October 05, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Mitt Romney cheating? Nooooooooooo……
The rules for the debate say, “No props, notes, charts, diagrams, or other writings or other tangible things may be brought into the debate by any candidate.”
That man is so slick that I have no idea how he keeps his socks up.
Thanks to Norma for the heads up.
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I hope that video in slow motion goes viral. And I hope that all the news and other commentators actually mention the fact that there were rules against notes: and Mitt broke them.
1What a slimeball.
This guy is so low he’s going to have to roll down those socks to take a poop.
2Don’t you know the rich are different? Rules don’t apply to them. Not in debate – not in business or anywhere else.
3Yea. A handkerchief. Right. NOT kept in breast pocket.
BTY What are the body language experts reporting about his rolling up on his tippy toes and dropping back on his heels in the summary. Am I the only one who saw this rocking (delighted?) behvior? Reminded me of the kid who has water balloons behind his back and is waiting for his chance.
4Did someone really claim it’s a handkerchief? Watch it on full screen, it bounces when it hits the podium. Yes, I know, probably heavy starch. (besides, it’s possible to write notes on a handkerchief too)
5Why is anyone surprised? This is a man who once walked a legally blind man into a door, who dressed as a cop to scare unsuspecting friends. A man who buys companies, robs them blind and closes them down. A man who outsources jobs then denies he would ever do that. He now says his speech in Boca Raton was wrong — well if I paid $$$ for that dinner and he lied to me I’d want my money back and you don’t see that happening. I think our President saw this, heard the lies and realized if he started in listing the lies he’d have no time for his own agenda — something the GOP has relied on in the past. The President figured WE would find out and the outrage would be more intense plus he would have Romney’s lies in front of 40-60 million people. I worried that he would lose some potential votes but then realized if the “undecided” were dumb enough to swallow Mitt’s line they would never have voted for our President anyway.
6I remember reading somebody’s comment that Pres. Obama was taking notes. And that speaker’s stand that Romney walked up to had a full sheet of paper on it: presumably for note taking? Whatever that sneaking liar set down there, he was clearly trying to NOT let it be seen.
7I knew during the debate he had notes. I didn’t know that he wasn’t supposed to. Remember when he brought up about the 7?million in Medicare. Just before he said that he looked down at the podium and said something like, “Oh yeah, I forgot one thing.” and he launched into his prepared bs on how Obama took the money away from seniors . . . I could tell he looked at his talking points and saw one that he hadn’t covered yet. Maybe that’s why our Prez didn’t put up a spirited debate. He had already seen that Willard was going to cheat.
8I keep expecting ‘reliable’ news sources like Drudge or Hannity to get all over this story. Can’t understand why these people haven’t covered this with the same eagerness they covered Obama’s 2007 speech. Couldn’t be double standards could it?
9Maybe now the meme of the “Teleprompter President” will morph into “Mitt’s Magic Hankie”.
10Actually, at the very end of the debate, Mitt brought up a hanky and wiped his upper lip … I made a mental note of that, thinking he had worked up a sweat with all his lying! It’s a tough job and Mitt the Lyin’ Twit was fully engaged with all that during the debate! So, I’ve watched the video a few times and I believe he pulled a hanky from his right front pants pocket. However, I do believe they are able to write down notes of what the other person is saying so as to keep track of their own talking points that they need to address. Much as we would all love … LOVE to know that Mitt was also cheating along with his lying … I do believe he just had a hanky!
11Actually, when the debate was over, Romney first tried to put the “hankie” in his breast pocket, stopped, tried to put it in his hip pocket, then looked for a staff member and handed it to him. The Staffer promptly put it deep in his inner suit pocket. Hankie? I think not.
12Did you notice at the end of the debate after he met Obama he quickly made a bee line back to the podium to get what I thought was his what he had written down, but it was to recover his “cheat sheet”. He was in a hurry to get back to that podium. Now we know why
13Ya know, none of this matters. The new labor stats kind of negated that debate anyhow. Now the Rethugs are trying to dispute the stats. Lotsa luck with that.
14They both had blank paper on the lectern for note taking, fully allowed. The video below also shows his folding his paper up at the end, no hanky is noticeable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi0-ZMOrO8Y&feature=youtu.be
15There was blank paper supplied on the lectern, this video not only shows the approach, but leaving. No hanky in evidence leaving, just stiff folded paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi0-ZMOrO8Y&feature=youtu.be
16Here’s the thing for me . . . he didn’t say anything factual. He just spewed nonsense at a high rate of speed. Why would he need a cheat sheet?
17I don’t know about y’all but I miss when the League of Women Voters used to run these debates. Now there is a commission where the campaigns negotiate terms.
18I have more trust in the League to run things.
