Isn’t That a Lot Like Giving Custer Tips on Indian Fighting?
Mitt Romney is getting intelligence briefings. No, not the kind where he’s taught to add, make a sentence, and shut the hell up. The secret stuff kind, which he will undoubtedly spurt out to his rich donors.
Mitt Romney received his first intelligence briefing on Monday, just days after he came under fire for his response to deadly protests against United States diplomatic missions in the Middle East.
The Republican presidential nominee spent roughly two hours behind closed doors at the U.S. Federal Building in West Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. His campaign did not disclose who briefed Romney—saying simply it was someone from the intelligence community, according to spokesman Rick Gorka.
Too late, Dude. Way too late.
Thanks to MB for the heads up.
Thankfully the Romney team has a new strategy: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport
1Remember how he blabbed about the secret MI6 meeting in England?
Anything he learns now will be talked about elsewhere. Not only to donors, but we will probably hear some state secrets at the debates.
2Hope they didn’t tell him anything important.
3The first thing Mitt the Unfit did after his briefing was to call Liz Cheney and tell her he just found out what happened to Czechoslovakia.
4I just hope they told him to STFU.
(Momma….. I’m sorry.)
This is one rich man ….. who like Ross Perot…. (remember him) who figured if the people trying to advise him….. were smarter than him…. they would be richer than him?
Why would they tell this guy anything at all? If it only affects the most wealthy among us…… it’s not his problem.
5After all the cease-and-desist letters that recording artists have sent to the Romney campaign denying use of their work, they have found a song in the public domain which will now be played at the beginning and ending of all his appearances.
Nearer, My God, to Thee.
6This is a standard procedure because if (cow forbid!) he who is full of Mitt were to become President, it is important that he have some background for the issues which are certain to confront him. Presumably the same goes for those advisory types who might become part of an administration with a pair of Mittens at the top. I know of no case where a candidate has disclosed classified information sensitive enough[1] to warrant prosecution. The question of whether or not it is considered “insider information” by the SEC has too many thorns to be considered without spontaneously exsanguinating.
[1] Many years ago, I was in a position to view information classified as “SECRET”. I distinctly remember the one which said that several Soviet bombers had been spotted at a location in the far North Atlantic Ocean which I thought was funny because I’m pretty sure that they already knew where their planes were. That’s the kind of thing that might not be “very” sensitive. Oh wait, the FBI is knocking on my door….
7Charlie Pierce said on the Stephanie Miller Show this morning that Mitt doesn’t listen to ANYBODY. Now we know why his campaign is in the toilet.
8Wait, wait, wait! They brief him on Monday. Now he’s getting his aristocratic nose rubbed in what it *really* might mean to be President. Then this video breaks loose. Coincidence?!? Or maybe Mitt just soiled himself, freaked the rest of the way out, and decided to git th’ heck outta Dodge by *losing on purpose*!
Or do you suppose he can think even *that* well…?
91) Will he understand what is said?
102) Has anyone seen HIS birth certificate?
I’m sorry but the thought of him being briefed makes my blood run cold.
11@Corinne Sabo: I don’t give a rat’s patootie about Mitten’s birth certificate; I want to see his TAX RETURNS for the last ten years. He may well have been in that 47% who didin’t pay any federal income taxes.
12For Romney, an intelligence briefing is when he writes his Swiss bank account numbers on his magic underwear.
13Someone on my Twitter feed referred to him as Money BooBoo. I don’t have anything to improve on that.
14BarbinDC, thanks.
I figured that ol’ Mitt was running his own campaign and listened to nobody. The poor fool thinks $$$ trump IQ points and experience.
15I can understand candidates getting some sort of minimal security briefing…but MITT? Make him show his tax returns. Maybe we all orta show up at one of his events holding signs about his tax returns. Never mind. I can’t even get a protest group to go sing Pete Seeger songs outside the governor’s mansion. Dont’cha think that would be fun? Huh?
16Interesting title. Wasn’t Custer noted for being arrogant too?
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