excoriated. It all boils down to what John Kennedy said: There are those who ask what their country can do for you, and those who ask what you can do for your country."
And these people who receive medicaid, medicare, social security, and veterans benefits "believe they are victims," according to Mitt Romney.
They should be outraged at Romney, but in reality, many of the people whom Romney insulted will actually vote for Romney.
Face it . . . . Poor Dumb Right Wing Nut Job peons are used to bowing and scraping and kowtowing to their plutocratic overlords.
They have no self-respect, and acting like dumb peons is all they know.
They will even go so far as to calling these outrageous personal insults "fundamental truth," as they flatten out a little more so Romney can more easily stand on their necks.
. . . Pathetic
No accounting for Obama supporters - sad and pathetic.
. . . . You're welcome.
And how can you blame Obama for the Middle East?
How can you not -- his policies, his programs and his rank stupidity - he thought the muslims were as stupid as his followers - "I'll just wow them with my cool."
. . . You're welcome.
But if Romney had been President these last four years, the US would be in the depths of a great Depression NOW that would have made the Depression of the 1930's look like a bad hair day.
Romney condemned the bailout of the auto companies, which prevented massive layoffs in that area and a ripple effect that would have wiped out businesses from coast to coast . . . and the ensuing panic that would have closed banks and other lending institutions.
And Romney regards any government spending to stimulate the economy as absolutely un-American.
But then . . . What does that RWNJ idiot know anyway?
He's just a slave to an unworkable ideology. He doesn't even try to think critically.
He thinks the best government is one that doesn't govern at all.
What a Fool . . . huh?
I want good governance.
The founding fathers also wanted good governance for this nation's citizens.
That's why they gave us the Constitution.
You Constitution-hating Right Wingers will just have to live with it.
That's a Right Wing Thing.
Most of that is due to tax deductions, you know like that $77K deduction Mitts took for a Horse..
I'm interested in seeing how badly he's ripped off this nation . . . Aren't you?
Well most Americans are keenly interested in the integrity of their Presidential candidates.
Obama has revealed much more about himself than Romney has . . . Like 12 years of tax returns.
Why can't Romney match Obama?
Obviously, Romney is hiding something.
And that reflects badly on him don't you think? If he's hiding something, then obviously he has something to hide.
It's really too bad that Republicans couldn't find and honorable candidate, isn't it?