Yup … I didn’t see him pick up his hanky either at the end of the video Warner provided … just a bunch of papers that he folded lengthwise and put in his inside coat pocket!
I guess with all the videos available on-line, if Mitt the Twit cheated, someone will call him out on it. If he thinks he can win by lying, why wouldn’t he think he can also win by cheating and doing so in front of a televised audience … I’m hoping someone who has the authority to do so, calls him on the carpet if that’s what it does call for.
19I can see why Romney would need notes. It’s challenging to keep all of his stories straight. Hard to remember if he is Mitt 1, Mitt 2 or Mitt 3.
20At the dog park, there is a plastic bag to use to pick up afte your dog deposits. It is called a Mutt Mitt. How appropriate.
21He handed a used hankie to a staffer? Nice. His highness probably felt he was conferring a boon upon the staffer. Maybe he can sell it on eBay.
22Slimeball.
23I suddenly had one of those old tapes from my childhood pop into my brain…. Winners never cheat, and Cheaters never win…. HELLO!
24A minor, but very telling, gesture was at the end when Mittens couldn’t get the papers to go in his pocket. As only someone who is accustomed to having his every whim anticipated and met by his minions (or in this case maybe it was one of his sons), he impatiently flicked the papers to that person, who immediately managed to slip them into his pocket. I don’t put anything past him. His desperation shows in his eyes all the time.
25Woohoo! Now this is what I call hankie-pankie.
26I’m 76 years old and i have NEVER seen a man pull a hankie from his pants pocket – it always came from the inside coat pocket. Is this a Mormon thing? Of course it would have been more noticable to the moderator if he had taken it from his coat pocket. His pants pocket was blacked from view. When he finished, he folded the large paper lengthwise and then crosswise, enclosing whatever it was. If it was hankie, it was the most substantial hankie I have ever seen. Then, he can’t figure out what to do with it?
27and that run amok rat a tat tat delivery! What the hell was he on! I know deperation can make a man’s mouth run a mile a minute but his jaw was about to leave his face! The last time I saw that was years ago when a used car salesman was trying to sell the last rusted jalopy on the lot to the local vicar — in order to make his quota for the day. Yeeeeshhhhh!
28Why would you unfold a hankie? Did he think the lies he was going to tell would make him throw up?
By the way, the youtube video confirmed something I noticed the night of the debate, which was Ann Romney’s back. You would think a woman of her substantial financial means (and having had breast cancer, allegedly) would spend some money to have a bra fitting and buy some bras that fit properly. She was bulging above and below her bra in the back and she was wearing a suit that was surely expensive and lined. Also, Republicans need to stop making ugly comments about the First Lady’s backside after seeing Ann’s.
29He may not have had a cheat sheet (I think he did) but his Debate technique was very questionable.
“Mitt Romney’s over the top October 3rd debate performance used a technique forbidden in policy debates known as “spreading” taken to a creationist extreme.
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Romney’s version of that technique, known as the Gish Gallop, developed by Duane Gish, the creationist, combined spreading with purposeful lying, resulting in the “flood of B.S. technique” that Romney used to dominate the first debate with President Obama. It’s common among creationists and climate science deniers refuse to debate on the merits by flooding their opponents with false information leaving them without time to keep up with the lies and, as a result, appearing pedantic and professorial in their responses.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-ritz/romneys-creationist-debat_b_1941995.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
30As JuneBug said, Romney thinks rules don’t apply to him. That’s why he kept running over top of Jim Lehrer. Obama did that a few times, but Romney did it first, much more often, and more aggressively.
And how I wish there were a crawl at the bottom of the screen by factcheckers, and a BS buzzer and flashing light. Fine with me if it’s set up for both, because I know how often it will be activated by each side.
31If he was folding the notes he took during the debate is there any way to verify he actually wrote something down?
32I did a freeze on a download which shows a very even line to the bottom of the “Hanky”. Problem is the file format will not work with my video software that could zoom and capture. I am going to look for a format converter. There is something in that “hanky”.
33Got the Converter but now I realize why the features are not working , it is copy protected. I can not screen capture it. BUT under zoom I can see a straight white line at the bottom of the mass in his hand. It appears to be a stiff white paper or card about envelope size under the cloth. Anybody got access to a unrestricted copy? I think it can be blown up and shown.
34About 20 years ago my sister-in-law and her family visited. Her young son was five years old. His favorite game was Candyland. We were playing the game. He was winning. He tried to cheat, and we stopped him. Winning was less important to him than being able to do what he wanted. But he was only five and grew out of it to become a fine young man because he was guided down the path of following rules and working hard for what he got. Too bad Mitt never learned those lessons.
35Absolute MUST SEE and read regarding Mittens’ CHEATING:
http://austinisafecker.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/mitt-romney-his-family-and-cheating/
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